Thanks for picking up Konosuba, Volume 16! Your author, Natsume Akatsuki, here.
This was a more serious (?) volume with a pretty minor role for Aqua.
In order to chase after a goddess gone alone on a journey to save humanity, our self-absorbed, cowardly main character had to really train himself up for the sake of his precious companion. He also had to summon the courage to commit to destroying the Demon King. (I think that’s about accurate anyway.)
The scene with Megumin at the end of this book is something I’ve wanted to write since I started posting this story on the web. This party is so dysfunctional that frogs remain mortal enemies for them, yet they’ve battled more and more powerful opponents and now find themselves taking the fight to the Demon King.
This is the story I’ve had in mind ever since I started writing Konosuba. I hope my readers will stick with me just a little longer.
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Oh yeah, less than a month to go now until the Konosuba movie makes its theatrical premiere! Our dysfunctional party has “made it big” enough in the world to have a theatrical movie. As an author, it’s pretty emotional. By all means, I hope you’ll go enjoy the adventures of Kazuma and his friends on the big screen.
Around fall, there’ll be an anime of Kemonomichi, the manga series I scripted about a pro wrestler going berserk in a pet shop in another world. I definitely hope you’ll check it out.
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As ever, this volume reached your hands thanks to the effort of everyone involved with it, beginning with illustrator Kurone Mishima and including the editorial, design, and copyediting staff and everyone else at Editorial.
And as is becoming a habit, there’s just one thing I really have to make sure I say: To everyone who’s supported this series and every reader who picked up this book, my deepest thanks!
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Natsume Akatsuki
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