Book 9 Afterword
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With that, this is Kamachi Kazuma.
Vampire/Zombie is on its 9th volume!! This time, I focused on microplastics and wanted to design a unique sort of natural(?) disaster, so I went with unmelting snow.
I also focused on human relationships in a closed environment since I hadn’t done that very much. You’re in an isolated city where you can’t call the police or the firefighters and you might not be able to continue buying food much longer. …But that’s exactly why I think most people wouldn’t just start doing whatever they wanted all at once. Without some kind of trigger, they would continue following their usual routine even in that bizarre environment. Or maybe they wouldn’t even notice how strange things had gotten.
That’s why things started out slow in the story.
This was an area I hadn’t touched on much before, but I hope you enjoyed it.
The Archenemies I focused on this time were the Scylla and Charybdis. Originally, the Scylla was apparently the kind of monster that lured you in with its beauty and then attacked, but I changed that to more of a psychological warfare sort of thing. I wrote this while trying to link the storm-tossed ship to Kukyou City while it was closed up by the microplastic snow, but what did you think?
Since Volume 8 was about the sisters, I had the Class Rep do more this time. That forehead glasses girl seems to work better as the damsel in distress than the reliable partner. I did debate whether or not to have her go along to the final battle, though.
With Yurina, Taori, the Echidna, and Karen, I’ve realized this series has a lot of young wives and mothers, but I view the Class Rep’s mom as a normal human with no special powers who looks after Satori as a neighbor. That’s why I thought I could use her to show Satori clenching his teeth and keeping her from crossing a point of no return when a normal person’s normal emotions were pushing her too far. I do love mysteries and problem where the fate of the world hangs in the balance, but I think the protagonist who solves or faces those things should be the kind of person who can’t ignore the smaller worries and issues either.
I give my thanks to the image illustrator Mahaya-san and my editors Miki-san, Anan-san, Nakajima-san, Yamamoto-san, and Mitera-san. It’s easy enough to write that a Scylla or Charybdis are affecting the whole city, but that only works when you have a lot of people to be affected by it. This was reliant on everything that has been built up so far. Thank you.
And I give my thanks to the readers. The microplastics issue feels more close-to-home these days thanks to the introduction of paper straws and things like that, but what did you think of this?
And I will end this here.
Oh, no. Itou Helen might be too convenient.
-Kamachi Kazuma
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