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[vrikodhara]

Of all the successful mangakas, Mitsuru Adachi is probably the laziest. Among other faults of his, he seems to use stenciled character designs (I can never tell the characters apart), and boiler plate story outlines (the flavour is always the same). But, even more practically, he regularly uses pages with minimal art to pad out a chapter. He also tends to use a lot of panels full of environmental incidentals that have nothing to do with the story proper.

That also makes him one of the best with story pacing. Somehow between very short scenes and padding panels he manages to play out infinite variations on the standard Adachi outline.