I really don't want to be reborn.

"To put it simply, I would rather give up finishing 'Emma's British Romance' this month than not watch it again."

Kasumigaoka pulled Eriri aside and muttered, "Why do you all know, but I don't?"

"Sigh, you don't really like watching anime or reading comics, so of course you wouldn't know."

After saying this, Eriri mocked, "Besides being jealous for no reason, what else do you know, Kasumigaoka Utaha?"

"Me, jealous?"

"Just now, Akamatsu-sensei said I was Kosaka's girlfriend. Don't think I didn't see the look on your face when you said that you were like a hen laying an egg."

Kasumigaoka Utaha expressionlessly grabbed Eriri's beautiful blonde hair and slowly tightened her grip, while the latter sneered, "I was wrong, let go now."

"Sometimes I think, if I could see you, Miss Sawamura, crying and wailing, I wouldn't mind staying up for three nights in a row. But you're really something else. Whether it's on the phone or when I visit you, you always have this deadpan expression, like you're about to die but you just won't cry."

Sawamura continued to sneer: "Someone like me would never let you see me cry, even if I wanted to. You underestimate me, Kasumigaoka Utaha... Hey, are you even listening to me?"

Kasumigaoka ignored her and instead focused her attention on Kousaka Kyosuke, who was chatting with Akamatsu Ken.

"Speaking of which, Professor Akamatsu graduated from Chuo University?"

"Yes, you're also applying to National Central University?"

"Maybe."

Kosaka thought that Makoto seemed to be a graduate of Chuo University. He didn't expect to have a senior colleague here. One was a manga artist and the other was an animation director. He wondered if the two knew each other.

Kyosuke, of course, first offered a subtle compliment, then steered the conversation toward another of Akamatsu-sensei's manga works, his sighing demeanor prompting the other party to ask questions.

"I'm sighing. Why can't I meet that blonde, arrogant kitty?"

Ken Akamatsu paused for a moment, then burst into laughter. When the two girls looked over, he quickly lowered his voice and asked, "Kousaka-kun, is that Sawamura-kun really not your girlfriend?"

"of course not."

"Then don't say what you just said in front of her. Actually, that girl just came over and said she'd seen me before, and asked if I was the one who draws comics. I thought she looked like me at first glance."

Kyosuke Kosaka glanced at the blond-haired dog: "Blonde, tsundere, soft-hearted, you know, it really is just like that Kitty."

"What I'm more concerned about is, out of so many characters, or rather so many girls in the manga, why do you seem to have a special fondness for Evangeline, Kousaka-kun?"

Well, another renowned work by Ken Akamatsu is "Negima! Magister Negi Magi," and the character that left the deepest impression on Kousaka in that manga was, of course, the vampire.

"Of course it's Ivy, it can only be Ivy."

Akamatsu poured him some wine with great enthusiasm, quite interested: "Lolicon?"

"no!"

Kyosuke's face showed a sentiment that an adult could understand: "I have a sincere fondness for anything that will not lose itself over time."

"..."

"Sorry, I was being a little melodramatic."

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I will always love Evangeline!

As expected, all young female vampires are the best!

Chapter Forty-Four: Heinous Crimes by Ōkouchi

Aside from particularly special little girls, the people who made Kyosuke Kousaka develop lolicon tendencies were mostly characters from anime, comics, and games (ACG).

The first one is naturally Evangeline.

Evangeline AK McDowell, in the "Negima! Magister Negi Magi" manga and anime series, is a vampire born in the Middle Ages who was transformed from a human girl.

Evan is a small, proud, and legal golden-haired loli vampire.

The second is the female protagonist in "GOSICK", the wise but pitiful Victorique.

It seems that the anime loli he likes are all blonde and intelligent, but in real life, he would naturally prefer Kirino when she was a child, or Tamaki Gokou now.

That kind of sweet, childlike voice is incredibly soothing and adorable.

"Judging from the smug look on your face, I can tell that Kousaka-kun is also a despicable lolicon."

When Ken Akamatsu teased him, he called him "Kousaka-kun" instead of "Sawamura-kun" as he had previously called Eriri, which shows that the famous manga artist almost regarded him as a peer.

They talked about men's topics and seemed to enjoy it. Their manner of speaking didn't sound like they were in a quiet corner of a bar, but rather like they were at a roadside barbecue stall or dry pot restaurant.

During the conversation, Kyosuke Kosaka casually mentioned the 26 episodes of the anime "Negima! Magister Negi Magi" that aired this year. Akamatsu looked quite uncomfortable, as if he had swallowed a fly.

The 2005 TV anime adaptation of *Negima! Magister Negi Magi*, produced by XEBEC, aired on TV Tokyo from January to June, but it was far from successful—in fact, it was quite terrible, with both viewers and the original creator expressing their dissatisfaction…

You're busy, I'm eating lemons!

The haphazard changes to character design and plot, especially the poor production quality, have been a source of great dissatisfaction for Ken Akamatsu himself.

But XEBEC has Toshiyuki Ootsuki, a shareholder who is in cahoots with them, so no matter how much Ken Akamatsu protests, he can only watch helplessly as his manga is ruined.

The 2005 anime "Negima! Magister Negi Magi" was nothing short of a disaster.

First, there's the issue of the director. The female director, Nagisa Miyazaki, is famous for "Sister Princess," which sounds like a great film, but those in the know understand that it was a terrible film with an average production cost of only 550 million yen per episode.

Under the production conditions at the time, the production cost of a typical quality TV anime was around ten million yen, while special ones, such as the previously mentioned "Ghost in the Shell," had a production cost as high as thirty million yen per episode.

Low cost is one aspect.

This female director arbitrarily changed various settings during production, and the positions of assistant director and animation supervisor were switched randomly. The most serious mistake was that the director herself wasted time checking the storyboard script, which caused the entire production quality to collapse.

In April of this year, Ken Akamatsu finally forced Otsuki to give in with his strongest protests, and with fourteen episodes of the anime already aired, he resolutely fired Miyazaki and brought in the renowned director Hiroshi Nishigori.

"actually……"

Ken Akamatsu looked like he was suffering from constipation: "To be honest, I knew something was going to go wrong from the very beginning when I asked Ichiro Okouchi to do the rewrite."

"..."

Who?

You asked him to adapt it?

If you don't get into trouble, who will?

Upon hearing a name that sounded so familiar it was almost painful, Kousaka Kyosuke became interested and began his intrigued conversation: "That name sounds familiar. What heinous things did he do?"

Ok……

Well, to put it simply, the 2005 adaptation of "Negima! Magister Negi Magi" was probably the biggest black mark on Ichiro Kouchi's career, even more so than the later "Guilty Crown".

Taiko made a very bold decision at the beginning of the production, which is also something he often does—to poison the first female lead, Kagurazaka Asuna.

"Clap clap clap, as expected of the decisive and ruthless Okouchi... Wait, didn't Negi go back in time to destroy the demon and revive Asuna in the end?"

Mr. Akamatsu was exhausted and fed up: "It's already like that, no matter how I change it, it'll still be the same."

Secondly, this company also has problems.

As a second-tier company under the umbrella of IG, XEBEC has its own way of surviving.

In 1996, XEBEC rose to fame with "Martian Successor Nadesico," an original TV anime directed by Tatsuo Sato that incorporated some of the most popular elements at the time.

This habit persisted, especially after EVA became a huge hit. Basically, no matter what kind of animation it was, they would just stuff Rei Ayanami into it.

This is a terrible flaw, especially since the investor, Toshiyuki Otsuki, doesn't understand anything but still gives orders blindly... Well, he actually does understand quite a bit, but he's mostly driven by commercial considerations and ignores the essence of the work.

“XEBEC… Actually, I’ve recently been in contact with an animation production company in Musashino, Production IG.”

"what?"

A subtle, self-deprecating smile, as if it were destiny, appeared on Kosaka's face: "This is the parent company of XEBEC. Mr. Akamatsu, I might really have to call you senpai from now on."

…………

Eriri Sawamura's voice rang out from inside the bedroom: "Impossible! Impossible! Kousaka, do you have mind-reading abilities or X-ray vision? This isn't a poker game, how could anyone guess it!"

They were playing a game of guessing numbers, where a set of numbers called out contained both true and false numbers, and there were other restrictions as well. Those who were good at this game were usually math whizzes.

Kyosuke Kosaka smiled: "Sawamura, don't always make excuses for yourself like this."

"It must be mind reading!"

"What kind of mind-reading ability is there in this world?"

Eriri refused to believe it, her eyes wide as if she were about to devour someone: "Then how come you always guess it!"

"To correct one point, it only happens seven out of ten times."

He glanced at Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was playing on her phone next to him: "Why don't you come and join us, and fight against this great demon king with her?"

Shiyu stopped pressing the keys and looked up slightly: "Want to have a threesome?"

"..."

Eriri stood up angrily, her face flushed, and shouted, "Kasumigaoka, you perverted slut! Pervert, pervert!"

Kyosuke Kousaka picked up his pen and looked up at Eriri, saying, "It's not really cheating. When people randomly say numbers, the numbers 3, 5, and 8 appear the most frequently—"

His voice was stuck in his throat, and he lowered his head and made a strange facial expression.

Small feet in white bubble socks, slender legs without pantyhose, and above that, a skirt, revealing the pure white he had just caught a glimpse of.

"This guy is definitely cute."

Eriri Sawamura was completely outmatched in a number guessing game, which made her quite frustrated. She wanted to go back to her room and draw something, but unfortunately, she couldn't pick up a pen at the moment, and she was bored and annoyed.

It is evident that art and literature are both born from frustration before it arrives, or from frustration that has already passed.

"This also shows that a man's emotional infidelity may occur either before or after the affair!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura returned to their room to sleep. Before leaving, Utaha glared at the embarrassed Kousaka Kyosuke and left him with these words.

"I just accidentally saw your best friend's panties, why are you jealous?"

He complained softly, while at the same time wondering what color the girl he liked was.

What was the quality of her stunning beauty?

When basic needs are met, one thinks of lust; after indulging in lust, one turns to art and literature.

After he finished fantasizing, he took out a copy of the Meruru tentacle book that he had secretly kept and admired it, quite artistically.

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