Another Life was intended as a fanfiction about the anime 'Another' the original first chapter was scrapped since I had an original idea to write about, as you may or may not know, Another Life is about a boy named Qaid who went to a high school in Japan named Yomiyama high which is known for their cruel punishments against deserving students. I thought about the plot and came up with ridiculous images of students actually getting thrown in the forest if they couldn't answer a question about wilderness survival and I laughed uncontrollably thinking about it.
The punishments are more of a comic relief to the series, the main focus is actually about the daily lives of the main characters trying to not get punished and their hardships being in a foreign school.. I actually wrote myself as a character in the story but I bet you don't know who am I in the story, hehehe, hint: I'm not the main character.
Another detail I would highlight is the ethnicity and identity of the main characters, it's obvious I wrote them as muslims and I had a reason for it. Many stories of any medium in this cliched setting won't show any religious status nor their race openly and I thought to myself, wouldn't it be a bit more refreshing to see a different take on the genre? This story originally had more than 20 chapters shelved on my flash drive, however, 2 years ago I was cleaning up the device when I suddenly clicked 'clear junk', now I'm no expert on words, but I didn't know junk includes written documents but it apparently did and so I had to write all of it again. At least it gave me the chance to come up with something more fresh and exciting.
Truth be told, I enjoy writing this series more than my main story I'm working on since I love comedy and if you have read any of my stories, they're never completely serious.
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