The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash - Volume 7 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

Hello, everyone. Long time no write. Honobonoru500 here. Thanks to all of you, The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash, Volume 7 has hit the shelves. Thank you to everyone who got yourself a copy. And to my illustrator Nama-sama, thank you for drawing a grown-up Ivy and a slightly diabolical Lord Foronda. And those wholesome scenes with Druid and Ivy are perfect, as always! Also, The Weakest Tamer has now broken a cumulative total of over 400,000 copies sold! I truly cannot thank you enough.

When I was planning Volume 7, I just wanted Ivy to have some fun experiences. She just had too many problems to deal with in the six previous volumes. So when I was thinking of what kind of fun experience to give her, I was basic and said, “Festival, I guess?” Then I had a lot of trouble coming up with what this festival would be like, until I happened to see a celebrity on TV wearing white clothes in the mud. It looked like fun. But since washing the mud out of the clothes would be a real drag, I changed that part. In the end, I settled on a festival where people dressed in white and threw colors at each other. But the thing I agonized the most over in Volume 7 was Ivy’s and Druid’s relationship. Up until now, I painted the picture of them slowly forging a bond together. But what should the next move be? Shouldn’t I finally make them officially father and daughter? Or was it too soon? It was quite the conundrum. But I wanted to give Ivy a dad! And I wanted to have Ivy call Druid “Dad”! So in the end, I followed my heart. Taking Druid’s personality into consideration, I knew I needed somebody to give him a push, so enter Lord Foronda. I was planning on bringing him back into the story anyway, so I had him make an appearance here.

Thank you to everyone at TO Books for your help with Volume 7. My editor K-sama, thank you for always putting up with me. With all your help, we managed to get Volume 7 published. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I’m going to continue being high-maintenance, so thank you all in advance.

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who read this book with all my heart. Also, I have some exciting news! Volume 8’s release date has been set! In Volume 8, Ivy becomes a little acquainted with this world’s dark side.

The comic book version of The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash is also on sale. May we meet again in this “Isekai’ed into a world…where proper waste disposal rules!” light novel and manga series.

Honobonoru500

June 2022