Grimgal of Ashes and Illusion - Volume 7 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

I’m not great with action games. The reason for that is that I can’t handle doing the same thing over and over.

While I’m playing, I start to see, Oh, this is what I should be doing here. I can play through once or twice like that, but I have trouble doing any more. I start feeling mischievous, and do something differently.

No, you may be thinking, that’s just a lack of practice, and I could do it right if I just kept playing again and again. That might be true, but the truth is, I’m not great at folding my laundry either, and for some reason I can never fold it all the same way. Unless I really focus on getting them all folded the same and pour all of my attention into it... Huh, that’s weird, I have ten similar-looking T-shirts all folded in completely different ways. That’s what happens.

With T-shirts, if they’re not all folded the same way, it’s inconvenient when I go to put them in my dresser. It’s the same for socks and underwear. My dresser is always a chaotic mess as a result.

Now, I think this is a matter of personality, or the way my brain is structured. My brain was just made that way for some reason. I like action RPGs, but I’m terrible at them. It’s sad.

Now, there’s still a bit of time between November 24th when I’m writing this afterword and when the anime Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash begins broadcasting, but it’s just around the corner. The other day, I was able to sit in on a dubbing session. It’s shaping up to be a wonderful anime, and I’m looking forward to it. It’s been an educational experience, too.

The manga version of Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash that Ms. Mutsumi Okubashi has been serializing in Gangan Joker also follows the same fundamental outline as the novel, but the details and flavor are slightly different, making it stimulating for me.

I have to work harder as a novelist. Grimgar is just getting started, after all.

Haruhiro and the others can never move forward more than a step at a time, if that. The way things are going, I’m not entirely confident where they will be able to go, and whether they’ll be able to arrive wherever that is, but if they keep on moving forward, the road will surely go on.

I will say, I do have some idea in my head of where I want things to end up. It’s all up to them, though, so it’s possible they may arrive somewhere else entirely, but if that happens, it happens. For the people who haven’t had the chance to show up much yet, I plan for them to make appearances little by little, so look forward to that.

I’ve run out of pages.

To my editor, K, to Eiri Shirai, to the designers of KOMEWORKS among others, to everyone involved in production and sales of this book, and finally to all of you people now holding this book, I offer my heartfelt appreciation and all of my love. Now, I lay down my pen for today.