Afterword
Thank you very much for purchasing The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 11!
Hello, I’m Yu Okano. Volume 10 of the manga is also out on sale now, so if you feel so inclined, I’d be overjoyed if you picked up a copy!
I’m over the moon that the manga and novel have surpassed the ten-volume mark!
The anime adaptation has been decided as well, and it’s been nothing but good things for me lately, so sometimes I get scared that something bad’s going to come along soon. I can’t help but worry about everything... I have a terribly nervous temperament...
Now that I think about it, I’ve been like this ever since I was a young child. For example, I’d always worry about whether I forgot something on school trips or excursions. I also worried about things like whether I’d forgotten my textbooks for tomorrow or my swimsuit.
However, back then, my worry stemmed from not wanting the teacher to yell at me. I don’t think it was worry for worry’s sake. In fact, despite my concerns, I still forgot things a lot...but I guess that’s what you’d call a habit. Perhaps because I’ve lived my life thinking, “I don’t want to forget anything,” over and over, I’ve become a person who dreads forgetting things. I even get awfully worried about whether I locked the front door to my house five minutes ago...despite the fact that I most certainly did.
Another similar characteristic of mine is that I’m a germaphobe. I didn’t have this problem as a child, but now that I’m an adult, I don’t want to enter a house unless I’ve thoroughly scrubbed my hands with soap. The idea of coming in from outside and lying on my bed with my outdoor clothes on is unthinkable to me! That’s more or less the typical type of germaphobe I became.
If I had to come up with a reason, it probably began with my living on my own. When you’re living with your family, it’s hard to truly become a germaphobe because they’re always touching stuff and leaving it around anyway. But when you live alone, everything in your house is yours and you’re free to do what you want, so if something is even a millimeter out of place, it starts bothering you...
I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing, but considering recent world events, perhaps it’s a good habit to develop...
What was I talking about again? Oh, right, habits and obsession. If you’re wondering why I’m telling you about this, I’d say it’s because my writing is similar. Some of you know that I’m a web novel writer and that I post my writing online regularly.
When I first started, I only wrote occasionally, but before I realized, it had become a habit. Just like my habit of worrying whether I’d forgotten anything. Then, as I wrote my stories, my obsession over them grew, perhaps because I could direct everything to be exactly how I wanted. I wouldn’t be satisfied until I’d written all the fine details just right. It’s almost like being a germaphobe. But lately, I’ve been thinking that too much of either is a bad thing.
Perhaps, since overdoing things causes us to lose our limits, we have to determine the right time and place to stop for ourselves.
In that sense, working on books like this serves as good stopping points for me.
Deadlines, manuscript tweaking, handing it to the proofreader, illustrations... Not everything goes precisely how I want it to, but I feel like that’s what actually leads to harmony.
Anyway, that was how The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 11 was completed. I hope you enjoyed it, and I’ll see you in the next volume.
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