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Nodame Mangaka Has Carpal Tunnel

Bad news-- Nodame Cantabile's creator has Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Nodame Cantabile
Nodame Cantabile
Bad news for fans of the uber-popular music student manga Nodame Cantabile: its creator, Tomoko Ninomiya, has announced on her official blog that she has been stricken with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Apparently she initially attributed the problems to her recent childbirth, which put the manga on hiatus.


It's unclear at this point what this will mean in the immediate future for the manga, although CTS has some potential treatments. In the meantime, let's wish Ninomiya-sensei well and hope that whatever treatment(s) she takes are super effective!


(Via Yahoo! JP)

RedRoseson Jan. 20, 2009 at 10 p.m.
Oh gosh one of the worst things to have when you're a mangaka.
I hope for all the best for her!

(Psst... Is it lame that when I read "super effective" I thought of the Pokemon games? x_X)
mithhunter55on Jan. 21, 2009 at 8:58 p.m.
I hope she gets better that is a horrible thing to have happen.


Its been burned in our brains... but the exclamation point helps associate it with  the Pokemon style haha
Gia probably knew what she was doing there haha

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