No way, it was completed in 5 books.
Three "off the hook" books have already been published. . Actually, I heard that they are going to stop after two more books, or not.
Plain:My suggestion was to stop after the first issue (No. 5). It is in my nature, but I didn't want to continue forever if it got too hard, so I thought, let's just do it all at once until issue #5. After that, I'll think about whether or not I want to continue or not at that time.
Nakamura:So far, you're on a rather good pace.
Muraoka:The first one took the longest, though. First of all, we had no idea when we were going to publish it (laughs).
Plain:It's also nice that it's limited to 500 copies. Thankfully, both the first and second issues sold out. . I thought it would have been better if we had a few more, so we decided to make the third issue 700 copies.
Muraoka:It doesn't help you in any way , nor does it make you a better fisherman. It is just a book to show that this person is good at this kind of fishing. I think that words are better than pictures or videos, and I think that fishing is better suited to "text".
Nakamura:Sure, there's a lot of different kinds of fishing.
Plain:What's also interesting to me is that I am usually the photographer who takes the photos and hands them over to the editor, but for "off the hook," I am the recipient of the manuscript. I think it's fun when I receive a manuscript from someone I've asked to take a picture of. I felt like I was taking credit for it.
Nakamura:Because I asked for it! . like that (laughs).
Muraoka:. it's one of the best parts of being an editor. . as well as photography.
Plain:I'm looking forward to the fourth issue!
