Mr. Ikemoto, the editor, thank you for staying on after Volume 1. Volumes 2 and 3 whittled down my soul so much I thought I was a goner, but we got them done somehow. I owe you one.
Otsuka-sensei, how you drew up those illustrations even faster than last time just isn’t sane. How you whipped out those designs just like that and drew them up makes me feel like time flows differently for you. When I saw your work, I was so happy, I was in another dimension.
Of course, there’s Mr. Kusano for the binding design. After how Emilia looked surreal for Volume 1, here we have the maid sisters looking so fleeting, setting protective instincts on fire. Thank you very much.
Many thanks to the proofreaders, executives, and bookstore salespeople: You’re why I get to keep publishing. Thank you very much.
More than anyone else, my greatest thanks goes to all you readers who picked up Volumes 1 and 2. Truly, thank you very much.
I hope to see you again in a couple of months when Volume 3 comes out to resolve the cliff-hanger.
Tappei Nagatsuki, January 2014
(who looked ready to die from stress right
before Volume 1 came out)
“Puckie! Puckie! Have you come to steal away the preview for Re:ZERO, Volume 3, I wonder?”
“Whoa, what a naughty girl you are, Betty. Well, the third volume finishes the Mansion Story arc.”
“Yes, it is finally being resolved. In the one week since being summoned, Subaru’s been beaten and killed so easily so many times even though he’s the main character. Just watching him keeps me on tenterhooks, I suppose.”
“Heh-heh, you’re actually worried about him, aren’t you, Betty? Such a good girl. The third volume gives a few glimpses into your kindness. I wonder when it goes on sale?”
“Puckie, you are such a tease… It goes on sale on March 21. Also, did you forget that Re:ZERO is being serialized in Monthly Comic Alive, I wonder?”
“Lia looks so cute on her cover. Lia on the cover in February, the mansion maid twins in March…that has to be keeping Subaru pretty happy.”
“Such a lout cannot help but be pleased, I suppose? I am much happier doing this two-page short with Puckie, anyway.”
“I can only conclude that they put cute girls on the covers because the readers demand it.”
“That is both pragmatic and calculated—another wonderful thing about Puckie, I suppose…?”
“There’s also extra Re:ZERO visual complete-illustration collections for covers and character illustrations by Shinichirou Otsuka-sensei. They have pretty detailed character intros that are worth a look.”
“Extra background on characters to fill in things not in the novels… That is so unfair!”
“That’s the executives working hard. If they don’t do their jobs, all our hard work in the novel will be for nothing. Subaru sure had a tough time in this volume, too. I wonder if he’ll find the future he’s after?”
“Will we find out when Volume 3 of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- goes on sale on March 21, I wonder?”
“He swore he’d save her, but will he really? We can only hope!”
“How you raised your paw at the end… Ahh, Puckie, your fur is the bestest fur ever…”
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Copyright
RE:ZERO Vol. 2
TAPPEI NAGATSUKI
Translation by ZephyrRz
Cover art by Shinichirou Otsuka
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
RE:ZERO KARA HAJIMERU ISEKAI SEIKATSU
© TAPPEI NAGATSUKI / Shinichirou Otsuka 2014
First published in Japan in 2014 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Nagatsuki, Tappei, 1987– author. | Otsuka, Shinichirou, illustrator. | ZephyrRz, translator.
Title: Re:ZERO starting life in another world / Tappei Nagatsuki ; illustration by Shinichirou Otsuka ; translation by ZephyrRz.
Other titles: Re:ZERO kara hajimeru isekai seikatsu. English
Description: First Yen On edition. | New York, NY : Yen On, 2016– | Audience: Ages 13 & up.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016031562| ISBN 9780316315302 (v. 1 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316398374 (v. 2 : pbk.)
Subjects: | CYAC: Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.N34 Re 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031562
ISBNs: 978-0-316-39837-4 (paperback)
978-0-316-39838-1 (ebook)
E3-20161021-JV-PC
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