Notice Regarding a Pause in New Work Production

Thank you, as always, for your support.

This is a sudden announcement, but I have decided to pause production on new works, including sequels, from next month through the end of the year. At this point, I have no plans to release any new paid fan-site-exclusive works before the end of the year.

The main reason for this pause is that, while I know there are people waiting for my work, I have found it increasingly difficult to balance the works I personally want to create with the works that are being expected of me.

During the time when I have not been able to release new works, I have been exposed to many different forms of expression, gone through trial and error within myself, and tried to deepen what I do. Through that process, I have found that I am no longer fully satisfied with my previous style of work. In a positive sense, this is growth. In a negative sense, it means I have lost consistency as a creator.

Even within that situation, I wish I could have completed and released my previous works or their sequels. However, I was not able to bring them to a point where I could personally feel satisfied and call them complete. I remade them many times, but I could not reach that point. I did learn from repeated failures, but I have now started to repeat failures that no longer seem to give me anything new to learn. That is why I decided to stop.

Alongside that, I have also been working on new methods of expression and new technologies.

Ultimately, I am trying to evolve my previous works in the same direction through a new form of expression. But at the current stage, technical limitations and costs are still major obstacles, and it seems like it will take much more time.

There have been several times in the past when I released experimental works and ended up disappointing people or causing discussion. Those experiences were extremely mentally draining for me. I have almost no tolerance for that kind of situation, and it became a major obstacle that kept stopping my hands from creating.

While there are people waiting for my works, showing myself doing something unrelated, especially when that something lacks consistency with what I have done until now, creates an enormous amount of resistance within me. That is why I have not been able to update X for a while.

I know very well that many people have told me I should just do what I want and not worry about it. But in reality, I simply cannot ignore it.

By officially setting a pause period for production on new works, I want to reduce the burden of constantly trying to keep that balance inside myself, and focus. For a while, there will be no progress updates.

As for experimental works, even if I do release them in some form, I am thinking of doing so not as paid fan-site-exclusive releases, but through public posts on X, a separate locked account, or possibly under a different name on a trial basis. I know this may feel like an extremely selfish way to do things, but within myself, I have reached the conclusion that this is the best path.

At this point, I am not active under any other name. Outside of X, Fantia, and Patreon, I have not released any works that I am directly involved with. I only mean that I may start doing so in the future. I have not yet decided whether I will announce anything about those activities here. They may eventually be integrated, or they may remain completely separate. I do not want to do this without saying anything at all, so I wanted to write this here in advance.

As for how I will resume production on sequels and other new works, I plan to decide that next year or later. At this point, I do not think I can say that I will resume sequel production once the pause period ends.

Please forgive the many parts of this post that are intentionally vague and may be hard to understand. I have painfully learned that even putting certain technologies into words can cause controversy. Even so, I still want to incorporate them into my expression and sublimate them into my work. This decision is my statement of that resolve. If I truly have that resolve, I should be able to write about it directly. But I still feel that the gap between the negative history and image surrounding those things and their actual substance is too large. By writing this in this indirect way, I wanted to convey that there is absolutely nothing careless or easygoing in my approach. That is why I chose this wording.

I have repeatedly told everyone that you should feel free to pause your support until a new work is released. Even so, many of you have continued supporting me. If this decision disappoints you or makes you feel betrayed, I am truly sorry. For the things I want to achieve in the future, I have thought this through in my own way and decided to pause my work on sequels and new releases.

Thank you very much for your support.