Afterword
To everyone who picked up The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! on this occasion, as well as those of you who are checking out the afterword, thank you very much. Thanks to all who bought this book, and everyone who checked it out while browsing. I’m happy just to have people picking it up to read.
This would be my first meeting with those of you who only learned of me after lining up at the book store, but for all of you who have read the web version, I am the one who was active on Syosetsu with the stupid and noncommittal pen name of “Beef from the Nose” Hana kara Gyuniku. Hitsuji Gamei is also a strange pen name, so not that much has really changed. And yes, I am also one of the ones pulled from Syosetsu into the field of light novels… Eh? Rank and file? I can’t hear you, I can’t heeear youuu!
God, not in my wildest dreams did I think that I would be publishing a book like this. I just thought I’d write something down and make the best of a setting I casually thought of, and wrote on a different platform than usual… I think.
From getting an award at Syosetsu to the beginning of the convention rush… At that time, I could only think, “wow, is this really happening?” and just went with the flow.
I started writing this story at the end of July in 2013, and it was first made public at the end of August that same year. After finishing the first stage, as I was pumping myself up for continuing the story on the same site at the end of September that year, the invitation for a publication came.
I was shocked. Very much so. At all sorts of things. I guess I still am, honestly.
Ummm, about the story! It’s something like a transported to another world fantasy crossed with a modern fantasy? It’s sort of about a probable concept that hasn’t come up much. I wanted to write a story where the friend caught up in the protagonist’s summoning was actually the stronger one, so then I thought, “Well, how do I make him strong, I wonder?” This is how it turned out. When a magician from Earth touches upon the magic of a fantasy world, just what kind of mystical reaction will occur?
I’m a chuunibyou. I love chuuni settings, so I wrote about someone who was unable to escape from one—that kind of story. And so I hope everyone who reads it contracts chuunibyou as well. Multiply, my chuunibyou patients! Viva chuunibyou!
Finally, to the person who put in so much work to get this book published, the chief editor S-san, thank you very much for jabbing at my poor writing all the time. To the one in charge of the illustrations, himesuz-san, thank you very much for the cool and cute cover picture and illustrations. To all the dear readers who read my work on Syosetsu, and all the dear readers who sent me words of support, thank you very much. There are many others that I need to extend my thanks to, but this time around, I think I will put an end to the acknowledgments here. To everyone who’s reading this and thinking “Where’s my thanks?!”—please contact me.
If I’m still alive by the time volume 2 comes out, let us meet again in the afterword there.
-Gamei Hitsuji
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