>What with the promise that Kazuma would do something amazing with Megumin once they get home, the fact that defeating the Demon King grants him the right to marry aristocrats, all the plot points that haven't been touched yet, and so many stories that I haven't been able to tell, I hope to be able to write a sequel one day. >With that said, let us for now allow Kazuma, who has been trying his best since the beginning, to enjoy a moment of respite and some peaceful days.
Is it a subtle "fuck you" to shippers and waifufags? Is it hinting at a harem end? Is he low-key trying to say that he's tired of writing Konosuba? We may never know.
>I hope to be able to write a sequel one day. What's stopping him from doing it now? I hate when the Japanese say this shit. Like I get it if it's like a manga that got axed, but this is literally not in the same field.
Dominic Jones
I don't even care after that shit. All light novel author just spineless faggot at this point.
Julian Richardson
Yeah, it's just tatemae. He doesn't actually want to write a sequel, he's just trying to appease his fans, because he knows many were hoping for a more conclusive end. I like that he stayed true to his writing to the very end and didn't bend to the will of the masses, however. Authors should write for themselves, not for their fans.
Joshua Campbell
It's pretty simple, and we have seen this kind of shit happening many time before. The author got tired of writing this, wants to move to something else.If he is successful than all is good. If not, he can always go back to their previous work, and continue from the open end.
Jaxon Bennett
All of the above. If you want closure, make something up until the author needs more money.
Charles Foster
Yeah, sounds like a fuck off shippers.
Adam Morgan
>Aqua will be main wife, Darkness the mistress, and Yunyun the sex friend.
fix'd
Logan Nguyen
The Japanese are such talentless hacks. They always pull this shit with the open ending bullshit and then never go back to actually close the ending. It's insanely unsatisfying and if you're truly unhappy with writing the series then you need to end it or if it gets an anime then give it an anime original ending. There's no reason to give fans hope that the series may continue one day. I just don't understand how Japanese society could be happy with all of this. This is not a problem with western media. We usually get ending for better or worse, but at least they're endings and if there is an open ending then it's likely going to continue or someone is going to leak the real ending if it didn't continue. It just makes me sick that these people get bored and then never finish what they started.
This is his from his afterword for Sentouin volume 3 >Of course, this isn’t a series focusing on exploring what makes each heroine unique and attractive, so please don’t read too much into it when a volume’s presented as “XX’s volume.” >With a lineup like that, I think that Grimm—who is faithful to the person she falls in love with, is skilled at most domestic tasks, and even has a nest egg saved up for marriage—actually ends up having the highest heroine score. >Of course, this series won’t end up as a romcom, so those traits are actually meaningless… I think he may add some romantic teasing here and there but won't consider romance an important plot point to be resolved, so he kinda just leaves it be in the background
Grayson Parker
>Authors should write for themselves, not for their fans. You're basically saying that ego, not empathy, which is disingenuous when writing is work and the fans are the ones giving you a paycheck.
Isaiah Clark
That's what you call a bitch ending and passive aggressive faggotry.
Liam Stewart
But there many voices in a fanbase. An author should write what he want first.
Kevin Evans
>Is it a subtle "fuck you" Sounds like a subtle "give me some time to come up with bs to milk this franchise some more but until then I'll spend my time and money on blackjack and hookers" from the author.
It's weird considered that he spent whole volumes to establish the main romance.
Hunter Brooks
>I like that he stayed true to his writing to the very end and didn't bend to the will of the masses, however. There's a distinction between having a solid vision for a story and sticking to your guns in the face of fan pressure, and running away at the last minute from something you already committed to. At the start of Konosuba I had no preference for who Kazuma would pair up with, but Natsume himself developed Megumin over the course of the series. That's the conclusion people wanted to see, because the author was telling us all along he was going to take us there.
Ian Hernandez
Is it a subtle "fuck you" to shippers and waifufags? No. i's a subtle "I got axed"
Carter Wood
>That's the conclusion people wanted to see You are assuming way too much, expecially since you are part of a fandom who isn't even the main focus of this kind of works.
in the end, it's literally the WN ending copy-pasted
Adrian Russell
Sounds pretty clear that our boy Kazuma is going to lose his virginity with Megumin.
Isaac King
>This is not a problem with western media Open end bullshit is very common in western media though
Bentley Campbell
> megumin literally pushes him down and makes out with him while darkness is in the closet, promises to bang after they deal with the demons > thERE'S NO RoMAntic cONcluSion what the fuck do you want, a sex scene
Dylan Foster
>Meh only deluded fool think it's gonna be different than the WN Which was?
Jordan Cooper
You sound entitled
Benjamin Bennett
>harem end Stunk is Kazuma's kid AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He wrote 17 novels and several short stories. By word count, Konosuba is longer than the Lord of the Rings trilogy plus the Hobbit. Akatsuki's done writing Konosuba for now, something he telegraphed pretty clearly when he let someone else write the Dust spinoff.
Henry Flores
It's a subtle >I have no creativity in me, so I've listened to my publishers and made my "novel" about what I pretended it wouldn't be just to weasel out and leave you with a non-ending Nothing worse than Japanese bugmen authors. Virtually none of them have the balls to write a controversial ending. Should have made him marry Wiz or something. Anything would have been better than "muh open end".
Leo Cruz
>Authors should write for themselves, not for their fans. But they should milk their fans nonetheless, eh? Can't have it both ways. Either your write for yourself from beginning to end, or you write for the people who pay you for doing so. Pretty hypocritical to milk fanbases and readerships with spin-offs and almost 20 volumes, just to then pussy out with a non-ending cause you can't be arsed to come up with a competent conclusion.
Grayson Reed
> Kazuma created official succubus brothels > Resurrected the male Orcs > Created a world where a man can have sex with any type of magical creature under the sun Based
>hmm this series has become very popular and made me very rich, maybe i should improve my original ending and give it the big finish it deserves. >nah fuck it im done with this shit i need to churn out more flops, i'll just copy paste the ending and do other shit AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT A FUCKING HACK WHY DID HE DO THIS WHY DID NOBODY STOP HIM
Jaxon Rivera
>Is it a subtle "fuck you" to shippers and waifufags? Nobody forced the author to make Kazuma and Megumin romantically involved. Writing the ending as though it never happened is bad writing. There's no other way to interpret it.
You have to be consistent. If it's not consistent it's badly written.
Andrew Lewis
It literally ends with Kazuma and Megumin going home to have sex.
Cooper Diaz
Instead of whining let's discuss the series if Natsume does continue one day.
I think Kazuma will more or less have to marry Iris and since the Eris cult doesn't permit polygamy she'll be his one and only wife. The question lies about where the other three come into the picture.
Austin Howard
so aqua didnt go back to the god realm?
Joshua Roberts
How long do cgtranslations usually take with volumes?
John Collins
1 month till first chapter release than 1 chapter every week
Gavin Jenkins
What an absolute fucking disaster what a hack
Sebastian Gutierrez
hey plebbitor tourist, you entered your thread title into the name field
Jaxon Evans
kek what a fucking retard
James Evans
The author has some serious balls to release this ending so eagerly. What a fucking shitshow
Ian Hill
Give it a year! That’s how long af tree r Fairy Tail ended that we got the announcement for the sequel series and 2 spinoffs. Some random author will prob do the same for this series too. Prob with natsume just providing notes or maybe art or something.
Cameron Richardson
What is Natsume doing now anyway? He’s writing kemono Michi and that combatants series right?
