My Stepsister is My Ex-Girlfriend - Volume 8 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

This’ll be my eighth time writing an afterword, and now that it’s gotten to this point, I’m honestly out of ideas. What should I write about now? I usually add commentary about the contents of the book, but there’s not all that much to break down this time around.

The only thought I had in my head while I was writing this was about how I wanted to put an illustration in the front of the book with the girls just waking up.

You know, in the first place, I’m the type of author who thinks afterwords are unnecessary. I think using how many pages people use to write what’s essentially tantamount to pointless graffiti is a waste of space. Honestly, the only published series I have that has an afterword is StepExes.

On a whim, I wrote one for volume 1, and I’ve been forced to continue doing them for seven more volumes. It’s such a pain. Can’t I just write them on Twitter or something?

Looking back, even back when I was a student I was like this—just continuing things out of force of habit for sixteen years. Honestly, I think I got bored of school around middle school. I pretty much only went to high school in order to gather materials for my books. Of course, college too.

Thinking about it that way, maybe I was fortunate since I found what I wanted to get serious about pretty early in life. The price I paid in return is that I don’t remember the names or faces of any of my classmates. But I read and wrote so many books that it didn’t matter. In my head, there was no other choice. I guess I wasn’t nearly as anxious or frightened as Aisa or Yume.

That being said, I think I’ve lived quite a unique life. Though I can’t say everyone should just jump into their passions without any fear at all—I can’t be irresponsible like that—I can say that I think it’s pretty fun to get serious about something, whether that be novels, manga, games, or romance.

It would seem that the main characters of StepExes have begun to figure out what they want to be serious about, and that makes me so happy as the author! But, y’know, just because you’re serious about romance doesn’t mean you’ll be successful in it.

In volume 9, we’ll be picking up a storyline that was introduced in volume 6. What, you might ask? Well, why don’t you go back and read it very carefully. Wasn’t there a mysterious old guy who came into the story and then disappeared?

The production of the anime is going smoothly, but as the author of the source material, I have to start thinking about where this story is going. Oh, don’t tell me you think this series will happily end with Mizuto and Yume getting back together?

Anyway, this has been Kyosuke Kamishiro’s My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex Volume 8: Time to Get Serious. The punch line of this volume is that the person who got the most serious was Isana Higashira.