First of all, Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much for all your support, dear readers!!!
Without you, I absolutely wouldn't have made it this far. Your support is what carried this book to where it is today. Thank you again!!
Most readers probably know how this book came about: two years ago, the old eunuch behind "Tokyo Naruto Behind-the-Scenes" dropped three books in a row, making this author so mad that I picked up my keyboard myself—back then, I wasn't even thinking about results. I just slapped my forehead and started writing, without even considering signing a contract.
And that was indeed the case. I only managed to get a contract at sixty thousand words—enough words for the old eunuch to drop three books.
At first, I didn't think much of it. I was simply imitating the old eunuch's Tokyo Naruto behind-the-scenes style. Then, somehow, the results exploded—for me, at least. I rode every recommendation slot all the way through, and even the four thousand first-day subscriptions after launch scared me. Just thinking about thousands, even tens of thousands, of people reading what I wrote made my head spin.
After all, my writing ability was more than a dozen streets behind the old eunuch's. I was well aware of that.
Maybe the only thing I did better than him was my mentality.
This book ran into many problems along the way. It got criticized, reported, and repeatedly revised;
Yet it stumbled all the way to where it is now. As I said before, without your support, I couldn't have made it this far. All I can offer is my thanks—including to those readers who criticized me.
But precisely because of that, I don't want to drag things out: honestly, I'm already close to losing control of the