My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Volume 14 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

Volume 14, the final one. Thank you so much for reading this far. Not that I expected the series to be canceled or anything, but I was able to keep writing for a lot longer than I had expected. That is all thanks to you readers. Truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

I guess I started by thanking people, but I’ve got lots more thanks to go. It was announced a while ago, so many of you probably already know, but this series was green-lit for an anime! This is also only thanks to your continued support. Thank you so much! At the time I’m writing this, I can’t say anything beyond that an anime is confirmed, but I expect more details will come out mid-2023, so please wait for a bit. Further announcements will come out on Earth Star Novels’s main website and on Twitter, so please check with them.

I will be excitedly sharing any news on my own Twitter (https://twitter.com/fujitaka_t), so you can check there as well!

My final thanks:

To my supervising editor: almost every volume came in at the very last minute, so I feel like I’ve put you through a lot of stress, but thank you for sticking with me until the end.

To the illustrator, Chisato Naruse: your artwork has been incredible throughout. Thank you so much! I’m glad you stayed through the whole series, and I hope we can work together again in the future!

藤孝 剛志

Tsuyoshi Fujitaka

TV Anime

Tomochika: We’re going to be in an anime! One that you can actually watch on TV!

Mokomoko: Did you really need to specify that part?

Tomochika: Being on TV is really important!

Yogiri: Is there anything for us to actually talk about for the anime, though?

Mokomoko: Yes, just like the Question Corners, we are once again broadcasting from a mysterious space outside that of the main novels!

Tomochika: That means we know quite a bit about the anime.

Yogiri: But even if we know, that doesn’t mean we can share much.

Tomochika: I don’t know. Can we talk about, like, who the voice actors will be?

Mokomoko: By the way, my voice actor will be the illustrious so-and-so!

Tomochika: If you’re not going to actually say it, why did you bring it up at all?!

Yogiri: It’s probably obvious, but there isn’t really anything we can say at this point.

Mokomoko: The most we can say is that such and such important characters will be voiced by so-and-so!

Tomochika: You still didn’t tell us anything!

Yogiri: What about the broadcast date?

Mokomoko: We can say nothing!

Tomochika: So there’s actually nothing for us to tell them!

Mokomoko: More information should be available in the middle of 2023, so until then there is nothing we can say!

Yogiri: What about how much of the story it’s going to cover?

Mokomoko: Of course, we can say nothing on that front either!

Tomochika: Then what’s the point of this “TV Anime Announcement Space” anyway?!

Yogiri: Maybe trying to say anything concrete was the wrong approach.

Tomochika: Then, what about our hopes for the anime? Surely we can talk about what we’re excited to see, right?

Mokomoko: But how will that work when we are characters in the story?

Yogiri: If you worry about those kinds of small details, you’ve already lost.

Tomochika: So, what was your first impression when you heard we were getting an anime?

Yogiri: I thought, “Well, that’s good. But wait, is it really going to work?” It was a pretty complicated feeling.

Tomochika: Yeah...I had thoughts like, “Is this ethically okay?” Or, “Will people really find it funny as an anime?”

Mokomoko: Indeed. I thought the only stories that became anime were ones full of beautiful girls and a totally plain protagonist who suddenly obtains immense power and smirks as he crushes everyone around him!

Tomochika: You really managed to cram a lot of spite and prejudice in there, didn’t you?!

Mokomoko: At any rate, what are you hoping to see in the anime adaptation?

Yogiri: Hm...intense battle scenes?

Tomochika: How could there be?! Everyone dies instantly!

Mokomoko: In my case, it would be great fan service from the beautiful young girls that follow the protagonist on his journey.

Tomochika: Except we don’t have any of those either! It’s just the two of us and a ghost!

Mokomoko: The fact you see me as no more than a ghost is very revealing about your feelings towards me in general...

Yogiri: So, what’ll even be in there? There are no battles with the main character, and there aren’t any heroines.

Mokomoko: Then I suppose it comes down to this: the demands of multiple heroines must all be shouldered by Tomochika alone.

Tomochika: No, thank you! I don’t need your weird responsibilities!

Yogiri: Well...I guess they don’t count as heroines, but there are quite a few female characters.

Tomochika: And most of them die as soon as they show up!

Mokomoko: Very true. Normally against a woman, one attempts to force them to surrender so they can make an ally out of them!

Yogiri: If they’re an enemy, we have no choice but to beat them, right?

Tomochika: And I’m being serious when I say I don’t think they’re wasted as characters at all...

Mokomoko: Besides, it is not like he is capable of going easy on others with his power. Holding back so that the beautiful girls might become allies in the future would be quite difficult for him...unless the anime were to change his power to allow that to take place?

Yogiri: I haven’t heard anything like that, so I assume it’s going to be the same as in the novels.

Tomochika: Yeah, that would really change the concept of the whole story, wouldn’t it? It would kind of defeat the purpose of picking this series for an anime in the first place.

Yogiri: Exactly. So I think it’ll follow the novels pretty closely.

Mokomoko: Well, how are we to end this section?

Yogiri: The same as always, right?

Tomochika: We’ll be hard at work producing My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! for its upcoming broadcast! We hope you’re as excited about it as we are!