Now the hero was walking toward the heroine…
Honestly, we could’ve called it a day with this series right there, couldn’t we? That scene was so beautiful, even I thought that, but no, we’re stretching this out just a bit more. So consider this the first half of the two-part A Sister’s All You Need. finale. I hope some of you guys enjoyed the special-edition drama CD as well.
Regarding that CD, the original plan was to wrap up the story a little neater than we did, having the foreshadowing pay off and so forth, but I decided it’d be a lot more fun to just mix up everything together like the bad movie they were trying to make, so here’s how it turned out. (By the way, the drama CD version actually has a different ending from the novel one.)
Speaking of movies, I had a previous series of mine made into a live-action film once, but I was totally uninvolved with the production and promotion of it because (as I told myself) I didn’t know anything about Japanese movies or actors. Now I regret that. Separating myself so cleanly from the film, dismissing it as something irrelevant to me, might have shielded me from any emotional damage if people trashed or slammed the film or it was a box-office bomb—but on the other hand, I gained nothing from it, either. I’m sure I could’ve experienced a lot that would have been possible only through that film, and passing all that up really feels like a wasted opportunity now. With those regrets in mind, I put everything I had into the Sister anime, from the screenplays on down, and it really gave me a lot back, both tangible and intangible. This drama CD will probably be the last non-book piece of Sister media released, but if we see similar developments with another series (or Sister, even) in the future, I definitely want to stay involved. Sometimes, there’s stuff you’ll get to see for yourself only if you dive in headfirst. Anime, games, movies, TV dramas, stage plays, you name it—I’ll accept offers for anything!
So there’s just one book left in this series. I’m gonna keep this sprint going until the very end, but be that as it may, as a professional writer and all, I really need to start thinking about a new series soon. Thus, starting on the next page, I’ll release a few series concepts I have brewing, and I’ll ask the Japanese audience in a questionnaire which ones you’d like to read the most. I can’t guarantee that any of them will definitely become my next series, but these are all serious, non-ironic ideas on my part, so your cooperation is appreciated.
Anyway, see all of you in the afterword of the final volume.
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Yomi Hirasaka
Ravishing Silver-Haired Nude Female Novelist
Late July 2019
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