Maria-sama ga Miteru:Volume14 Chapter6
Afterword[edit]
It's Hanadera Academy but it has a school festival, why's that?
Hello, this is Konno.
The long summer vacation is over and the Yamayurikai members are finally returning to Lillian's Girls Academy. At long last, it's the second term. Plunging into school festival season.
The setting for this volume is September. It goes on sale in July. The writing's running a bit ahead. Considering that "Maria-sama ga Miteru" usually runs completely counter to the seasons, it's not that far out. Having said that, the story of Yumi's first-year Valentine's Day was published in the magazine about six months after the story of Noriko's entry to Lillian's, so even the sense of years is a bit suspicious.
Incidentally, I'll take the opportunity to settle the matter of Yuuki's birthday in "Cool Breeze." If I remember right, he's the second person to have their birthday made known, after Satou Sei. Such a cheeky younger brother – even Yumi's and Sachiko's birthdays haven't been made public yet. Lots of people were under the impression that he was born in March, but that was a feint.
Going on the theory that it would cause quite a stir to read about it, the last day for an "early-year" birth is April 1st. That's the ridiculous sounding truth (not an April fool).
A follow-on from that is that in the Japanese civil code, your age goes up by one not on your birthday but on the preceding day, so someone born on the first of April would be one on the 31st of March, and therefore included in the previous year's cohort. I don't know whether or not that's of benefit or not.
Following that reasoning, when filling out official documents on the day before your birthday, you have to add one to your age. I don't think that's pervasive.
… Now then, this is a problem. With just a few lines left, I'm reminded that I haven't got an answer to the question I posed in the first line. Since I'd feel bad if I kept writing, I'd like you all to have a think and come up with an answer on your own. If you come up with a good answer, I'd be overjoyed if you sent me a letter with that in the corner. (Again, overjoyed!)
It's OO but it's OO all the same.
That's the expected form of the answer. Now then, let the challenge begin!
– Konno Oyuki
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