"Personaly, I'm in the group of fans, who don't like to see their favourite manga characters stand against eachother, but because of this set up of development, all Natsu and Gray's fans might be angry. I'm drawing this, because I believe, future development will be interesting, but I'm anxious, how readers are reflecting on it. I don't want to disappoint people, who are reading my manga for so long, that's why I'm doing my best and try to continue my story to be entertaining.
Volumes 58 and 59 were published month by month and because OVAs were added to both, I had to draw 2 covers for each. Everytime, when the volume is about to being published, the pace of work changes and I'm very busy, but this time it was 2 volumes month by month, so it was even worse. Besides, this time there are 4 additional pages of manga added to 9 OVA (my schedule became really tight). *I don't understand last sentence... seriously, wtf? But it seems, that it's nothing important, maybe I'll decipher it later

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I was happy to reach 50th volume, and yet we're getting close to 60th... I am surprised myself."