AFTERWORD
Hello, this is Kisetsu Morita.
Killing Slimes’ anime has begun! Episode one was broadcast on April 10, just a few days before the release of this volume! (Of course, although I’m writing this in past tense, the broadcast hasn’t actually happened yet at the moment I’m writing this afterword. I wanna watch it, already!)
This might go without saying, but to everyone reading this volume, the events the anime will be covering will represent the very, very beginning of the series. I hope you’ll enjoy looking back and thinking, “Oh, right, that is how it happened back then” as you watch!
I have a lot of announcements to cover this time, so I’ll just list them out one by one! To start, something I have yet to mention up until now regarding the anime: Its opening theme song, “Gudafuwa Everyday,” sung by Azusa’s voice actress Aoi Yuuki, is already available for purchase! It’s just a plain fun song, and I encourage you to purchase it and listen to the full version for yourself!
On a related note, although its release date has yet to be announced as of the writing of this afterword, the ending theme song “Viewtiful Days!,” sung by Flatorte’s voice actress Azumi Waki, is a really wonderful song as well. I hope you’ll give it the same treatment!
Songs aside, there are a number of projects I believe will be announced as the anime continues to air. There’s only so much information I can communicate in real time in a novel’s afterword, so I encourage you to keep an eye on the official Killing Slimes Twitter account!
Next, the eighth volume of this series’ manga adaptation, by Yusuke Shiba, has been released! Once again, the manga has received a massive additional print run. I was astonished when I learned just how many copies were going to be printed! I have a new appreciation for just how broad the reach of manga really is!
Meanwhile, the manga spin-off The Red-Dragon Academy for Girls began this March as well! It’s drawn by Hitsujibako! Thanks for waiting! It’s finally here! I hope you read it! On a related note, this volume includes the seventh The Red-Dragon Academy for Girls story as a bonus! We’ve included something unrelated to the main story in these volumes so many times now, it just felt wrong to have a volume without some sort of bonus, so I went ahead and wrote one from scratch!
Speaking of spin-offs, the first one, Beelzebub’s I Was a Bottom-Tier Bureaucrat for 1,500 Years, is celebrating the release of the third volume of its manga adaptation, drawn by Meishi Murakami! I hope you’ll give it a look as well!
Finally, an announcement unrelated to Killing Slimes. A novel of mine that was published by GA Bunko a few years ago, Kirei na Kurokami no Takashina-san (Mushoku) to Tsukiau Koto ni Natta, has a manga adaptation that’s started up recently in Gangan GA! The manga is being created by a tag team of Hironari Takachi on drawing and Makoto Ohara handling the script!
If you’re wondering why a series like that would get a manga adaptation after all this time, well, good question! When I heard the news, my first thought was, “What, now? Really…? It’s not even set in another world…” Which isn’t to say I’m not incredibly pleased, of course!
Another manga adaptation of one of my works that’s serialized on Gangan GA, A Mysterious Job Called Oda Nobunaga, has been very well received! It’s drawn by Riku Nishi, who’s been doing a phenomenal job! I hope you’ll give it a try!
There are many people I have to express my gratitude to. I’d like to thank my illustrator, Benio, who once again did a wonderful job with the art for this volume. We’ve seen the black-haired, real-world high school version of Azusa in a previous spin-off story, and this time, I was very glad to see the cover of the special edition features her Witch of the Highlands form wearing a school uniform! Speaking of which, The Red-Dragon Academy for Girls involves Laika wearing a school uniform as well. Somehow or other, this series ended up with quite a few of those.
Next, thank you very much to everyone involved in the anime’s production! I’d heard getting an anime adaptation was a major turning point for any light novel, and I’ve really come to understand what people mean by that. Generally speaking, there are only a few people involved in the initial creation of a light novel. You couldn’t exactly pull a hundred people into a light novel’s creation, slap a 15,000 yen per volume price tag on it, and expect it to sell. As such, seeing the sheer, stunning number of people involved in an anime’s production was a shock, plain and simple.
Of course, as the series’ original author, my involvement in the anime’s production is limited. I’m just the author who provided the base material—not a member of the actual production staff—so I believe I’ll be able to enjoy the anime from the perspective of just another viewer when it airs.
Finally, I would like to thank everyone who has continued to read and support Killing Slimes. I don’t think a single person on the planet Earth imagined the series would carry on for this long back when the first volume was released. Not even I, the author, had the slightest clue. It’s all thanks to the support of my readers the series has been able to continue for this long. I view it as an incredible miracle brought about by the combined power of all sorts of people, Spirit Bomb style.
There’s still more to come in the fun and carefree lives of the house in the highlands family, and I hope you’ll continue to enjoy experiencing them in novel form!
Kisetsu Morita
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