According to the latest blog post by Hashimoto Tsubo, the author of the light novel "Looking Up at the Night Sky of the Half Moon", Hashimoto said that he may give up writing novels. Hashimoto describes the current state of shrinkage in the light novel industry. Due to Japan's declining birthrate and the diversification of entertainment forms on the Internet, the number of readers who buy novels is decreasing year by year, and although the activity of creating novels will not end, the commercial value of novels is gradually decreasing.

According to Hashimoto, only a small percentage of writers who have debuted in the last three years have been able to earn the annual income of a college graduate office worker. While there is a decent amount of money to be made from a best-selling work, there are very few writers who can do it consistently. In the future, the desire to live with pen and creation alone may be close to impossible. Hashimoto said that the novels he wanted to write were out of step with the mainstream of the current light novel market, so as a writer, this might be his limit.

The above is a screenshot of the main content in the blog. Today we just reported on the high-selling news of the latest volume of Sword Art Online, so there are still bestsellers. However, what Mr. Hashimoto said is not unreasonable. The commercial novel itself has to cater to the interests of the readers. In the current era, more and more people are writing novels, and the readership has been limited to a limited range, and the situation of more wolves and less meat is inevitable.

However, Mr. Hashimoto has already started a family and now has children, so it is understandable that he has the intention of changing jobs. Tsubomoto Hashimoto is a Japanese light fiction writer, but lately he has written more general novels. He made his debut after winning the 4th Dengeki Game Novel Award for his work "Cat Eye Hunting". He is good at skillfully describing the emotions of the characters and the atmosphere of pain and sadness between people. I like cats.,I often have a field in my works.。

His masterpiece "Looking Up at the Night Sky of the Half Moon" is very popular, and has been adapted into radio dramas, animations, TV dramas and movies. In the past, almost all of his works were published in the Dengeki Bunko Library, and recently he has published works in fields other than the Bunko, which can already be seen that he wants to fade out of the light novel world.