Afterword
Afterword
On April 13, 2017, as he listlessly searched for his name online, Yomi Hirasaka was greeted with a tweet reading “A Sister’s All You Need anime in the works!”, complete with an image of the special-edition release of novel Volume 7…
I think many readers are already aware of this, but nearly a month before the Sister anime’s official announcement, the news got spoiled for tons of people when Shogakukan erroneously uploaded a picture of the special edition to their website. It didn’t break the heart of the author or illustrator or anything like that, but the cause of the leak is pretty much exactly as described in this volume.
I actually was planning to throw some other anime-related obstacles in Itsuki’s way for this volume, but with the publisher providing such a great idea with impeccable timing, I just had to take advantage of it, and that’s how Volume 8 happened. So thanks very much to the GAGAGA Bunko editorial department at Shogakukan, and thanks to Iwaasa, my editor. But you guys won’t get a “next time”…
Apart from SisterLeaks, this volume finally shows Chihiro acting like a full-fledged protagonist character. With so many bombshells locked and loaded, I wonder which one I’ll detonate first [evil grin].
By the way, the anime series will finally launch on TV in Japan on October 2017. As previously announced, I personally handled story editing and scriptwriting for the series. I think at least a few people were worried about it affecting my novel-writing pace, but the script work proceeded extremely smoothly, and I had them all wrapped up in February of this year—so, apart from any of the other anime work, I can confidently say that the writing had no direct effect on the novels.
In order to keep the anime in a neat little package, there are a lot of places where I reworked the timelines of scenes and changed assorted aspects of them. I don’t think this damages the story’s atmosphere and themes, so I hope that readers will take heart as they enjoy the series on a clean slate.
As far as differences between the novels and anime go:
• At the start of the series (episode 1), Miyako, Nayuta, Haruto, and Chihiro have all already met one another.
• At the start of the series, Nayuta is already set up with a hotel room by her publisher.
• Itsuki is working on two series at once in the novels (All About My Little Sister and Sisterly Combat), but in the anime, these two titles are merged into a single one, Mahou Academy. This is because after rearranging some scenes, having Itsuki juggle two series got too confusing and created some timeline paradoxes.
• Instead of cutting out scenes that’re too “mature” for TV broadcast, I tried my best to replace them with even worse material. For example, I knew even before we launched an anime project that the Once Upon a Time scene could never be broadcast as is, so I replaced it with another awful story. People’s dicks do make an appearance, however.
• Due to reasons, we can’t use any overseas beer brand names in the anime, so they were all replaced with Japanese brands. Each one is up there with the beers seen in the novels, however, so I hope you’ll keep an eye out for them.
…To sum it all up, I suppose, the more carefully you’ve been reading the novels, the more confused you might be in spots.
The show is packed with a lot of charm that you’d only see in a big project like an anime, complete with front-line light novel illustrators producing the covers for all the cast’s fictional novels. Just like in the originals, there are a lot of nude scenes, too. Everyone on the production side is giving their all to make this a “good anime,” so if you watch it and like it, please recommend it to friends, buy the disks and merchandise, and help us make it into a “happy anime.” We’d all really appreciate it. I worked hard on the original content written for the disk releases, so stay tuned for more details on that.
In addition, we’ve got a team-up campaign going between the novels and the manga adaptation, a real-life board game version of The Life of a Light Novelist (?!), and all kinds of other things I can’t write about here in the works, so check out the official sites and Twitter feeds for the anime and GAGAGA Bunko.
I only made it this far thanks to the support from all our readers. Let’s enjoy this festival together.
Q&A Corner
Q: Kasuka Sekigahara’s A Sister’s All You Need! ended at Volume 13. Is this foreshadowing meant to indicate this series is going to run thirteen volumes too?
A: Nothing like that, no. It may last longer than thirteen, and it might end sooner than that.
Q: Where do you draw the line between censoring references to real-life things and leaving them as is?
By the way, I was pretty surprised to see Kasuka Sekigahara rank number two in the “favorite character” survey results.
Hope we’ll see you in Volume 9 and the anime!
Yomi Hirasaka
Ravishing Silver-Haired Nude Female Novelist
Mid-August 2017
Afterword
Thanks for reading to the end. This is Kantoku, the series illustrator.
We had a character design meeting for the anime and one of the people there told me “Haruto looks like he’s gonna go bald in the future.” That wasn’t in his character profile at all, but now I think so, too. If you need styling tips to hide your hairline,I’m your go-to guy. (Just lay off the airstrip I got going up there.)
Speaking of balding, Toki’s certainly undergone an advanced sort of fashion revamp, hasn’t he? I’ve never seriously drawn a shaved-head character before, so it’s hard to remember who he is!
I’m really happy with how many cute scenes Chihiro gets in this volume. It was worth waiting for. The future’s gonna be really exciting. I’m wondering where that vibrator’s gonna wind up. Will its travels continue?
1 Not true.