Go! Go! Around

( (Autumn Reitaisai 6, 16 Oct 2019) ) ( (Re-Released in Mugamubiru 8, 7 May 2023) )

A book spun out of ideas I had while first playing WBaWC. It started out as a collection of fully separate short stories, but I tried adding a running narrative to tie them together somehow. Personally, I'm kind of proud of how they all come together around the revisited title at the end.

Until this book, I've usually let the ideas from a new official work stew in my head for around one year, but I started to feel like it was a waste letting those first impressions fade. So I tried making a fast book before things solidified too much. I think this was a big reason I was later able to put out the three Unconnected Marketeers books (BEFORE THE RAINBOW, Tricolore Marché, Rainbow Devil Mansion) within a year of that game's release. Who knows what'll happen when the next official work comes out, though! (I wish it were here already!)

I feel that the first story here (Clean, Unclean) kind of ties into my later book Return of Suwako. The combination of Suwako and Keiki gives me a lot of ideas, though, so I'd like to draw them more when I get the chance. At the time, I was a bit regretful that the yakuzas only appeared in the Extra, but given how Toutetsu's appearance was yet to come, it might've been for the better that I saved up my material. Although, that being said, I still haven't put out a proper book about them!! I wanna draw that sometime!! On the next page, I've included the same notes for each short story that I had in the original book.