I'm really grateful to all the readers who picked up this idiot work. I'm the author in charge of writing this series, Inoue Kenji. This work can be considered to be the sixth book in this series. What was a manuscript of 400 words ended up being more than 2000 pages. If we count 10 seconds to read one page, it'll take 5 and a half hours to read finish this, and with Haga-san's illustrations, I'll have to spend 30 minutes to regain my intense emotions (except for page 225 of the third volume). So, it'll take about 59 hours in all. I'm really grateful considering that the readers would spend so much time and effort to read this work. The warm voices of the readers and the feelings that are deeper than the seas really makes me ever so grateful.
Alright, I got more pages for this afterword , so I could talk about random stuff. If you're willing, readers, please continue reading.
Actually, the previous volume, volume 4 was definitely a huge risk to me. If anyone asks me why, that's because this is the first time I tried to create a romantic mood in this work full of idiotic situations. I was worried whether I would get criticism like 'how boring', 'very disgusting' or 'Inoue Kenji's not suited to write love drama at all', so I was rather tentative when writing.
I was scared of reading the readers' thoughts, and didn't want to read statements humiliating me. However, I was still curious about everyone's reaction.
In the end, I still couldn't hold back. I read through the mail and emails that I would receive from the receivers, and even started moving to the imageboards I normally eschew.
Come on, come one...what will everyone write? I hope I won't see 'I'm so disappointed in the author', 'I can't read on', 'I can't hand Hideyoshi over to the author, must make him my bride' and all sorts of messages...
With such throbbing anxiety, I read through all the mail, letters and comments on the internet.
Luckily, most of them I saw were positive, like 'it's interesting'. Thinking about how so many people read my books, wrote their thoughts about it, and all being so positive; to be honest, there's nothing else that made me happier.
I was really too happy, so I was worried whether people will worry about whether I will be too proud and haughty, but I just want to use the afterword column to talk about some reader comments. These are some comments that were taken,
The afterwords' interesting.
I started laughing when the molester was mentioned.
I was laughing myself out when I read about the recording report.
The afterwords were highly regarded.
It does feel that there's a huge difference from what I expected, but I'm rather happy that everyone can praise me like that. It seemed that how I got touched on a place lower than the back of my waist was worth it, so it's great that the readers are happy.
However, it seemed that a lot of people are mistaken, so I have to clarify here. Listen up! If you think that all male molesters are all handsome, it's a big mistake. No, speaking of which, that guy might not be a molester, but a jeans specialist who was attracted by the texture of my jeans and couldn't help but reach out to touch it. A lot of masters aren't good with words, so he could only silently reach out for me, right? Such an amazing jeans master. This Inoue Kenji hopes to be a jeans master or skirts master for the rest of my life.
Alright, we'll leave this aside for now.
Besides the afterwords, I've also received a lot of feedback. Like how my work met expectations, and even some readers giving me extremely good ratings that I really looked forward to, which made me tear with in salt water. Also, there's also a response of 'it's really interesting. I'll go completely naked to wait for your new work to come out on the market'. It's been more than half a year since the last volume came out, and it's now the season where the cold wave's about to strike. I wonder if this reader has gotten a cold due to going completely naked? I couldn't help but worry. I'll definitely try to write faster and release the next volume earlier, so please hurry up and go back home and put on your clothes.
