Afterword
Hey, everyone. It’s your favorite chuuni author, Ryo Shirakome here!
Thank you so much for picking up volume 12 of Arifureta.
I know I made you guys wait a long time for this volume, but I hope you liked it. Normally, when writing the novel version, I try to put in all the stuff I couldn’t fit into the web version, but I was actually able to write more or less everything I wanted about the final battle in the web version, so there weren’t too many additions this time around.
At first, I thought of including detailed descriptions of the dimensions Hajime and the others went through before reaching the Leviathan, or dedicating a chapter or so to Freid and Uranos’s backstory, but as I started writing all that, I realized how redundant it would all be, so I used some spatial magic to chop all the extraneous bits out and speed the pacing up a bit. (Though, if you’re interested, Freid’s backstory is included in one of the short stories that come bundled with the store versions of the books. If you’re curious, please do check it out. Though honestly, I probably shouldn’t be using the afterword to talk about it.)
Anyway, the war back on Tortus will be in the next volume. In the end, all I really ended up doing in this volume was cleaning up the first half of the final volume of the webnovel, but hopefully, you guys still enjoyed it. At the very least, I hope you were able to kill some time with it.
By the way, I know fans of the webnovel said my original name for the Hundred Onyx Blades was lame, so I spent a whole two days trying to think of something cooler. I hope the new name is a lot cooler and way more chuuni. It is, right? Man, I really wish I was like those other authors who come up with amazing names for special moves one after another. Please share your right brains with me, guys! You know, like how Anpanman does.
By the way, I’d like to talk about Miledi-chan for a bit. With Arifureta Zero volume 6, the Arifureta Zero series will finally come to an end. It’s a spin-off series with a totally different protagonist, but I’d like it if everyone checked it out before reading the final volume of the main series. I think it’s important to know Miledi’s story for the finale.
On another note, season two of the anime should be airing around the time this book finally hits the shelves in Japan. Parts of the extra chapter I wrote about Kaori and Yue would have happened right around what the anime will be covering, chronologically speaking. Hopefully, you’ll see Kaori and Yue’s interactions in a new light after learning about the kinds of conversations they had off-screen. Though either way, I hope you check out both Arifureta Zero and the anime.
Now then, last, but certainly not least, it’s time for the acknowledgments.
I’d like to thank Takayaki-sensei, my amazing editor, proofreader, and everyone else who helped publish this book. Without you, I wouldn’t be here. I’m also extremely grateful to all of the manga artists who are working on the various manga spin-offs.
And, of course, I owe a big thank-you to all of my readers.
The next volume will be the last of Arifureta’s main story. I hope you stick with me until the very end!
Ryo Shirakome
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