Afterword
If you fall asleep now, you will dream. If you study now, you will live your dream.
This is one of the famous quotes found in Harvard University’s library.
While writing this work, I didn’t slack off or cut corners even once. That’s why I believe my dream came true.
Well, enough with the serious talk. Since many of you might be reading me for the first time, let me introduce myself.
Thank you for picking up this book. I’m Hoshino Seiya, a light novel author.
When I received an offer from Dengeki Bunko to publish this book, I was so thrilled and shocked I thought my eyes would pop out. Even now, having it published, it still feels like I’m in a dream.
Looking back, my journey to becoming a light novel author was filled with encounters with various Dengeki Bunko works. One that left a particularly strong impression was Kamoshida Hajime-sensei’s Rascal Does Not Dream (Aobuta) series.
When I was eighteen, I went with my dad to see the first Aobuta movie. My dad was so moved by it that he invited the film’s director, Masui Souichi, to give a lecture at his workplace. I rushed back from Tokyo to my hometown to attend that lecture.
Getting the special chance to enter the backstage and have a discussion with Director Masui was a precious experience. It’s no exaggeration to say that meeting Director Masui gave birth to the light novel author Hoshino Seiya.
My goal was to one day write a wonderful work like Aobuta for Dengeki Bunko and have it animated with Masui Souichi-san as the director! With that sole aim, I started writing light novels during the COVID pandemic, debuted while still in university, hopped between several publishers, and two years later, finally became a Dengeki Bunko author.
However, despite finally reaching Dengeki Bunko and getting this work published, it’s not exactly Aobuta—it’s more like Perverted Pig Bastard Only Dreams Lewd Dreams. There was quite a gap between my dream and reality, huh? But it’s precisely because the protagonist is the ultra-perverted Izumiya Ryouta that I’m here writing this afterword.
From the web version, I was particular about making the protagonist a loner high school boy, sharpening that aspect with high resolution.
Lately, light novel protagonists are all so serious and smart, hardly seeming like high school boys. Honestly, I think it’s fine for high school boys to be blatantly perverted.
In other words, it’s an antithesis to the current trend… a pervy-thesis, if you will.
…Enough with the dirty jokes, get to the acknowledgments already! To answer the readers’ voices, let’s move on to the thanks.
First, to my editor, who read the web serialization over and over and offered me the chance to publish this book. I’ll never forget the kindness of discovering a writer like Hoshino Seiya. I’ll keep striving to repay this debt through my achievements.
To Kuroto Yuu-sama, who handled the illustrations. Thank you for the many wonderful illustrations! The heroines, Tanaka, everyone—they’re all so cute and perfect! Thank you so much!
And finally… to the readers.
Thank you so much for reading this far!
I’d be thrilled if this becomes one of your favorite works.
During the web serialization, Hoshino Seiya was struggling with what to do next as a writer.
I was stuck, mentally suffering, but I believed the only way to carve out a future was to keep writing. So I wrote, wrote, wrote… and here I am now.
The ones who supported me most closely were the readers who left comments every day.
From now on, Hoshino Seiya will keep studying, without napping, to become the greatest light novel author and make dreams come true.
See you again in Volume 2. Thank you so much.
Hoshino Seiya
