by Mamare Touno
I told her this while handing her a convenience store ice cream (the expensive kind), so she was terribly impressed, and I felt kinda guilty.
Little sister, don’t say, “If I get a lot of money, maybe I’ll invest in Bon dance food stalls.” No such financial product exists.
A group run by the Charlatan Family manages franchisees? What kind of cyberpunk worldview is that? Is this Neo-Saitama? I’ll buy you as much roasted corn as you want, so spare me the business about ethanol futures.
You’re won over by things like frozen yogurt, and your big brother’s really worried that you’ll buy some silk screen thing in Akiba or somewhere and come home looking terribly pleased with yourself.
Even so, seeing her get that worked up over ice cream made me think that Little Sister Touno is really eas… I mean, really something. Although she’s dumb.
And now for the sequel.
When it happened to cross my mind and I looked into it, I discovered that the business about standardizing festival stalls and the central kitchen and IT and gross margin ratios was actually pretty close to the truth, and I’m not sure how that makes me feel. If this keeps up, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did introduce a financial product. The world’s a scary place!
(Let’s call the fact that—Would you believe it?!—the Log Horizon manga project is moving forward proof that the world is indeed a scary place.)
All right. Regardless of the modern Bon Dance economy, Log Horizon is being published in both August and September. The twins, Touya and Minori, and Serara of the Crescent Moon League appear in this volume, as do new characters like Isuzu and Rundelhaus. A party made up of these newbies works to capture a dungeon without Shiroe and the other veterans.
“The best laid plans…” In other words, the world is full of things that don’t go the way you want them to. The majority of what happens in this world doesn’t go at all the way you’d like. Since that’s true, at the very least, I’d like to make myself go the way I want me to, but there are lots of times when even my own attitude and growth and efforts don’t go as planned. I’d like people who are going through times like that, and people who’ve been through times like that, to read this. That’s the sort of hard, desperate battle Minori and the others fight in this volume.
The items listed on the character status screens at the beginning of each chapter in this volume were collected on Twitter again, in June 2011. I used items from 545454248, FroisL, IGM_masamune, Mrtyin, RyosukeKadoh, ebius1, gontan_, hige_mg, hpsuke, makiwasabi, roki_a, sig_cat and x_unizou_x. Thank you very much!! I can’t list all your names here, but I’m grateful to everyone who submitted entries. Maybe I’ll find some kind of opportunity to use this item data…
For details and the latest news, visit http://www.mamare.net. You’ll find all sorts of other non–Log Horizon Mamare Touno information there, too, as well as info on the comic version!
Finally, let me thank Shoji Masuda, who produced this book, too; Kazuhiro Hara, who drew Marielle’s swimsuit (crucial!); Mochichi Hashimoto, who designed the monsters; Tsubakiya Design, who handled the design work (and we even had them make the map!); little F_ta of the editorial department! And Ohasama, whom Touno practically considers his master when it comes to text! Thank you very much!
Now all that’s left is for you to savor this book. Bon appétit!
Mamare “Squid legs are way better than the bodies, don’t you think?” Touno
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
AUTHOR: MAMARE TOUNO
A STRANGE LIFE-FORM THAT INHABITS THE TOKYO BOKUTOU SHITAMACHI AREA. IT’S BEEN TOSSING HALF-BAKED TEXT INTO A CORNER OF THE INTERNET SINCE THE YEAR 2000 OR SO. IT’S A FULLY AUTOMATIC, TEXT-LOVING MACRO THAT EATS AND DISCHARGES TEXT. IT DEBUTED AT THE END OF 2010 WITH MAOYUU: MAOU YUUSHA (MAOYUU: DEMON KING AND HERO). LOG HORIZON IS A RESTRUCTURED VERSION OF A NOVEL THAT RAN ON THE WEBSITE SHOUSETSUKA NI NAROU (SO YOU WANT TO BE A NOVELIST).
WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.MAMARE.NET
SUPERVISION: SHOJI MASUDA
AS A GAME DESIGNER, HE’S WORKED ON RINDA KYUUBU (RINDA CUBE) AND ORE NO SHIKABANE WO KOETE YUKE (STEP OVER MY DEAD BODY), AMONG OTHERS. ALSO ACTIVE AS A NOVELIST, HE’S RELEASED THE ONIGIRI NUEKO (ONI KILLER NUEKO) SERIES, THE HARUKA SERIES, JOHN & MARY: FUTARI HA SHOUKIN KASEGI (JOHN & MARY: BOUNTY HUNTERS), KIZUDARAKE NO BIINA (BEENA, COVERED IN WOUNDS), AND MORE. HIS LATEST EFFORT IS HIS FIRST CHILDREN’S BOOK, TOUMEI NO NEKO TO TOSHI UE NO IMOUTO (THE TRANSPARENT CAT AND THE OLDER LITTLE SISTER). HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN GEEMU DEZAIN NOU MASUDA SHINJI NO HASSOU TO WAZA (GAME DESIGN BRAIN: SHINJI MASUDA’S IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES).
TWITTER ACCOUNT: SHOJIMASUDA
ILLUSTRATION: KAZUHIRO HARA
AN ILLUSTRATOR WHO LIVES IN ZUSHI. ORIGINALLY A HOME GAME DEVELOPER. IN ADDITION TO ILLUSTRATING BOOKS, HE’S ALSO ACTIVE IN MANGA AND DESIGN. LATELY, HE’S BEEN HAVING FUN FLYING A BIOKITE WHEN HE GOES ON WALKS.
WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.NINEFIVE95.COM/IG/
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