Ah, that's very interesting. When you wrote Your Lie in April… well, let's just say that there's a very definite end to the story. Did you always know that would be Kaori's fate? Or in the process of drawing this story, did you ever waver from that decision and think ‘Well, maybe I'll do… this instead?’
Arakawa: Of course I wavered. But when volume three of Your Lie in April was published in Japan, we received an offer for the anime adaptation. At that point, I told the anime producer about the ending I had in mind, and the anime producer really liked that ending. That's why I felt that after that happened, I really couldn't change my mind about the ending because that would affect the animation production. At one point or another, almost everyone involved with this series felt like ‘Maybe we should change the ending…’ But at the end, we decided to stick with my initial idea for the ending of this series.