Miki: I will double as the host while the three of us who have been working together for 10 years talk about our memories. Welcome.
Kamachi: Welcome
Haimura: Welcome.
Miki: I have some topics prepared for this cross talk. First, what was the most difficult illustration for the Index series? This one is for you Haimura-san.
Kamachi: Was it the powered suits in OT 14?
Haimura: It was the dragon illustration in OT 17 (laugh)!
Miki: Until then, the opening illustrations were used to introduce the characters or girls, but did this idea suddenly come to you for Volume 17?
Kamachi: I remember thinking we needed to make Acqua look cool at the time. I made a request that I really wanted to do even if it was clichéd and I think it got a little carried away.
Miki: That wasn’t clichéd at all!
Kamachi: Clichéd from a picture book perspective.
Miki: Oh, you meant it like that. I remember really, really hoping Haimura-san would refuse when you suggested it.
Haimura & Kamachi: (laugh)
Miki: After all, I normally wouldn’t be able to approve something like that. It doesn’t have any characters in it!
Kamachi: (pointing at the center of the illustration) There’s a princess right here.
Miki: She’s too small! What is this, Hydlide Special!?
Haimura: OT 15’s cover and the like were a lot easier. It was different, but it at least had a character. The color illustrations tend to have captions to introduce the characters, so it’s more natural to focus on the characters. In that way, I may actually have more freedom in the black-and-white illustrations that don’t have to focus on the characters like that.
Kamachi: Speaking of memories related to the illustrations, I had wondered when to make the change to winter clothes. I was afraid to increase the amount of clothes the characters were wearing because then I couldn’t go back anymore.
Miki: I remember the plots around that time saying “before they change to winter clothes” a lot. I wondered why it bothered you so much, even if it reduces the amount of skin. (laugh)
Kamachi: A lot is completed with the summer clothing, the end of swimsuit season comes at August or September, and the time to change to winter clothes comes in September or October. There’s nothing you can do about it, so those two months are pretty scary.
Haimura: So that’s why the time schedule for the series is so crowded during September. You were trying to hold it off as long as possible.

Miki: Next, let’s talk about the illustration that moved us.
Kamachi: I think Kamijou-san facing the angel in OT 22 was the best. It was a good one to go out on.
Miki: I really like the angel illustration in Volume 21. You would never guess it was an illustration for Dengeki Bunko and I like that this is a series that can have illustrations like that. I thought filling it with text would be wrong, so I remember keeping the explanatory text to a minimum.
Kamachi: You sometimes use this series to expand your horizons, don’t you?
Haimura: I search out how far I can go without making anyone mad. (laugh)
Miki: You do that too?
Haimura: Yes. Like the poster illustration in OT 15. I’m actually bad at illustrations with the characters standings straight up. I find it hard to bring the illustration together. I also noticed this while drawing the package rough for the Miracle of Endymion, but when I try to have all of the characters stand out equally, I end up with something like a group photo at graduation. If the characters are standing right in front of the camera, the readers don’t know where to look and the flaws in the composition stand out. That’s why I don’t like drawing anything like that, but I think that one came out pretty well. I got it just right. To be honest, it was a parody of the DVD package for the movie Usual Suspects.
Miki: I like the subtle sense of distance between them. They’re all basically enemies who wouldn’t normally line up next to each other, so it’s like you’ve had them begrudgingly line up like criminals.
Haimura: They’re all looking wherever they want, so their eyes are all pointed in different directions.
Kamachi: Acqua on OT 18’s cover also left a strong impression on me.
Haimura: Yeah, that one was a bit of an adventure too. I wasn’t sure it would be allowed.
Kamachi: It’s a lovely image of an older man protecting a girl as her knight.
Miki: Why aren’t you two choosing the fan service scenes? I like the one of Kinuhata lifting her skirt!
Haimura: But you can’t see her face, so it’s not really focused on the fan service. Hamazura’s reaction is the main focus.
Kamachi: What about this Kinuhata panty shot? (The scene where she’s flying through the air.)
Miki: That one almost looks like she’s showing off her panties because she knows how cute she is.
Haimura: That’s not how I meant it. (laugh) Put her in an action scene with that outfit and you can’t help but have that happen.
Kamachi: You wouldn’t be able to walk around in real life dressed like that.
Haimura: That’s right! She shouldn’t be wearing normal panties under there.

Kamachi: Looking back, the #7 sure changed a lot. And in an unexpected way. (looking at the character design) He went from this to this.
Haimura: Yeah, he really did. My first design had him as a super background character.
Kamachi: And then you just stopped holding back.
Miki: One I think you drew completely naturally was Silvia.
Haimura: Simply put, she was like Ghibli’s Okami. Yeah, there are definitely some characters that are easier to draw.
Kamachi: Like the background girl (headband) who’s always showing up?
Haimura: Oh, her. She’s an unfortunate girl who still hasn’t received a character rough. I call her Mobko. I have a design rough for Tatsugami Otohime, so it seems strange I don’t have one for her.
Kamachi: Mikoto’s father was an adventure too, wasn’t he?
Haimura: Yes. Tabigake-san is a lot like the shady crook of a company manager seen in American games.
Miki: I really like Stiyl. Like when he fought the Lævateinn guy.
Kamachi: He’s an unfortunate boy.
Miki: Kamachi-san, do you ever look at these old illustrations and decide to use something you’d more or less forgotten about?
Kamachi: Don’t you get the urge to use characters no one focuses on? Everyone thinks they’re unimportant, so you want to bring everyone’s focus to them!
Haimura: Wait, wait. I know what you mean, but if no one’s focusing on them, doesn’t that mean they aren’t popular!? A normal person would be worried about using an unpopular character.
Miki: Is Kamijou the character with the most illustrations?
Haimura: In the novels, I would think so. Whenever he appears, he generally gets color and black-and-white illustrations. Next up would probably be Mikoto or Kanzaki. Kanzaki even got her own SS.
Miki: It’s sad that you didn’t mention Index. I’m always thinking we definitely need to put Index in more.
Kamachi: Haimura-san, is there anything you think you drew really well?
Haimura: The seventh black-and-white illustration from the BD exclusive novel with the fight against Brunhild. That’s actually a type of illustration I don’t draw often. It’s symmetric in just the one illustration. I often break things down in a manga-like way, but this one actually feels like an illustration-like illustration. Also, it was published in a bigger than light novel size, so I could put in a greater density of information.
Kamachi: Looking at them all together, the Kanzaki SS has really good illustrations.
Haimura: Ellasone is another unfortunate character that never got a character design. I ended up having to draw him from behind with nothing prepared.
Kamachi: Another illustration I thought was amazing was Misaka Worst. As a part of the clone series, all the parts had to be the same. You cheated with Last Order by shrinking her down as much as possible, but I was shocked to see how much you could change the impression Misaka Worst gives off without altering the proportions.

感觉虽然大致看懂了但是根本说不出来。
三木很色情，和马很中二，灰村好正常啊、

水叔就是酷炫。和三王女一起超棒

魔我不英。。。

这么长……@IM406661252 学霸翻翻看？

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三木：最难的是哪里?
河马：旧约14的那里?
灰村：不不不，是在旧约17的龙那
……旧约14……难道是帅神?
话说这龙吊炸天，居然比帅神还难画

魔我不英……以后好好学习吧

没有魔禁三：“好，接下来让我们谈谈最让人感动的插画
萝莉黑丝团：”咱认为是旧约22上条君面对天使那里吧。那里简直是太棒了啊。
没有魔禁三：“我是很喜欢旧约21的天使啦，看起来都不像是电击的插图了，能有一个有着这样插图的系列真的是太棒了呢。要是没有插图的话会有一些违和感，所以我特意在旁边加了点注解。

看懂了，但是翻译太长不想打
总而言之都在打擦边球，什么都说了但是就是不说重点不过河马惨遭轮吐槽还是可喜可贺

三木：感谢你们的到来，第三本画集再见。
河马：那是什么？(笑)非常感谢。
灰村：非常感谢。

三木，没有魔禁三，你说个……………………