本当にごめんなさい/I'M TRULY SORRY. (Pixiv Fanbox)

皆様、いつも応援していただいて、本当にありがとうございます。

本日、本当だったら月末のイラスト・漫画を公開しなければいけません。しかし、本当にごめんなさい、今月はお休みさせてください。何度でも謝ります。本当に本当に本当にごめんなさい！

実は2月の初旬から、体調不良により倒れています。「溶連菌感染症」になってしまいました……。

溶連菌感染症は基本的には子どもがかかる風邪のような病気です。でも大人がかかると実は結構深刻で……。高熱、皮膚の炎症、全身の倦怠感がいつまでも抜けません。私はいまだに寝たり起きたりで復調には程遠いと言う状態……。加えて極度の疲労により、作画に必要な視力にも影響が出ている始末（視力が酷い状態になってモニターが見えないんです……(泣)）。

長年漫画家として活動してきましたが、今回のように体調不良を理由に締め切りを守れなかったのは初めてのことで、非常に心苦しく悔しく思っています。回復次第、また頑張って楽しいコンテンツを皆様にお届けできればと思っています。

体調次第で三月末のアップデートまでお休みさせて頂く可能性がありますが、何卒ご容赦頂ければです。

本当にごめんなさい。

どうかこれからも気長に見守って頂ければ幸いです。

市川和秀

追記：とりあえず病床で、どうにか……と格闘していたイラストの断片だけでも公開しますね。冬アニメにエッチなおっちゃん達が一杯登場したので、是非これは描かねばならぬ、と思っていたのです。某「転生おじさん」のヴァルツ親方と伯爵。某「元教え子達と迷宮深部をめざす」のギルドマスター・ベンウッド。他にも描きたかったのは某「残業は嫌なので……」のグレン。2部ではあるけれど某「俺だけレベルアップ」の後藤会長。ああ、本当にエロいおっさん達が大豊作なシーズンでした……。描きたかったなあ……(泣)。

追記2：今回の溶連菌騒動で、20代30代とかなり身体に無理して原稿を描いてきたことのしっぺ返しがついに来てしまったな、と思いました。会社員も兼ねていた時代、漫画原稿で徹夜して、会社の書類倉庫や階段で寝落ちしたり（失神……だと思います(笑)）……。「24時間闘えますか」のコピーのままに原稿を描き続けていたのは良く無いことでした。もし現在そんな方がいたら是非気を付けてくださいませ。自称「永遠の18歳！」とか言ってますが、ソシャゲ、FGO (Fate/Grand Order) の世界だったらアラフィフサーヴァントおじいちゃん組の人なので、そりゃ無理がきかなくなるよね、というキビシイ現実を突きつけられました……とほほ。

Everyone, thank you so much for your continued support.

Today, I was supposed to release the monthly illustration/manga. However, I'm truly sorry, but please allow me to take a break this month. I'll apologize as many times as needed. I'm really, really, really sorry!

Actually, since early February, I've been down with health issues. I caught "strep throat"...

Strep throat is basically a cold-like illness that usually affects children. But when adults catch it, it can actually be quite serious... High fever, skin inflammation, and persistent fatigue that just won't go away. I'm still in a state of alternating between sleeping and being awake, far from recovery... To make matters worse, extreme fatigue has affected my vision needed for drawing (my eyesight has become so bad that I can't even see my monitor... (crying)).

I've been working as a manga artist for many years, but this is the first time I've failed to meet a deadline due to health issues, and I feel terribly sorry and frustrated. Once I recover, I hope to work hard again to deliver fun content to all of you.

Depending on my condition, I may need to skip the end of March update as well, and I would be grateful for your understanding.

I'm truly sorry.

I hope you will continue to support me patiently.

Kazuhide Ichikawa

P.S.: I'll at least share fragments of illustrations I was struggling to work on from my sickbed. There were so many sexy older men appearing in winter anime that I felt I absolutely had to draw them. Master Waltz and the Count from "Reincarnated Old Man." Guildmaster Benwood from "Aiming for the Deepest Part of the Dungeon with Former Students." I also wanted to draw Glen from "I Don't Want Overtime..." And though it's in the second season, Chairman Go from "Solo Leveling." Ah, it was truly a bountiful season for steamy hot OYAJI daddies! I really wanted to draw them... (crying).

P.S.2: With this strep throat incident, I realized that the consequences of pushing my body to the limit while drawing manga/illustrations in my 20s and 30s have finally caught up with me. During the time when I was also a company employee, I would stay up all night working on my projects and fall asleep (I think I actually passed out... (laughs)) in the company's document storage or on the stairs... It wasn't good to keep drawing living up to the slogan "Can you fight 24 hours a day? (this was a famous TV commercial copy in 80s-90s in Japan) If anyone is currently doing this, please be careful. I call myself "Forever 18!" but in the world of mobile games like FGO, I'd be in the elderly Servant grandpa group, so I was confronted with the harsh reality that I can't push myself anymore... sigh.