Mizuno said he still is writing Galaxy Angel novels, and he has more writing ahead in the Record of Lodoss War universe (which includes Louie the Rune Soldier and Legend of Crystania). He noted that the Parn and Deedlit characters won't show up in the latest books because their stories are considered to have been completed. "With Lodoss War as the center of my world, my stories are branching out to include other parts of this world," he said. "My work is to create the details of this fantasy world. I think it came from the fact that I created the game and the process of creating the world, not just the stories." There's a link between Mizuno's writing and the sort of games this site saw at the Gen Con Game Fair, two months before Anime Reactor. Mizuno said he was one of the first people in Japan to play and appreciate role-playing games such as "Wizardry" and "Dungeons and Dragons," and wanted to introduce the rest of Japanese game-playing fandom to those American games. Lodoss War, which followed the general outlines of those sword-and-sorcery fantasy games, was the answer, a basic role-playing tutorial for Japanese fans. As with "Dungeons and Dragons," Lodoss War took on a life of its own beyond the original game.