Afterword
Thank you very much for picking up Arifureta volume 9. Hello everyone, it’s your resident chuuni lover, Ryo Shirakome.
Now then, I imagine both those who’ve read the web novel and those who haven’t have realized that this is the first Arifureta volume that’s going to end up being a two-parter.
The original volume in the web serial was already two hundred thousand characters long, so I guess it was inevitable. Especially since I wanted to correct and expand on a lot of things for the published version to make it even better. Also, I have no idea how much people like the extra chapters, but I wanted to make sure to write one for this volume too. It might be selfish of me, but I really enjoy these segments where I get to explore the characters in more depth.
As long as you enjoyed this volume though, that’s enough to make me happy.
Because of the nature of the final labyrinth’s trial and because we’re nearing the end of the series both this volume and the next one are going to focus a lot on the characters’ personalities and internal conflicts.
I’ve gotta say though, writing about characters is a lot harder than writing battle scenes. You have no idea how many times I started pacing around my room, or rolling around in my bed, or walking in circles in my neighborhood thinking about how I wanted to portray everyone’s inner conflicts. But in the end, I somehow managed to finish writing the first part of the Frost Caverns saga.
I’m really curious though, what did you readers think of this character-centric volume?
Ryo Shirakome
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