How have you been? This is Koshi Tachibana. I have delivered to you Date A Live 14: Planet Mukuro. What did you think? I do hope you enjoyed the book.
While the characters it is written with are six and eat, her name is pronounced “Mukuro.” Absurd. It’s a pile of kanji with the most difficult reading since Kurumi and the most disturbed kanji since Natsumi. Extremely cool. When I told my editor her name, I remember being quite passionate about how it was so cool to use the casual form for the “eat” kanji instead of the more polite one.
Now then, we have this time the impossible space arc together with the fairy tale arc. In terms of positioning of the story, you might think of it as the latter half of the Nia arc and the first half of the Mukuro arc.
The Spirits of the fairy tale world are adorable, though, hm? I want to keep going and put other characters into the fairy tale world, too. I will do some thinking on this.
Sleeping Beauty Reine (who can’t sleep because of insomnia). Princess Kaguya Tama (who ends up having no suitors because she has too many demands). The wolf and the seven young Kurumis (where the only development I can imagine is them all ganging up on the wolf). Ali Baba and the forty Kurumis. (There wouldn’t be even a scrap of Ali Baba’s flesh left.) One hundred and one Kurumis. (Nothing but despair.)
This is actually pretty amusing, which is a real problem. I’ll have to write these as short stories.
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Now then, this book is once again thanks to the efforts of so many. Illustrator Tsunako, thank you so much for the lovely illustrations once more. You always go above and beyond my expectations for the character designs, so I can hardly wait to see them every time. Mukuro is super cute!
To my editor, who I make trouble with every single volume; the book designer, Kusano; everyone in the editorial and sales departments; all the booksellers, and you, who have picked up this book, I offer my sincerest thanks.
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Will Shido be able to make Mukuro weak in the knees in volume fifteen? I do hope we will be able to meet again.
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Koushi Tachibana
Feb. 2016