Editing Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo:Volume 5 Author's Notes

==Author’s Notes==

I’m Kamoshida Hajime, the man who’s been belittled a lot recently when discussing my manuscripts with my chief editor, Araki-san.

Despite being the butt of so many jokes, I’m glad to announce that here we are at the fifth volume of the series.

While it is true that「Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo」may not have existed today without Araki-san and our illustrator, Mizoguchi Keji-sensei, the exact relationship the three of us, namely the writer, the chief editor and the illustrator, have between us may not yet be clear to all of you readers out there.

So, I decided to make that the subject of this afterword.

Occasionally, after we figure out a date and time to discuss the series, we’ll go out and have a meal together. But when all’s said and done, we often find ourselves coming back so late that we barely manage to catch the final train heading home. Why is that so?

If you really want to know what we usually talk about...we don’t go on about topics like “My neighbour next door really loves eating persimmons” or “My breakfast this morning had tomatoes in it too” or other more normal things, in fact, we usually talk about things that can’t really be written down here. (TL note: The author also used a Japanese tongue-twister as one of the examples for what they talked about during meetings, but I omitted it since it wouldn’t make sense in English.)

We also said stuff like “I really want to those things~~” but at the same time maybe we didn’t...sometimes we actually talked about this series here and there, but sometimes we didn’t...anyway, it’s hard to explain everything that happened between us here.

Also, the three of us tend to wordlessly stare at the waiters as they dump food into our steamboat or hotpot, so I guess they must feel really awkward. Please don’t follow our example.

Anyway, we’re finally getting to graduation day next volume...but before that, we have a volume of short stories coming up. With regards to the overall storyline of that volume, since it’ll contain a lot of details referencing both volumes 4 and 5, I personally think that it’s best to read it after those two volumes. Ah, also, the parts that will be serialized simultaneously in「Dengeki Bunko」should be read in order of publication, of course...

It’ll be set in autumn.

I would like to thank the two people whose names were mentioned earlier for looking after me throughout the production of this volume as well. Last but not least, I would also like to put a word out to T-san who helped out with the design of this light novel.

As to all of you who’ve been reading this far, I dedicate my sincerest gratitude.

Kamoshida Hajime