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Masako Saeki: With the techniques you've learned, you've become better. But techniques are not what make a piece good.
To Yaguchi.
Yatora Yaguchi: The art I see in my head always looks so damn cool. But with every stroke I lay down, one, after another... I ruin my art, more and more.
Yatora Yaguchi: It's a fierce competition, but whether or not you let your mental health plummet under that pressure is a personal matter.
Yatora Yaguchi: More than having the worst drawing, I would risk failure by having an acceptable drawing that doesn't stand out. Actually, as long as it's eye-catching, even a terrible drawing should at least leave an impression.
Yatora Yaguchi: At this point, I don't really know if this is good or bad, but even if it's slight, something is drawing me in... I finally felt like my art could swallow me whole.
Ryuji Ayukawa: I believe that my wants are the only things protecting me... but I don't even know what I want sometimes.
Ryuji Ayukawa: Is there something not normal about wanting to look cute? To look pretty? What's not normal about a man wanting another man? But underneath it all... Maybe my wants are the only things that protect me.
Ryuji Ayukawa: People who bare their naked bodies and people who try to adorn their naked bodiesβ€”they both have a certain freedom and ugliness to them, but isn't it all so lovely?
Ryuji Ayukawa: If I have to be whatever society's definition of "acceptable" is... I would die.
Sverkel: Too much wealth brings disaster. When you increase your wealth, you fear losing it. To ease that fear, you spend money to make more of it. The idiot boy doesn't realize how empty it all is.
Thorfinn: This is a hunt. The strong hunt the weak. It's a fact of life. That's how every living thing struggles to survive. You were weaker than me. So you got hunted. If you want to hate anything, hate your own weakness. I am the hunter and you are the hunted. It's just as simple as that.
Einar: If you want fields so badly, till them yourself. I bet you've never held a hoe in your life. Try making your own field of crops. Then maybe you'll understand firsthand what a terrible thing it is to have that stolen from you.
To Canute.
Maki Kuwana: Looking at people who are feeling down makes me feel like I'm still okay, you know?
Canute: To sin and lose one's wayβ€”that is the human condition.
Thorfinn: Who negotiates for peace by beating a man? I've only just met you today. We don't know each other, or bear each other any grudge. Why should we have to beat one another? It's foolishness.
Father: Since the beginning, the world has always been the same. Believers are played for fools. Life isn't worth much. The weak are oppressed. If you lose, you die. If you win, you get to live. The animals. The insects. Even the grass and flowers are in a savage fight for survival. And I really...really hate the whole business.
Koigakubo: You've always been a really good listener. And you can read the room. You know what we want to hear and bring that into the conversation. That's super comforting for us. But it can also make us feel bad. I was shaking with excitement when you chose to pursue art. Because it was something that you decided for real. Look, Yatora, maybe you don't know this, but... me and the guys love hearing about you.
To Yaguchi.
Yatora Yaguchi: Is this really happening? Is this the Hu–er Exam...?!
Ryuji Ayukawa: People can't compare themselves to gods.
Itsuki Takeuchi: How can you even call that a car? It's an ancient automatic with a freaking diesel engine. It's not a car. It's an antique!
Masako Saeki: You're a third year now. A day in the life of a highschooler is like an entire week for an adult. Go find daily inspiration in all manner of things and grow!
Fumio: You want muscles, here you go!! I've been training every day since grade school thanks to Dragon Ball!
Kanna: I think he still believes he can do Π° Kamehameha...!
Thors: Listen to me, Thorfinn. You have no enemies. No one has any enemies. There is no one that you should hurt.
Ryuji Ayukawa: Frustrated? Then you've still got some fight in you.
Canute: You let yourself be beaten to a pulp, just so you could stand before an emperor and admonish him to his face?
To Thorfinn.
Askeladd: What a sight this is. A man, slave to gold, holds a whip and beats the slave he bought with that gold as if to claim he is the master. He just doesn't see it for himself. Every living human being is a slave to something.
Mayu Ooba: Good works of art look like they were drawn or painted as the artists saw them, but the truth is that they're incredibly calculated.
Koichiro Iketani: When Tak drives that thing, it's more than an Eight Six. It's an instrument that shapes the road to its will... Maybe even magical.
Ryuji Ayukawa: Would've been nice if it'd rained today. There's nothing more painful than heartbreak on a clear day...
Yatora Yaguchi: When it came to work and play, I always went all in. Though that didn't make them feel any more real. But when I expressed myself to others through painting, it was like the first time I ever really talked with people.
Shoko Ishinomori: When a girl with no history of love suddenly falls, they have a tendency to give up the rest of their lives to it! They stop drawing manga because of their infatuation. It's happened to a lot of aspiring young manga artists! Love is a demon that crushes the seed of talent in its claws!!
Thorfinn: Your power saves many people and torments a few. That is what it does. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I have no right to criticize your absurdity. So all I can do...is run. To a place where your power cannot reach.
To Canute.
Fujio Fuji: During a single point within a time frame two elderly men lived within their abode... And in the abode closest to them, there lived an elderly gentleman by the name of Cinderel. However on a certain day a beautiful, petite elderly man came floating down from the sky...
Fumio Akatsuka: It's true that as a little kid I was thin and weak... And it was Jump that told me that if I trained, I could get stronger. In my desire to come ever closer to my beloved Jump characters, I'd wear the shell of a turtle on my back... I'd climb a cliff using only one arm... I'd stop a barrage of tennis balls with only my stomach muscles... And while I was at it, I managed to style my hair like a Super Saiyan...
Asahi Amagami: I suppose it's only natural... Who wouldn't go gaga if a hot older lady with huge boobs gave them a kiss?
Chidori Amagami: If you keep staring at the same thing for hours on end, eventually your eyeballs will get tired, no? You need to rest your mind and body from time to time! And it's important to expand your horizons, too!
Yatora Yaguchi: It's one of those pieces that draw you right in. I've felt this way a few times so far. That feeling where the boundaries between myself and the art become blurred. But... my art doesn't have that.
About Kuwana's painting.
Fumio Akatsuka: "Akatsuka"? Perhaps that used to be my name. However, I have abandoned my past! I will now be reborn anew... Yes!! From today forward, my name shall be The Jet-Black Crimson Knight!!
Maki Kuwana: Even if you're really good at art, and even if you do it for a long time, or you love it to death... If fighting for it becomes too painful, then it's okay to walk a different path. Choosing to make things easier for yourself is actually pretty hard to do.
Fujio: I, on the other hand, would open a gallery for my manga awards in the Louvre and fill it with my drawings of Lum!
Kanna: Lum...?! Are your glasses really fake?!

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