Sengoku Youko

Guess whose copy finally escaped customs?

Dumping a few things that didn't seem to show up online:

Naus, the volume blurb and the series afterword.

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.

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.

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.

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".

nice

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

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.

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.