前田俊夫オフィシャルブログ

I was expecting someone from the company to pick me up at Kichijoji station but no one came… so I left the station alone and went out hunting down the address, looking like a tourist in a new alien land, but eventually I got there!!I just got a studio in residential area, and it was really gorgeous… a tall middle aged cool man with a beard appeared… this guy is meant to be nanba keiji my mentor? Who is this mysterious dude?? … `so you are the new kid from Osaka, maeda right?` - he said … `come over here…`

So I was taken into a big room… which had six desks and lots of book shelfs… tons of young people in the room were getting on with drawing manga like robots… they said nothing… nor did they even glance at me… very surreal!

My mentor pointed to an area of the room and said `this is your desk from now on` I was just sitting there and said nothing… I suddenly I was caught up in an real uncomfortable moment… I was 16, by myself in a room of total strangers, who didn’t even acknowledge I was there! I was soo surreal! `you rude brat! Say something! Where are your manners`
I imagined him scolding me just like that for being the new kid