Yusura Kankitsu here. Thanks for all the support up until now! As I announced in the previous volume, this is the final volume of the series. Endings can be viewed negatively, but let me be clear that this had nothing to do with sales—thanks to all of you, this series has never had that problem!
I said in volume 6 that we’d sold nine hundred thousand copies of the series, but by the time that volume 7 went on sale, we’d more than doubled that amount! I’ve never seen explosive sales like this in my life. To be fair, however, about ninety percent of the sales are from the manga version.
I felt like it was a good time to end the novel version. My editor was telling me that this volume didn’t have to be the end, and I could put out another volume or even two. At first, I was planning on splitting volume 7 into two parts, but after reading over my manuscript, it felt kinda bad to read them split up like that. So, I decided to fit everything into one, even if that made the book a bit thicker than usual. I think that combining the past and the present arcs in this way was the best way to go about things.
There’s nothing I had to leave out in regards to the main story, but if I’m being honest—and a little greedy—I wish I could’ve written a bit more about the past. In my opinion, the arc focused on Abel’s past is a masterpiece, but it seems that readers didn’t like it as much. I remember freaking out after sales went down after volume 4.5. It was a moment where the opinion of the author and the readers totally diverged. But personally, I think the past arc was done in a great way in the manga, so I have absolutely no regrets.
It’s been five years since I began this series in 2018, but I’m so blessed by the staff I worked with, and I was able to end the story on a very great note—something I’m proud of.
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Sorry to announce this at the end of the light novel, but a webtoon version of Reincarnated Mage has been decided, and it’s been well received as it streams on DMM Books and other platforms. For those that don’t know, webtoons are colorized manga in portrait mode that are made so that you can read them on your phone. As far as I know, there are over ten people working on this grand project. It’s such amazing quality that it doesn’t feel like an exaggeration to say that it looks like an anime adaptation! I definitely urge everyone to check it out!
Lastly, thank you so much for supporting this series! It’s thanks to all your support that we made it this far. I hope to meet again on another series!
Yusura Kankitsu