is a Japanese

light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...

series written by Hiroaki Nagashima and illustrated by Kisuke Ichimaru. It began serialization online in January 2013 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 over ...

, and it moved to the

AlphaPolis is a Japanese publishing company located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. AlphaPolis is a publisher of light novels and manga, particularly for online readers. The company is the publisher for several light novel series, including '' A Playthrough of ...

website in August 2016. It was also later acquired by AlphaPolis, who have published twenty-four volumes since April 2015. A

manga 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 history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

adaptation with art by Kurono has been serialized online via AlphaPolis' manga website since December 2015 and has been collected in twelve ''

tankōbon A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that w ...

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

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

television series adaptation produced by

SynergySP is a Japanese animation studio founded on September 24, 1998, as ''Synergy Japan'' which originally split off from Studio Junio (which itself was founded by Toei Animation staff). In 2005, the company became associated with Shogakukan-Shueish ...

and Vega Entertainment aired from October to December 2024.

Characters

; : :A centuries-old divine dragon reincarnated into a young man living at Verun Village. ; : :A

lamia Lamia (; ), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon". In the earliest myths, Lamia was a beautiful queen of ancient Libya who had an affair with ...

whom Dolan encounters at the swamp, he offers her residency at the village. ; : :A knight of nobility ; : :A young girl at Verun Village with a crush on Dolan. ; : :A black rose spirit from the Ente forest. ; : :Leader of the wood elf militia. ; : :Wood elf, Gio's younger sister. ; : :A fairy. ; : :A demon. ; : :A demon flower spirit. Her flower is the Rafflesia (corpse flower). ; : :A demon. ; : :A demon. ; : :Member of the Berun militia. ; : :A woman who follows the goddess Myrale and claims to be a her direct oracle. ; : :Like Dolan in his previous life, Kalavith is one of the seven divine dragons. ; : :A goddess and an old friend of Dolan during his dragon years.

Media

Light novels

Manga

Anime

television series adaptation was announced on March 15, 2024. It is produced by

and Vega Entertainment, and directed by Kenichi Nishida, with Naokatsu Tsuda writing series scripts, Nozomi Kawashige designing the characters, and Tatsuhiko Saiki and Hanae Nakamura composing the music. The series aired from October 11 to December 27, 2024, on TBS and other networks. The opening theme song is "Together Forever", performed by Lun8, while the ending theme song is , performed by EverdreaM.

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streamed the series under the title ''Good Bye, Dragon Life''.

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