Greetings, I am the light novelist, Sakaki.
And so this is how (if you want to know exactly how, it’s in Papua New Guinea) Fake Fake has come to its final publication. The tale of the crazy robot girl (false advertising) that has been serialized for three years—first in Novel Japan, and then in CharaNov!—has come to an end.
Whenever I start a new series, I often establish the characters (and the setting) completely (and then also frequently get caught in my own trap), but I didn’t do that outside of the basics with Fake Fake. I didn’t decide on anything big like “the world is ____” or a “____ that transcends time.” By some metrics, Pamil’s identity is a big thing, but regardless, I kept things on street level. The plan was to gradually build up the world with the readers’ intuition.
Well then, I wonder how it went.
Honestly, I think there might have been a problem with the meaning behind the title not becoming clear until the third volume. I thought of it because a great person once said that a title is a decoration (and so on), but well, maybe another title would have been better.
Like Robot Sister’s Moe Moe Diary.
Or Sister Princess (but Robotic).
Or Fake/Robot Night.
Or My Little Sister Can’t Be This Robotic.
Maybe something like that would have been better (they wouldn’t have been).
At any rate, as the author, I’m happy because I managed to finish the story. Though I got the number of episodes left wrong with the last three chapters, so I couldn’t use my assistant and missed the schedule, then ended up in the hospital with lithiasis and missed the serialization, so a lot happened! (Haha)
It’s fine—it’s done now!
I’m sorry to everyone else involved (mainly the illustrator, Kaori Fujita, and my editor), though!
Well, now I’m done with my apologies.
I hope to meet with you readers once again in some other series.
Fake Fake Production Staff
Ichiro Sakaki
Think! Hidaka (production management)
Miki Sakamoto (Chapters 3-6)
4th February 2009
Ichiro Sakaki