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Summary
"The rough for Volume 5's cover. From the beginning, I had decided the background of the cover would be Kamijou's school during the Ichihanaransai preparations, so you can already see the customary background girl there. By the way, one reason the scenery looks more concrete than normal is because of its balance with the illustration on the very next page. The "regular characters" on that first color illustration had a line drawing done but the background characters on the cover did not despite being about the same distance from the camera. This was because the cover would have looked unnatural otherwise."―Haimura Kiyotaka