Afterword
This is the second volume of the spinoff series—but the number of characters has already exploded. The headache I’ve gotten from giving characters who will appear in the main story a flying start has informed me just how difficult it is to write a gaiden—a side story.
I know it’s stealing entrances from characters later on, but it would make me happy if these new men and women were welcomed with open arms when they appear in the main storyline.
On a different topic, one of my editors and I had a very entertaining conversation about zombies in the second installment of a certain action-adventure horror game when we met to discuss this volume. While not much of a gamer myself, I spent countless hours watching my friends play and going through guidebooks. I remember being very knowledgeable about the storylines.
In that specific game, there’s a “Side A Storyline” with the male hero of the story and a “Side B Storyline” with the heroine that you could switch between during a play-through. There are some weapons and items that only the hero can use, and others only available to the heroine, a sort of backward restriction…At least I think that’s how it works.
There is a male hero in the main story, and a female hero in this gaiden. They share the same world, so that led us to experiment with a few things and have some fun. “What if we have him use a weapon in the main story that she couldn’t use here?” Both of us got really excited and talked for hours about the endless possibilities. This was after it had been decided that Volume 5 and Gaiden 2 would be released in a two-month span.
Fujino Omori
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