Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! - Volume 16 - Chapter Aft

Afterword 

Thank you for purchasing Volume 16 of “Gifting this Wonderful World with Blessings!” This is the author, Akatsuki Natsume. 

This volume is a serious(?) volume with few scenes of Aqua in it. 

In order to catch up to Aqua who left alone on a journey to save humanity, our lazy and cowardly protagonist seriously trains himself and, for the sake of his important companions, gathers his courage and resolves to take down the Demon King. 

This time, that description actually fits pretty well. 

The scene at the end featuring Megumin is a scene I wanted to write even before I started publishing chapters on the web. 

A trashy party that, despite struggling against giant frogs, constantly gets into fights with opponents far stronger than them, before finally picking a fight with the Demon King himself. 

I wanted to read such a story, which is why I started writing Konosuba. I hope everyone can be patient and stick with me for just a while more. 

Speaking of which, there’s less than a month until the release of the Konosuba movie. 

The fact that this barely functional party can make it to a movie version really is an amazing feat. As the author, I’m filled with emotions too. 

I hope everyone is as excited to see Kazuma and his party on the big screen as me. 

And in the fall, the manga that I wrote about a professional wrestler opening a pet shop in another world, Kemonomichi, will receive an anime adaptation. 

I hope for your support there too. 

Now, the reason this book is able to make its way into your hands is all thanks to the help of the artist, Mishima Kurone, my editor in charge, designer, proofreader, everyone in the editorial department, and all those other people involved in the process. 

And, though I’ve said this so many times that it’s become a cliche, but this, of all things, must be said– 

To everyone who supported the Konosuba series, and everyone who bought this volume, my deepest appreciation. 

Akatsuki Natsume 

Translator's Afterword 

 And that’s volume 16. Seems like Konosuba as a series is coming to a conclusion pretty soon. At the rate things are going, it would seem like the next book would be the last in the series, unless Natsume surprises us with a new development. I am hoping that he’ll do a little bit more to expand on the Demon King’s daughter, but otherwise I’m fairly satisfied with how things are going so far. Here’s to him sticking the landing. 

As some of you might have noticed, the insert images in this volume and volume 15 are in colour. This is all thanks to Kasen, who filled them all in and gracefully allowed me to use them on my site, so I’d like to express my thanks to him. 

Also of important note is Ulti. Ulti has been my primary editor and has stuck with me all the way from 2017 when I first started working on volume 12. He’s also my typesetter, without whom none of the insert images would be in English. I would also like to thank Kasen and Mike for cleaning the images so that we don’t have to copy paste the English text over Japanese. 

And of course there’s my editors. Xenthur has been helping me quite often throughout this last two years, and these chapters would be in much poorer shape without him. Striker is one of the newer additions to the team, but he has made himself almost indispensable over the course of this volume. I’m serious, the amount of typos that the three of them have caught in my texts make me question if I even know English at times. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest thanks to all of them. 

Now, as usual, the short stories will be released weekly after this update. Unlike previous volumes, Volume 16 only comes with two After that comes the fifth volume of Dust spin-off, which I’m honestly quite excited to start working on. From what I’ve read, it seems to be moving towards a conclusion of Dust’s story too, so no more endlessly teasing the mystery of Dust’s past. I can’t make any promises right now, but it should start going up some time in late November or early December. 

There are also a few other projects that I’ve been neglecting, such as the Blu ray short stories and the Everyday life manga series. At least some of them should be making their way onto the site now that all my free time isn’t devoted to Volume 16 anymore, so stay tuned for that. 

Now then, till we meet again. 

–CannonGerbil