The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash - Volume 8 - 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 8 has hit the shelves. With all your support, we broke the 600,000 mark for cumulative sales! Thank you all, truly. And thank you to my illustrator Nama-sama for all the whimsical illustrations of the slimes playing together in Volume 8. 

And now, a little news about The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash…it’s going to be an anime! This wouldn’t have been possible without all the fans who have supported Ivy. Truly, truly, thank you all so much.

In Volume 8, we take our story to Hataka Village. I really agonized over Hataka’s setting. I wasn’t sure just how far to expose this world’s dark side. I didn’t want to make it too dark, but I wanted to give you all a little glimpse of the problems this world is dealing with. At first, I was going to introduce it gradually…but before I knew it, I had written up a huge crisis that threatened the entire village. It felt a little strange initially, but once I got into it, I introduced all sorts of characters. I was only going to introduce the captain, but for some reason, I put the guild master in the story, too. I agonized later over the sheer number of characters I’d added. But because of that, I was finally able to write about the problems this world is dealing with. And in Volume 8, the adventure party Zephyr makes its grand entrance, and Zinal finds himself suspected of something awkward. It wasn’t my intention at first, but his suspicion of Ivy and Druid did lead him to behave a little suspiciously himself. And I knew Druid would definitely be wary of him for that, so I whispered my apologies to Zinal as I had a rather enjoyable time writing those scenes. Don’t worry, Volume 9 will feature a much cooler version of Zinal.

Thank you to everyone at TO Books for your help with Volume 8. My editor K-sama, thank you for always putting up with me. We managed to get Volume 8 published, and we’re getting an anime adaptation—something that feels like a dream to me. Thank you all, truly. 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. I hope you’ll give Volume 9 a read, too. The manga version of The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash is also selling well. May we meet again in this “Isekai’ed into a world…where proper waste disposal rules!” light novel and manga series.

—Honobonoru500

November 2022