Proportionally, I'm getting a very good financial response from my readers. More than 5% of my regular readership have made a donation, which I gather is pretty good for this sort of thing. So, from that perspective, I'm happy.

In terms of absolute numbers, however, I think I have about 125 regular readers ("regular readers" is a difficult number to extract from the statistics I get; I'm pretty confident it's over 100, and not 150), of whom eight have donated. So, if the story is going to continue, I need more readers.

As I mentioned, I can't afford to pay for more advertising. Overall, I have been losing about 500 yen per reader I get from paid advertising. As a result, I have to rely on word of mouth.

That means you telling your friends and linking from your websites.

<em>Yoroshiku onegai shimasu, </em>as they say here.