[Taka no Me]

Chapter 175: Release Day and Last Night.

Release day, or launch date, refers to the day Volume 5 and 6 of Reversi goes on sale.
Last night is referring to the night before the anime airs, and also the night before Mashiro will propose to Azuki.

The final volume of Reversi goes on sale with an initial 920,000 figure. Not enough to beat Eiji with his 1.2 million sales figure.
But later on, they finally catch up and surpass after a first and second reprint (first reprint with entire volumes too btw). Final figures are Reversi with 1.22 million and ZG with 1.2 million.

Shujin: "We. Did. It." Takagi is excited they finally surpassed Eiji and that his goal was accomplished (his present to Mashiro).

(BTW, when Mashiro asked to borrow money, seems like it was a house after all, according to one panel where Kaya talks about "house will be nearly finished around August")

Ashirogi Muto goes into Shueisha (Hattori called them up on page 2) to see Heishi, while there they see Eiji just before he leaves to go to Studio 92 to talk about anime works. Before he leaves, he tells Ashirogi Muto he's gonna make ZG sell 3 million copies. Which Ashirogi Muto responds they'll make their next work sell 3.5 million then.

Cue panels of various mangakas.

Iwase wants to work on a new series that will be better than +Natural. Looks like Kosugi is her editor or something now?
Fukuda and co. is on a "date" with a bunch of accountants.
Takahama smiles to himself like a dork.
Hiramaru wants a plate with their wedding photo on it. Aoki and Yoshida doesn't think it's a good idea...
Shizuka Ryu is acting like an idiot once again.

The night before the anime airs....

Mashiro thanks Kaya. For coming up with the name Ashirogi Muto.
Azuki tells her mom that Mashiro will be coming to see her tomorrow.
Mashiro in his room looks at his uncle's journal (I think it's that journal anyway).

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Mashiro: "Uncle...

..though it's not my strength alone...

...Shujin..Hattori-san...Kaya..Azuki...

..I had a lot of help...

...at the very least, I can say I'm the top mangaka of Jump at this moment...

...and I walked down this path and never looked back..

..was because of uncle and nobody else...

...so uncle, the things you couldn't accomplish and the things you wanted to accomplish, let me make them a reality now!!"





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