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What for you lies behind your choice of the two very different yet parallel visual and narrative approaches to this book, the very human, presumably hand-pencilled and hand-watercolour-painted (maybe with some photoshop to beef up lines?) for Nao’s life and thoughts, and the hard-edged, tight lines and slicker flat computer coloured fantasy of Pictor’s allegorical fairytale? What contrasts and feelings do you want to convey with these? I loved the way the two stories do converge on page 152, a lowpoint where Nao sees herself as a monster with a head like half-tree, half-human Pictor.

Well, on the most basic level, the Pictor story is supposed to be drawn by a different artist, also ‘hafu’, the half French, half Japanese (fictional) Gil Ichiyama, Mangaka & Anime director. Ichiyama was inspired by my two favourite artists, Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Hayao Miyazaki. The Gil Ichiyama character was me trying my best to combine them and emulate their work in some way.