Hello,

Akira Hanma here. I’d like to thank everyone who’s read the whole arc from start to finish. It intrigues me every time that when I publish a chapter that I receive views and especially when that number of views grow throughout the arc. So, yeah, thanks for the egg for these trying times.

Jaeger Saga is the first serial fiction I’ve ever written so I’ve learned a lot throughout the process of hammering out a chapter every week:

I’ve gotten rather good at cranking out a chapter a week. In the beginning I had a hard time sitting on the couch and JUST WRITE so I had to build up a stockpile of chapters before I started releasing. I thought I could keep it up but then school got added onto work so my whole plan kinda hit the fan. The stockpile ran out and I really had to just go for it to get a chapter done on time for Wednesday. It was not fun. But eventually I got used to it and the whole process became easier. My only regret is that I didn’t add more character moments where they just chill for a while. I’ve come to really like the cast that I’ve built and should have fleshed them out more. But to be quite honest with you, I wasn’t enjoying this arc as a whole and found it not as interesting creatively. I thought about abandoning it several times but I had already sunk quite a few words into this and I didn’t want to leave any viewers reading the story to get blue in the gills. I figure it isn’t fair to y’all so I decided to just soldier through. That is not to say I’m not proud in some ways. I pretty much wrote a whole novel, ~55K words. That’s the most I’ve ever written for a single project. I do regret that I didn't put my whole heart into it and that my best wasn’t on display though.

This leads into my future projects.

Despite what I said in c) I do want to come back to Jaeger Saga except I’m going to pull a Berserk: Golden Age on y’all. It’ll take place before the events of the Red Forest because I want to explore the past setting, which I have in my mind that it’s very chaotic and tougher to survive in especially without guns, and since it’ll take place in the past the story will focus on a different character until it catches up with the current timeline. But until I come up with an outline, Jaeger Saga will have to be on hiatus for a while. How long? Give me about three months. Not only to plot the whole thing out but work on other projects too. There’s another serial I’ve been kicking around in my head. I’ve already got a few key worldbuilding details that I think will make for good arcs. The world is set in our own so there’ll be guns and cars and other modern stuff.

Now that the Red Forest Arc is finished, I would like it very much if y'all rate and review. I have no clue how you feel about the story overall and any critique, good or bad, I just want honest feedback, is appreciated.

Anyways, that's all I got to say.

Shout out to TaoBio for commenting and reading the whole thing. Thanks, man.

I hope to see you all again.

Stay safe,

Akira Hanma