Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku - Volume 8 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

It’s been a long time, anime. Though for some time, this might be “nice to meet you,” anime. My name is Asari Endou, anime. I like magical girls, and I write stories about magical girls, anime. It’s my calling, anime.

I have a very important announcement to make in this afterword, anime. Those who are emotionally ready, please read onward, anime.

Some of you may have noticed from the cover ad strip—can you believe it?! Yes, yes, yes! Magical Girl Raising Project is being made into an anime! Ta-daa, anime!

First we had the manga adaptation, then the fan book, then the drama CD, and now the series is getting an anime adaptation, anime. We’ve done it, anime. I’m so glad, anime. I hope you’ll continue to keep following Magical Girl Raising Project, anime.

Yes, as I have so casually touched on it, one manga volume, a drama CD, and a fan book have all been released between this novel and the previous book. All of them are very fun and interesting. They’ll tug at your heartstrings. But if you think of that as part of the spice of happiness, it’ll bring you more joy, you know?

I would very much love to write out previews and reviews of all of these things in this afterword, but I really don’t have the space, so I hope you will check out the special site we’ve put up called the Monthly Magical Girl Raising Project as well as the Kono-Rano editorial department blog.

The URL is written on the cover ad strip, anime.

We also received assistance from Toranoana in producing a set of merchandise. They have a selection of items I can recommend to anyone who wants to try becoming a magical girl but doesn’t want things to get gory. The merch is such a good deal—as long as you have this stuff, even if you leap into the world of Magical Girl Raising Project tomorrow and are forced to fight bosses, you might be able to survive. Those who’d like to survive, please do check it out.

I took part in putting together the fan book. I campaigned to include Flame Flamey in it, which led people to think that she’s one of my favorites. When the results of the popularity poll came in, I was struck with the added damage of an indescribable humiliation when a certain someone reported to me, smirking, “Flamey got zero votes” (it was over the phone, so I couldn’t see their face, but judging from their tone, they were clearly smirking). But the completed fan book did turn out quite nice, with some bad things and some good. Fortune and misfortune are intertwined.

This afterword has been nothing but advertising so far. How awful. Since I have the opportunity, I’ll advertise some more.

It’s been settled that there will be a reprint of the previous volumes of Magical Girl Raising Project. To everyone who has been lamenting, “I want it, but they don’t have it!” because inventory was small and stock was low, I’m sorry for such a long wait. There should be stacks upon stacks of Magical Girl Raising Project in bookstores all over the country by now. At least, that’s how it was in the dream I had last night, so that’s probably true. For the reprint, I reread the older books to look for typos, but I cut my finger on the Restart cover ad. It bled. Ouch.

Let’s see… There’s lots of other merch set for release, like a school calendar, that sort of thing. From here on out, Magical Girl Raising Project style will be all the rage. If you snatch them up now, you’re bound to be a trendsetter come next year.

I’m not really doing this stuff for business-related reasons, however; it’s more like I’m defending myself against people who might get angry at me: “You took a whole year off. What the hell are you doing?” Yes, I’m sorry. I regret my actions.

Another thing: The special Monthly Magical Girl Raising Project website is accepting submissions for original magical girls, too. I’ve been absolutely euphoric receiving so many wonderful magical-girl designs.

In terms of superhuman strength, the magical girls I’ve received are about seven hundred million power, corresponding to about seven evil gods. I only got to see them right around the time I completed the characters for the new book (this one) for various reasons—potential copycat characters, that sort of thing.

It’s only inevitable that a Magical Girl Raising Project reader who’d think, All right, I’m gonna submit a magical girl! would have similar tastes as me. Truly, thank you so very much.

The plan is for all those magical girls who were submitted to become active (business expression) a little further down the line. Please hold on for a bit longer. Thank you many times over.

Oh yes, and another thing—the Monthly Magical Girl Raising Project website is generally updated (or should be) once a month. There will be serialized short stories, notices about merch, and a section called MGRP News, where a dream duo that was impossible in the original story, Magical-Girl Hunter Snow White and the mascot Fav, do comedy together or have one-sided battles and stuff. It’s a very fun site, so please do take a look. For the details, please check out the ads at the end of this book.

Now then, following the previous book, Jokers, we have Aces. The current series involves the foundation of the Magical Kingdom. Wait just a bit longer to see just what sort of title will be on the next book. I wrote the same thing before, a few books ago. It’s like, just how much do you have to wait to satisfy me? Indeed, I think it’s no good for me to think it’ll be fine as long as you all wait for me. No good indeed.

So anyway, please wait for a bit longer.

I’ll write an amazing finale. I’m carefully reflecting on the aphorism that if you raise the bar, it’s easier to go underneath it.

To everyone from the editorial department who has given me guidance, and S-mura: You’ve pulled more all-nighters again with this book, I’m sure. I’m sorry, and also, thank you.

Marui-no-sensei, thank you very much for the wonderful illustrations. I’m thinking it’d be nice if I could use that rejected Armor Arlie design—it was super cool, too cool, which I guess isn’t very magical girl–like.

To all the readers who purchased this book: Thank you very much. There’s a lot planned with the manga, the anime, and many other developments as well, so please look forward to more in the future.