[Lotus knows sufficiently little about the manga industry that this does strike her as a slight exaggeration. She decides not to call him out. It is probably stressful to him, falling behind schedule. His weekly deadline must be looming.]

It must be nice being able to get a good result without revising it a lot... [She flexes her wrists. It's weird not typing at a keyboard for this long.] So much of programming is debugging, or learning new languages. I'm a little jealous of everyone who "creates" from a blank canvas or empty notebook or whatever. Did you actually have to do a lot of sketches for any of this or is it the very first draft?