Afterword
Thank you very much for picking up this afterstory volume of Arifureta.
Hello, everyone, it’s the chuuni lover Ryo Shirakome here.
It’s been two years since I finished writing the conclusion to the main story. Quite a long time since we last met, for those of you who follow the light novel adaptation.
For those of you who were waiting for the afterstories to get published, I’m sorry it took so long! But thankfully, I was able to get this out in time to match the airing of the third season of the anime.
This release is all thanks to you guys for supporting Arifureta so much. Thank you all so very, very much!
Now then, I imagine some of you are already aware of this, but there are a lot more afterstories on narou for Arifureta. They’re not quite as focused as this volume was, since I just write what I feel like when I feel like it. I throw out a bunch of foreshadowing that I’m not sure I’ll actually do anything with, explore random side plots that interest me, and honestly, I don’t even do a good job of keeping the chronology straight! Hooray! At any rate, that’s the kind of mindset I had going in when I first started writing the afterstories.
Of course, for this published volume I had to actually get the chronology straight and make sure there weren’t any plot holes or contradictions. As a result, it ended up a lot more emotional and lovey-dovey than the web version of the afterstories. There’s a bunch of new stuff I wrote for this too.
Honestly, there’s a lot more I wanted to write, and more characters I wanted to introduce, but...since this is the very first afterstory volume, I figured I should focus on the Nagumo family. And once I settled on what I was focusing on, I suddenly wrote a whole bunch more stuff for them. For those who want to see the new worlds and characters I introduce, as well as what happens to Hajime and the others after this, check out the webnovel! It’s got a very different vibe than the main story, and of course, there’s a lot more focus on modern-day Earth there. Also, as I mentioned, the third season of the anime is airing. I hope you all check it out!
Last, but certainly not least, we have the acknowledgments.
Of course, I’m truly grateful to all of my readers, but also to Takayaki-sensei, RoGa-sensei, my editors, proofreaders, and everyone else who made this book possible.
I don’t know if we’ll meet again in another afterword, but hopefully we do!
Ryo Shirakome
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