Campione! - Volume 14 - Chapter Aft

Afterword 

Hello everyone, it's been a while. Campione! finally reaches its 14th volume. 

I express my utmost thanks to the loving support from each and every one of you, readers. Due to the anime last year, I was constantly chased after for Campione! related drafts and various assorted affairs for a whole year. 

There were good things like being featured on Weekly Shounen Jump a number of times and being invited to Taiwan, all sorts of troublesome things that I cannot write about here. Every single day was spent in a hectic bustle. 

One incident left a particularly deep impression on me. A certain male-oriented fashion magazine almost mistook me for a Cthulu writer, (wry smile) 

This was during an interview for a light novel feature when a reporter and interviewer who claimed "I've read Campione!" asked me: "This series uses the Cthulu mythos as its theme — " Nothing of that sort, man! (sweat drops) 

Looks like the guy must have learnt the word "Cthulu" from recent anime. 

Based on various clues I gathered throughout the interview, it seems like someone jumped to the conclusion that 'stories about gods, ahhh, that's basically the Cthulu mythos.' 

Before the anime was broadcast, this type of situation also happened when I was busiest in writing Volume 13. Back then, I kept thinking to myself, just let it be since they should probably realize the mistake before the report is published — 

In the end, "Cthulu" was written clearly on the first draft they delivered to me. (wry smile) 

Back then, I said "this interview is 90% fabricated in my view, don't believe it" and gave up on reading it, then relying on the hard work of Super Dash Bunko's editorial department, the notion of "Takedzuki Jou = Cthulu writer" was eradicated. 

Like manga artists who frequently do the same in their manga and tankouban afterwords, I kept a record of these happenings in the hopes of revealing them one day. 

Oh dear, by this point, all I can do is treat it all as a joke, (laugh) 

Well then, this volume's story is based on an early idea I considered of "The Devil King one should stay the most away from (World Classics Drama Series) and what if a certain protagonist were born in the Middle Ages or earlier." 

Then there is the "little story in mid-January" that was mentioned in Chapter 2. If any of you would like to read this story, readers, please check out the limited edition booklet that comes as a gift with buying Volume 14 and manga Volume 2 at the same time, or the Drama CD included in the previous magazine. (Publisher's note: all sold out already) 

In the next volume after this, expect a super Campione battle transcending time and space.