Cooking with Wild Game (LN) - Volume 7 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

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

Assuming this volume is released on schedule, 2016 will already be halfway through.

I know I always say it, but it really surprises me how quickly time flows by.

At any rate, this series has managed to make it up to its seventh volume during that time. And that’s all thanks to everyone’s support, for which you have my deepest gratitude.

Now then...

The content this time was too much for one book, so it ended up needing significant revisions. In terms of the story there weren’t any big changes, but I needed to condense things by around 60 pages. That’s definitely the biggest I’ve needed to do so far.

Since I was that far over it seemed like it could have been quicker to just split it into two books, but I really wanted to wrap things up within the volume considering the contents.

Compressing the text is a task that’s both enjoyable and painful for me. But I would certainly feel grateful if you found all that pain and pleasure resulted in a good book.

As for the intermezzo bonus chapter, it ended up being told from Reina Ruu’s perspective. I’ve written a number of extra stories in the web version from other points of view, but this was her first time. Actually, now that I think about it, it’s my first time writing from the perspective of any of the daughters of the main Ruu house, aside from Rimee Ruu back in the first volume. Perhaps it’s tricky to write for them in a way, because they’re such central characters in the main story.

Now that I’ve come this far, I think I’d like to try writing bonus chapters for Vina and Lala Ruu, too.

This time around, the two inn owners also got illustrated. As I’m quite fond of old-timers, that certainly made me happy to see. One of the other older male characters also got a design too, but thanks to the composition he ended up getting completely cut out. He won’t be showing up next time around, but I look forward to the day when the spotlight shines his way once again.

Now then, next time is finally the eighth volume. I won’t touch on the contents so as to avoid spoilers, but I recall especially enjoying writing it.

Last volume and this one were particularly serious stories, so you may well be starving for bright, fun content by now. The overall feel may not change, but I’d say there will be a lot more warm and friendly-feeling elements next time around.

The overall nuance and composition also takes on more of a short-story feel, which is how I’ve been primarily writing the web version lately.

Still, the contents should be just like always in the end, so I hope you’ll enjoy it just as much as you have up until now.

And this is a bit of a digression, but next time I’ll have some extra pages to spare, so right now I’m pondering if I should add in a bonus story from the web version that hasn’t been published yet, or if I should go for an extra large new tale like I did in the second volume.

Now then... 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.