Afterword

This was volume nine of the battlefield love comedy, bringing you a summer vacation full of mostly suspense and little bit of vacation. Hello again to the readers returning from volume eight, and it’s nice to meet all of you who bought all nine volumes at once.

While volumes seven and eight also occurred during summer vacation, this time the story revolves around a more traditional take on high school summer vacation. You know, the usual. Baseball, training camps, yokai exterminations, pools, pools, and more pools.

And it was full of heroines in swimsuits that weren’t revealed last time (volume five)! Watanuki designed numerous wonderful swimsuits for this volume (I may have been a little selfish and requested more swimsuit illustrations...). Personally, I am wholly and utterly satisfied that we were able to include the swimsuits of the “last bosses,” as R put it. Make sure to check that out right away if you haven’t read it yet! Volume nine of Little Apocalypse is also my tenth volume as the author Namekojirushi. I only realized that as I was writing this afterword, but I was kind of touched. It’s all thanks to you readers who support me. Thank you all so very, very much.

When I first released volume one of Little Apocalypse, I wondered if it would last, but somehow... the series has been around for, uh, what? Two years now? This is also all thanks to... You all know the drill now.

And now for the acknowledgments. Firstly, to Nao Watanuki, whose continually diverse character design has allowed Little Apocalypse to continue as it has... I mentioned it earlier, but the lovely swimsuit illustrations and various summer vacation scenes were illustrated in the best way possible. Thank you very much.

To my editor, Mr. Nanbu, who’s been looking after me since my debut, thank you very much. Also to the comic author Koji Hasegawa; the editing and sales departments at HJ Bunko; the bookstores; and the readers who are supporting Little Apocalypse, I hope you’ll continue reading.

And finally, a little self-promotion! I have actually started a new series concurrent to this one at Fujimi Fantasia Bunko. The illustrations will be done by the well-known Youta, who draws cute, sexy, cool, and beautiful artwork. The first volume will probably be released next month in October. Please check the Fujimi Shobo homepage, Twitter, or Dragon Magazine for further details. I hope you’ll enjoy my new series, too.

Well, that’s all for now. See you next volume, where we enter the second stage of Rekka’s battle.

This is Nao Watanuki. Sorry for the messy writing.

How did you enjoy volume 9? There were quite a few illustrations dedicated to the swimsuits in this volume. I really hope I was able to bring out the charms of the heroines well.

(Personally, I liked the innocent scenes where they were selecting swimsuits more than when they were actually wearing them.)

Our sketch this time around is the unexpected return of the nekomata, Ai. Since volume 3, the number of different species in Rekka’s town has grown to be on par with any other world.

The other new character, L, was in tears for the whole volume, so I hope she has less pitiful scenes in the future.

[Bubble] To Namekojirushi and all the editors, thank you for your hard work and consideration in the deadlines! Also, I received fanmail! Though they were addressed to the author. They came with drawings of Rosalind and R, and I enjoyed reading them very much. I wanted to use this space to give my thanks. It’s the middle of summer right now just like in the story, and I hope we can meet again in the next afterword in a different season.

[Text below bubble] Mr. K.T of K, thank you very much!

Nao Watanuki