I have created hundreds of individual captions between May 2016 and August 2021 (present month at the time of writing this announcement). My motivation for starting this blog was to give something back to the community of talented captioners, game developers, story writes and more. Also to perhaps prove to myself that I can produce as high quality content while keeping it free (disliked a lot of captions that were quite repetitive and… “one dimensional”).
After the years, I have decided to stop contributing to Akiko’s bodyswap captions. Not because of losing interest, running out of ideas, or general inconsistency and inability to keep doing something for a long time. I have a lot of ideas for new series, single captions, and sequels to the old ones. For instance journey of Annabelle trapped as an animal after the Rise of the New Sorceress finale, which was possible thanks to The Greatest Gift finale (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, go and read the series again (including comments because at least one of you found it already). Another one would be a simple continuation of The Duty of the Everqueen which would take in human chivalrous kingdom of Brettonia…
The reason for this decision is quite simple. I have a high quality university degree and meaningful nice paying job. Although I lack one major thing. Real estate prices are very high in my region. There are virtually no young people who can afford it without help of their parents (or inheritance). Me and my spouse, we have neither of these two “boosts”. We would be
“stuck” in paying rents to other people, short-sightedly throwing money out of the window.
I will keep the site running so people can go back and read my captions if they deem them worthy of their time.
Let me thank all the readers and even more the people who posted comments (ever on
regular basis) and discussed ideas with me.
I wish you all prosperous happy responsible lives.
-Toda Akiko
Akiko's Bodyswap Captions 