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Usamaru-san's one week

Usamaru-san has a solid rhythm for daily life to keep his aggressive pace of manga drawings. From his tweets or blog articles, his one week schedule was constructed.
## Hey! do not take this too serious :-)
While this creation, I was noticed his tough work. He draws and draws and draws from morning to midnight, or thinks and thinks and thinks about the new stories. Once, Usamaru-san tweeted that "Every Wednesday, I am always heavily exhausted... 16 pages of manga... It took fully 4 days to draw it but only one minutes to read..." Hm. I will read his manga more carefully!!

	Sun	Moan	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
08 09 10	At Roppongi office, 30 minutes walk from his home, draws 16 page manga (initial version)	4 assistants join	walking 3 assistants join	walking 1 assistant join	walking. tired... goes to Starbucks Coffee At Roppongi office, writes the manuscripts	initial drawing or manuscript writing. Or Day Off has a training with high pressure at home	Day off. Goes to Live or Playing or Movie.
11 12 13	initial drawing thinks about the story of POP-kun (weekly serialization on newspaper)	Assistant Ishimo comes too late :-( Drawing with Pen	Drawing with Pen	Brush up, screen tone work	manuscripts writing Lunch after difficult decision : Freshness burger or Tokyo Tofu
14 15 16	initial drawing. He uses 4B (soft) pencil.	Drawing with Pen Deadline for POP-kun. Sends the scripts by e-mail. half-hour-sleep	Drawing with Pen half-hour-sleep	Brush up, screen tone work half-hour-sleep	manuscripts writing
17 18 19	initial drawing. He drinks 10 bottles of Perrier per day. Dinner. If enough time goes out. If not, gets some foods from convenience store.	Drawing with Pen All day long, TV is on	Drawing with Pen	Brush up, screen tone work	manuscripts writing has a meeting with editor	many appointments to attend events
20 21 22	initial drawing. tired ... Dances in the room	Dinner Drawing with Pen	Dinner Drawing with Pen Assistant complains about their tough work...	Dinner Brush up, screen tone work exhausted...	Dinner Watches the TV drama "Fumoh Chitai"
23 24 25	finishes initial drawing. goes home with Taxi. Plays with Poh-chan (monkey)	finishes drawing with pen Plays with Poh-chan	finishes drawing with pen Plays with Poh-chan	finishes Brush up, screen tone work Plays with Poh-chan	Plays with Poh-chan	Plays with Poh-chan	Can't play with Poh-chan because of going out to drink