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 Kazuha Kishimoto and illustrated by 40hara. It was serialized online between March 2015 and December 2016 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 ...

, followed by nine epilogue chapters between February 2017 and October 2020. It was later acquired by

Futabasha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Higashigokenchō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.会社概要
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, who have published five volumes from October 2015 to July 2017 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 Arashiyama has been serialized via Futabasha's digital publication ''Web Comic Action'' since June 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

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television series adaptation by Studio Elle premiered in April 2023.

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Light novel

The series written by Kazuha Kishimoto was serialized online from March 2015 to December 2016 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 40hara in five volumes from October 30, 2015 to July 29, 2017.

Manga

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

'' volumes as of March 2023. Coolmic is publishing the manga in English.

Anime

On October 26, 2021, an

television series adaptation was announced. It will be produced by Studio Elle and directed by Motoki Nakanishi, with scripts written by Yukihito, character designs handled by Mikako Kunii, and music composed by Manzo. The series premiered on April 9, 2023, on the programming block on

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and other networks. The opening theme song is "Continue Distortion" by S.S.NiRVERGE∀, while the ending theme song is "Be ambitious!!!" by Maybe Me.

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licensed the series outside of Asia under the title ''Summoned to Another World for a Second Time''.

Episode list

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