Gifts
By the time this comes out, the second season of the anime should already be airing.
I much prefer to remain unknown as a writer. I’m someone who tries to avoid standing in the spotlight, so I refuse any signing events, and during the first season of the anime, I avoided going to visit the recording studio.
This isn’t limited to just the anime staff, though. I can count on one hand how many people have seen the person known as Patora Fuyuhara, even within Hobby Japan, and that’s including my advisor and editor. I don’t even attend any of the parties that they host. In some ways, I’m like a rare character. Though, you could also just call me a shut-in.
This time, however, even though it was done remotely due to the coronavirus, I popped my head into a recording session for the first time ever. It was kind of done on-the-fly, so I attended through audio-only.
Making my first greetings only after the second season started is pretty rude, but there’s not really much I can do about it now other than apologize.
I did make sure to leave gifts during the first season, like a box of hagi-no-tsuki and other famous Sendai sweets every week, but that’s about all I did.
Now that the second season has rolled around, I was left pondering what to get. And after a lot of thinking, I eventually settled on getting famous sweets from all over Japan.
Going from the north of Japan down, I got Shiroi Koibito and Mifuyu from Hokkaido, kamome-no-tamago from Iwate, Lemo from Fukushima, mito-no-ume from Ibaraki, Kinseikan Shingen Mochi from Yamanashi, Tsuki Sekai from Toyama, unbaked yatsuhashi and yukimaroge from Kyoto, gaufres from Hyogo, kibi-dango from Okayama, White Hares from Shimane, karukan manju from Kagoshima, and the list goes on.
Fresh sweets don’t last for very long, so I tried to choose ones with a long shelf life. Though, to tell the truth, rather than having them delivered to me and then handing them over directly, I had them sent straight to Hobby Japan, so I never got to see or eat them... Not that it’s normal for the one sending the souvenirs to be eating them, of course...
The most I could do was ask the staff how they tasted after the fact.
On the last day of recording, I gifted them custom-made dorayaki with Kohaku printed on them. Or maybe I should call them...tigeryaki.
Naturally, I had some of these made for myself, too, but the picture was smaller than I thought it would be, and the thank you text was a little smooshed, so that was a shame.
Honestly, I worried a little that everything I was sending them could be bought in Tokyo anyway, but at the end of the day, the main goal was to help everyone relax a little.
The real surprise was all the end-of-year mail I got from each of the stores I’d ordered from all at once. I’d ordered from so many places, so there were quite a number of them...
It was fun researching all the sweets and choosing between them. I look forward to getting to send more again.
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