Mushi Uta:Volume 9 Afterword
Afterword[edit]
Hello. This is Iwai Kyouhei.
We have reached the 9th volume.
This one had a bit of a different atmosphere than the usual story. There were plenty of technical terms, but I hope you still enjoyed reading.
Speaking of, if you’re ever read my other series, “Shoukan no Chousensha”, perhaps you feel nostalgic. There are plenty of parts that resembled it.
However, this is Mushi Uta.
Even here I’ve been playing around with all sorts of people meeting, separating and becoming connected in unexpected places.
Most likely from now on past, present and future would all move together.
A few days following this volume—“Mushi Uta 09. The Magician Compensating for Dreams”—starting from 5th of July, the anime will begin broadcast.
Perhaps because it’s finally starting, but I’m already excited.
Since I was busy with work on this present manuscript, I only had few opportunities to go see the production, but all of the materials I’ve received were excellent. It was amazing how they expanded on my ideas. A lone author would never be able to expand it so far.
Anyway, the characters and the Mushi are cool. And they even move. Well, it’s animation, after all, but still. I think that both those who only came to know of this series and those who were reading it for a while are going to be surprised.
It’s the same Mushi Uta, while also being a new Mushi Uta.
I am grateful for this opportunity and watching it along with my readers will be amazing.
A new thing is starting, but the existing story continues still.
Now for some discussion about this volume.
Money.
A magic item.
Although it’s mere paper, it can transform into tasty food or pretty clothes. Depending on the time and place, perhaps it can even control something like people’s invisible feelings.
Most people, however, don’t look at the actual money itself, but at what they really want. Try thinking about what comes to mind when you consider a sum of about 10,000 yen. That would be what counts as the true value of 10,000 yen for each person.
Money itself has no value; it merely has the incantation called a price written on it.
Meaning, by piling on these chants, you can make a certain amount of your desires come true.
The theme of whether there are things money can’t buy is commonplace.
At the very least, I do believe there are things you can’t buy back.
If you obtain something by buying it with money and then lose it, can you really buy it back with money? When you get the same amount and try paying for the same price, you can’t return lost relationships or thoughts. As well as those people’s lives. If you can’t really get what you want, does money have any value?
I don’t think that loving money is a bad thing. You can dream about your favorite snack or a fancy house.
However, one needs to be cautious to not become completely blind to anything that’s not money.
Enchanted by money, you can even stop seeing what you’ve lost—and no matter how much you scrape together, it would never be enough.
This magic is addictive and cannot be sold back.
Personally, I think it should have a written warning on it more than anything else.
Perhaps write “discretion required” on its surface.
Also, several terms related to auctions and such have appeared in this volume.
I’ve changed and added things to them from my imagination, so parts of them differ from the proper usage and meaning. They have no relation to any existing bodies, organizations, businesses or trademarks.
Coming this far, I’m excited not about just this work, but everyone around it.
These include the helpful people of the supportive editorial department, the illustrator llo-sama, and above all else, the readers who have watched over me this far.
Thank you so much.
I would like to also use to opportunity to thank the production staff of the anime; I am much obliged.
Let us continue working together.
Iwai Kyouhei
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