The opportunities he had to draw, by directing the burden of the film onto others, were enough to give a victorious air to everything he worked on, and it was deeply satisfying to do so. It entertained his work and allowed him to produce many writings now that he had the time to demonstrate that talent. The ink dried and time burned away, while in the distance, Monica carried out different tasks every day concerning the commercial brand. Money was then simply another space.
With closeness and so much time ahead of him, his drawings were the only places he could approach. Naruto was the biggest bet he had made so far, and after it came one of the publications he wanted most, one of those martial arts stories that thrived in the world of anime. He used the June publication to launch the Kenichi series that he had cherished for ten years, with different drawings and different programs. The poster list was already prepared, and all that remained was to give it a push.
Therefore, he devoted the entire stretch to creating a massive publication of Kenichi, Halo, and Kingsman, for which he wrote every day. It was fast writing work. The scripts came first, then he turned each script into a large comic, and after that,d he simultaneously created a manga cover while perfecting his drawings. In less than two days, ys he already had the drafts finished, while the team of colorists, letterers, and finishers had now grown into a caravan of fifteen people, working tirelessly to keep up with his pace. Billy's skill allowed him to produce twenty pages per day in a span of four hours, but once he got into practice, he rose to sixty pages in four hours. If one counted the number of pages a series contained in a week, the total reached around five hundred pages, once people adapted to his rhythm and polished the scenes he initially created with less care, only for them to be reviewed by him, signed, and delivered.
Considered one of the most acclaimed series, Billy's pace was extremely chaotic, and that generated doubt among the animators, but the scripts he carried, the scripts he refined and trimmed, were becoming the main asset.
-Kenichi is a fighting comic in which martial arts will be the main rhythm of the novel. When you create a comic, you have to take the supporting characters into account and sustain it according to the structure of a long novel. What you do is create multiple stories, scripts, and ideas that emerge. You make the big map, so big that when you look at it, building small stories becomes easy. - Billy commented.
And it was true. In the first chapter alone, he opened at least fifty plotlines on different subjects, leaving the finishing team somewhat curious about the creation process. Billy now had a scribe who took notes, who wrote down everything Billy said.
-So when are you going to finish your stories? People say you have many open, and some are on hold. - Terry, the magazine editor, commented. Frankly, that was what surprised Terry the most. It was watching great works being produced and never seeing them finished, even though the scripts kept moving forward.
-Carla is my scribe. She takes down one hundred words per minute. On a bad day, we produce at least ten thousand words, enough for five chapters. On a good day, we reach twenty-two thousand words, enough for fifteen chapters. In recent months, she has transcribed my voice recordings, at least long stories lasting six hours that I've described in painstaking detail. Not long ago, we finished several stories. - Billy commented, looking at Carla, who kept writing; she wrote every day and continued writing. The scripts were enormous. For example, Billy decided to finish Death Note with two hundred chapters; he decided to finish Full Metal Alchemist with one hundred and fifty chapters, plus one hundred and sixty chapters of the alternate universe and forty chapters of the third universe, all of which already had complete scripts for every volume.
-Then I keep sending my voice notes, and once they're recorded, we create a script that we later draw. And while we're drawing, the parts I feel are incomplete get added on the spot, without bothering with a full revision if I already have to draw them. - Billy commented.
Knowing how difficult the workload was, he hoped to completely finish the Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note, and Real series by New Year's Day of 2003.
-But what happens to the other series then? - Lucas asked, who had his own set of comics and worked as one of Billy's artists for Death Note and now for the Kenichi series, both of which shared a similar drawing challenge, though not at the level of Real.
-It's simple. I just wait. And I publish. Many of them aren't as famous as one might expect; I wait for a television show to be made and for sales to rise on their own. - Billy commented.
For example, Bleach sold well, but not exceptionally well. The same was true of One Piece, which was not the overwhelming sales phenomenon it had been in his previous life. They wa ere successful series that simply needed room to grow, and they focused on producing one chapter per month, or perhaps two, depending on availability.
-So I dedicate myself to creating publications that don't clog up my time, and that's why this month we managed to release thirty chapters, although it was all thanks to your help; I did very little work. - Billy commented.
-Let's keep working. - Lucas commented, looking at the large amount of work Billy had left them.
Naruto had just finished the second-round arc and the preliminaries to the third round in chapter 110, which was nearly the end of the original Naruto. Here, the Sand Invasion ended in chapter 190, considering that each volume contained five or six extra pages, leading into the training arc, followed by the invasion arc and the appearance of several legends from the older generation. And, of course, there was the glorious detail of Fuse Senju, a Billy addition who sacrificed himself alongside the Third Hokage to stop Kumo's movements at the border, wounding the Fourth Raikage and demonstrating the power of the old Senju and the Raikage.
-I hope you all have a good month of work. - Billy commented, preparing to return to San Francisco for his filming schedule.
-Don't say that, brother. - Miguel Martínez commented, looking at the ten chapters still left to draw, lined up beside the other ten chapters of One Piece. Lucas still had another ten chapters of Death Note, and finally, Holly had twenty chapters of Eyeshield 21, created by Billy in rough draft form.
-They say that if you fully understand Billy's drawing process, you're capable of creating your own series. - Rocher, editor of Group Two, commented.
He then took the floor.
-Kevin still drew for Billy, but he was the one who originally came up with the idea for Magic: Lioncrest. That comic has become particularly famous for its mature style of magic and its different storylines. - Rocher commented.
-Does he help him draw? - Miguel asked.
-Of course he does. He's responsible for drawing Hunter x Hunter and Bleach, both of which resemble a pin-up style. They say he can sit down for a week and have six months of work ready. The legend lies in his capacity for creation, which day after day is unmatched in terms of productivity. His drawing techniques, his developments, everything in his comics is worthy of admiration, and when that level is in the air, we simply let someone like that lead us. - Rocher commented.
-I want to create my own series. - Miguel commented.
-Start by copying. At least something that good will help. - Julian replied.
He was the one carrying the cards for his new series, Tabold, about a cowboy from the Middle East who is summoned to a shooting tournament in the future.