S O U L M A T E S (SasuNaruSasu Magazine) Soulmates Magazine Nº2 | Page 24

Takao. Kenji (named after a School Rum-
ble character) was kind of that sort of Ka-
kashi character, but as I was writing him, I
was really imagining Oikawa because I
knew who would be voicing him. So, plea-
se, when you listen… I do feel the English
script that comes with the CD isn’t
EXACTLY the Japanese you will hear and
the script is super condensed/the language
watered down to shorten but, ugh, I don’t
want to toot my own horn, but damn are
some of those scenes just… great.
But, it’s really the actors who truly brought
out everything I imagined in the characters!
THAT PHONE CALL! And any scenes
with yelling, and any scene in a bathroom. I
did notice later on there were lots of bath-
room scenes and I think that’s also because
of Haikyuu’s influence since Hinata was
always getting stuck in a bathroom, heh!
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BE-
TWEEN EPILOGUE A AND EPILOGUE
B?
So, I wrote four “bonus scenes” or if you
want to call them sidefics. Epilogue A has
two scenes that follow the main story. Epi-
logue A has a scene with Takao/Nobu. It
wraps up a plotpoint from the main invol-
ving Takao and the Matsudaira family.
The other is Kenji/Kaito. In Ep B, there is a
Takao/Kenji scene where they’re more or
less kind of on a date, haha, and Takao is
eating pudding because Itachi likes sweets
and I was also in love with the anime Saiki
K at the time, and Saiki is obsessed with
pudding! And then a long (flirty) scene
with Nobu and Kaito. I wanted to do flirty
dialogue that the actors wouldn’t consider
flirty, but if you read it like Naruto and
Sasuke, yeah. I won’t spoil, but I guess it’s
essentially what I wanted Naruto and Sa-
suke to do at the end of the manga (travel
the world together). I also wanted to hear
Junko say my name, so I included the word
“raspberry”.
WHICH ONE DO YOU RECOM-
MEND BUYING?
If you’re here for the SNS, Ep B. All of the
bonus scenes follow the main story and
may help wrap up plotpoints in the main
story, but you want to hear “Naruto” and
“Sasuke’s” convo. It’s pretty gay.
MANY PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN WITH
YOU TO SHARE THEIR OPINION
ABOUT BREAK FREE?
Oh, yeah. More so when it came out. I
heard really positive stuff and some artists
even did fanart for it. I was retweeting
things I saw on Twitter. I heard that the
feedback from Japanese fans was also very
good. I think the only big issue I heard was
b/c the art didn’t look like Naruto and
Sasuke. Well, it just wasn’t going to happen
twice in a row.
HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BREAK
FREE HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THE
MERCHANDISE OF THE SASUNARU
EVENTS IN JAPAN?