Volu 16, Afterword
If you’ve been buying one volu at a ti, welco back. If you bought them all at once, welco.
This is Kamachi Kazuma.
New Testant has reached Volu 16!! In the Old Testant, this was around where they fought Acqua, wasn’t it? I hope I’ve been able to make even bigger waves than that, but what did you think of the story this ti?
The standard form of an Index series story is to have a magician or esper attack the completed stage of Academy City, so it’s pretty rare to have the entire city conquered by the violence of numbers like with the Elents.
As a combination of translucent crystal and mimicry life forms, the Elents use “invisibility” which is quite difficult to use in manga or ani. But when I researched mimicry, I learned that what looks like it to us is oftentis entirely useless when it cos to bugs hunting each other or is actually sending so kind of signal between the bugs. You sotis find the world is a much deeper place when you research sothing.
The thod of dealing with them differed between chapters. Sotis the characters ran around on the rooftops and other tis they slaughtered them with great firepower. By switching between schools and shelters between chapters while remaining in Academy City, I was trying to present the problems and tasks in stages while also showing different faces of the sa city, but which chapter’s school and shelter spoke to you the most?
The idea that the holder of the right hand rules over the girls has been spoken of since Kamisato appeared, but it finally rose to the surface at the ending.
And of course we also have Kamijou’s response.
You could say sothing similar about New Testant 9, but I wrote this while thinking that Kamijou Touma’s courage to say these things (even when he has no realistic basis for it) points to the real aning in and reason for having him as the protagonist. “I’ll show this piece of shit world just who Kamijou Touma is.” That’s a line he wouldn’t have been able to say so easily in Volu 1. Now, what did you think?
I give my thanks to my illustrator Haimura-san and my editors Miki-san, Onodera-san, and Anan-san. And to continue from last volu, I need to thank Kasai Shin-san for the A.A.A. design. Anyway...Elents! A city full of barricades and wires!! But then there’s the girl’s swimsuits and the A.A.A. variations!! This was probably a difficult volu for the illustrations. I am truly grateful they all went along with my ridiculous demands.
And I give my thanks to the readers. This one was divided about half and half between the characters and the situations (and not the locations so much), but what did you think? Thank you for reading this far.
It is ti to close the pages for now while praying that the pages of the next book will be opened.
And I lay my pen down for now.
Hmm. If you let your desire for revenge waver, I guess you’re dood to “disappear”.
-Kamachi Kazuma
A perfect miniature garden exists to be utterly destroyed.
The world is now faced with a certain problem: Go save Kamisato Kakeru.
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