Narita is having a busy week.
He was interviewed by animate Times about Dead Mount Death Play [DMDP] (pub. April 19);
He was interviewed for Volume 9 of *squints* 『(ほぼ)月刊サメ映画』(”(Almost) Monthly Shark Movie”...or something like that?), which is a (possibly one-man produced?) shark movie specialty magazine! The Volume was published this month, so okay, probably he wasn’t interviewed this past week. He was tweeting about it, though.
Or...was? Its website says that Volume 9 will be the final volume shipped? Wait, no, it looks like there’s going to be some sort of Volume 10 with a revised structure, or something along those lines? Anyway the Editor-in-Chief is also President of “Japan Shark Film Society.
(Reminder that Pandora Shark is set in the Naritaverse. Narita published a new PS novel on March 29 I just bought an e-copy; I hadn’t realized that the PS content he was promoting was a full novel. It’s the “ultimate B-grade shark novel” according to the tagline.)
He tweeted the other day that he’s kicking off a serialized gaiden novel about Phantom Solitaire (set three years before the story start. That’s when Solitaire came on the Shinjuku scene). I can’t tell if the manga chapters themselves are going to be affected (delayed) at all by this?
Then there’s all the general busy work that comes with having an airing anime adaptation. He’s been promoting DMDP steadily on Twitter (while reminding people to check out Ch.5 of the Baccano! ~in the 1700s~ manga), tweeting a flurry of DMDP trivia per episode, etc.
Why, in the interim, he might even be a little busy working!
Which, hey, he is. DMDP Volume 11, which is releasing on the 25th, has a special edition with bonus bonus content he’s written. There’s the DMDP gaiden novel and the manga itself, of course. A Blu-Ray of DMDP Episodes 1–12 is projected for September so, if it has any bonus content at all, maybe Narita’s writing something for that, too.
We can’t forget that the Fate/strange fake TV special will air in July—not that we really could, since F/sf is Narita’s most popular thing going on)—so it’s not impossible that Narita might be expected to have some bonus / special content at the ready...
