- Write What You Know: The kites, corruption, dumping, child abandonment and sickness were all pulled from events from the creator's life. These events were not all connected in real life.
- If you're a fan of Yuumei, you should know how her parents' divorce influences her work.
- Write Who You Know: Kai's father is a corrupt politician who allows chemicals to be dumped into the water supply. Yuumei's father was a corrupt business man who dumped chemicals into the water supply.
- Kai and Min-Min seem to be the author split into two people, the young boy who is struggling with the fact that his father brought illness to hundreds, and the little girl who is constantly sick because of her father's ways.
- According to a description for one of her later works
, Sen's stepmother (and that incident where she tried to strangle Sen) was based on her own.
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