...fortunately, I wasn't exactly a great beauty to begin with, so I'm unlikely to be traumatized by this (laugh)

Oh, god, Minekura, way to make me sob.

I wish there were more I could offer than prayer and paper cranes. Or that I could send her soup. Soup that can sipped through a feeding tube. :(

Between Minekura, Ai Yazawa, and the omnipresent reports of overwork and exhaustion in manga author's notes, I think everyone in Japanese comics needs to take a nice, long rest break and eat lots of fruit. It will give me time to catch up on my backlog!