Afterword
Hello again, and thanks for reading In Another World With My Smartphone volume 27. I hope you enjoyed it!
Now that we’ve got Sue’s daughter, Steph, in the mix, all the children are together at last.
I originally decided there’d be eight daughters and one son and also that the son would be Yumina’s...but I had to think about his birth order in relation to his siblings.
Three patterns came to mind right away. An elder brother with eight little sisters, a little brother with eight older sisters, or a middle brother with younger and older sisters.
In the case of him being the eldest child, I could only imagine him becoming a protective big brother who fawned over his sisters all the time...so I had to nix that.
The eight older sisters idea was what I ended up going with, but then I thought it wouldn’t hurt to give him one sibling who’s younger than him. That was when I settled on making him the eighth child. After that, it was only obvious that Sue’s daughter would be the youngest. She’s the youngest bride, after all.
As far as Steph goes, it’s good to finally have her in the story. She’d been mentioned a few times, but now she’s properly here. Quun first showed up back in volume 22, so it took five full volumes to gather all the children... I wonder if that was a fast or slow pace, all things considered... Personally, I think introducing nine central characters in the span of only five volumes is pretty speedy. Part of me felt it was a little rushed, and that I could’ve taken a bit more time with it.
Anywho, the second season of the anime is coming along pretty nicely. There’s been some communication back and forth about what exactly it’ll cover, but at the very least, I know all nine heroines are gonna be in it. That was a relief to hear.
Some of the heroines will only show up in the second half and onward, though. Kind of like Leen not getting as much presence in season one. Nothing you can do about that, unfortunately. It’s not like we could start season 2 with a time skip to include all of them from episode one. Anime-only fans would be way too confused. They’d go, “Who are all these women?”
The voice actors for Lu, Hilde, and Sakura are the same as the cast for the Drama CDs. If you’ve listened to those, you should feel pretty used to them already.
It should be broadcast in the Spring 2023 season. By the time this volume’s out, it shouldn’t be far off. Or maybe it’ll be airing. Just wait a little bit longer, please.
Anyway, it’s time for me to give my usual thanks.
To the illustrator, Eiji Usatsuka...thank you so much for your work on this volume. I love Steph’s design. I look forward to seeing what you can do with the next volume.
To the mecha designer, Tomofumi Ogasawara, thanks so much for taking some time out of your busy schedule to create designs for the gold crown and the illustration of Val Albus.
As always, thank you to K and the rest of the editorial staff at Hobby Japan. And thanks to everyone involved with getting this book published.
I would also like to thank all my fans who’ve been following along from the web novel until now.
Patora Fuyuhara
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