AFTERWORD
Hey, everyone! Hi, Tappei Nagatsuki here, the Mouse-Colored Cat to some.
Thank you very much for sticking with Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- for one more volume! With the tale now reaching its seventh volume, the books are really starting to pile up. I hope that, just like my characters in the story, I have grown as an author day after day. That sounds less like growth than getting older, though…
Now then, this time I have an unusually big announcement, and thanks to give.
I believe many of you are already aware of this, but this work, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- , has been slated for an anime release on television!
This, too, is thanks to all your support. Really, really, thank you very much!
I’ve already written this in afterwords several times, but this story began as a web novel via a website known as Let’s Become Novelists!
It was over three years ago that I began my submissions, read by numerous readers, but it feels like it was only yesterday when someone approached me about putting the series into print. In reality, it was more like two years and a month ago, but really, since then, I’ve reached the point of being so busy day after day that it makes my eyes spin.
I am exceedingly grateful for being blessed enough to reach seven regular volumes and two side-story compilations. Along the way, the possibility of adapting it into an anime came up, and now that I can report that to everyone, my happiness and my gratitude know no bounds.
Truly, thank you very much.
Mind you, turning it into an anime wasn’t the end goal—the work still has a long way to go.
With the work half-finished, it’s still midway through the stories of the characters and through my growth as an author, so I can’t stop now. As before, I’ll be striving at full throttle, and I will be very pleased if all of you who have read this far continue running along with me.
Thanks to the anime release, even more people will know about the work, making me want to keep up the good work writing interesting stories, so best regards going forward!
Now then, all that fervor won’t fill out this space, so here come the other thank-yous.
First, Mr. I the editor. Without your cooperation, Mr. I, Re:ZERO would never have begun to go into print, let alone reach where it is today. Truly, thank you for giving me the gift that is Re:ZERO .
Otsuka-sensei the illustrator. Otsuka-sensei, it is because you give these characters the greatest shape and color that their charm may shine. Thank you very much for yet another incredibly impactful cover illustration! I can’t help being glad that the characters you have drawn will soon go into motion!
Kusano-sensei the designer, you have been exceedingly helpful. Thank you not only for the cover and logo but for many other places related to Re:ZERO ’s publication! For future help as well, many, many thanks!
And thanks to Daichi Matsuse-sensei and Makoto Fugetsu-sensei for drawing the world of Re:ZERO , sometimes adorably, sometimes painfully. I’ve had so many people say the manga hooked them into the work; I can’t lift my head before the two of you! Thank you so much!
Besides that, to everyone at the MF Bunko J editorial department, sales managers, copy editors, bookstore salespeople, you have truly been a great help. Thank you very much.
And finally, my greatest thanks to all you readers always reading my books and sending such warm support that gives me strength as an author. Please accept my best regards going forward.
Now then, let’s meet again next volume!
August 2015
Tappei Nagatsuki
(Still worked up a month after the anime announcement)
“I know you’ve been the central character for most of the volume, but you doing the next volume preview with me must be fresh stress, huh, Wilhelm?”
“You need not be so modest. Unlike you, Sir Subaru, I am completely unversed in this. I intend to follow your directives in all matters, so please do not hesitate to call upon me.”
“Whoaaa, now I feel even more gracious! Okay, let’s get into the announcements, then! This is a big one, really big, wow! Re:ZERO is getting a TV anime release!! You’re sure you want Wilhelm and I being the ones to announce this?!”
“It is the result of so many drawn in, following your footsteps in admiration, Sir Subaru. It is almost enough to make even my chest grow hot…”
“Those footsteps had a lot of pretty embarrassing parts, too, you know…!”
“What, everyone has embarrassing moments in their youth. While I am glad for the anime being decided, there are also comics going on sale, it would seem?”
“Ah, yes, there are. The second volume of the hugely popular Mansion arc, serialized in Monthly Big Gangan , is going on sale in December! And the first volume of the third arc, serialized in Monthly Comic Alive , is also going on sale in December! Wilhelm, you’ll be appearing in this!”
“I see, so they are going on sale in December simultaneously. It would seem best to buy them both at the same…mm? Sir Subaru, what is…?”
“It’s just like you said, Wilhelm, everyone has embarrassing moments in their youth.”
“Mm, certainly, I did say as much…”
“So the setting is fourteen years before the main story—! The Ballad of the Sword Devil , a side story set during the huge civil war in the kingdom, known as the Demi-human War, is set to go on sale, also in December!”
“So a side-story novel and one volume from the second and third arcs. I was inexperienced and a sorry sight in my youth, but do pick them up if you have some interest in them.”
“Oh yeah! Hey, it turned out pretty good in the end! When push comes to shove, we’re a good team!”
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