The Daughter of Evil - Volume 2 - Chapter Aft

(vg) afterword
Wiegenlied of Green VG edition afterword

At the time that the work before “Wiegenlied of Green”, “Cloture of Yellow”, came out, VOCALOID novels had yet to really be known to the world at large. Or rather, when it came to the idea of making VOCALOID songs into the subject of a novel itself (excepting fanfictions published on the internet and in fanzines), “Cloture of Yellow” is probably remembered by most as being the first of its kind.

For that reason, at first they were hardly ever carried in most bookstores, and if it hadn’t been for fan-specialty stories and online retailers it would have been very difficult for me to sell “Cloture of Yellow” at all. Fortunately (for the publishers, the rights-holders for the VOCALOIDS, and the writers themselves), with “Cloture of Yellow” selling unexpectedly well and with the publishing company’s business efforts, they are now often sold in major book retailers. They even managed to take up their own section that is comprised of just VOCALOID novels.

Ahem.

…Well, leaving aside my extremely arrogant singing my praises that’s only excused because this is the afterword of my own book, what came next after “Cloture of Yellow” was this work, “Wiegenlied of Green”.

But to look back once more, what a subject I picked for my second novel; a “companionship between two women” that has hardly any relation to my life at all.

Back then I borrowed several books from some authorities on the subject as reference material but they were things like yuri novels and the like. If it hadn’t been for that, this book might have been in a genre that no one would read.

There were a lot of corrections and revisions I did when re-publishing this, but compared to those I did for “Cloture of Yellow” it’s much more reserved. They were of a more supplementary degree, to fix typos and to maintain consistency with the works that came after it. It’s not that there weren’t parts that bummed me out reading them again, but I decided to hold back in respect to the me of back then as long as there wasn’t anything that was too off in it.

For those of you who are just starting on the “Daughter of Evil” series with this edition, and those of you who have already read all four books, I hope you’re able to enjoy it.

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AkunoP (mothy)