Chapter 87: If That Day Comes
And with that, it's over. I honestly never imagined I'd finally reach this point, but the story is finally finished. A lot has happened in the time that I've worked on this. My Japanese skills are miles ahead of where they were when I started, but there's still so much more left for me to learn. I'm also in the last semester of my classes for college, which is a milestone all its own.
I'm not even entirely sure what I can say about the story itself. I've spent so long with it, and it's grown on me in a way I haven't ever really felt before. I'll definitely miss it, but I can't think of a more fitting end than what we got here. And I never expected the amount of readers to balloon like it did, either. The story had to move from Bato.to to Mangadex, but even on Batoto I'm fairly sure the story hit over 100k views just before the end. And looking at the view count on Mangadex now, plus factoring in all the sites that rip and rehost (boo), I can't even imagine how many people outside of Japan this has reached.
So what now? What am I planning to do after this? First and foremost, take a break. I've had less time to study Japanese in the past couple months, so hopefully I can start to make some of that time back up again, as well as prepare for the end of my schooling. As for my next translation? I won't make any definitive promises right now, but I do have another (shorter) series tentatively lined up for later in the year. If everything works out, expect to see it sometime Summer 2019. I'll likely make an announcement for it a week before launch, but again, don't expect to hear from me again until around that time.
