Editing Toradora!:Spin-Off 2 Author's Notes

Postscript

While typing this postscript I’m thinking, “Isn’t this PC incredibly dirty?”

I’ve got a cold, and can’t stop coughing and sneezing.  My monitor and keyboard, right in front of me, are getting the cold virus every time I blow on them.  And look at me!  Grabbing and eating bread with my hands contaminated from the keyboard… I’m amazed (TN: The author is punning here, combining two phrases: “amazing” & “cold-hearted Kalashnikova (AK-47)”).

Now, for all the wonderful fans of “Toradora Spinoff 2!"  Thank you very much for having taken it (and read it)!  I expect we be meeting again shortly, on schedule, with “Toradora 10!”  Thank you for your continued interest!

With this schedule to meet, it is not a good time to catch a cold …. I am in a sad state.  Until I reached twenty-five years of age, if I felt I was “coming down with a cold”, I could get better by the next morning if I got enough sleep that night.  But recently, I can’t stop it at “coming down with a cold”.  Whatever medicine I drink, however much I sleep, whatever I eat, whatever vitamin supplements I take, … I get sick 100% of the time.  And in spite of serious relaxation, I don’t get better.  I go to the hospital, but don’t get better.  For at least three whole days, I feel unable to manage life in this world.  

In the past this would not be … and until the third year in high school, I, too, had the energy to run around in bloomers. (In that long lost time, bloomers were still OK in public.)  Now, I think that if I were to wear bloomers while rolling on the floor-mat, I would catch my death of cold.  Mainly for social reasons … or perhaps because of those bloomers.

Why would I only wear that sort of pants while quietly exercising?  When I was an ordinary, medium sized school-girl, the gymnastics festival became a meeting of about 500 bloomer-clad bottoms, something which I now think was a madhouse.  Even though all that was only twelve years ago, somehow it feels strangely distant from the present.  Twelve years…?  The time it takes for a newborn to become a sixth-grader…?

Setting old memories aside, I must have a weakened immune system.  Ha!  I want to spend my time happy, since I have heard that laughing strengthens your immune system.  But when I look up, those cursed words (the AK-47 pun from before) come into view.

Oh, I'm frozen.  Looking back seriously and reflecting on the joke I wrote, I am thrilled.

Now then, everybody!  I truly thank you very much for sticking with us to the end!  Next, on to editing “Toradora 10!”  I am determined to grind this cold virus to dust, while praying for my fans to receive and enjoy this book.  

And, at the present time (January 2009), Zekkyou-sensei’s manga is being serialized, and the anime is being televised.  Both works, from the author’s point of view, are top-notch.  By all means please check them out!

--Takemiya Yuyuko