Sorry for the long wait! This is AmaBri’s 8th volume. It’s been six months since the 7th volume. This was really, really hard to write. As for why it was so hard, well... there are several reasons. Er. First, there was Witcher 3 (a masterpiece), okay? And Fallout 4 (too buggy!), okay? And Dragon Quest Builders (I can’t wait for the sequel), okay? Then you add Netflix and Hulu in there (House of Cards! Kevin Spacey is amazing!). Oh, and Amazon Prime too, okay? Who has time to work? It’s all been really rough! Try to have some sympathy! ...Sorry, that’s a joke. About half of it is, at least. Half of it. Anyway, this 8th volume is the result of a lot of hard thinking I did about the series’s future. Up to about the end of the year, I really was considering moving AmaBri and starting a new series, Sanami Brilliant Park, from volume one. But it just didn’t come together. It didn’t work. In a sense, I was as tortured about it as Seiya-kun. Maybe more! Seriously, I don’t know what to do next! But I think the next volume will have a lot of slapstick stories. Too much serious stuff can be stifling. Oh, and I have an announcement to make.
Upcoming work schedule: AmaBri will keep coming out, but I’m helping with the planning of a new Full Metal Panic! anime. I’m writing the scenario too, and there’s location scouting to do. Lots of work! I can’t say for sure when it’s coming just yet, but I think we’ll have some bonus material coming out very soon. Sorry to talk about my work for another company, but I’ll also start writing Cop Craft soon. Sorry for making you wait for that too (sweats). Ahh, my troubles are dual core. I need to get it all together, but it’s impossible to write so many things at once... I’ve tried a lot of things in the past 20 years and it’s never worked out, so I just don’t think I can handle it. I give up. I’ve also stopped tweeting and blogging lately. Sorry. I’d gotten kind of sick of it, and I’ve never been much for keeping a diary! Plus I don’t want to write something I shouldn’t and accidentally cause a big fuss! And also... in a world where everyone’s shouting “Me! Me!” I think silence is golden. Also, some terrible things have been happening in the region around Kumamoto. I hope that the people suffering from the disaster can read this and it will make them feel better, however slightly. Last year, I traveled to Kumamoto for a friend’s wedding (the horse meat sashimi and shochu was amazing!) so I’m pretty down about it. I’ll go to hang out again once things are under control. One last thing. While I was writing the short story about the culture festival, I got some news that the writer Tomohiro Matsu passed away. He wrote Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! which was also illustrated by Yuka Nakajima. We’d done panels together at Comiket Special and such, and gone drinking at hot springs hotels, and we have a lot of other fun memories together. Rest in peace. Thanks to Biino’s everlasting cheer, I managed to finish the short story. Thank you, Biino. I hope to turn in volume 9 ASAP. Well, see you!
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