Title Page
Copyright
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 2
YUKI YAKU
Cover art by Fly
Translation by Winifred Bird
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
JAKU CHARA TOMOZAKI-KUN LV.2
by Yuki YAKU
© 2016 Yuki YAKU
Illustration by FLY
All rights reserved.
Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN.
English translation rights in the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand arranged with SHOGAKUKAN through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Yaku, Yuki, author. | Fly, 1963– illustrator. | Bird, Winifred, translator.
Title: Bottom-tier character Tomozaki / Yuki Yaku ; illustration by Fly ; translation by Winifred Bird.
Other titles: Jaku chara Tomozaki-kun. English
Description: First Yen On edition. | New York : Yen On, 2019–
Identifiers: LCCN 2019017466 | ISBN 9781975358259 (v. 1 : pbk.) | ISBN 9781975384586 (v. 2 : pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Video games—Fiction. | Video gamers—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PL877.5.A35 J9313 2019 | DDC 895.63/6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017466
ISBNs: 978-1-9753-8458-6 (paperback)
978-1-9753-8641-2 (ebook)
E3-20191028-JV-NF-ORI
Table of Contents
- Insert
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Characters
- Common Honorifics
- 1: The characters who become your friends after you clear a hard event usually have high stats
- 2: When there’s only one low-level character in the party, his level is gonna skyrocket
- 3: Once you start speedrunning the minigames, you seriously can’t stop
- 4: When a mentor character becomes a boss, they’ll push you to the edge
- 5: It’s hard not to give up on training characters who just won’t improve
- 6: There are some problems a bottom-tier character can’t fix alone
- 7: Accessories are the only equipment every character can share
- Afterword
- Yen Newsletter