"I have few friends" Hirasaka reading and "Magician's offense" A popular author's dialogue with Akita Yasunobu "Participants' battlefield" partly in advance

Illustration: Yuya Kusakawa

Currently, newly released new versions and new series are published "Magician's offenseI am the author ofAkita SadamobuWithI do not have many friendsI am the author ofHirasaka readingMr. Mr. Akita is still a writer engaged in the industry from the time when the word "light novel" was not used yet, but Mr. Hirasaka was a writer who grew up reading the light novel, and between the two generations there is. Actually, however, there is a mysterious common item between these two people ... It is revealed in the two-person talk "Writer's Battlefield".

This dialogue is recorded in the brochure attached to the first limited edition of "Battlefield of Sorcerer Liberation Liberation Fighter Opens" which will be released on March 25, but this time, it is a digest version, pioneering the release for more than one month at GIGAZINE We decided to make a preliminary public announcement. In both cases, the dialogue of popular writers representing the era, what kind of feeling was as follows.

Progress:
First of all, Mr. Akita, how did you read "I have few friends"?

Akita Yoshinobu (Akita):
It was fun! It may be a weird way of saying, but I was reading while grinning forever.

Hirasaka read (Hirasaka):
Thank you! I am honored. It is a fun from elementary school days, and it is exciting to have read the book even though it is strange feeling just by talking like this.

Progress:
When Professor Hirasaka was a primary school student, Mr. Akita was 21 years old?

Akita:
I agree. I wonder if the age is about 10 years old with Mr. Hirasaka. Turning back now, I am the first generation to apply for a new award for readers of the Fujimi Fantasia Collection. It would be a lie if you said that until the first generations who became professional from such light novel readers, is not it even a big deal to dismantle?

Progress:
I see. There was not so much light novel label at that time.

Akita:
There was not the word light novel yet, and the editorial department had a unique air which collapsed from "literary". Since I was a high school student at that time, that world was seen as an adult, but the current editorial department is more bright. I became a writer without understanding well in such a situation.

Progress:
At that time there was not yet a genre, it was a felt time. As opposed to Mr. Hirasaka, it feels like a writer born of the genre "light novel".

Hirasaka:
Certainly, I kept reading the light novel for a long time, and became a writer as it is. From the beginning that the light novel wanted to write and became a writer, may be the point different from Mr. Akita the most.

Akita:
I feel that the feelings of the person himself / herself and the surrounding viewpoint are different. It seems that being genreized is such a thing.

Progress:
When Mr. Hirasaka made his debut, it was already full of various works. Among them, what kind of position is "oven"?

Hirasaka:
"Slayers! "As a trigger to read the light novel, I encountered" Opens "that I wanted to read other works as well. It was really funny and I had no money to buy so many books, so I was reading about these two series. At that time it was unusual for the series to continue for a long time, so successive "offenses" are wonderful! I thought that (laugh).

Progress:
"Slayers! Were there any differences among Mr. Hirasaka among "Opens"?

Hirasaka:
Somehow, "oven" thought that it was "mature."

Akita:
It may seem that way of looking, but from the sense of writing, "Slayers! I thought that you are an adult. It was an extreme setting at that time that an excessive fire girl ramped up, but the character Rina itself is pretty grown and there is no room to blur. The feeling of security around that is "Slayers! I think that 's the point. Compared to that, "Open" is young, is not it? As for the characters, it seems that my childishness is writing hard sentences, which may seem mature to Mr. Hirasaka.

Hirasaka:
I longed for that style.

Progress:
To that extent, Professor Hirasaka's style is quite different from Mr. Akita's style.

Akita:
Hirasaka sensei 's way of choosing words and sentences may be different, but the word I knew was unexpectedly the same (laugh). I was glad that it seems I was wearing a lot of things that I read, or I found some similar parts in relatives' children.

Hirasaka:
I learned how to set up the character by reading the rebuke of "Opens" many times, so it may be that such part is being influenced without consciousness.

Progress:
Do you have anything you would like to convey to readers from the two people through this dialogue?

Akita:
I think that everyone is tired of life, the antenna becomes dull and I feel that the content in the world is not interesting at all. I myself have that sort of thing, but when I calm down a little and look for it, I always find something funny. Because Mr. Hirasaka like a new talent is born more and more in various industries.

Hirasaka:
After Mr. Akita's wonderful words, it is Allegiance, but "Opens" is really interesting, so please read all the light novel fans right now (laugh).

Progress:
Thank you very much.

By the way, the profile of the two people who talked about this time is here.

◆ Atsushi Akita
Born in 1973. At the age of 17, Fantasia novels subject and quasi-elected. He made his debut in "One in the Snow of Sparks". "Kanasupika" "Redeemable Dream" (Kodansha), "Machine's sickness" (Bungei Spring Autumn), "Akita Sadinobu Box" "Hunter Dark" (TO BOOKS) etc. are included in the book.

◆ Hirasaka Reading
Received the 0th MF Bunko J light novel brand new prize · excellent prize. In 2004, winning work "Haunted! Debut with. Started publishing "I have few friends" from August 2009. As of January 2012, 7 volumes published, 1 volume of anthology has been expanded, breaking the total of 4 million copies, and from October to December 2011, a large-scale media mix was also done It was. One of the representatives of the current light novel world. In the other series' Nekuromama. "" Ranube section "and so on.

The complete version of the above dialogue will be included in "Production Note Ⅱ" attached to the "Magicians Orphans Hidden Travel Liberation Battlefield" First Press Limited Edition released on March 25. This "Production Note Ⅱ" contains interviews, treasure roughs in addition to talks, and also completely re-invents short stories Rutzbain's first appearance "There is no responsibility!"

Synopsis of 'the liberator's battlefield' is like this.

Several days after the collapse of the "Tactical Knights". Orfen was charged with responsibility as a commander and was detained by the city council. And the magicians entrusted with the operation of the Order and Magical School begin to move from their respective standpoints to maintain order. Meanwhile, Mayor leaves the "Kiesarghima magician alliance" and follows the original continent to pursue his sister Baejit. I reached the settlement without magician. It was a village where "Vampire" ruled. A single ship enters the port to support the "anti-magic powers" while all is chaotic and the situation is not being scoured. "Guns of liberal". The ship singing liberation and freedom was an armored ship filled with a threat to magicians.
The struggle surrounding the hegemony of the original continent has a three-pronged appearance, and new warfare spreads to various places.

In addition to the main novel, official goods are also under development. Kore recorded the 365 days of nominated lines picked out from the main story and "Orphans Everyday Terms Bilinguals" etc, which introduces everyday conversations with an orphanic phrase such as "Magicians Orphan gangster notebook 2012".


Kuya Kusakawa drawing down and illustration includedMemorial calendar


The coat of arms of the fang tower entered "Magician 's offense gone journey book cover"


In addition, Mr. Akita's 20th anniversary debut this year, "Liberator's Battleground" release fair is held. This means that when you buy an orphan series at a fair holding bookstore, you will receive a special trading card (9 types in all), Akita Yoshinobu × Kusakawa Yuya signed goods (poster, colored paper) etc. It draws in a lottery, The magazine "Orphen getaway journey" primer containing the correlation diagram of persons and others was distributed, and the life-sized panel of the orphan was exhibited.

Also, from March 22 to April 3Pixiv ZingaroMr. Yusuya Kusakawa's original painting exhibition will be held. Exhibited at more than 20 works mainly on illustrations drawn up and raised for the newly released orchestra new series which are raw original drawings rather than duplicate original drawings. The event is free for admission.