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Afterword

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Afterword

 

WHAT DID YOU THINK of this volume? I hope you enjoyed it! I’m the writer, Yomu Mishima, by the way. Hard to believe we’re already at the fourth installment of Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs. It’s largely thanks to the support that you’ve given me! Thank you so much. I hope you will continue to support me as I write toward the story’s conclusion.

Now, let’s talk about this volume. It takes place in the Alzer Republic, as Leon and Marie deal with the challenges presented by the second game.

There are actually some notable differences between the light novel and the web novel this time. For one, there’s a new character—the villainess, Louise. She never turns up in the web novel, so she’s exclusive to this version of the story. I hope you’ll look forward to seeing how her presence impacts Leon and the others.

Next is Noelle. I completely changed how I handled her here. She makes a shocking entrance in the web novel, but here she shows up from the beginning. She’s energetic and interacts with Leon as soon as he starts school.

One other difference is her hairstyle. I kinda waited ’til the very last second before I finally made a decision (whoops). In the web version, she still had twintails, but after all was said and done, I decided to switch to a side ponytail. That was all well and good until the illustrator, Monda-sensei, sent me a rough draft with several design options for her. They were all so good that it was hard to choose, and I hesitated until the very end.

I can remember telling my editor, “It’s between Option A and Option C. But Option B is also kinda hard to pass up.” They were all so cute. I really had a hard time, ha ha!

Lastly is Loic. In the web version, I named him Eric, but there were too many other characters with similar names, so I decided to change it. There wasn’t really any deeper reason for that.

There were several other minor changes, but if I listed them all then this afterword would go on forever. Anyway, I hope you will continue supporting the series!