Hello, it’s Yu Okano. Long time no see.
As always, thank you very much for purchasing this volume. While some of you have been reading along with these novels or following the manga, I imagine there are also some among you who decided to pick up this series for the first time after seeing the anime. To each and every one of you, I extend my deepest gratitude.
Honestly, part of me still can’t believe this series got an anime adaptation. The fact that so many new people are learning about The Unwanted Undead Adventurer because of it feels like nothing short of a dream.
What’s more, you may have already seen this on the advertising strip that came with this book, but it’s been decided that the anime is getting a second season. Needless to say, this is entirely thanks to all of you who’ve been following along with this series this whole time.
Thank you very much. I hope to be able to count on your support going forward as well. The only contribution I’m able to make is to keep writing, so I’ll strive to do my best.
Recently, even though my schedule isn’t particularly busy, I often find myself feeling overwhelmed. I dearly hope I can develop the mental strength to calmly get along with my work.
When thinking about what the most important factor for that is, motivation is the first one that leaps to mind. But I looked into it more, and it seems that motivation is difficult to define and doesn’t come to you unless you actually start something. Once you get going, there’s no problem, but if you never get started, it never comes. Apparently, that’s just how it is.
So, since it’d be unreasonable to expect it to come to you before you got started, what’s a person to do? Well, someone smart on TV said that getting over that first hump was the key—even just committing five minutes would do.
Despite not being the type who can really do anything perfectly, I’m a perfectionist in some ways, so I often find myself deciding “I’m going to do ten hours!” and in the end not even doing a single minute. However, my mistake was aiming for such a long time in the first place.
So based on my personality and past experience, the “just get started” idea made a lot of sense to me. If you could do five minutes, you could do ten, then thirty, then an hour. But first, all you have to do is start with five. I’ve been trying to internalize this mentality and apply it to my daily life as of late.
I say this every time, but I’m awful with afterwords, and am particularly bad at filling the requisite character count. I always end up finishing what I’d like to say in the first three hundred characters, then wondering what in the world I’m going to do for the remaining nine hundred out of the twelve hundred requirement. If only it was a fictional novel. I can write as many characters for those as you please...
Anyway, thank you very much for accompanying my ramblings. I look forward to seeing you in the next volume.
“Rentt! You did it!”