Spice and Wolf - Volume 12 - Chapter Aft

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AFTERWORD

It has been a while. I’m Isuna Hasekura, and this is volume 12. I suppose it’s obvious to say, but volume 12 means that this is the twelfth time I’ve written an afterword. It doesn’t feel that way at all, though…

I have to admit I’m sort of impressed with myself for coming up with the plot for this volume. This may be because back when I was trying to write volume 2, I had my head in my hands, certain that there wasn’t anything else to write about.

Apparently they say you have to read a hundred books to write a single volume. For Spice and Wolf , I drew on forty or fifty. The rest are…let’s just say they’re off set by Holo’s ears and tail.

It’s only been three months since the last volume, so not much has changed in my life, but I did visit Okinawa for nine days during the writing of volume 12. It was a writing trip I took with a fellow author friend. I was worried that nine days trapped in a small room would make things tense during the bottom half of the trip, but things were surprisingly peaceful. I credit the Awamori liquor and Ishigaki beef.

We’d get up in the morning, have breakfast, write, have lunch, write, nap, go swimming at the beach in front of the hotel, have dinner, write, and sleep. Th at was pretty much the routine. At one point we rented a car and drove to a beach farther away. At said beach, there were many people who just load up their car with a futon, a tent, and a dog and travel around Japan. I had no idea there was such a culture in Japan. Riding around on a motorcycle with a guitar strapped to your back— even light novel characters are a little better behaved than that.

We felt like we didn’t want to lose to these guys, so we made plans to go to Paris next time or maybe some country in the south.

But if possible, I think I’d like to go in a state of cleanliness—having finished my work.

Now then, by the time this volume comes out, the second season of the anime should be reaching its peak, I think. I’ll be enjoying that as I make preparations to write the next volume.