Written by Mari Okada

This is the room where the freelance staff on Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms gathered together. We called it the Maquia room.
The main work done in this room is already over, so it’s quite empty.
Up until quite recently, they fought quiet but intense battles over and over… But now, it’s the complete opposite, so somehow, I feel strange…

It’s sad that it’s over… but also a relief… actually, mostly sad.

Usually, I did work on the script at home.
I don’t play music when I work, so my office was just me and the sound of my keyboard.
But the Maquia room was different.
The sounds of pencils scribbling, of drawing paper flipping…
And when it was time for me to check the work, I became part of the noise too…

It’s a little poetic I think.
I have the assistant director, Shinohara, quite a shock when he saw my handwritten notes… “I can’t believe her handwriting is so bad…”
…maybe I’ll take up calligraphy.

It’s already checked. Please take it with you.

A message to the production staff after I checked their work.
I sometimes add playful little pictures…
This is a loving (?) collaboration between myself and chief animation director Ishii.
Even at times like this, my handwriting is really bad.