Amagi Brilliant Park - Volume 5 - Chapter Aft

Afterword 
These days, I do most of my writing in a cafe. My house is too full of temptations like games and plamodels to get any work done, but when I’m in a cafe, I end up wasting a lot of time messing around with my smartphone. 
I’m sure others have pointed this out before, but a smartphone is really a demonic invention. It’s worse than a kotatsu! They’re so versatile that on days when I’m not in the groove, I pretty much spend the whole day at the cafe messing around on my smartphone... That’s really bad, so I bought a more simple model and started leaving my smartphone at home. It’s the bare-bones kind for old people that only does calls and emails. Since then, things have proceeded smoothly. 
Robbed of any other outlet, I’m forced to focus on the manuscript in front of me. Incredible! Though it makes me realize how much time I’ve lost to those demon machines in the past... 
Well, let’s talk about each episode. 
Adachi Eiko is Not an Adult 
It’s more a story about bad fathers than it is about Eiko. 
I hadn’t thought about making the ABC girls into an idol unit when I first established them back in volume two, but it’s ended up that way, so I might keep expanding on that. 
I had to record some commentary for the anime, so I’ve experienced that feeling of speaking excitedly into the microphone, only to be met by silence. It’s a thing voice actors deal with a lot, I guess, but maybe it comes naturally when you’re a pro. 
Anyway, this concludes the series of using the park’s part-timer trio to help us get to know the “three stooges.” We’re reaching the part where I’ll have to start advancing the story of Latifah’s curse and the attendance issue. Now, how the hell am I going to do that? 
Also, the music producer for the anime, Mr. Ishikawa, taught me a whole lot about CD production. Thank you very much! 
After the Iron Phore 
I wrote this short farcical story because I hadn’t written much about the four elemental spirits yet. 

Aside from Muse, who’s been around since the first volume, I mainly thought them up for the anime. I didn’t understand their personalities very well myself. 
But after volume four, I wrote some anime original episode scripts, and lately I’m feeling like I’m getting the hang of them. They’re very charming and I’ve come to like them. 
Sylphie has been solidified as a weirdo in my mind, even though she speaks normally during Tricen’s PV episode... I’m sure you’ll think it’s lazy of me, but I don’t care. Even Golgo talked a lot in the earlier volumes! I have an idea of what Isuzu’s transformed form as a two-heads-tall kappa looks like, but I bet there’s no demand for it so there probably won’t be an illustration (even though I’d want to see it!) 
Reality Bites 
This is the story about the difficulties of being a headliner, I guess. It’s on the heavy side, but it’s all about Moffle’s troubles. It’s not about me at all! I swear! 
I’d like to do more stories about the guests’ interactions with the cast. 
Night Parade (Trial Run) 
We haven’t seen much of Latifah lately, so I wanted to depict a bit about her everyday activities. There’s only so much she’s allowed to do, which makes it rather hard to write about her. 
Lately I’ve been thinking about coming up with a pretext for her to end up at Seiya’s school, and that might be fun. Really, I just want to see her in a uniform! 
And it’s around this volume’s release that the anime is expected to start (if no terrorists decide to bomb an amusement park, that is...). It’s a fun show! I hope you’ll watch it! 
There’s all kind of content coming together, including a comic adaptation and side stories. Honestly, there’s so much that I can’t really keep track anymore! There might be a booklet included here, or it might be written on the site, so go check it out! (Responsibility shifted!) 
Anyway, bye!

September 2014, Shouji Gatou