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Afterwords
After 7 years, this series has come to an end.
This series, "Alive", has one small piece of my mind in it. What sparks this is the death of my family member. Normally, death is a sad phenomenon, but to me, I see it as something a little different.
"You're free from your suffering now."
At that time, I find it as good instead of being sad about it. It was probably just a brief moment there that I found a theme of this series...
As I am a man full of contrary, I'm not the type who'll straightly highlight the "majesty of life"...but in the end, I guess it does suceed in a way.
I always see life with the question of whether "death is majestic" just the same way as life is. People bears various karmas and sorrow, but are we really satisfied with just thinking to ourselves that "to live on is a proper choice"?
But well, after all that happens, "Alive" got serialized, to my pleasure, and with the meeting with Adachi Toka, the artist who has amazing potential within him, it exceeded my expectation and got turned into a long series.
I at first have a clear vision of an ending which portrays my own solution to life. It may seems pretty vague as an ending, but I believe this is good already.
I am a normal human being, not a God nor a Buddha. It will be really impertinent of me to ever try to answer to the endless question of "life".
Therefore, I believe each reader should think for themselves...whether life is good, whether death is bad, or what exactly is life.
In conclusion, I would like to thanks all the readers who have supported this manga till the very end, our editors, Suzuki-san, Sada-san, Takami-san, everyone in the editorial and the most honorable person of all, Adachi Toka-sensei.
Thank you very much!!
"Alive: The Final Evolution" Story: Kawashima Tadashi
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STAFF
Daishou Koshimizu-san
Kaji-san
Yoshihara-san Okubo-san Itou-san
Kazuda-san Narise-san Matsu-chan
Osayo Yuki-chan Hattori-san
Shigahaku-san Kobayashi-kun
SPECIAL THANKS
Omura-chan My big brother
Thank you for sticking with us till the very end!!
Adachi Toka