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Ishura - Volume 9 - Chapter Aft




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Afterword

Thank you for your support. Keiso here. First, I would like to deliver a message to those of you who are reading the afterword before the rest of the book: Don’t read this crappy afterword right away! Why do you still insist on reading the afterword first, when the page layout for volume eight gave you a massive spoiler?! The two-page spread in the eighth volume hit you with an almost bafflingly instantons spoiler, but the page layout is one thing I have no control over, including for volume nine here, so I’m not responsible, okay? Of course, the responsibility doesn’t lie with the editorial department making this book, either. When it comes to my works, the ones at fault are the people reading the afterword first.

Now then, I may be known as the laziest author Dengki no Shin Bungei has in its roster, but for this ninth volume, I wanted to get it out to all of you as quick as possible, so I worked very hard to publish it at an average author’s pace instead. By the time this volume is on sale, the anime adaptation should be in the middle of its run, so I encourage you to enjoy them both. Also, while putting this publication schedule into practice, I caused a mountain of trouble for my editor, Satou… I would like to express the most amount of gratitude, and the biggest apology, I have up until now. Truly, thank you as always, for everything. Next, to the working machine, Kureta-sensei, who perfectly delivers such fantastic illustrations, while also handling all the extra work around the anime and elsewhere, as well as all the people involved with publishing and marketing these books, and, of course, to all the readers who have supported this series (yes, even you readers who start with the afterword!)— It is because of all of you that Ishura has become what it is. Thank you, truly.

Now then, what is almost as annoying as the reading order for the afterword, is the sequence used to boil down tomatoes when making tomato sauce pasta. When making it with canned tomatoes, it tastes best to make the sauce after simmering away a fair amount of the liquid first, but if you put the canned tomatoes in your fry pan after frying the other ingredients and begin to boil them down from there, you’ll end up overcooking the other ingredients, while if you begin frying the other ingredients after you’ve finished boiling the tomatoes down, you waste a lot of time. Boiling down canned tomatoes can actually take quite a while, so I’d prefer if I could fry up the ingredients at the same time. With this in mind, lately I came up with the idea to boil down the whole tomatoes in a fry pan while roasting the other ingredients like bacon and garlic in the oven, and then adding in the crispy bacon and garlic afterward instead, but… When I thought about it some more, anyone could do this by using two stove burners to prepare the ingredients at the same time, huh? In my cooking environment, I generally use only one burner and one frying pan, so this is how I’ve been making my tomato sauce as of late. Though, this way I can finish it all without using any oil compared to frying the tomatoes and ingredients separately, so it might come out a bit easier to eat, anyway. For ingredients, I use one can of whole tomatoes, one pack of bacon, three cloves of garlic, and after that, whatever mushrooms, celery, etc. that I happen to buy. For seasoning, I just add in a teaspoon or so of salt and a bay leaf while boiling down the tomatoes, making it a very simple recipe. Common versions of the recipe will often say to fry the garlic to transfer its fragrance to the olive oil…but roasting it in the oven and mixing it in after doesn’t only work just as well, in my personal opinion, it makes it much more flavorful than frying it in olive oil. Maybe it’s because the fragrance doesn’t burn off from heating it more? This is all just my own personal sense of things, so I await further, proper testing. How to make pasta sauces is a surprisingly satisfying field of academic research.

 

 

 

In-depth Ishura Analysis! Here’s what Keiso-sensei told us!

The acclaimed anime adaptation is now airing!

In the first volume, Curte used braille, and in the ninth volume, Uhak was reading the Order Script.

While types of written word pop up here and there, this aspect of the Ishura setting still seems much deeper…and with that in mind, this is the question for this volume!

Q1: Please tell us more about how written scripts are handled in the world of Ishura.


In the world of Ishura, unified writing systems have not propagated. This is because all the races with hearts and souls within the story each create their own individual languages to talk, and because none of them have a unified language.

Learning writing in the novel’s world might be as hard as it would be for a Japanese person to learn how to read and write a second or third foreign language from a completely and utterly different culture.

While it may be different for individuals of a certain intellectual class or above, widespread propagation of writing among the average citizenry, let alone firmly establishing it, would be an extremely difficult endeavor.

To give an example, everyday written expressions are customarily displayed with seals and other types of iconographies (numbers would be included with this as well), and this is often used in shops and official documents.

However, such seals and symbols need to have a strict one-to-one correspondence to what they’re supposed to mean, and it is impossible to use them in place of written passages that can flexibly combine meanings and context.

The Order Script was created with the aim of having a written script that could be learned regardless of race or social status and, conversely, is an extremely ambiguous system of writing with a high degree of grammatical freedom.

While the writing is comparatively simple, reading and understanding the passages written by others is quite difficult without having the writer explain it themselves (or without having full knowledge of the writer’s specific quirks).

The writing system known as the aristocrat script, only passed down through specific family lineages, would be the closest to our world’s concept of the written word.

Since children’s closest influence is their parents, often the language they make for themselves are similar in construction to their parents’, and it is thought to be comparatively easy to learn the writing system of one’s own family.

It combines the same strictness of meaning and flexibility of expression present in the written scripts we are familiar with and is capable of expressing detailed nuances, but naturally, to other families, learning this script is extremely difficult.

Creating a writing system from scratch in the first place is a massive undertaking that can’t be accomplished with just a normal amount of effort and expends a considerable amount of time and funds.

In most cases, families that invest in the effort to create a writing system that only their own family can use do so because they have some knowledge or information that is valuable enough to preserve in writing. Herein lies the reason for the name “aristocrat script,” as the families that thrived with the power of such valuable information and knowledge are said to be the world’s original aristocrats.

The races with hearts of their own in the world of Ishura depend on memorization for their knowledge. This is just as true even for those individuals capable of reading and writing scripts, as well.

From our world’s perspective, this comes off as a truly miraculous skill, but it’s possible that this ability developed specifically in response to the need for it, or because the power of Word Arts to interpret meaning helps make it possible.

Of course, the memories not specifically linked to any learned knowledge are steadily forgotten like normal, thus Sephite’s ability to remember is certainly quite excellent even in the world of the novel.



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