Afterword
Our anime adaptation has finally been decided! Rem, Shera, and Diablo will be moving and talking on the screen! I can only offer my deepest gratitude to you, my supporting readers, for making this a reality. Thank you so much!
To Takahiro Tsurusaki, who’s helped me since the planning stages and handled illustrations. To my editor, Shouji. To Ooishi, the designer from Afterglow. To Naoto Fukuda, who’s in charge of the manga adaptation. To the editorial departments in Kodansha and Sirius! And to everyone else involved!
You can check out the details on the official How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord anime website.
This project all started with a chat I had with Tsurusaki. There were few demi-human heroines in the light novel scene, and other-world stories all had to be web novels—that was the outlook at the time. We actually submitted the idea to several publishers, but they turned us down...until Shouji from Kodansha’s light novel publishing graciously said, “It looks cool! Let’s do it!” and accepted it, and we were able to put it out into the world.
The result has been such a resounding success that we, the creators, couldn’t fathom, and with Fukuda’s manga adaptation, our popularity grew even further. And now here we are, with an anime in production. This has been my goal since before I became an author, so I’m very happy. I’ll keep putting my all into this work, so please continue supporting us.
On to volume nine, then! The climax of the Demon Overlord arc and the greatest battle in the series yet. I’ve penned over fifty volumes of light novels, but I’ve never had to fit so many battle scenes one after another. For a moment there I was worried I may end up getting defeated!
Rem’s relationship advanced as well. However, the rings Diablo gave are ones he gained in an event in the game. In other words, the rings Rem and Shera have on form a pair... The question of what that implies will be answered soon!
The next volume will be out soon! This volume was structured a bit differently from the ones before, and I enjoyed writing it. It had few slice of life scenes, and the next volume will have tons and tons of them. Look forward to it!
Yukiya Murasaki
Illustrator’s Afterword
Hello, this is Takahiro Tsurusaki, the illustrator!
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord is getting an anime adaptation!
At first, I just wished to see an elf girl I drew on the cover of a novel! That was my lifelong dream, and now I get not only that, but I’ll be able to see it in motion! My life is complete!
By the way, the circumstances of how I got to draw for How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord are pretty unique too. It started one day when, after working with Yukiya Murasaki on something else, he said he wanted to consult with me about “an other world story I’m planning to write next.” I’d recently gotten hooked on “Narou”-type stories, so I said yes right away. We then began developing the characters and the setting and, before I knew it, I realized that since I was this involved with working on it, I may as well...or rather, it really made me want to draw those characters (plus I’d get to draw an elf!). So that’s the story of how I got involved with this project.
Illustrators usually draw for novels on demand, so it’s not often one is this deeply involved with the character creation. That’s why seeing these characters, which I’ve become this attached to, moving in animation is a very emotional experience.
Lastly, I’d like to extend my thanks to the editor in charge, Shouji. Thank you so much! I never thought I’d get the chance to line up three forbidden words like “elf,” “collar,” and “slave” in the same sentence. lol
Takahiro Tsurusaki
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