FUNA here.
The anime adaptation of this series is currently airing on TV and the internet─and it’s getting good reviews!
…Yeah, that’s right! This series is now an anime!
It’s the second anime adaptation of one of my works. Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! got one in the fall of 2019.
I dreamed of this, but to think the day would actually come…
This was the last of my three titles to get novelized, but it’s the first one I wrote and published. That makes it my debut piece.
The story lived entirely in my head for over twenty years because side jobs were forbidden at my previous profession. So while it may appear at first glance that it was influenced by similar novels on Shosetsuka ni Naro, it actually wasn’t at all. The website didn’t even exist when I thought of the characters, setting, and plot over two decades ago…
That being said, there were a lot of stories that involved characters being transported to or reincarnated in other worlds back then as well. A few examples are Barsoom by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Michael Kane trilogy by Michael Moorcock, and Princess Kaguya. (From her point of view, she was reincarnated as a beautiful girl in another world and scored herself a reverse-harem situation surrounded by rich powerful men before finally returning to her original world.)
As such, stories involving reincarnation in another world or time slips were familiar to anyone who enjoyed science fiction or fantasy.
In those stories, though, the main characters always ended up in a different world or era with nothing but the clothes on their back. I thought it’d be interesting if they could bring friends and modern-day weapons along with them─and then I realized that G.I. Samurai already exists! There was also Sengoku no Nagashima Kyojingun, in which Manager Nagashima and the Yomiuri Giants participate in a boot camp held by the Japan Self-Defense Forces and get sent back to the Sengoku period with tanks, weapons, and ammunition in tow…
How could I ever top Mr. Kageki Shimoda?! Besides, there’s no way I could get permission to use the Giants in my novel…
Anyway, this story was born with no influence from Shosetsuka ni Naro. Despite that, it was fated to see the light of day on the website…
On a related note, an anime adaptation for my series I Shall Survive Using Potions! was announced in February of 2023.
That’s three home runs at three at-bats. I can’t believe it…
And with that, my ammunition has been exhausted. Now I’ll never get to experience the excitement of wondering, “Maybe I’ll be offered a publication, maybe I’ll even be approached with a proposal for an anime adaptation!”
Talk about a humble-brag!
With that said, I’m currently peaking in life.
Check out new chapters of Saving 80K, Potions, and the spinoff series I Shall Survive Using Potions! Hanano and Lotte’s Journey on the webcomic magazine, Suiyobi no Sirius (https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/manga/official/w_sirius/).
My sincerest thanks to my editor, the illustrator, the cover designer, the proofreaders, the printers, publishers, distributors, sales staff, and of course, everyone who picked up this book.
Thank you so much!
I hope to see you again for the next volume…
FUNA