Campione! - Volume 16 - Chapter Aft

Afterword 

Hello everyone, it's been a while . Campione! finally reaches its 14th volume . I express my utmost thanks to the loving support from each and every one of you, readers . Due to the anime last year, I was constantly chased after for Campione! related drafts and various assorted affairs for a whole year . There were good things like being featured on Weekly Shounen Jump a number of times and being invited to Taiwan, all sorts of troublesome things that I cannot write about here . Every single day was spent in a hectic bustle . One incident left a particularly deep impression on me . 

A certain male-oriented fashion magazine almost mistook me for a Cthulu writer, (wry smile) This was during an interview for a light novel feature when a reporter and interviewer who claimed "I've read Campione!" asked me: "This series uses the Cthulu mythos as its theme — " Nothing of that sort, man! (sweat drops) Looks like the guy must have learnt the word "Cthulu" from recent anime . Based on various clues I gathered throughout the interview, it seems like someone jumped to the conclusion that 'stories about gods, ahhh, that's basically the Cthulu mythos . ' Before the anime was broadcast, this type of situation also happened when I was busiest in writing Volume 13 . Back then, I kept thinking to myself, just let it be since they should probably realize the mistake before the report is published — In the end, "Cthulu" was written clearly on the first draft they delivered to me . 

(wry smile) Back then, I said "this interview is 90% fabricated in my view, don't believe it" and gave up on reading it, then relying on the hard work of Super Dash Bunko's editorial department, the notion of "Takedzuki Jou = Cthulu writer" was eradicated . Like manga artists who frequently do the same in their manga and tankouban afterwords, I kept a record of these happenings in the hopes of revealing them one day . 

Oh dear, by this point, all I can do is treat it all as a joke, (laugh) Well then, this volume's story is based on an early idea I considered of "The Devil King one should stay the most away from (World Classics Drama Series) and what if a certain protagonist were born in the Middle Ages or earlier . " Then there is the "little story in mid-January" that was mentioned in Chapter 2 . 

If any of you would like to read this story, readers, please check out the limited edition booklet that comes as a gift with buying Volume 14 and manga Volume 2 at the same time, or the Drama CD included in the previous magazine . 

(Publisher's note: all sold out already) In the next volume after this, expect a super Campione battle transcending time and space .