Afterword

Afterword

HELLO, this is Nekoko, the author of this novel. Thank you so much for buying the first volume of Disciple of the Lich!

The cover has Kanata, Pomera, Lunaère, and Noble, right? I thought about having just Kanata and Lunaère on the cover, but I wanted to showcase the bustling feel of the story in the first volume, so I settled on this image.

Let’s talk a bit about some behind-the-scenes stuff. When choosing what to illustrate, you generally want to give even exposure to the main characters while choosing either pivotal scenes or scenes that typify the characters’ daily lives. Then you need to think about the emotional impact the illustrations have and try to space them regularly through the book. It takes a lot of thought. Readers might get upset if the first half of the book is full of great illustrations and the second half is empty, right? I mean, I don’t think you have to overplan it, but if nothing else, you should put some effort into making it even.

Having said that, this volume has a few unconventional illustrations in it. Yep, I’m talking about the Lovis ones. He only appeared in a couple of chapters and wasn’t even a main character, yet he got two whole illustrations to himself.

I wanted two illustrations of him if possible: a serious one and one where he was desperately begging Kanata for mercy. And I got my wish.

I plan to have Lovis and his crew appear every once in a while in future volumes too. I’m not entirely sure what they’ll be up to yet…

One other thing about the Disciple of the Lich: This work is now officially going to be turned into a manga for Overlap, Inc.’s website, Comic Gardo!

Kasei-sama is particularly good at drawing cute girls and will be in charge of the illustrations. I’m really looking forward to it!

Disciple of the Lich was written to bring Lunaère to the fore, so I think everyone will enjoy that aspect in the manga as well.

The manga version’s online release is planned for fall of 2020!