Liar, Liar - Volume 2 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD

Hello, good afternoon, or good evening. This is Haruki Kuou. Thank you very much for picking up Liar Liar, Vol. 2: The Lying Transfer Student Is Targeted by the Little Devil.

How did you like it? This volume covered the Fourth Ward Challenge, so it mainly focused on the Fourth Ward, Shinohara’s home. I tried to go heavy on the Game and rom-com content (by my standards, anyway), so hopefully you enjoyed all of it. Also, I’ll avoid spoiling just in case you flipped to the afterword before reading, but I’m starting to really like the new character that showed up, so writing for her constantly kept me excited.

Now it’s time for a quick announcement. This will be advertised on Twitter and other social media outlets about a month before this volume comes out, so a lot of you might already know this, but Liar Liar has been picked up for a manga adaptation! Yes! A manga! A manga! (This is important, so I wrote it twice!)

Manga… Those two little syllables were all it took to give me a sense of euphoria. I can’t stop grinning. In fact, I haven’t stopped since the moment I heard about the project and got some rough sketches of the character designs. (I’m a creep, I know.) It hasn’t even been two years since I realized my dream of becoming a professional light novel author, and already I’ve made my next goal come true… It really is like a dream, and I’m genuinely overjoyed. I definitely want to keep it going, and I’ve got a lot of other dreams I want to see fulfilled. To that end, I’ll keep plugging away at this thing!

Now for some thanks.

First, I want to thank konomi for continuing the streak of excellent illustrations from the first volume. The cover, insert, and interior images are all so wonderful that I lack the vocabulary to describe them. When I saw the design for the new character, something inside me woke up… I love it so much. Thanks!

Thanks also to Funa Yukina, who will be handling the manga version. As the story writer and a reader, I’m super looking forward to the manga. It’ll be great to work with you!

Thanks to my editor and everyone else at MF Bunko J editorial. You were a huge help with this volume, just as with the last, and I’m sure you will be during the next book, too. Hopefully, we can keep this good thing going (he said, ominously).

Finally, the greatest thanks go to all those who read this story. Between the next volume and the manga version, Liar Liar is expanding more and more. I hope you’ll keep up with us! See you later!

Haruki Kuou