Published at 17th of August 2019 9:12 am

Volume 18, Afterword

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Happy new year everyone, it's the author, Takehaya. This time I've safely delivered volume 18. I hope you enjoyed it. That's right, volume 18 is actually the 20th installment in this series (Thanks to the side stories there are two more volumes). When I imagine my readers with 20 volumes lined up on their bookshelves, I get a little excited. There's not many works that make it this far, and combined with the anime, I am grateful for being blessed with many fans. We're entering the sixth year, and I am very grateful for the continued support. Thank you very much, and I hope you will continue to support me in the future as well.

Now then, about this volume, and the next, the magical girl arc is unfolding. And I figured since I'm splitting it up in two arcs, I wanted to get a closer look at different characters, which is why I focused more on Maki this volume.

Maki had her background of coming from Darkness Rainbow, with a dark past and connected to various people. This time, her relationship with Dark Crimson was portrayed in particular. While Maki and Crimson accepted each other, they couldn't come to an understanding. And these two finally clash, which I believe is one of the best parts of this volume. I hope those of you who have read this volume find the conclusion satisfactory.

Since Maki got a close up this volume, Yurika will be getting one next volume. Having become a true magical girl after spending such a long time, Yurika finally resolves herself to fight Darkness Rainbow. The story's setting will move to the magical kingdom of Folsaria in search for a fundamental solution to the problem. However, Rainbow Heart and Darkness Rainbow have fought for several hundreds of years, so the solution won't come so easily. And how will Yurika confront that? That will be covered in the next volume, and I hope you will enjoy it.

I'm actually writing this afterword on the night of Christmas Eve. With the new year in sight, I am finally done with this year's work, and I was lazily spending the day. As I take it easy, everything that's happened this year pop into my head. It has been a busy year and there is so much to remember.

Around this time last year, and the scenario for the anime began being written, I sat down in several meetings per month. This was also around the time I first met with the voice actors. All the new voice actors looked so nervous they might drop dead. They all huddled up in a corner. I remember them having a cuteness you would find in trembling small animals. I might however be a little sad that now that they're more experienced and have matured, they've gotten rid of that trembling cuteness (lol). Anyways, please continue doing your best everyone.

A little bit after that an event was announced. And that was around the time I really felt like an anime of my work was being made. After that, as the voice recording began, I started getting really busy with the meetings. There may also have been a time where I wondered if I'd have enough time to work on the novels. In the end, it all worked out somehow though. Thats' why I think I was the most busy during the summer, and before I knew it, the anime was already being broadcast. However, as we got into august, my work on the anime was gradually reducing, and the number of meetings dropped. By the time fall arrived my anime life ended, and I returned to being a normal author.

Once my workload returned to normal, I decided to get a bike license. Seeing the beginner voice actors try so hard, I wanted to try something new as well. That's why I was writing and practicing riding a bike everyday during fall. Doing something you've never tried before is very stimulating and refreshing. If you lived life normally you'd never get a chance to take the exam, so I felt like it was time to show some guts. But, maybe because of my age, I failed the exam when trying to cross the narrow plank bridge (lol). According the the instructor the sense of balance is directly affected by age. However, he also said that driving posture is more important than balance when crossing the narrow plank bridge. After improving my posture, I passed the exam the next time I took it. When picking a bike I picked something basic and faithful, rather than something adventurous. Recently, I've been taking the bike to head over to a distant ramen shop every so often.

After I got used to driving a bike, there was the Rokujouma no Shinryakusha event in December. It was fun meeting everyone involved after such a long time and I finally got a sense that this was the end of the year. I was also moved that a hall that could fit 700 people was filled with fans. I would like to give my thanks to everyone that showed up. With the final event over, I fully returned to my normal life before the anime was made. Half a month has passed since then, and now I'm looking back at the year that's passed.

What I've felt this year is that people should challenge themselves to new things. Thinking about it, I feel like I haven't tried anything I knew was fun, or would succeed ever since I became an adult. It might be because I'm relying too much on information. When I was a kid, I didn't think too much ahead and jumped into everything, experiencing all kinds of things.

Since most of my readers are high school students, this might not make sense yet though. However, after some more time passes and you become adults, you might feel your life getting more trivial, if that happens, try something new without considering the results.

What should I do next year. Since I can feel my stamina going down with each passing year, maybe sports would be a good idea. Maybe I should learn some martial arts. Or maybe some ball game. I still haven't decided, but I am planning on trying to challenge something new.

That's right, I have some news to share. I don't know if it will have started when this volume is released or not, but HJ Bunko will be starting up a new site called 'Read it! HJ Bunko'. Some short stories from room 106 will be posted there with some regularity, those of you who are interested please take a look at HJ Bunko's site. I'm sure you can reach the new site from there.

That's about all the space I have for afterword, so I believe it's time to wrap it up. Lastly, I would like to give my regular greetings. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to everyone at the editorial department, Poco-san who is in charge of the illustrations and to all the readers who bought this volume.

Then let us meet again in the afterword of volume 19.

December, 2014 Takehaya

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