Chapter 327 – Conclusion & Review
Hello readers, this is Siddhartha.
『The World is Already in Hypnosis』 Has finally reached its conclusion.
I thought I would feel relieved after finishing it, but I felt empty, as if my heart had been ripped out of my chest. I think this aftereffect will continue for a while. That’s because this novel was written with a lot of love.
『The World is Already in Hypnosis』 Was a really convenient worldview that allowed me to freely express my tastes.
As someone who enjoys hypnosis and changing common sense, I felt happy drawing on drawing paper every day.
I remember when I first conceived of this work.
I remember it probably around last winter. At that time, I had given up on writing and was looking for another path. I also made a firm decision on my own that I would never write a novel again.
Then, one morning, the topic “A world where everyone is already hypnotized” Suddenly came to mind. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think of a subject without thinking. This novel was like that.
As soon as it occurred to me, I hurriedly wrote the first episode and uploaded it to Novelpia. I wrote up to episode 4 and then just left it on the free bulletin board. At that time, I had no intention of writing again. But as I lived, the desire to write novels arose again. In the end, I returned to Nobelpia and was told that there was an adult contest. That’s where I remembered this novel that I had been laying around for a while. Even though I only used it 4 times, the response was surprisingly good. So I decided to write this novel in earnest. I’m just grateful that it gave me an opportunity to start over and start writing again.
I had no idea at the time that this novel, which I started on July 1st last year, would surpass 300 views. It has become the longest series of my works. I am deeply moved.
In the beginning, I did my best to depict people who were under hypnosis and didn’t think anything was strange no matter what happened. The whole story was about Kim Ho-young moving around here and there, doing whatever she wanted. Then, around episode 15, I started to notice mannerisms.
I decided that it would be difficult to serialize a full-length series by simply focusing on one topic, so I changed my direction starting with Da-Hyeon Kim’s episode. The plan was to have one or two people who resisted Kim Ho-young appear and confront him. In particular, writing the W.L.K Sentai episode seems to have laid the foundation for 『The World Already in Hypnosis』 To be continued into a full-length version.
After that, Kim Ho-young broke away from the stories that just anyone ignorantly messed with, decided on a theme, and included the story I wanted to write in each episode.
Real doll, stealing a friend’s mother, succubus, ts… Etc.
When I was in my prime, writing was so much fun that I thought I could write this novel forever.
However, around the time I passed episode 200, it became a little difficult. I couldn’t think of any material, and even if I came up with a brilliant idea, it wasn’t very satisfying when I actually used it. I kept thinking that I should stop now, but there was material I really wanted to write about before it was finished. It was so minor that I kept it aside for fear that people would be offended if I touched it carelessly… It was Higre.
Higre is definitely a genre of hypnosis, and if it doesn’t appear in the novel, I’ll regret it even after I finish it, so I started the Higre episode at a time when I was slowly losing enthusiasm for this novel. The response was better than I had feared, so I was able to gain strength to continue the series a little longer.
However, the recent Magical Girl episode was disappointing in many ways. Since it was the final battle, I wanted to do it on a large scale, but the quality wasn’t very high considering it was a long series. Maybe I’m exhausted after writing non-stop for over 6 months.
Yes… Now is the time to complete it.
This novel does not have a large story line, so it does not matter when and how it is completed, but I thought that the conclusion should be complete, so I entered the final chapter with the Ox plan that had been in the work as the only foreshadowing to the forefront.
The W.L.K squadron and the O.A.K.S plan were named in almost the same way, but those who noticed in advance… It was there. I wanted to make it ambiguous whether Ok Mae-hyang was really an antagonist or Kim Ho-young’s collaborator, but I don’t know if that worked well. Anyway, thanks to the fact that Ok Mae-hyang is a genius scientist, she can create anything, so she was a very comfortable character for the writer.
Even though the magical girl episode failed, I think the final episode, the Jade Maehyang episode, ended well. Of course, this is my personal feeling.
How should I decorate the ending… I really thought a lot about that part. I thought that the ending was the responsibility of the main character who had been neglected.
Throughout the novel, Kim Ho-young was like a player character in a game who did not show her human emotions, but from the beginning, she hinted at Kim Ho-young’s psychology.
I thought about it seriously.
Overwhelming like Kim Ho-young… What would it be like to become a transcendent person in the world that no one can approach?
Normal people suffer because nothing in the world goes their way, but on the contrary, what if everything goes according to their wishes?
Would that make you happy?
I thought that even though it was good at first, it would eventually become depressing. Aren’t the dramas you watch while cursing the most fun, and aren’t the games that are difficult the most engrossing? I think overwhelming power is trivial.
If there was someone like Kim Ho-young, he would definitely be bored… I thought.
The Ox plan was ultimately Ok Mae-hyang’s grand reception to relieve Kim Ho-young of his boredom. No, you could say that the entire story you saw was Kim Ho-young’s desperate struggle to escape boredom.
What kind of ending should we give to Kim Ho-young?
The initial plan was to simply end with Kim Ho-young defeating Okmae-hyang and standing tall in a world without enemies, but would Kim Ho-young like that? That’s what I thought.
She is Kim Ho-young, she is a person who would be happier if she had enemies who rebelled against her. She’s like a cowboy pioneering the West… She says he needs my wilderness to run. So she decided to give Kim Ho-young the gift of her adventure that continues like an endless horizon. I believe that is the ending that best suits this novel.
The women that Kim Ho-young takes with him when he goes to another world are actually the main characters of my favorite episode. Another world adventure with those guys… To be precise, I think Kim Ho-young’s antics will be fun, but we need to let go of her regrets.
As I’m about to finish the novel I’ve been writing for over half a year, I feel nostalgic. It is a work so sincere that it was continuously published every single day, except for the days when I was hospitalized for surgery… I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to see a work like this that embraces my unique taste again.
Life is truly unpredictable to end up with such great affection for a piece of writing that I started by simply scribbling without even thinking about it.
For the most part, this work was written as I had envisioned, but there is one character whose setting changed midway. Do you know who that is? This is Joo Eun-bi.
Originally, the initial setting of the Black Stars president was very different from what it is now.
At first, the setting was ‘Kim Ho-young from another world who came from a parallel world.’ Although it is a parallel world, it is a world where everything is opposite like a mirror, so you can think of a female version of Kim Ho-young. She also has the same abilities as Kim Ho-young, so she reigns like an emperor in her own world. But in fact, because she was the exact opposite of Kim Ho-young, she was a masochist who liked being trained rather than being trained. She looked for someone to train her and came to the world where Kim Ho-young was… This was the setting.
I also planned to release Black Stars as a full-length story like the Ox plan, but as I mentioned above, I got tired halfway through and didn’t think I could write a full-length story anymore, so I changed the setting to match the Higre episode and created a new character named Joo Eun-bi. What would it have been like if things had gone as originally planned? Was it fun? I just leave it to the imagination.
Except for Joo Eun-bi, I think I managed to get everything I wanted.
Kim Ho-young, Kim Hee-ae, Himeko, Lee Sia, Han Seung-yeon, Okmae-hyang… I can’t list them all, but my journey with so many characters ends here. One of the things I gave up on while debating whether to do it or not was the character popularity poll. Readers, which character do you like best? Does it match my favorite character?
I was a bit curious about that, but there were so many characters that it would be a hassle to vote, so after much deliberation, I just gave up on the popularity vote.
So who is my favorite character? I think it’s probably Kim Hee-ae or Himeko… My heart leans more towards Himeko. If I had to take just one person into this world, I would take Himeko. Because I trust it in many ways. I think if there was a popularity poll, Himeko would have come in first place. Isn’t it?
I’m sorry that this review seemed like gibberish. As always, when I try to write a review, I can’t think of what to say and end up writing in a stream of consciousness. Now I have to say my final goodbye.
People have to earn money, and to make money, they have to work.
If you look at the world these days, people seem to feel happy when they spend money.
Earning money is painful, and you should find joy in spending it.
But I had fun writing “The World in Hypnosis.” It was nice that readers saw it, but writing it itself made me happy. I am grateful for the novel that made me feel this way, and I am grateful to the readers who read this novel.
Among the reviews I read a while ago, I really liked the part that said, “You are definitely a good person for liking this work,” And I would like to say the same thing.
If you liked this work, you must be a good person! I believe so!
Then I will take a break and come back soon with a new work.
Let’s meet again someday
I hope everyone is happy.
