is a Japanese light novel series written by Shiina Howahowa and illustrated by Yamaada. It began serialization online in January 2013 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, and it moved to the AlphaPolis website in August 2016. It was also later acquired by AlphaPolis, who have published twenty-seven volumes since February 2014. A

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

adaptation illustrated by Shūya Rikudō began serialization online via AlphaPolis' manga website in May 2014 and has been collected in ten ''

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'' volumes. The manga is published digitally in English through Alpha Manga. An

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

television series adaptation produced by

Maho Film is a Japanese animation studio founded on May 29, 2018 in Suginami, Suginami-ku. Establishment The Suginami-based animation studio was independently founded after current CEO Junji Murata left Ashi Productions in 2018. The studio's name "Maho ...

is set to premiere in October 2023.

Characters

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Media

Light novel

Manga

Anime

television series adaptation was announced on February 10, 2023. The series is produced by

and directed by Yuichi Nakazawa, with

Touko Machida is a Japanese anime screenwriter. She debuted as a screenwriter in 2001, and in 2006 got to become the lead screenwriter for the first time with '' Ramen Fighter Miki''. Since ''Ramen Fighter Miki'', she has done screenwriting for many works, su ...

handling series composition, Yūko Watabe and Yūko Oba designing the main characters, and Technoboys Pulcraft Green-Fund composing the music. It is set to premiere in October 2023.

Reception

The series won "The AlphaPolis 6th Fantasy Novel Grand Prize" reader award, and has 1.5 million copies in circulation. Volumes of the manga adaptation have ranked on the

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...

bestseller chart.

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