Afterword

Afterword

Afterword

Before I greet you, I, Carlo Zen, declare:

The publisher known as Enterbrain actually has only one screw that’s tight. On top of the title, The Saga of Tanya the Evil , this revised manuscript with no concern for political correctness… When they were working on my revised manuscript for Volume 1, they didn’t say a word. I seriously wondered what level hero they are.

Now then, they’re a bit belated, but greetings.

To those of you who bought books one and two at the same time: Nice to meet you. I appreciate you buying these two thick books. I have the feeling it’s probably already too late, but…you might want to read the afterword from Volume 1 first and then come back here.

Next, to the readers of book one who picked up this book: My apologies for keeping you waiting. I personally regret it very much. I wrote in the back of the first book that the next one would be out “next spring,” but I totally meant spring in the southern hemisphere (huge lie). To speak in extremes, I guess we could say the problem was Clausewitz’s internal friction. And I was busy with moving and whatnot. I won’t mention the name of the company, but a certain major communications infrastructure something or other had me nearly crying at the standard of their east side service. That’s what they call “external friction.”

In other words, Clausewitz wrote about why my book was late in On War . Ahh, the fog of war is scary. In conclusion, it wasn’t Carlo Zen’s fault.

…Uhh, I’m going to make the next volume more compact and get it to you sooner. This one is so thick I’m getting scolded to make the afterword short.

Okay, I’ve fulfilled my duty of accountability (I’ve decided), so on to a few gripes. To be blunt, it seems that you all like Grantz, or Weiss, or the middle-aged Ze-Ru duo better than Degu-san.

Please take another look at the cover. This is a light novel called The Saga of Tanya the Evil . It’s popular among authors I know, as well as children—a light novel with a favorable reception. In other words, it’s a story you can enjoy as a family.

Strangely, my editor is like, “I like when the older guys get a turn. I feel closer to them than Degu-san, so I can relax, lol,” explicitly telling me to boost their presence. But I won’t yield to this pressure.

So as not to turn my title, The Saga of Tanya the Evil , into a scam and earn society’s harsh criticism, I will do my duty, even if I must resist pressure from my editor and some readers telling me, “Give us more of the cool old dudes.”

Rest easy as you wait for Volume 3.

P.S. Last time I forgot to put this in. I’m peaceably extolling the virtues of peace, love, and democracy on Twitter: @sonzaix

May 2014 Carlo Zen