Afterword

This is the sixth volume of the battle royale romantic comedy whose catchphrase is “You get more girlfriends! Hooray, Rekka!” Hello again to those of you who have followed me from volume five, and greetings to all of you who bought all six volumes at once.

At long last, we’ve got 15 heroines. They could form a whole soccer team and even fill the bench! Their team name could be “Namidare Japan!” I bet they’d spend more time fighting over the manager (Rekka) than the ball.

Since I’m out of space already, I’ll just go straight to thanks. Thank you to Nao Watanuki who drew these wonderful illustrations. I didn’t expect Sakuya, who was just a vengeful ghost, to be so cute (lol). To Nanbu, my editor, I’m sorry it was late again. Thank you also. To Koji Hasegawa, the comic author; the editing and sales departments at HJ Bunko; and the bookstores who put this book on their shelves, thank you all. And to those of you who are reading this, I hope you’ll continue to read the Little Apocalypse series.

I’m Nao Watanuki, the insert art illustrator. I’m here for the afterword!

Sakuya was fairly popular among the designs I came up with for volume 6. She has a simple but eye-catching color palette that I personally enjoy. I especially like that shade of orange.

She has different sleeves in the draft here so I could show both to the editor at once and ask which he liked better.

It’s actually very common for the characters to have these asymmetrical designs while we’re working on them. Sorry! She’ll keep on wearing different socks, though!

Thanks for buying this book. I’m sorry my handwriting is so terrible, but I look forward to seeing you in the next volume. Good work and thank you to the editor and to the author. I’m glad you liked Hibiki in her sailor uniform!

Nao Watanuki