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Tough Love, written and illustrated by Ivan Song.
Tough love is my second comic which took me about 2 months to complete even after I cut it down to just five pages. This time around I wanted to try doing a lighthearted story since the feedback I received regarding Mirror was that it was too sad. So I came up with a shoujo-styled story where romantic girl-boy relationships are the central theme with small elements of humor. It took me awhile to do the artwork because I wanted to go for a simple clean look but not overly stylized like the typical shoujo mangas. Most of the romance mangas I like are by Adachi Mitsuru such as H2, Niji Iro Togarashi and Rough and the beautiful short stories by Nananan Kiriko.