== Megumu Okada's commentary from volume 1 == 

 :I couldn't believe my ears when this "G" project was brought up. 

 :I met the editor for the first time as the heat of summer ended and it was finally starting to cool down. It was a meeting about an original work, but I was very busy then and didn't have the time to make an original work like that, so it seemed that I would have to decline. During the meeting, the editor told me "actually, I'd like you to handle a work that's related to an original work". It was "Seiya". It has been my first experience dealing with a work "related to an original". Not that I did not want to do something like it, the opportunity had just never come up. And so it was that "Seiya" became the first original I did for another author. 

 :I don't think "Seiya" needs any introductions by now, because it is famous world-wide. I am making a continuation of that work (or, to be more accurate, a story set before it, its "history"). I am also dealing with the work of the master Masami Kurumada, who is one of a kind for me. To be honest, I really worried about what to do, but the chief editor and the RED editorial department finally rid me of those troubles; the editor made a bold decision. And while pouring gin into my glass in a late-night bar, the great master Kurumada told me "Good. You should do it with all your might." 

 :It is still a work that worries me, but then I'll think "I'm glad I started it." I want to put every effort into it to be able to think "it was good to do it" when it is over. And it would be the greatest happiness if the people who read it think "it was interesting." 

 :Megumu Okada 

  
 This quote is only my translation of the text that was published at the end of the first volume of EG, so if anyone notices any mistakes, do point them out. I can post the original Japanese if necessary.