Happy New Year! It"s the Author Takehaya.
This time I have safely delivered Volume 12, where evil magicians start moving, and the story"s structure starts to change once more.
This series has now been around for four years, and I am deeply moved. I planned to make this into a long story from the very beginning, but because of the fear that it might be cancelled, I developed stories in so that it could end on its third or sixth volume.
In the three volume version, volume two and three would continue in the same fashion as volume 1 before ending. It would end before any foreshadowing began.
In the six volume version, volume two would develop the same way it did now, and then there would be one volume for each invader girl, wrapping up all plots.
Because of that, I could only write the first volume in a way that would work with all three of these versions. Since the characters backgrounds and true intentions would differ in these three versions, there were many times where I could only write a character"s lines and their actions, giving me plenty of problems.
Fortunately, thanks to the support of my readers, this series has been able to flourish. Thanks to that, the restrictions were eased by the third volume and then once more on the seventh, which made it easy for me to start gradually using the foreshadowing. As a result, it is now much easier for me to write than it was at the start. Now I can just write about whatever I want while making use of what"s been foreshadowed. This kind of hard work was necessary as I tried to write a long story without having much previous experience. Well, it"s my own fault (lol).
Whoops, looks like I"ve already run out of s.p.a.ce to write my afterword on, so I will leave it at this. Though things might have gotten easier, I will work to write something that meets everyone"s expectations, I hope you can continue to support me.
Well then, let us meet in the afterword of Volume 13.
January 2013
Takehaya
PS: Though it might be a little late, I"ve made a Twitter account.