Cooking with Wild Game (LN) - Volume 15 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

You have my deepest thanks for picking up this book, the 15th volume of Cooking with Wild Game.

As I mentioned in the previous afterword, around a third of this total volume is dedicated to Group Performance bonus stories. Though that makes for a rather irregular composition, I hope that you still enjoyed it.

I prepared thirteen Group Performance stories in total, so now I have finally unveiled half of them. And it is my intent to publish the remaining ones in order as well.

However, devoting too many pages to that has the negative effect of slowing down the main story, so from here on out it may only be one or two per volume. And I believe that distribution will vary depending on the volume, which I hope you all can understand.

By the way, the central characters in the Group Performance actually reflect the results of a poll I published on the web. As I mentioned in the afterword before last, I had run a character popularity poll, and my intention was to give Group Performance stories to the top three. Those characters ended up being Ai Fa in first, Ludo Ruu in second, and Dan Rutim in third, so all three of them got bonus stories.

I think that might have had an impact on Shumiral ending up taking fourth. Since he wouldn’t be appearing in the main story for a while as he had left Genos, that bonus incentive might have earned him votes. Unfortunately, that wasn’t quite enough to crack the top three, but I had intended to write a bonus story about him to begin with, so he ended up being covered too. Eventually, I would like to share it with you all in novel form.

As for the bonus content this time around, I ended up implementing it into the main story just like last time. Roughly thirty-four pages in the back half of chapter two were brand new, and I hope that you enjoyed them.

I really do feel sorry that Myme didn’t get much chance to shine this volume after her introduction last time. Originally, the contents of this volume and the previous one were one chapter, with the first half centering on Myme’s introduction.

Furthermore, we got plenty of new characters this time around, and there were hints that more are coming next volume too.

This volume was about Asuta expanding his business dealings, so I hope you look forward to seeing what sort of bonds he will end up forming with these new cast members.

On top of that, the manga version has had volume 1 published, and is continuing to run in Comic Fire.

Both this version and the manga are illustrated by Kochimo, but the way things are expressed really are different between an illustration of a single scene and a manga where everything is drawn out in sequence. It really does always feel fresh seeing the different expressions and actions from Asuta and everyone that didn’t show up in the illustrations. I’m truly grateful to have my precious characters drawn out in such an appealing style.

On top of that, the real pleasure of a manga version is getting to see all the various characters who didn’t make it into the original illustrations, isn’t it? At present, Diga Suun, Tito Min Ruu, Asuta’s father, and Asuta’s childhood friend Reina have all shown up.

This series has an awful lot of characters in it, so I feel grateful to Kochimo for providing designs for all of them, and look forward to any future reveals.

As always, let me finish by giving thanks to my editor at Hobby Japan, my illustrator Kochimo, everyone else involved with the production of this book, and of course all of you who purchased it.