#...originally drafted in August of 2020 🥲

[ultrafangirlishness]

some ladies be like "i know a place" and then take you to the local dumpster for the two of you to romantically roleplay as her and her crush

[youkaigakkou-tl]

Yohaji Early Drafts

All the tweets about Tanamai-sensei’s early draft of yohaji, collected into one post and translated!

(Most of the tweets can be found under this twitter search)

September 25 2015

Sano was originally going to be the human teacher MC instead of Haruaki, Hijita was going to be an actually terrible delinquent.

Also, this seems like a similar scenario to the finalized chapter 1, with Mame doing the steal-and-run instead.

Pic 5 and 6 is captioned "Sano-kun-sensei vs Omame! A fight that wouldn't happen in the actual story!"

Also the guy with glasses in pic 6 would later become Haruaki (or in sensei's words, sailor fetish ahoge guy)

He actually looks like if you combined Haruaki and Hatanaka

I'm not sure if pic 5 and 6 come from the same version of the chapter as 3 and 4, actually.

December 10 2015

The font changed because I translated that first tweet like 2 months ago, and everything else today lol

July 19 2018

The caption:

1: early draft of beniko with short hair 2: Haruaki was originally going to have to use tools for exorcism, but the idea was dropped. 3 and 4: from the draft when Sano was going to be the MC, doppelganger policeman appears here as a train conductor

I think its a good call, to let Haruaki use his power without any tools. More drama that way lol

He's holding kagura bells on that page, which are said to call gods, and Sano reacts to it, so that's probably already a plot point at that point.

Also, where the hell is this train?? Is it running on the water like in spirited away?? Ok that's pretty cool

August 30 2020

From that same early draft where Sano is the MC

Renren was also originally going to be just a background character and one of Hijita's delinquent buddies

Also, sensei's computer with all these old draft files got bricked a couple years ago 🥲

January 14 2020

Early design of Hatanaka (Was he a student???? Is this the draft where Sano is a teacher since he's wearing a tie??? Why is he floating????)

January 7 2017

"Hatanaka" wasn't a character yet when the first chapter was published in the GFantasy magazine, and was only added in the volume release.

Also, the detail that he's an ex-delinquent and was classmates with Miki was only added in volume 2, so for volume 1 he was just a genuinely serious teacher.

September 18 2018 (Not translated bc I'm lazy)

"Hatanaka" was actually the MC of one of sensei's early works, who had the same name and looked about the same.

He's actually a super important character to her, since she's drawn like 10 oneshots for contests at that point, and this one where the MC is Hatanaka won her a honorable mention and got her to become a mangaka.

So basically. Hatanaka is sensei's blorbo

Conclusion

So this probably explains why sensei is so fond of the teacher Sano AU for april fools comics (this was the entire point of this post)

I'm glad we live in a world where Haruaki exists and is the MC? Maybe I would also have enjoyed this manga if Sano was the MC, but I'm glad Haruaki exists.

I think we're living in the best possible timeline, there's nothing in these drafts that makes me feel strongly that "I wish it was like that".