Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody - Volume 01

by Hiro Ainana

  It’s because of the web version’s readers that this book could be published. It would be terrible if they bought the book versions just to let them pile up.

  Thus, rather than simply revising the web-novel version, I added more scenes that would be especially enjoyable for readers of the original. Of course, it wouldn’t make sense if the book only appealed to those who’ve already read it, so for new readers these scenes will simply serve as foreshadowing.

  I’m sure readers of the web version will end up wanting to scold both the protagonist and writer.

  So please, be sure to read the books instead of just piling them up somewhere.

  The second goal was to make sure that new readers would enjoy the book version without having to read the web version.

  This is obvious, but it wouldn’t make sense if you needed information from the web version to read the first volume. So I added explanations for tropes from Become a Novelist that new readers wouldn’t understand and slimmed down other parts by cutting unnecessarily long exposition and overly verbose scenes.

  My third goal was to make a book that people would want to reread after finishing it.

  For those of you who enjoyed reading it the first time, please read it again sometime. I’m sure you’ll find lots of little pieces of foreshadowing that you might have missed the first time around.

  With these three things in mind, I worked hard on revising the web-novel version, fixing passages poorly received and enhancing scenes that were popular. As a result, more than 70 percent of this book is new material. The other 30 percent has been revised, too, so I think readers of the web version would be hard-pressed to find a passage that’s completely unchanged.

  There are also plenty of scenes that are entirely new, so I recommend those who aren’t sure about buying the book to give it a try.

  I enjoyed working on this even through hard times, but the journey wasn’t always easy.

  My plan had been to work on the book outside of the busy periods at my day job, but when my deadlines got extended at work, it ended up totally overlapping with the time I needed to do the finishing touches on this book.

  I’m used to death marches at my day job, but this sort of crunch time was a little different than usual, so I may or may not have gotten close to being beckoned into a parallel world myself.

  But this won’t be any fun if I just continue talking about the hard times, so I’ll leave it at that.

  Finally, I want to thank my supervisor, Mr. H; Fujimi Shobo; shri, for drawing such wonderful illustrations; and everyone involved with the printing, binding, distribution, and so on!

  And to those readers who have read all the way to the end: thank you so much!

  Let’s meet again in the next volume.

  Hiro Ainana

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