But while I was happy to do any work that came my way at first, it started to
get more and more annoying and irritating when all of it was asking for stuff
like that UA art I did before or saying, “Make it
look like such-and-such.” At some point I felt I just couldn’t take it anymore and ran off to
Mexico. There weren’t any iPhones back then and I was in Mexico by myself
drinking like a fool, and I kept on hitting the bottle hard after I came back
to Japan. That was probably the roughest period in my life. I’ve even got a one-off photo
collection I made with color copies of photos from my travels in Mexico.