#afterword

[quotes-from-oz]

Though the Scarecrow may have sharp brains and the Tin Woodman may be bright (especially when well polished), Baum makes it very clear in their story that it is their friendship and love for each other that makes these two gentlemen so appealing.

Peter Glassman in the Afterword to Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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SERAPH OF THE END IS ENDING IN THE NEXT VOLUME

THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL. THIS IS THE AFTERWORD FROM THE LATEST VOLUME (Translated via google translate)

Translation is shaky obviously. So here's a link to the afterword written in Japanese (page 1) (page 2) aswell.

[dougielombax]

I think once it’s over, Deltarune should get a followup.

Not in the same universe.

But an AU spiritual successor like what Deltarune did with Undertale.

Just as a kind of coda.

An afterword.

Call it LADENTRUE or something idk.

…

Then follow that up with a brief afterword.

[boxofcondoms]

[thatflutefaggot456]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“You okay, Cheryl?”

She stared at me with an expression I couldn’t decipher, but it clearly wasn’t happy. “I’ve had a day, Ezekiel.” My sister laughed in Jimmy Jr.’s arms as she clapped at my name, looking at me to pick her up. I set down the groceries on the countertop before kissing her forehead and shaking my head at her while mouthing ‘food.’ I put what I could away and then went back to cooking.

Cheryl eventually lifted herself to sit normally in her chair, her joints creaking in exhaustion and age. She tilted her head this way and that to let go of a few pops underneath, and then she leaned onto her forearms while hunched over her knees. “Now, what’s this I’m hearin’ ‘bout edibles?”

Jimmy Jr and I froze as we stood there in the kitchen, him dancing around the floor with my sister in his arms and me holding a piece of steak over an oiled skillet.

“Oh,” Jimmy Jr. whispered as soon as he gained his composure, adjusting my sister on his hips. “We weren’t-I mean, we were only discussing…I think you might have misunderstood what we were saying. We weren’t saying edibles-”

“Can it, ginger,” Cheryl demanded. “Ezekial.”

She looked at me, narrowing her eyes before glancing between the two of us. I sheepishly tried to smile my way through this, but she wasn’t having it. She again sighed, in what seemed like a combination of exhaustion and exasperation. She rubbed the bridge of her nose with her forefinger and thumb before sighing again and looking back up at us. “I’ll help ya, but don’t ya dare let yer pa know. I’ll feckin’ kick yer ass.”

I looked at her confused, my brows furrowing in distrust of the situation. It didn’t make sense for Cheryl to want to help me, especially considering she was trying to “clean up” our family image. Plus, she hadn’t baked since she left her family back in the mountains. What exactly was she getting out of this? “What makes ya wanna help me?”

She rolled her eyes, crossing his legs over one another and folding her arms across her chest. “This here’s ‘bout gettin’ that Belcher gal back, ain't it?” She looked between the two of us while Jimmy Jr. nodded his head in response. Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, she suddenly made full eye contact with me and a soft, sympathetic expression crossed her face. “Count me in. I can't handle another day of you moping ‘round this house ‘cause yer without her.”

[owithadash1point0]

[usagiarchive]

angel of the codeine scene — afterword

masterlist.

HI SO UM aotcs is finally over wow.

idk i know i shouldnt make a rlly big deal out of this hut hey im really just proud of myself for writing a whole fic and actually finishing it...

i have so much to say but idk where to start, i feel like this will be a very messy afterword, so id like to start by thanking everyone who read AOTCS.

it was so heartwarming and motivating to see your reblogs, your comments, your asks, some people even messaged me like omg guys 😭😭😭 im just so happy that people liked my work.

ANYWAY I WANNA SHOW U GUYS THESE HEHE

this is what the plot is, like my starter plot, where it al began chuchu HAHA, i thought of this around oct 2024 and it was actually supposed to be a gore kind of plot, where in order to heal Xiao, he has to like eat the reader..........

ITS WEIRD I KNOW, BUT AT THE TIME I WAS VERY INTO CANNIBALISM AS METAPHOR FOR LOVE PLS DONT JUDGE DJCBISNAKSJDOJAKS

no but seriously that trope is really good i love and aspire to be like the writers who write legit literature things u study abt in college type of writing.

READER WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A VISION TOO !! it was supposed to be hydro bcs like why not i love hydro and i love healers (hello furina n kokomi ily two)

and i also really liked the healers need protectors trope, that's so cute, but i kinda discarded the vision thing cuz it would help w the plot hehe.

LUMINE WAS ORIGINALLY NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE STORYLINE !!! it was supposed to be Ganyu that they would get jealous of and had like a whole crying scene written out too of you and Xiao fighting over trust and him not letting you in but talking to Ganyu all the time.

But then I was like nah, let's use Lumi, she's always so spicy when it comes to that.

Also idk if u guys noticed but the reader doesn't rlly know what jealousy is, hence why she thought she was coming down w something (jalosi cough jalosi).

IN THE LAST CHAPTER... Xiao has 5 things he's felt sick to the stomach with, I hope u noticed how the fourth one is you dying, which is a choice because of the symbolism of the number 4 in eastern asian countries !!

Now that I think abt it i actually have no idea what to explain next, ill probably add more in the reblogs, but if u guys did notice smth or a part of smth was not clear to u guys, please do feel free to ask or dm me !! ily all bye!!

[quenzartne]

Translated (albeit amateurish) from Shin Obake no Q-Taro's Volume 2's Afterword, from the Fujiko F. Fujio Complete Works collection

Memory on the "Shin Obake no Q-Taro" Anime

by Yoshio Kabashima

In 1971, at the time of the production of the anime "Shin Obake no Q-Taro", I was enrolled in an animation production company called A Production, but I was transferred to Tokyo Movie and served as the general art director. I was 26 years old at time, so even when thinking about it, I felt young.

However, it wasn't a situation to be happy about. There were only about 3 months until the start of the broadcast, and I had to work with that. At that time, it was normal for a new program to have a production period of about half a year. Now there was a production with a shorter schedule, and it was common sense to know that it was unthinkable to start a production three months before the broadcast.

Moreover, While anime is now made in a system where each episode is independent in the style of the drawing director, At that time [of Shin Obake no Q-Taro's production], the general art director supervised all the drawings. The situation got more and more difficult. In the end, Eiichi Nakamura from A-Pro and Takeo Kitahara from Tokyo Movie served as assistants.

The anime "Shin Obake no Q-Taro" was broadcast in September, so it was probably around June when I remember that the three of us were working while arguing that "I can never do this" while sweating in the hot weather.

Then, [The director] Mr. Nagahama brang the lyrics to the theme song alongside with the person who wrote them. I said, "Who is it?" I was looking at it while wondering. I was humming the melody "Hunhunhuun♪" 3 or 4 times on the spot while looking at the lyrics, and said to the man accompanying him, "This will be fine. Make it [on sheet music]."

The man who was told to did not take notes, and left after a while. I realized later that it was Naozumi Yamamoto, a composer who appeared in a commercial called "Bigger is Better". I didn't know him at the time.

The tone of "Shin Obake no Q-Taro" was completely different from the black-and-white version of "Obake no Q-Taro". I think it was also important that the role of Q-Taro was replaced from Machiko Soga to Junko Hori, but overall, the tempo changed from the relaxed tone of the old work to a more upbeat one. So, when the opening storyboard came up, I honestly said, "What is this!!" I was surprised.

My favorite character in "Shin Oba-Q" is O-Jiro. He was a very compelling character, and he was very fun to draw. However, drawing pointy eyes on a character was very difficult, and the balance between the separation of the eyes and the size of the black eye would change the impression depending on the person who draws it. In fact, Q-Taro was also a difficult character to draw, and it was especially easy to make a difference in the way he drew his mouth. The excitement of the upper lip, the thickness of the lips, the height of the corners of the mouth, etc., were really different from person to person, and it was difficult to put it together.

I was doing it with Mr. Nagahama while discussing the character's acting outlines, but he left most of "Shin Oba-Q" to me. It can be said for the entire animation production site, but in the past, animators had a higher degree of freedom, and the part where they were entrusted with discretion was greater. Therefore, the animator's style is expressed via the movement of the character.