At 21st December 2017 Kumeta-sensei (author of Bokura no Kiseki) attended interview & autograph session, she also drew some awesome images which later were prizes you could won in a special lottery.

The video was took for all of those people who couldn't attend the event.

Fufu was so kind to translate the essential parts!

Please don't use this translation or parts of it anywhere without permission.

So here we go...



About how story started...

The way Kumeta-sensei started this story was... well... she thought about a lot of different things and scrapped them all but she really wanted to do a school story but she also wanted to do some fantasy. Eventually she decided to just put everything she liked inside and started thinking about how to combine these two genres. There was also an american movie that she thought was really cool where the main character had a job where he was toying with his clients and deceiving them in the end and she really liked that so she wanted to use that.



About "past world" theme...

A lot of the anime she watched as a kid had something like that... Sailor Moon for example, so it occured natural to her. She also didn't think much when she watched them in the past, more just like "ah such cool heroine!". But when she rewatched it years later she was surprised how deep the story was.



About the magic system... was it something sensei come up with by herself?

Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest were some of the games she was really into. So she wanted to implement magic but since they're also using it in the present and she didn't want any character to just be able to do whatever they wanted she thought of those rules of who can learn and use what kind of magic and they were introduced in the begining of the story.



About the construction of the world...

The world where Minami and others live is modeled after Sendai city, so what about kingdoms from the previous world? When it's set in the past it's just "Europe". She just used inspiration from all kinds of european countries, how the buildings look, what kind of food they eat and stuff like that. So she didn't really have a special place in mind when creating Zerestria and Moswick.



About Zerestria's place on the world map...

It looks like there's still no map introduced thought. A lot of the anime she watched as a kid had something like that... Sailor Moon for example, so it occured natural to her. She also didn't think much when she watched them in the past, more just like "ah such cool heroine!". But when she rewatched it years later she was surprised how deep the story was.

She was stopped by her editor, because it would make the whole thing more complicated than it should be.



About the flow of the story and the end...

Kumeta-sensei said the way the series will end was already planned from the start and nothing has changed about that. She also knew about the big events and reveals of course. But she didn't plan out EVERYTHING, like how each character will grow. Like she didn't plan Zeze would be working at the Karaoke place, it just happened. The characters just kinda develop and do their own thing and she goes along with the flow as long as it fits together with what she already planned.



About the order of revelations...

She's paying attention to the order she reveals things in. There are a lot of things that only the reader knows and a lot of things only the characters themselves know and revealing things in just the right moment is something she's really paying attention to. When things happen, she wants to let it happen like an incoming wave.



About the timeline of the past...

Kumeta-sensei has planned like, countries and hometowns, house like Rida's - Razarasare or Belbania's household and their leaders, and what happend when. She has a timeline for the past, so she can check on it anytime.



About the initial planning...

At first she had a meeting with her editor when they talked things over. They talked about major events in the story and they were like "this has to be included!". She's also using the character profiles that came with vol 6 and 7 and is really grateful they exist because it makes checking things really easy.



Veronica is number one in reader's ranking, but is there anyone who picks sensei's interest?

Kumeta-sensei says there no character that she feels especially attached or not attached to, but she considers herself similar to Tsuzuki, like the fact that he'd rather... hide behind other characters and not do much himself. He's not her fav character but she's thinking about what will happen to him in the story. All the other characters, as mentioned before, just develop on their own somehow.



If sensei would be part of Minami's class...?

...maybe she would be some mob chara? She said it's better if she's not here.



About time in the present world...

Only about THREE weeks have passed in the present. Editor said it started before Golden Week (which is in begining of May) and it's still not even 4th June. Kumeta-sensei commented that probably finally moon is completing it's cycle. The tests just ended.



About hints what will happen...

She was talking about the people that read the manga over and over and search for hints and make theories and see the plottwists coming. Basically it's a manga that people like us can enjoy because she puts hints here and there (even though it's not a mystery manga either) but also people who just read it once can be like "Whooaah, so that's how it was" and enjoy it.



Some last words to fans!

In her message to the fans she says she's really thankful that we're all reading it because without us she couldn't be telling this story. Even though she's probably sometimes pissing us off by just putting in more mysteries, she's grateful that we're reading and enjoying it.