March 21st, 2011. My girlfriend’s sister's body was found, dead. I had spoken with her sometimes, at my girlfriend’s house, and I've had lunch with her. So someone I could probably become friends with had died. Even if I lost my Grandma when I was young, I felt inside me like it was the first time that someone close to me had died and I had a vague sense of emptiness.In all that disaster, lots of people were doing lots of things, and I found myself thinking there was nothing I could do. Reflecting about it, since I’m just a fool, I could only come up with the idea that I could at least preserve my girlfriend’s heroic story writing something about it. I’m intelligent only enough to relieve my feelings in this comic.March the 21st, 2012. I’ve uploaded a song called “Hoshi Meguri No Waltz” on Nico Nico Douga, exactly one year after the finding of her body. I asked my girlfriend to write the lyrics. Actually, I wanted to release both the comic and the song at the same time, but due to some bothersome circumstances which would make my assumptions fall apart, two months passed.To tell you the truth, I was reluctant to use “Vocaloid” in a comic about a disaster. When people say “Vocaloid has nothing to do with it!” I can’t say anything but “You’re right!”…But between the ways I could express myself at that time, I thought that the best one to communicate effectively with those who are most close to me, after all, was Vocaloid, and so that’s what I used. (Moreover, drawing a manga with us as characters would have been too embarrassing, I couldn’t draw it).
I did everything very selfishly, just the way I wanted. I’m really sorry about it....I’d be very glad if sometimes they’ll just remember it and think something like “oh yeah, that’s what happened”.AfterwordThe first time I heard this story, I honestly thought “Woah, this is really a dramatic rescue, it’s just like a comic!”. Right after hearing it, I could already imagine the comic inside my head. That's great.Because I don’t want to forgetI made this only not to forget these events. These are my very personal, majestic annotations. A perfectly self-satisfactory behaviour.To the people that eventually will read this awfully self-interested comic, I don’t want to say something grand like “we shall never forget this disaster…!”, but rather...Communicating using Vocaloid
