In a Different World with a Smartphone (LN) - Volume 30 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

Thank you for reading volume 30 of In Another World with My Smartphone. I hope you enjoyed it.

We’ve finally made it to the thirties. It felt like it took a lifetime to reach volume 10, but all of a sudden, we’ve made it this far. Touya’s adventures are coming to an end soon, so I doubt we’ll make it to the forties, but I hope you’ll accompany me to the very end... I might release some bonus content after we’re done, though. Like a spin-off or something, maybe.

This volume has a special edition in Japan that comes with a drama CD—and that marks the fourth drama CD for the series! The one who kindly wrote the script was Yui Fukuo, the voice of Linze in the anime.

The third drama CD came out in Japan with volume 26. The idea of a fourth drama CD had been brought up a while ago, but I failed to find the time to work on the script, so one of the staff suggested that we ask Miss Fukuo for assistance, as she’d recently begun working as a scriptwriter for anime.

Miss Fukuo has long worked with the world of Smartphone and is very knowledgeable on its story and characters, so I had no worries about asking her to take up the mantle. She wrote up the script far faster than I would ever have managed, and there were basically no edits I needed to make.

Thank you very much for the wonderful script, Miss Fukuo. I hope you all enjoy this new story as well.

I was able to peek into the recording session for the drama CD online like I did with the anime, but for some reason, my audio wasn’t being picked up, so all we could do was wave at each other and I was unable to respond. It was rather humiliating... I’m not sure if it was a problem with my microphone or a problem with the system or what. I even made sure it wasn’t muted...

I’d like to greet them properly if there’s a next time.

I’m quite the introvert, so I’ve never been to an actual recording session in person, so much so that the staff and voice actors might not even know I really exist... I haven’t been to any company parties either, so I think only four people have ever seen me in person when I joined them for the first meeting about the anime, my two editors included. I’m like a UMA.

On to my final words of appreciation.

First to my illustrator, Eiji Usatsuka. Thank you for drawing both a special edition cover and the original cover. I’m looking forward to seeing the next volume’s as well.

Tomofumi Ogasawara, thank you very much for drawing the new illustration for Reginleif even when you’re so busy.

My editor, K, the editorial department of Hobby Japan, and everyone else involved with the publication of this volume, thank you for all your help as usual.

And to all my readers of both the web novel and the light novels, I feel nothing but the greatest appreciation.

Patora Fuyuhara