As the saying went, a thousand readers saw a thousand Hamlets, and a thousand creators likewise had a thousand different methods of creation...
Utaha Kasumigaoka's writing style leaned toward subtlety and delicacy. In this gaudy age, though, there were very, very few readers willing to savor that delicacy. Of course, that did not mean readers had poor taste; rather, few people would carefully read the work of an unknown newcomer with no publicity...
The proof was that, after being recommended by the great God's Tongue, countless readers had become her fans. If she had not found the male lead in the book so unsatisfactory, Utaha Kasumigaoka might have continued writing Love Metronome.
In fact, when she decided to end Love Metronome, even Sonoko Machida had tried to persuade her. "Utaha-chan, while I believe your next work will definitely be up to standard, it may not be as lucky as Love Metronome..."
That was over a million copies sold per volume. Forget ending it after five volumes—even if she wrote ten or twenty volumes, readers would still pay for them. This was an achievement most light novel authors could never reach. If she could keep it up, her work might even have been adapted into an anime before Utaha Kasumigaoka graduated high school—
An anime adaptation! How many creators dreamed of that?
Could starting over with a new work achieve those results? All one could say was that it would be very, very difficult...
Of course, it was not that Sonoko Machida did not believe in Utaha Kasumigaoka's creative ability. It was simply that her style was too delicate. Only readers who calmed down and immersed themselves in it could grasp the emotions woven between the lines. The reason Love Metronome had succeeded was also thanks to God's Tongue giving it