UPDATE: As of today, Monday the 18th, apps are officially closed. I will be taking a few days to look over the ones that haven't been accepted already to finalize the cast list. I have started working on the introduction chapters and my plan for those is to get them all done and then post 1 a day until they're all posted. From there I'm going to try to stick to 1 update every week or so. That is my ideal schedule and I will be trying to stick to it as much as possible but I'm sure there will be times I have to miss an update. In order to try and avoid that I will be trying to stockpile chapters.

Anyway, thank you so much to everyone who submitted a character! There were a lot of really great and interesting ideas and narrowing it down was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Even if you didn't get accepted please know that I appreciate the effort everyone put in when designing these characters

UPDATE: And the final cast list is here! I'm about halfway through the introduction chapters but I do want to let everyone know that I'm going to be taking a short Christmas break over the weekend. I hope to start updating this story again in the first week of January with the intros before moving into a regular update schedule. So with that congratulations to everyone who was accepted, thank you to everyone who applied, and I hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday!

UPDATE 2: So I have a little bad news for you guys. I won't be able to get the introduction chapters out as quickly as I thought because I'm going to have to be working a lot of overtime at work for the next few weeks. We had a lot of people quit/get fired so I have to step up and take over a bunch of hours. I hope to get the intro chapters out before the end of January though and I will be working on them with as much free time as I can manage. I'm sorry about this unexpected setback but I promise I'm going to be continuing this story I'm just not too sure how soon.

MALE:

Yojimura "Yoji" Oshaburi; The Ultimate Children's Book Author (liammarklh88)

Aihiko Asato; The Ultimate Mystery Novelist (Agrael)

Eijiro Teryua; The Ultimate Paramedic (TheRoseShadow21)

Shou Hashimoto; The Ultimate Motorcyclist (R3dLuv3Singin)

Daisuke Ishiko; The Ultimate Barista (AmaryllisGreen)

Yuki Tamura: The Ultimate Itamae (Abitat Eco)

Miller Kanzaki; The Ultimate Ice Sculptor (ZeroAttention)

Jiro Aoki; The Ultimate Extortionist (elusiveEmperor)

FEMALE:

Hibiki Ueda; The Ultimate Investigative Journalist (Mine)

Kokoro Maeda; The Ultimate Dollmaker (Mine)

Yui Manami; The Ultimate Cupid (aWasTooShort)

Maika Akiyama; The Ultimate Cartoonist (Sparkquill)

Nana Amazono; The Ultimate Historian (GlitchSyndrome)

Desirae Arcek; The Ultimate Shaman (Dawnfire1551)

Tokaku Nishimiya; The Ultimate Hypnotist (Dashunterman)

Shizuku Hiez; The Ultimate Perfumer (Yamato Beast)