Sengoku Youko

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Volume Blurb:
He's the last and final volume. 99 chapters in all, so close. If you throw in the oneshot then that makes it 100 so let's go with that.

It was thanks to you all that I had a fun time drawing this. Thank you very much for sticking with me.

If you take off the cover you'll find that I've included an afterword on the book itself. You're welcome to go through it after you're done reading the volume.

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Series Afterword:

Hello, Mizukami Satoshi speaking.

99 Chapters, 8 Years, 17 volumes in all, thank you very much for sticking with this lengthy tale. I'm sure reading it proved to be tough as well. Good job on keeping up.

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The basis that kicked Sengoku Youko off came 8 years ago in the form of a request from a then editor of Mag Garden we'll call Mr. T. This was back when Hoshi no Samidare was still in serialization.

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That was when I had garnered a little bit of value within the business and saw an increase in writing requests coming my way. Seeing them all come in made me think then I was getting to be mangaka-like too. The young me had become a braggart.

But when I opened up the lid to see what was under it, I saw that the requests were full of things like "Please draw what you'd like to draw for us" and "Please draw us something like Samidare" so I went something like "I'm already drawing what I want to draw and I'm even drawing Samidare now so I'm going to have to turn you down".

>>143465693
nice

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But among them there was one who said "Please draw Sengoku Youko for us". That was Mr. T.

I went "I don't really know much about the warring states period, I'm not even interested in that time. That's why I'll give it a go." and took the project on.

>we will never see animated Nau dance

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It was rough after that. I drew up the one-shot and just when it got picked up for serialization, Mr. T had quit the company.

Things had completely gone to my head by then. I hadn't decided what I was going to draw, how I wanted to it end, didn't study up anywhere near enough on the warring states period and here I was jumping right into a serialization that was meant to be an experiment at coming up with things on the fly. I thought that it was all just unbelievable.

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In the end though it became a story about demons and it was pretty much devoid of any ties to historical stuff. (I did want to somehow draw an anecdote of Ashikaga Yoshiteru up to a point though)

It was thanks to everyone's advice that I switched out the main character halfway through this on the fly drawn story. The demon foxes, the Youko, faded away into the background and when it got to the point where you couldn't tell where the "Sengoku Youko" bit had gone off to, that was when I finally saw the end point. I was also relieved to that I managed to live up to the historical aspect a smidge by letting Ashikaga Teru onstage.

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I also just kinda forced the unplanned Tribe of the Void at the time of their introduction into a conclusion and just drew out all those page-filling action scenes to my heart's content.

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When I showed the draft to Mr. M who had taken over for Mr. T he went "Huh!? You're gonna continue off from here!? Have you really given proper thought to how that's going to go?". Me: "Not one bit but let's call it a day and head out for some drinks."
We had that sort of ritual-esque exchanges every month.

That was how that 8 year rollercoaster ride went.

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>>143465597

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Well, a lot changes in a mangaka's life if you give them 8 years. I got married, bought my home through a loan group, my dad died, my son was born and the young 28 year old youth turned into a 36 year old middle aged man. My gut is also poking out a little and I've got more meat on my jaw.

I imagine that the main audience for this series who were in their teens who have got married, got loans and got kids going from the first half to the second half might not have it him them just yet but those who have hit the age when it has, I'd like them to know that the last and second last chapters were basically drawn with those older readers in mind. If those you youngsters are willing, I'd be glad if you were to come back and reread them again how many years from now. I'm very sure that you'll fill up with a different sort of sentiment compared to now.

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I might be tooting my own horn by saying so but I came to quite like this haphazard on the fly drawn manga. I came up with this afterword before the chapters 98 and 99 came out so I couldn't get any last impressions but I'm happy so long as you liked it.

And if you didn't, I implore those of you hanging onto that feeling of how the story should have gone differently to go out and draw something. There are pros out there who became pros by doing just that. It's true you know. And if you do get it and get something done I'd be more than happy to see it.

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Well then everyone, take care.
Ribbit.

Mizukami Satoshi, April 4th 2016

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>>143466022
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

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Dumping the characters on the back since raws seem to omit them from time to time.

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>>143466385

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Best girl

Nau is cute.

>>143466022
Man, Nau has changed.

>buying Mizukami
You're a good man, anon.

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>>143466576
This is was what I was trying to post.

Incidentally if any of you live in japan, you have until the end of july to buy a limited run of signed Sengoku Youko posters by submitting a money transfer of 13000yen and your details.

I'd try for one myself but the conditions limit it to pretty much just locals. Spirit Circle's magazine is offering mugs and they actually specifically stated that applications from abroad will not be entertained. I can't help but feel like they wrote that in because I sent one in during the first cross series autograph gievaway.

Also, try to keep the thread up for the next 24 hours so someone passes on the afterword somewhere outside the board for the regular mangareaders to catch wind of it.

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One last thing before bed. Night night all.

>>143467147
If you've been following release threads then you'll probably know that there's much more than just SY in my Mizukami collection.

Much thanks.

Night night.

>>143465597
Thanks OP.
I miss SY and Spirit Circle.

>>143467275
>>143467197
thanks man. Anxiously awaiting his next series.

>>143465857
>>It was thanks to everyone's advice that I switched out the main character halfway through this on the fly drawn story.

Thank God for those advice. Having Jinka fucked off save the series. The initial part was bad for Mizukami's standard.

God damn. Why does he have to make me cry so fucking much.

Any news on any new series he's working on?

>>143467197

What's the site for this? I have a friend in Japan who I might hit up.

>>143466426

Timeto fap