Afterword

Thank you for picking up Volume 2 of A Sister’s All You Need. If you enjoyed it, even a little bit, I couldn’t be happier.

Right in the middle of writing this volume, I wound up moving to a new place. Running around all over the city, surrounded by mighty mountains of cardboard boxes, pestered endlessly by my editor Kenken—it wasn’t as bad as what Itsuki experienced, but it was a battle like none I’ve had in quite a while. Looking back, I’m glad we got Volume 2 out, as much as I’d like my editor Iwaasa’s dick to fall off.

By the way, IK Mansion—the apartment Itsuki lives in, mainly occupied by college students—is very heavily modeled after the place I lived in before the move. Itsuki has a slightly nicer pad, with a bit of a bigger kitchen and so on, but everyone who’s been to my old joint ribbed me about it—“This is exactly like your apartment, isn’t it?” In this room, just a few minutes’ walk from the MF Bunko J editorial office, I’d play board games, hold drinking parties, host anime screenings, and so on with my friends, and all of that’s getting used for story material now. It’s maybe a bit sad to leave those memories behind with the old place, but at least I’ll still get to poke around inside them within this series. I won’t get kicked out that easily.

Volume 1 featured the cast doing almost nothing but play around, but this volume features Itsuki and friends working quite a bit more. As touched upon in the story, being an “author” can be an extremely unstable line of work. It has a lot of negatives attached, but in terms of being able to leverage everything you’ve experienced in life, nothing comes close, I don’t think. It also means that everything about you connects to work, and whether that’s a good thing or not is a seriously debatable topic.

Going forward, I plan to continue baring all within my heart, wringing out everything I’ve experienced, everything I haven’t, everyone I’ve met, everyone I haven’t, everything I’ve thought and imagined, everything fun and everything sad, and everything else, too, mixing truth with fiction as I craft this weird patchwork of a story that straddles the line between reality and make-believe. See you in Volume 3.

Yomi Hirasaka
Silver-Haired, Beautiful Nude Novelist
At His New Home, Late June 2015

CORRECTION

The first printing of Volume 1 described Nayuta Kani as being the author of the “Seasons” series in places. This should be correctly referred to as the Landscape series. We regret any confusion caused by this.

[This correction only applies to the Japanese edition.]

CAUTION

This volume discusses Japanese hometown-tax system; however, in reality, the system is a tad more complex than how it’s described in the story. Those with an interest in taking advantage of it are advised not to take Itsuki’s experience at face value, and to instead consult with a licensed tax accountant. As in Volume 1’s “Die in a Fire, Tax Returns,” we did have an accountant look over the content of this volume for accuracy’s sake, but we’ve exaggerated a few things and glossed over a few others. This isn’t an issue for casual readers, but if you’re a professional writer, do not use this book as a reference!

Afterword

Oh, man. Volume 2. So exciting. The men’s team sure played a big part in this one. I wasn’t expecting Toki to become a regular!

For this afterword, I decided to draw Nayuta Kani. Considering how she almost shacked up with Itsuki, I feel like I didn’t draw her too much this time. This series is all about getting its characters naked in amusing ways, it seems, but that really helps me out as an illustrator. Those without any art experience may not realize it, but it’s actually pretty uncommon to draw a character clothed from the get-go. First, you draw them naked, then you add on clothing. In other words, when they’re nude in the story, I get to skip a step. Viva nudity!

¹ For example, an attack name written with the characters for “magic flame funeral strike” might need an accompanying ruby indicating that the reading is actually “Dark Flame Punisher.”