3/18/2024 0 Comments Demon lord rimuru tempest fanart![]() ![]() What bonus arc? No, it’s not your imagination, as anyone who’s read the book-or even the table of contents!-would know. And the result…is the very book you have in your hands right now. I and myself fleshed out what we wanted to do in detail. It might get a bit thin on that front, but there’s this bonus arc that I wanted to write at around this point in the plot, so I was wondering if I could add that to the book…” “Yeah, that’s what I’m a little worried about. “Oh? But if we round out Volume Five with the evolution to a demon lord, that’s gonna be kind of thin content-wise, isn’t it? There won’t be a lot of quantity at all, I don’t think.” “If we’re gonna cover everything we planned to, I think we’re gonna have some serious trouble on our hands.” “Wellllll, I think Volume Four’s gonna be a lot bigger by the time I get done writing it, but the real issue is with Volume Five.” I wanted to talk to you about something, but did you have a moment?” ![]() Thus, by the time I was into the second half of the book, the reality was that I was way the hell over my word count. This was even after I cut out a whole section involving an expedition to the Dwarven Kingdom. But! Thanks to being given carte blanche to expand as much as I wanted, Volume 4 wound up having a lot of… um, volume. “Um… Well, all right! Talk to you later!”Īt this point, my thought was that Volume 4 would be a bit expanded, but Volume 5 would remain mostly the same length. I’ve kind of resigned myself to the fact that this is how it’s gonna be with Slime, so don’t worry about it!” “Huh? Are you sure? I’m talking a whole lot of stuff here, so…” “…Well, let’s do it! Just keep on writing! We’ll add in more pages if we have to!” “Yeah… I’ve been cutting out a lot, but if this keeps up, I dunno if I’ll be able to fit the Hinata battle in or not.” “Again?! Didn’t you say the same thing for Volume Three?” “Well, ummmmm… Regarding Volume Four, I think I’m gonna have a ton more new content than I was planning for…” Here, from memory, is the phone conversation I had with Mr. ![]() However, as I wrote Volume 4, I began to feel like, This ain’t gonna happen, is it? The original idea was to have Volume 4 end in a cliff-hanger as we see Hinata for the first time, and with Volume 5 coming out right afterward in Japan, that’s where Rimuru would wrap up the encounter, become a demon lord, and then there’d be a bit about his meeting up with the other demon lords. However, I selfishly wanted to flesh out Volume 3 to talk more about how the town was developing, and my editor was kind enough to agree to the edits. If I’d been running at the same pace as the web version, I would’ve had Rimuru saving the kids in Volume 3 and evolving into demon lord form at the end of Volume 4. Volume 2 was mostly just editing and revision, but from Volume 3 on, I started adding new content and such. However, in order to maintain integrity with the original material, there have been a few small changes, not to mention a few bigger ones thanks to the new characters appearing. Maybe I’ll go into some behind-the-scenes stuff about the production? It might include some spoilers, so I’d recommend reading the whole book first before proceeding further!Īs a rule, the general plot of the light novel edition of Slime is the same as the web version. I’ve been given a decent number of pages for this afterword, so I’m having trouble figuring out what to say. ![]() As always, quite a bit of this volume is original material that wasn’t in the web version- hopefully you’ve found it up to snuff. Here we are with Volume 5 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, a mere month after the previous volume came out in Japan.
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