The new year has just about begun. Hello, I’m Mato Kousaka.
Just like that, Guild Receptionist has reached its fourth volume! This time, Lowe gets the spotlight.
Lowe hasn’t played a big role thus far, but if you ask, “What sort of man is he?” then I would certainly, without question, answer, “The type who can get on in the world and in romance.”
He won’t be the superstar of the class or the workplace, but he’s the kind of man who’ll get girls to say, “You’re kinda great, Lowe.” That’s right. In modern society, he’s the type who will definitely be popular with girls. (I will acknowledge differing opinions.)
But Lowe’s smooth operation works because he’s actually disinterested in people. He has no hang-ups, doesn’t intensely love or hate anything, and that’s precisely why he can separate himself from his feelings and always make only the optimal choice to take action. He’s canny and clever, but in a sense, he’s a sad man, with the most sober heart of all…
…But I envy him for being that clever…
I wouldn’t mind being sober and sad; I wanted to be a clever person like thaaaaaat!
While yelling out indecently like that, I was writing Lowe. In a sense, he is an ideal character. I would be glad if you would look forward to seeing, in this book, what sort of troubles a clever man like Lowe will deal with and how he will change!
Now then, while I touched on it at the beginning, by the time this book will go on sale, the new year will almost be here.
New classes, school, work, departments…changing environments…changing relationships…and most of all, at the end of the year and the start of the new one, work is busy.
Can’t you hear it? The sound of overtime steadily approaching…!!
Taking care not to ruin your physical or mental health and not to build up too much anger toward your superiors, and when you’re at your limits, read some Guild Receptionist to vent your stress, and let’s get through the new year as well.
And—it’s been exactly one year since Volume 1 of Guild Receptionist has been printed!
Yaaay! Clap clap clap!
It’s thanks to all of you that I’ve been able to get this far. Honestly, thank you very much.
Of course, I received much help from my editors Yoshioka and Yamaguchi for this book as well. And to Gaou, who draws illustrations fine enough to make me faint every time, and to everyone from the editing department, who published and advertised Volume 4, and most of all to you, who picked up Guild Receptionist, Volume 4, I offer my sincere thanks.
Let’s do our best in the new year, too!