Post-Bath – The Author’s Booth

Long time no see to everyone coming from volumes one and two, and nice to meet you to everyone who picked this title up starting from volume three! My name is Nagaharu Hibihana.

How did you enjoy Mixed Bathing in a Another Dimension 3: The Chaotic Stone Sauna? It’s all thanks to your support that this volume is in front of you now. I’d like to thank Masakage Hagiya, who illustrated some wonderfully exciting bath scenes again, my editor K, the editorial department at Overlap Bunko, and everyone who was involved in the publishing and selling of this book.

Now then, excuse me for rambling about my personal life, but I found something interesting when cleaning out my closet recently. I opened up a box and found over a dozen old games inside.

NES games? No, I’ve kept those in another box close to me for years. The NE-101 is still plugged in at my house. Though the battery in my Meg*mi Te**ei II cartridge just recently died.

Anyway, those were actually MSX games inside that box. I remember being jealous at my cousin for having an MSX and begging my parents to buy one for me. I want to try playing Buta**ru Pants again, but I bet I can’t find a working console in this day and age.

This might be a nice and nostalgic story if I ended it here, but I found one slightly more problematic thing in that closet. Yes, I found manga that I had drawn back in elementary and middle school.

The rest of you older folks might relate, but my past was coming back to haunt me! So I thought, and then I slowly opened that scary box with my heart pounding. But then when I actually looked through the contents, I was surprisingly okay. I even figured I could use some of these ideas if I restructured them a bit. And then I realized... have I not matured one bit in all these years?

Maybe I’m still a kid at heart, but I hope to see you all again in Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension volume 4. Please pick it up when you have the chance.

Nagaharu Hibihana, November 2015.