This is the afterword, I'm breaking down reading it...
Hello, it's Toika, swooshing around as always.
Everyone Else is a Returnee, actually came to an end. Actually I already wrote the
ending waay back, so I felt all the emotions at that time, but adding
the side stories recently made my heart feel weird all over again.
This
piece started on the 26th of June 2016. Wow, it's been 9 months
already.
All pieces that were with me until now were already quite special, but
this piece was even more so. The fact that I can laugh with you readers
while writing something that I want to write – I realized once again how
happy such a thing is.
I wrote a few side stories since I felt
it's a pity to let IlHan and his family go with just the epilogue, but
now I did it, I feel even more pity. But I think I wrote everything that
needs to be written. Personally, I'm very satisfied with everything.
Did you have a joyful time with this writing as a reader? Of course,
there may be times where I have disappointed you. However, I do wish
that you are more happy than disappointed since you are reading this
afterword.
My
next writing contains more of my preferences and desires in a more
shameless way. I am aware that the likes and dislikes may drastically
differ, but I will introduce it again for those that ran all the way
here, in hopes that you will be able to enjoy it.
'I Shouldn't
Have Reincarnated' – It's a story about two selected heroes, where only
one of them was supposed to appear, and their adventures of somehow
ending up in the demon king's castle. Please go look it up right away if
you are curious.
And finally, I'll retreat by uploading the
fan-art I've received from the user "Warpic". It's a very very very very
very very very very very pretty picture! Mr. Warpic. Thank you
soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!
PS
– Personally, there was something that made me spit my drink out. If
you are an EER enthusiast, then you will probably notice so go look for
it!
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Afterword from translator (this is gonna be long)
TL;DR – Chamber is retiring from translation
Okay,
before I start, I'll get a couple of things out of the way. First, the
picture. Yes. the text translation at the bottom right of the picture is
INDEED COMIC SANS. I don't know any other font that fits… I never
edited manga after all. Also, Erta's hair was described as 'long black'
somewhere early on in the story (I'm guessing the green winged
fairy-like girl is Erta cuz she looks obviously tsundere)
Secondly, there are three novels by Toika/Toy Car that have NOT been
translated. (There's actually another one but he dropped that one)
Here they are:
Devil King – written before the author wrote the dropped one. I
personally think this is meh, since MC has no personality. It's story
about two worlds that get connected to each other, and every human on
Earth has a counterpart 'being' (humans or monsters) in the other. One
day, the two worlds suddenly fuse and MC becomes a goblin.
I
shouldn't have reincarnated – written after he wrote EER. This is
actually pretty fun. I won't spoil, go ask NaughtyOtter/CalifornianOtter
from Otterspace/Wuxiaworld to translate it. He seems interested in this
one. Finished with 206 chapters. It's pretty fun though.
Only I can log in – I haven't read this novel yet since it does not serialize on Munpia but Kakaopage. It's currently ongoing.
Now onto my real afterword.
At
first, I didn't even know I would take this series, much less finish
it. At first, I just had some donation money lying around (from God of
Music I believe), and just clicked on the rank 1 novel on Munpia, which
was this. I immediately got hooked, and started translating because it
was fun to do as well. But then, Rainbowturtle told me that it was
already being translated at NovelsnChill (who seem to be inactive
nowadays). Bingryong (translator of the prologue) had already done the
prologue before I even started reading the novel! However, I only
discovered that when I translated around 12 chapters. So, I just
straight up gave them (NNC) my google drive and told them to do whatever
with it. Heck, then, JohnSmith (Admin at NNC) approached me and said
"Hey, don't you wanna do it? Come and do it here!" And that was the
start of me actually translating EER.
Various things happened mid
way throughout translation. First, my grades dropped (Urgh), translating
is so fun that I actually became loose with my studies… Second, I got
to know a bunch of people and their personalities (AKA admin at NNC and
admin at kobatochandaisuki, I'll keep quiet about their personalities
though). Third, Coder Lee YongHo got a takedown notice from the original
publisher (such a pity, I want to finish what I started). And fourth, I
ended up dropping God of Music. Personally, I really like God of Music,
as much as it is painful to translate, though, author's releases have
been becoming quite sporadic as of late. A few people have approached me
saying they want to translate God of Music, but I've yet to hear news
from them. I even gave them full permission to utilize my translations
and even get help from me if they wished to. But, oh well. At least I
got to focus on EER. God of Music will NOT be resumed (at least not by
me).
My
future plans? I actually have to serve the Korean military for nearly
two years mandatorily, and it's about time I do it. So, I will not take
up any translation work and apply for the military (Although, the
competition for the military is so fierce nowadays so I doubt I'd get in
soon). So yeah, I'm going to halt translating. I will hang out on the
novel community though, so if you want to see me, then come to
r/noveltranslations discord server or kobatoland discord server. I'll
also join a bunch of other servers as well like NUF, Wuxiaworld and
Volare.
After my military service… I probably still won't start
translating. I actually do need to study (Remember how my grades
dropped?), so tough luck.
It's been a blast reading through all of
your comments throughout this series and thanks to all the supporters
and readers that have supported me until now.
Ahh how could I
forget, give a big round of applause to Koukouseidesu, who has been with
me through the majority of this novel with editing. I didn't actually
pay him much too (kobatochandaisuki does not pay editors, so I pay
mine). He had a lot of schoolwork to do, but still stuck through with me
and the hard schedule of more than two chapters per day on some days,
until the very end of this novel. Thanks Koukouseidesu.
Alright, that's it from me. Perhaps Koukouseidesu wants his own afterword as well.
PS – there's no event or anything to commemorate the end of the novel.
P.P.S – if you want to donate, please do so here, since I will be closing the support button. shamelessly asking for money.
Oh yeah, remember how I mentioned about the 'generous people that still want to donate'? Too bad no one did, I guess.
(Koukouseidesu) here!~
Yea I wanted my own afterword too! :^)
I officially joined KCDS
and started proofreading for EER at chapter 83, heck that was a long
time ago, we've come really far since then! I was motivated to give back
to the novel community after having binge read thousands upon thousands
of chapters over the past few years.
Well, was it worth it? Of course it was! I had a blast getting to know
Chamber-nim (still remember making jokes about him being robot unni,
heh) and getting early access to all the chapters that I wanted to read,
browsing through them comments (constructive or appreciative, toxic or
not, it didn't matter! I had fun reading through most of them.) and
interacting with fans on the discord channel. It was tiring and
demanding at times, heck I made quite a lot of mistakes early on (still
do, but not as terrible and not as often!) so I'm really glad and
appreciate the fact that you guys stuck through with us this year or so
Similar
to Chamber, I'm going to have to go into the singapore army for a
period of two years sometime next year, so you guys won't be seeing me
post anything regularly for quite a while! I'll hang around on the
discord channels so feel free to come and chat with me and chamber~
Signing
off and behalf of everyone at KCDS, Thank you very much for your
support! please continue to browse the site (without ad blockers) and
read some of our other novels!
It was a pleasure proofreading for Everyone Else is A Returnee, though
you might have found the ending slightly anticlimactic, the afterstories
should make up for that.
Regards,
Koukouseidesu