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Interesting (though not all that surprising), that Nanamine's twisted ideas about manga are from being heavily influenced by Shujin and Saiko's first Jump one-shot. He really took it to heart, and since his family has wealth, he could test it out.

I wonder how the duo will shut him down this time. Assuming he never runs into serious debt, which as he said, he can get out of just by making one or two major hits, he seems to have a pretty solid plan. The population in his manga cafe isn't really enough to rig the votes on its own, but he could certainly stuff the boxes. He's got really talented artists who want to get some level of success, and of course there's nothing wrong with having an author continue on in the business as an artist only, happens all the time. His staff of 16 plus 1 lecturer can get really creative without worrying about wasting all their time. What isn't a hit one round lets them refine the concepts and try something better without having to go through drafting a manuscript to see if it is any good. They stop at the name version. They also get immediate feedback from the cafe below.

Manga by Committee is a disgusting concept, but Nanamine seems to have it pretty well figured out this time. Running out of money before he gets some large financial successes is the only thing that seems like it will unseat him.