Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 11 Afterword (section)

== Afterword ==

Hello, this is Iwai Kyouhei.



Some time has passed yet again, but I somehow completed the 11th volume.

In this volume, almost all characters (including ones from the Bug series) revealed their true selves… or so I meant it to be.

All that remains is for each of them to reach their own end.

The story is entering its climax, so now they should be challenging the final battles.

While shouting and getting injured in this fight, they will all look for the exit.



Just like always, allow me to talk a little about this volume.

This is a warning to those of you reading from the afterword.



While writing this story, I came to realize that I like depicting a person changing. I was somewhat aware of it, but let me say this again.

People don’t change.

People can change.

I believe you can argue differently based on which of these sides you support.

Personally, I believe it’s natural even for the same person to change between the past and the present, and I also showed it in my work.

If that change is good you can call it growth, and if it’s not desirable it can lead to agony.

However, any change needs an opportunity, and at times that very opportunity itself is shocking enough to dominate this change.

Thinking like this, rather than the change itself, I even have the feeling that it’s the opportunity that’s important.

Even if you wish for change in the form of become something, an opportunity might not allow you that.

It mostly happens through random events, and what’s even worse is that everyone encounters this sort of thing at least once.

How you are right now was definitely changed by an opportunity from “back then”.

Meeting someone, parting from someone, changing your environment; these kinds of opportunities. It might be amusing if you recalled them and tried to compare your past and current self.

If you do this, you might come to realize how you wanted to be in the future and your potential for the future.

If we name this a dream, then it’s the opportunity leading to that change that’s important in this story.

A change, and its opportunity.

I believe there’s no doubt that it is actually those large things that will bring the story’s conclusion.



As always, many people have helped me to continue this story.

There are the editor and the editorial department, always patient with such a slow-writing author, as well as llo-san, always providing wonderful illustrations despite the frequent need for revisions.

And you, the readers. By hearing that you wished for a continuation, I was able to continue like this. Thanks to the voices of those curious about the conclusion, I believe I can finish writing it.

Thank you so much.


I have written some other works and wish for new experiences this year as well, and that’s undoubtedly the influence of Mushi Uta.

On top of attaining further growth and change, I want to write the best conclusion possible.

Look forward to it.



Iwai Kyouhei



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