I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (LN) - Volume 5 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

GOOD MORNING, I’m Yuu Tanaka. Thank you for buying Volume 5 of Reincarnated as a Sword. We somehow made our deadline. Thank goodness! By the way, I’m not writing this part in the morning or anything. I just thought I’d switch up my greeting a little. If you’re reading this at night, good morning to you too!

I mentioned in a previous column that I was a kemonomimi fan, but one of my friends took issue with that. They said that to be a kemonomimi enthusiast, I had to love animal heads, mammaries, and fur too. At least, that was their opinion. There are sects within the kemonomimi kingdom of course: Fluffites and Tailians, just to name a few. And there are too many subgenres to list here.

“So I’m not a kemonomimi fan…?! Then what am I? But never mind that, there’s a chance that I’ve improperly used the term in my previous works!” I panicked and began scouring the net for information. In the end all I learned was that, under different situations, different people used the word to mean completely different things.

As someone who likes primarily ears and tails, I am a Kemomimist. I will continue carrying the cross of Kemomimist under the umbrella term of kemonomimi fan.

With two titles underway, my workload has increased accordingly, and there are times when I feel ready to weep while I write… I’m just glad I managed to hit my deadline. Please give The Life and Times of a Late Bloomer Tamer a read if you have the chance. There are some slight differences in the content ever since it changed publishers. There’re pretty pictures in there, too.

Personal shilling aside, I should talk about Reincarnated as a Sword now. Fair warning for those of you who like reading the postscript first: spoilers ahead.

Volume 5 has been the most difficult book to write so far. I had to lay the groundwork for the story of future volumes, and couldn’t make it up as I went like I did with Volume 3. Readers of the online edition will know what I’m talking about. Solus’s subplot kind of went away there, but he enjoyed more screen time and relevance here, which made me happy. Aside from comments about how I just decided to throw that one in of course.

But hey, wow, we’re at Volume 5 now. We wouldn’t be here without you. Really. While it is never enough to express my gratitude, it is time for acknowledgements.

To Micro Magazine and my editor, I-san: Thank you for all you help, despite having a really tight schedule and working on two concurrent titles. Thank you to everyone involved in the printing process and of course, thank you, dear reader.

The manga is going great, too, and the latest special edition comes with a drama CD. I should buy myself a nice dinner to celebrate once everything is official.

As I said in the last postscript, the world of Reincarnated as a Sword is getting larger and larger, and I hope you continue enjoying it as much as I do.

Thank you for reading all the way to the end.