Author: izumi/Anitama Cover Source: Little Witch DoReMi
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the broadcast of the animated version of "Little Witch DoReMi", the baton of the light novel series, which had been written by Kuriyama Midori, was handed over to the script writer Yumi Onyama. Although Shadow Mountain has been responsible for the scripting of Ryuji Yamada (also known as Kuriyama Midori), who is the makeup of the series from the first part of the little witch DoReMi anime, Shadow Mountain is still a little uncomfortable with the proposal of the successor of the novel version.
According to Shadow Mountain, when he first discussed the outline of the novel with producer Seki Hiromi, the other party gave the proposal to "interpret the love story of the adult spring breeze DoReMi in the magic hall set as a shared villa", which really caught Shadow Hill a little off guard on the spot.
Considering that girls in their 20s are no longer involved in love, it is always unnatural. The producer first approached Yamada to discuss, and then the other party offered to propose that the theme of love should be written by a female author, so Seki Hiromi thought of inviting Shadow Mountain. Moreover, the producer felt that the idea of letting the disciples share a villa was still quite in line with the style of "witch Lika" who must be compared to money.
In the previous work "Little Witch DoReMi 19", after some job rushes, Doremi, who graduated from college, finally found a job as a teaching assistant. According to an analysis of the current employment situation of Japanese youth in the 20-year-old age group, DoReMi in "19", like most graduates, has become a member of the temporary employment army.
In terms of marriage and love, although the average marriage age of Japanese people is maintained around the age of 30, a large number of people who marry with their sons enter the palace of marriage early before the age of 25. Overall, there is a trend of polarization. Continuing the creative policy of the TV animation version that is close to the real life of elementary school students, the light novel series of this game has always implemented the realistic style.
Shadow Mountain, who participated in the script writing of the radio drama "Little Witch DoReMi 16", has long established a complete impression of high school student DoReMi, but just like a distant aunt, who has not met for a long time, the gap between the big girl in front of her and the little girl of the past will be difficult to adapt to for a while, Shadow Mountain really felt when he first wrote "Little Witch DoReMi 20's", because he did not deal with these children for a while, he became less aware of their thoughts, and he was a little unsure of feelings.
But when Shadow Mountain wrote, these lovely "nieces" moved vividly in her mind again. This also made her deeply realize that although the children look out one by one, in their bones, DoReMi is still the same as before.
Since the specific plot of each chapter of the novel is not clearly finalized at the outline stage, Shadow Mountain has to worry about how to create scenes where girls get together and laugh and shout before writing every time. But once the writing is officially started, she will be immersed in the feeling of being led by the role, busy desperately chasing the girls' every move with words. Then, in the process of writing the following chapters, it will be repeated over and over again...
In addition, the producer mentioned that there will be a certain character in the novel version that is unexpected to the majority of fans, so you must pay attention to it at that time. Shadow Mountain even smiled and pointed out that this person seemed to have been waiting for a long time for that moment. In addition, it happened that a group of girls of the same age as DoReMi could be seen around Shadow Mountain, which naturally became an excellent reference for novel writing. In the conversation of the younger generation, Shadow Mountain found that today's generation of 20-something youths, in the stage of primary school, are almost the same as their own experiences and feelings, but once they enter middle school, they are completely different.
It is worth mentioning that this novel also incorporates the realistic background of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and Shadow Mountain has also discussed with Yamada many times before on the question of how the characters should treat the earthquake. In fact, this matter was listed as a topic in "16", but at that time, everyone thought that it was too early for the protagonists who were still high school students, but they also understood that sooner or later they still needed to face it.
So I thought of choosing one of them as a volunteer to comfort the disaster area, and finally the note took on this mission. After all, when disasters occur everywhere, artists usually come to participate in disaster relief charity performances. In order to write the depth and social significance of volunteer action, Shadow Mountain has worked the characters.
Because Shadow Mountain had been devoting all his energy to the code word thing before, he didn't care too much about DoReMi's appearance when they grew up, but after reading the character design drawings tailored by Ma Yue Yoshihiko based on the content of the original manuscript, Shadow Mountain felt that the characters were so vividly caught in his eyes, and he should know that this time even the details of the costumes were carefully stipulated.
Finally, Shadow Mountain said that the honor of being associated with the "Little Witch DoReMi" series is of great significance to his career. Because whenever someone asks which animation script she is writing, she always asks the other party without hesitation, whether she knows the work of "Little Witch DoReMi", there is a good chance that the convenience will be immediately understood.
Moreover, even if they occasionally meet people who don't know anything about the work, Shadow Mountain can boldly and confidently recommend them to watch the animation of "Little Witch DoReMi". Not only because it is a masterpiece that can resonate with audiences of all ages, but also because it is an original work, a work written by Shadow Mountain that spent a full 4 years of time, following and witnessing the growth of the characters. Therefore, Shadow Mountain is proud to participate in the production of such an excellent work.
Producer Seki Hiromi expressed her gratitude to Shadow Mountain for being able to shoulder the task of writing "Little Witch DoReMi 20's" and took the opportunity to praise the unique style of Shadow Hill, which is very different from Yamada's style, but can make male and female readers also enjoy reading Shadow Mountain. Shadow Mountain quipped that he belonged to an unserious way of writing. After Listening to Guan Hongmei, let everyone not miss this interesting work of "not seriously writing".
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