- #10
Some interesting news from Mashima's Twitter:
I’m not making any progress with the name. There are times when I finish 20 pages in 2 hours, and there are also times when I can’t even get 1 page done in 10 hours.
ネームが進まない。2時間で20P終わる時もあれば、10時間かけても1Pも進まない時もある 。
It’s been a while since the last time my name was rejected entirely. I’m redoing all 20 pages. But since it’s for the sake of making an interesting story I won’t consider it all that troublesome.
久しぶりにネームの全ボツくらった。20P丸々書き直し。だけど面白い一話を作る為なら全く苦 じゃない。
Name here is basically a storyboard of a chapter.
To sum up Mashima’s chapter gets rejected ENTIRELY by the editors, and have to rewrite a new one again. This gives multiple meanings, like maybe he tried to kill someone off and the editors didn’t like this decision. This also means that now FT will go a different route compared to the planned note that has been released earlier (about Lucy kneeling before Zeref and such).
Hmmm not sure how to feel about this. Now it's going to be nagging me quite a bit if what he originally intended was not actually better than what he has to do now.
I also wonder if this means the chapter will be delayed.