Mushi Uta:Volume 6 Afterword
Afterword[edit]
Hello, this is Iwai Kyouhei.
It has been exactly three years since my debut. When I saw my prize-winning work being lined on the shelves of a bookstore I was truly happy.
Judging from the fact that at the same time I also thought that "having just one volume there is lonely", I think I am heading in a good direction, but I also think that I am far from my ideal.
Including my debut work, the "Mushi Uta" series is still in serialization. "Mushi Uta Bug", who can be said to be another story, it also the same.
Both of them are in the midst of accelerating the story.
Even though I am writing these two at the same time, I want to keep developing them.
As usual, let us talk a bit about this current volume.
Last volume felt like it reached a stopping place in the story about the important characters.
Should I call it the end of the first part?
Because of that I made something like a side-story in this work.
I thought that while the main characters pushed the story in one direction there obviously had to have been incidents and happenings just as big in other places.
The events taking place in parallel at a completely different place were also connected to the past or the future.
Even this volume, which could be called the Shinpu Arc, should advance the story.
About negative dreams.
Because there are all kinds of dreams, Mushitsuki are also diverse. While there are people whose dreams themselves serve as their driving force, there are also times when they will get disheartened by the harsh reality and end up with regrets.
They will lose what was important to them through the course of their objective.
Or perhaps their very goal itself hinders them.
Since they're human they hate pain, so I believe they carry wounds that will never disappear.
However, what they gain from this will definitely be connected to their next goal.
And if what they've gained becomes their support, then their regret towards what they failed to achieve should also motivate them. Even I, writing about such things, have an intrinsic feeling of regret when I can't achieve my ideals.
I believe that having things go your way is rarer.
Perhaps the regret we feel at such times will become the power to keep moving forward.
About inheriting dreams.
Talking about an "inheritance" seems cool.
I feel like it would be easier to understand if I call it "influence" instead.
I believe that there are many wishes born from a complex pertaining to positive influence such as admiring someone or wanting to help people.
That is why these sorts of dream will never vanish, and they will always keep appearing.
On the other hand, if there is somewhere a person whose dream was cut in the middle, then it would also cause others to disappear as a chain reaction. Perhaps the Mushi, who are trying to devour their hosts' dream and kill them, are trying to cause this impossible phenomenon.
But I will only be so fastidious and argumentative inside the afterword.
In this work I would like to depict adolescents purely being influenced and influencing each other.
Now for thanks.
For these last three years, I was under the care of my supervisor Onai-san. Everyone in the editorial department including Yamaguchi-san has also taken care of me. Please keep helping me.
I also have to express my enormous gratitude toward the illustrator llo-san. The loveliness of your illustrations seems to be increasing along with the volume count, and you also keep on pushing my back at difficult times.
Also, to those of you holding this book in your hands, my great readers.
Thank you very much. I have been receiving letters ever since my debut, and after years of seeing the changes in the content of these letters I have been able to feel the passing of three years. Every time I receive a letter from the very first person, it gives me the power to keep writing.
From now on, along with increasingly expanding the story I will also focus on converging toward the climax.
I will do my best so that I could keep delivering it to you until the end.
November 2005
Iwai Kyouhei
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