is a Japanese

light novel A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a ''wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English languag ...

series written by Shobonnu and illustrated by Sogawa. It was serialized online between August 2016 and May 2018 on the user-generated novel publishing website

Shōsetsuka ni Narō is a Japanese novel self-publishing website created by . It was launched on April 2, 2004. Users can upload their novels free of charge and the novels are also free to read. As of December 2022, the site hosts close to 1,000,000 novels, has ove ...

. It was later acquired by

Futabasha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Higashigokenchō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.会社概要
" Futabasha. R ...

, who have published five volumes from March 2017 to November 2018 under their Monster Bunko imprint. 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 with art by Aki Taruto has been serialized via Futabasha's digital publication ''Web Comic Action'' since April 2018. It has been collected in nine ''

tankōbon is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or cultur ...

'' volumes. 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 by Studio A-Cat aired from October to December 2022.

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Media

Light novels

The series written by Shobonnu was serialized online from August 2016 to May 2018 on the user-generated novel publishing website

. It was later acquired by

Futabasha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Higashigokenchō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.会社概要
" Futabasha. R ...

, who published the series as a

under their Monster Bunko imprint with illustrations by Sogawa in five volumes from March 30, 2017 to November 30, 2018.

Manga

adaptation with art by Aki Taruto has been serialized via Futabasha's digital publication ''Web Comic Action'' since April 2018. It has been collected in nine ''

'' volumes as of 30 September 2022.

Anime

On February 26, 2022, an

television series adaptation was announced. The series is produced by Studio A-Cat and directed by Norihiko Nagahama, with scripts written by

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 ...

, character designs handled by Masami Sueoka, and music composed by Takurō Iga. It aired from October 1 to December 17, 2022, on

Tokyo MX JOMX-DTV, branded as Tokyo MX (officially stylized as TOKYO MX), is an independent television station in Tokyo, Japan, owned by the . It is the only television station that exclusively serves the city. It competes with Nippon TV, TV Asahi, NH ...

SUN The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...

, BS NTV, and HTB. 7ORDER will perform the opening theme song "Growing up", while Pop Shinanaide will perform the ending theme song .

Sentai Filmworks Sentai Filmworks, LLC or just Sentai, is an American entertainment company owned by AMC Networks. Located in Houston, the company specializes in the dubbing and distribution of Japanese animation and Asian cinema. Its post-production arm is S ...

has licensed the series, but has instead delayed the first episode's simulcast by a week to October 8, alongside the second episode.

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