Afterword

Afterword

Hullo, light novelist Sakaki here, bringing you Volume 7 of Outbreak Company: The Power of Moe.

It’s a collection of short stories, just as I said it would be in the afterword to the last volume. And Minori-san is finally, finally on the cover. I guess she’s a half-step removed from the other girls who surround Shinichi (the protagonist), which makes it hard to really make her the center of a story—and consequently, hard to get her on the cover.

You might be interested to know that the stories in this volume are arranged chronologically, with only “Seven Rotten Days” taking place after Volume 6, while the others take place before Volume 5. That’s why Hikaru-san only appears in the final story.

Personally, I’m not ideally suited to finding the best way to motivate a fujoshi-centric plot like the one in “Seven Rotten Days,” so I once again turned to my assistant, who’s a woman, for help. To get a BL story going with things like the hands of the clock, or the ceiling and the floor, though... The power of a fujoshi’s imagination is truly a terrifying thing to behold. Do they have no limits...?

Oh, also—the other day, I got to attend the ADR session for the first episode of the Outbreak Company anime. Anime tends to be done on a very strict deadline (and budget), so often you have no idea how it’s going to turn out until it’s come out of the oven. But this first episode felt pretty much the way I’d imagined it. The director and the actors had great timing, and me and Yuugen-san, who was there too, spent most of the time in hysterics.

This anime has been graced with a top-flight cast; the actors for Shinichi, Myusel, Petralka, and Minori have all played leading men and women before. So maybe it shouldn’t surprise me that they’re so good—just personally, though, I thought Matoba was especially great (hehe). Kind of like, Ooh, yeah, that’s how a nasty bureaucrat with ulterior motives should sound.

Okay, next time we return you to your regularly scheduled main plot, but I’m also planning to write a bad manzai comedy sketch as a supplement to the anime, do a script book for the drama CD, and so on, so there’s lots to look forward to.

Right-o, see you next time!

Ichiro Sakaki

31 July 2013

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Outbreak Company: Volume 7

by Ichiro Sakaki

Translated by Kevin Steinbach

Edited by Sasha McGlynn

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 Ichiro Sakaki

Illustrations by Yuugen

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First published in Japan in 2013 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.

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