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 Itsuki Togami and illustrated by Yuri Kisaragi. It originally began as a web novel series on the

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 ...

website in February 2021.

Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

later began publishing it in print under its Kodansha Ranobe Books imprint in September 2021; eight volumes have been released as of December 2024. 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 illustrated by Yonezou began serialization on Kodansha's

Nico Nico Seiga , known before 2012 as , is a Japanese video sharing service based in Tokyo, Japan. "Niconico" or "nikoniko" is the Japanese sound symbolism, Japanese ideophone for smiling. As of 2021, Niconico is the 34th most-visited website in Japan, accordi ...

-based ''Suiyōbi no Sirius'' website in October 2021, and has been compiled into fifteen volumes as of June 2025. 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 animation studio42 has been announced.

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Light novel

Written by Itsuki Togami, ''Yūsha Party o Oidasareta Kiyōbinbō: Party Jijō de Fuyojutsushi o Yatteita Kenshi, Bannō e to Itaru'' began serialization on the user-generated web novel publishing site

on February 5, 2021. The series was later acquired by

who began releasing the series with illustrations by Yuri Kisaragi under its Kodansha Ranobe Books light novel imprint on September 2, 2021. Eight volumes have been released as of December 2024.

Manga

adaptation illustrated by Yonezou began serialization on Kodansha's

-based ''Suiyōbi no Sirius'' manga website on October 4, 2021. The first ''

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 ...

'' volume was released on March 9, 2022. The manga's chapters have been compiled into fifteen ''

'' volumes as of June 2025.

Anime

television series adaptation was announced on March 3, 2025. The series will be produced by animation studio42 and directed by Hiroyuki Kanbe, with Masashi Suzuki handling series composition and Naoto Nakamura designing the characters.

Reception

By December 2024, the series had over 3.7 million copies in circulation.

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