Afterword
Sorry to have kept you waiting for Volume 6. This is Carlo Zen.
To you heroes who didn’t wait but bought all the volumes through 6 at once, and to the heroes among heroes at Kadokawa Enterbrain, my eternal gratitude.
The anime project is probably a mass hallucination we’re all having!
Here is a story from long ago when I, someone who loves caffeine above all; my editor Fujita, who loves meat above all; and illustrator Shinotsuki, who loves gyoza above all, met at a tasty gyoza joint for a meeting.
“Do you think an anime could be a possibility?” Shinotsuki asked incisively, and Fujita declared, “Unfortunately, no!”
And yet now, an anime project seems like a fait accompli. Before I knew it, Tojo was serializing a wonderful manga.
Perhaps the hero Enterbrain has grown even stronger?
When I dove into this industry, I never imagined this future would be waiting. (Maybe it’s a butterfly’s dream.)
Well, reality is fiction’s greatest rival, and the spirit of not being surprised by anything anymore might be one we need these days.
Anyhow, this is all possible through the combined efforts of a great many people. Allow me to thank them again here. To the designers at Tsubakiya Design, the proofreaders at Tokyo Publishing Service Center, my editor Fujita, and illustrator Shinotsuki, thank you as always.
And above all, my sincere gratitude goes out to everyone who has supported us to the point that we can get an anime!
I hope to see you again next time.
July 2016 Carlo Zen
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References:
1 separatists One term for a minority in a nation that opposes mainstream policies and aims to secede.
2 the lageri Places that corrected bad habits and taught the value of hard work. Through the joy of plentiful labor, they allow one to achieve substantial growth. Gossipmongers tend to call them concentration camps, though.
3 Raid on Scarborough Also known as the Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby. During World War I, the German Navy fired on the British mainland. This was a feint designed to lure out part of the British fleet, achieve local superiority, and beat them up. (They ended up going home partway through beating them up.)
4 Operation Overlord Not the novels by Kugane Maruyama but the major operation to liberate France, with the landing at Normandy and the liberation of Paris. Well, the enemy was about as powerful as Lord Ainz, so in a way it’s kind of the same, but anyhow.
5 the Concorde Effect What do you do when after putting a fortune into a major project, you realize, Crap, this is no good? If you quit now, all the money you invested goes poof! Your only option is to put in all the rest of your money! If you just keep throwing more and more money at it, it’s sure to work out… So yeah, this is the process by which, due to that sort of psychology, a project bound to fail eats through an entire budget and—naturally—fails. The name comes from the fact that that’s exactly how the Concorde project turned out.
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