Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (ありふれた職業で世界最強, Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryo Shirakome and illustrated by Takayaki. Originally a web novel, the series was published in print from June 2015 to September 2022. The series follows Hajime Nagumo, who is transported to another world with the rest of his class to fight in a war against the demon race. After he is betrayed and left to die by one of his classmates, Hajime begins a journey to improve himself and find a way to return home. The novels are licensed in English by J-Novel Club, with Seven Seas Entertainment publishing them in print. The English translation of the light novel was done by Murtaza Burhan. A prequel light novel was published in 2017.
The series has received a manga adaptation, serialized on Ovelap's Comic Gardo website since 2016, as well as a yonkoma comedy spinoff and a manga adaptation of the prequel novel, all three licensed by Seven Seas. An anime television series adaptation by White Fox and Asread aired from July to October 2019. A second season by Asread and Studio Mother aired from January to March 2022. A third season has been announced.
Synopsis[]
Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?
(Source: J-Novel Club)
List of Published Books[]
Light Novels[]
Ryo Shirakome originally published the series as a web novel on the user-submitted content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō. The main story ran for eight books from November 7, 2013, to October 31, 2015, and has been followed by three after-stories and an extra story since. The series was picked up for publication by Overlap, and they released the first light novel, with illustrations by Takayaki, under their Overlap Bunko imprint in June 2015. When the anime adaptation was announced to have been delayed until 2019, the eighth volume of the light novel was also delayed by a month, from March to April 2018. The series ended with the release of its thirteenth volume.
| Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest | ||||
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 25, 2015 | 978-4-86554-055-0 | May 6, 2017 (digital) February 6, 2018 (print) |
978-1-626927-68-1 |
| 2 | November 25, 2015 | 978-4-86554-073-4 | July 21, 2017 (digital) May 1, 2018 (print) |
978-1-626927-80-3 |
| 3 | February 25, 2016 | 978-4-86554-093-2 | October 7, 2017 (digital) August 7, 2018 (print) |
978-1-626928-45-9 |
| 4 | July 27, 2016 | 978-4-86554-143-4 | December 23, 2017 (digital) December 18, 2018 (print) |
978-1-626929-49-4 |
| 5 | December 25, 2016 | 978-4-86554-178-6 | March 10, 2018 (digital) April 2, 2019 (print) |
978-1-642750-17-1 |
| 6 | May 25, 2017 | 978-4-86554-219-6 | May 26, 2018 (digital) July 9, 2019 (print) |
978-1-642751-11-6 |
| 7 | December 25, 2017 | 978-4-86554-265-3 978-4-86554-266-0 (SE) |
August 11, 2018 (digital) December 10, 2019 (print) |
978-1-642757-36-1 |
| 8 | April 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-308-7 978-4-86554-309-4 (SE) |
October 28, 2018 (digital) July 7, 2020 (print) |
978-1-64505-435-1 |
| 9 | December 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-428-2 | June 8, 2019 (digital) August 25, 2020 (print) |
978-1-64505-485-6 |
| 10 | June 25, 2019 | 978-4-86554-489-3 978-4-86554-490-9 (SE) |
November 3, 2019 (digital) October 20, 2020 (print) |
978-1-64505-747-5 |
| 11 | July 25, 2020 | 978-4-86554-698-9 | December 14, 2020 (digital) April 13, 2021 (print) |
978-1-64505-746-8 |
| EX | September 25, 2019 | 978-4-86554-542-5 | — | — |
| 12 | January 25, 2022 | 978-4-8240-0064-4 | June 23, 2022 (digital) March 28, 2023 (print) |
978-1-64827-929-4 |
| 13 | September 25, 2022 | 978-4-8240-0263-1 978-4-8240-0264-8 (SE) |
March 24, 2023 (digital) October 24, 2023 (print) |
978-1-64827-318-6 |
A prequel light novel series titled Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Zero (ありふれた職業で世界最強 零, Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō Zero), or Arifureta Zero, was published from December 2017 to December 2021 in six volumes.
Digital publisher J-Novel Club licensed the series for an English release, and published the first chapter on February 21, 2017. During their panel at Anime Expo 2017, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they would publish a print version of the novels as part of their collaboration with J-Novel Club. J-Novel Club has also licensed Arifureta Zero, and the series was the publisher's first simultaneous publication.
| Arifureta Zero | ||||
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | December 28, 2017 | 978-4-86554-267-7 | April 11, 2018 (digital) September 3, 2019 (print) |
978-1-64505-173-2 |
| 2 | July 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-373-5 | February 2, 2019 (digital) January 7, 2020 (print) |
978-1-64505-176-3 |
| 3 | March 25, 2019 | 978-4-86554-464-0 | November 16, 2019 (digital) August 4, 2020 (print) |
978-1-64505-461-0 |
| 4 | December 25, 2019 | 978-4-86554-543-2 | July 6, 2020 (digital) December 29, 2020 (print) |
978-1-64505-790-1 |
| 5 | April 25, 2021 | 978-4-86554-823-5 | December 1, 2021 (digital) March 15, 2022 (print) |
978-1-64827-258-5 |
| 6 | December 25, 2021 | 978-4-86554-889-1 | August 4, 2022 (digital) February 7, 2023 (print) |
978-1-64827-465-7 |
Audio Drama[]
A series of two drama CDs were released with the seventh, eighth, and tenth volumes of the light novel on December 25, 2017, April 25, 2018, and June 25, 2019. The drama CDs share the same voice cast as the anime.
Manga[]
A manga adaptation by RoGa has been published on Ovelap's Comic Gardo website since its inception on December 22, 2016, and the first volume was published three days later on December 25 to coincide with the release of the fifth light novel. The series has been licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment.
| Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest | ||||
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | December 25, 2016 | 978-4-86554-183-0 | March 13, 2018 | 978-1-626927-69-8 |
| 2 | September 25, 2017 | 978-4-86554-261-5 | July 3, 2018 | 978-1-62692821-3 |
| 3 | April 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-343-8 | November 27, 2018 | 978-1-626929-40-1 |
| 4 | December 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-435-0 | June 25, 2019 | 978-1-642750-07-2 |
| 5 | June 25, 2019 | 978-4-86554-505-0 | January 21, 2020 | 978-1-64505-183-1 |
| 6 | April 25, 2020 | 978-4-86554-652-1 | March 9, 2021 | 978-1-64505-730-7 |
| 7 | October 25, 2020 | 978-4-86554-770-2 | August 17, 2021 | 978-1-64827-910-2 |
| 8 | April 25, 2021 | 978-4-86554-898-3 | April 12, 2022 | 978-1-63858-197-0 |
| 9 | December 25, 2021 | 978-4-8240-0071-2 | November 29, 2022 | 978-1-63858-770-5 |
| 10 | May 25, 2022 | 978-4-8240-0201-3 | March 21, 2023 | 978-1-68579-483-5 |
| 11 | January 25, 2023 | 978-4-8240-0399-7 | October 24, 2023 | 979-8-88843-028-6 |
| 12 | July 25, 2023 | 978-4-8240-0569-4 | — | — |
An adaptation of the prequel light novel Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest Zero by Ataru Kamichi began serialization on February 23, 2018, on the Comic Gardo website. Seven Seas announced their license to the series on January 10, 2019.
| Arifureta Zero | ||||
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-381-0 | September 10, 2019 | 978-1-642756-86-9 |
| 2 | December 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-433-6 | February 18, 2020 | 978-1-645052-00-5 |
| 3 | June 25, 2019 | 978-4-86554-507-4 | June 23, 2020 | 978-1-64505-466-5 |
| 4 | April 25, 2020 | 978-4-86554-654-5 | April 20, 2021 | 978-1-64827-097-0 |
| 5 | October 25, 2020 | 978-4-86554-769-6 | December 21, 2021 | 978-1-64827-380-3 |
| 6 | April 25, 2021 | 978-4-86554-897-6 | May 17, 2022 | 978-1-63858-279-3 |
| 7 | December 25, 2021 | 978-4-8240-0070-5 | November 15, 2022 | 978-1-63858-709-5 |
| 8 | June 25, 2022 | 978-4-8240-0200-6 | April 18, 2023 | 978-1-68579-464-4 |
A yonkoma comedy spinoff by Misaki Mori, titled Arifureta: I Heart Isekai (ありふれた日常で世界最強, Arifureta Nichijō de Sekai Saikyō), began serialization on Overlap's Comic Gardo website on July 11, 2017. Seven Seas announced their license to the series on January 10, 2019.
| Arifureta: I Love Isekai | ||||
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-342-1 | December 10, 2019 | 978-1-64275-761-3 |
| 2 | December 25, 2018 | 978-4-86554-434-3 | March 10, 2020 | 978-1-64505-214-2 |
| 3 | June 25, 2019 | 978-4-86554-506-7 | September 1, 2020 | 978-1-64505-515-0 |
| 4 | April 25, 2020 | 978-4-86554-653-8 | October 12, 2021 | 978-1-64827-211-0 |
| 5 | January 25, 2023 | 978-4-8240-0398-0 | — | — |
A Comic Gardo comedy spinoff by Takayaki, titled Arifureta Gakuen de Sekai Saikyou (ありふれた学園で世界最強, The Strongest in the World in a Common School), began serialization on Overlap's Comic Gardo website on April 24, 2020.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 10, 2020 | 978-4-86554-768-9 | — | — |
| 2 | December 12, 2021 | 978-4-8240-0069-9 | — | — |
Character[]
"Now where have I heard that before? Never thought someone who’s supposed to be me would take that shit so seriously. If that’s what the definition of human is, then yeah, I guess I’m not human anymore. Maybe I really am a monster who was born in the abyss. A monster, huh? But— Sure, I might be rejected when I get home. I may not have anywhere to return to now.
But even so, I’m going to keep moving forward. Do you really think this road was such an easy one that I could have traveled this far by deceiving myself? This is how it’s always been. The opponents I’ve faced haven’t been kind enough to wait for me to solve my problems. No matter what doubts or fears I had, my only choice was to turn my resolve into a weapon and push my way forward."― Hajime
A 17-year-old high school student and self-confessed otaku. In preparation for her future, she works part-time at her father's company, a game creator, and at her mother's work site, a girl manga artist. He plays video games all night long and always dozes off at school, causing those around him to think he is an unserious student. Most of the male students are hostile to Hajime because of the presence of Kaori, the school's madonna, who worries about him and takes kindly to him. Female students also disliked Hajime because he did not change his attitude toward life even though Kaori was giving him trouble.
He and his classmates are summoned to the other world of Tortoise, but he is branded as "incompetent" by those around him because his vocation is that of a weakest Synergist who is not suited for combat. During training at the Orcus Grand Labyrinth, he used his Synergist abilities to protect his classmates from the behemoths that appeared and held them back alone, but his classmate Hiyama pushed him into an abyss, where he was attacked by a demon and lost his left arm. He survives by discovering divine crystals and divine water with restorative effects in his escape, but is driven to despair both mentally and physically by the unreasonable situation in which he suffers from phantom limb pain due to the loss of his left arm and pain caused by a fierce hunger. However, his unusual obsession with life and his firm will to return to his hometown cause him to reemerge, albeit with a distorted personality. In doing so, he has formed a value system in which he divides the world into "enemies" and "others," and kills any enemy who stands in the way of his purpose and survival.
Immediately after his reemergence, he suffered the pains of hell, repeatedly destroying and regenerating his body with the deadly poison of demon flesh and divine water, while hunting down demons and eating their flesh in order to survive. As a result of the repeated destruction and rebirth of his body, his muscles have developed, his height has increased by more than 10 cm, and his hair has turned white. In addition, when he eats a demon of equal or superior rank to himself, his status increases and he becomes peculiar in that he can take in the demon's abilities. Furthermore, the discovery of "Green Glowstone," "Taur Stone," and "Blastrock" in the labyrinth led to the refining of weapons such as a large revolver pistol and a flash grenade, which he made based on modern weapons.
After winning a rematch against the clawed bear that took his left arm, he begins his search for the Great Labyrinth of Orcus, meeting the sealed Yue at the 50th level. After freeing Yue, he headed for the innermost level, where he defeated Hydra, who was waiting for him there, after a mortal struggle in which he even lost his right eye. There, Hajime learns the truth about the world left behind by Oscar Olks, the liberator of the innermost part of the world, but he does not care about it and uses one of the "Creation magic" he has obtained to create and attach a prosthetic hand for his left arm and a prosthetic eye made from a magic eye stone (he also wears an eye patch to hide his right eye), and sets out with Yue to find a way back to his original world. He sets out on a journey with Yue to find a way to return to his original world.
After falling into the abyss, his mental equilibrium is upset and he undergoes a paradigm shift due to despair and hatred of the unreasonable situation, and his first name changes from "I" to "me." He transforms into a cold-hearted character with an arrogant attitude toward anyone he perceives as an enemy, even his classmates, who he destroys without a trace of mercy. He is a cold-hearted and arrogant person who will destroy anyone, even his classmates, without mercy. However, he is able to avoid falling into a complete outcast because he meets Yue, who is in a similar situation. When he was reawakened, he had abandoned all feelings for Tortoise and his classmates, and he had been uninterested in anything other than returning to Earth and protecting Yue and his friends, but after being told by Aiko that this was a lonely way of life, he gradually regains his kindness, though clumsily. He also values humanity and keeps his promises to the Haurians and goes to help Kaori to let her know that he is alive." He is very protective of Yue, who is "special" to him, and of Sia and the others who have taken a liking to him, and he will not hesitate to use sanctions or coercion to silence anyone who tries to harm them. He is extremely overprotective of Miu, who has unwillingly become his daughter-in-law, to the point that Yue and the others call him a "parental idiot". When she learned that Freid had taken her hostage, she emitted such a murderous rage that everyone present cowered. He has a black history of having been a kitchen wreck in the past.
In the town of Brook, he is targeted by adventurers who want to get their hands on Yue and Shea, but he kills them instantly before they duel, earning him the nickname "Duel Smasher," and together with Yue, a "Crotch Smasher," he is known as the "Smash Lovers" and is feared by adventurers (men). They are feared by adventurers (men). In the town of Ur, he makes great use of Aiko's nickname "Goddess of Fertility" and calls himself "Sword of the Goddess. By the time of the final battle, he is called the "Demon King" for his unmanageable behavior.
A vocation Synergist has the ability to magically manipulate matter to process it and create weapons. At first, as a blacksmith, he could only process minerals, but as a result of his training, he was able to smelt the ground to create pits and outcroppings. After seeing him in battle, Meld Loggins changed his mind about Synergists not being suitable for practical use. In the battle against behemoths, he showed the versatility of the Synergist in battle by holding off behemoths by himself. As mentioned above, eating the flesh of demons in the abyss allows them to acquire the unique abilities of demons. In particular, "Mana Manipulation," which directly manipulates magical power, allows one to handle magic without chanting or using magic circles (an ability normally limited to demons only)." After learning "Mana Manipulation" and "Mineral appraisal," the player is able to create original weapons with the unique abilities of monsters, and from then on, the main focus is on fighting with weapons manufactured with the power of alchemy. After conquering the Great Labyrinth of Orcus, the "Creation Magic," which is the mark of a conqueror, can be used to create artifact-class magical tools and weapons of destruction. Since the aptitude for other divine magic is not high, other divine magic is mainly used to create weapons and equipment. By the time he has broken through all the great labyrinths, he is aware that his skills in alchemy have surpassed Oscar's.
At the beginning, his status was about the same as that of an ordinary person, but after eating the flesh of demons, his status improved to an extraordinary degree, and when he escaped from the Great Orcus Labyrinth, all of his stats were over 10,000 and he had the abilities of many demons, making him so strong that even his strongest classmate Kouki could not keep pace with him.
His main combat style is Gun-Kata with two guns, and he also uses various other artifacts for firepower. He has extremely high marksmanship, using ricocheting bullets to efficiently shoot through enemies and firing all bullets at almost the same time. His physical ability has also been greatly improved, so he can fight back with a certain amount of hand-to-hand combat even when approached. The combat skills he has acquired through his harsh experience in the abyss are very rational, and they have influenced Hajime's thinking as well.
He has not paid attention to favors from women other than Yue, but he gradually changes after he accepts Shea as an important person. He also accepts favors from Kaori and Shizuku, and after he is called "the Demon King," he opens up and declares Tio as an important person as well, effectively declaring a harem. Its membership was further increased later on.
After the final battle, she uses metamorphosis magic to change her hair back to black and her artificial eyes and hands to be as close to human as possible in order to return to her original world. The epilogue closes with her being welcomed back to earth by her parents, but she is not able to settle down after bringing Yue and the others home as her family, and it seems that she has come to know another world.
─ THEME SONG (FIREDANCE by Ryo Takahashi)
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Abilities[]
In the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime devours numerous powerful Demonic Beasts, manages to survive the lethal process due to the Ambrosia and his iron forged will. As a result, Hajime's constitution was mutated by the magic of the monster, granting him a tremendously high status, even breaking pass the level 100 limit. At the costs of his mutation, he will no longer be considered as human and no longer be afraid at anything anymore.
| Level | ??? | Strength | 12150 | Vitality | 14250 | Defense | 11870 | Agility | 14550 | Magic | 15980 | Magic Defense | 15980 |
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After continuously devouring many powerful Demonic Beasts and absorbing their powers, by the end of conquering the Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime gained tremendous superhuman physical power that is completely monstrous and inhuman, his base strength being twelve times far superior to Kouki Amanogawa who is Ehit's strongest "hero", surpassing even Tio the strongest dragonborn in her dragon form, able to carry his oversized Pile Bunker or heavy artillery such as Orkan with little effort. Even without resorting to weapons, he can overpower the strongest humans, beastmen, and monsters with pure physical might, blocking a zombified Meld's swordsmanship who was the strongest Knight of Heiligh Kingdom with only one finger, throwing small harmless objects such as sugar cubes with extreme force to knock down knights. When using his true powers, Hajime can easily break bones and strike with enough force to rupture his enemies' internal organs even Humans who were blessed by Ehit with enhanced physical power, such as when Hajime broken almost all of Hiyama's bones and damaging his internal organs severely, as he brutally beat Hiyama up and gripped his neck to lift the latter with only one hand with no efforts.
After continuously devouring many powerful monsters throughout the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime's mana developed to extremely powerful and massive levels, far surpassing Atavists such as Yue, Shea and Tio, all of whom have powerful mana themselves. His original sky blue mana changing to crimson color. When he releases his mana, it's powerful enough to block the immense mana pressure released from Noint, God Apostle, protecting Aiko who was about to fall unconscious. When enraged, he was able to cause all his classmates, who had overpowered cheat abilities to freeze in sheer terror. His mana capacity and regeneration are vast enough for him to operate the "Fenrir" flying craft, which consumes an immense amount of mana to travel between locations.
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Obtained Skills:
Ancient Magic
Conceptual Magic
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"I'll protect you, and you'll protect me. As long as we watch each other's backs, we'll be stronger than anyone. We'll beat down anyone who stands against us and burst our way out of this shitty world!"
― Hajime to Yue
While his intellectual ability in academic studies is average, Hajime has proven himself to be an extremely clever genius in engineering. He has immense scientific knowledge which was self-taught from manga, anime, movies and video games. Hajime's intuition is also extremely accurate and spot on, as he was able to correctly deduce that one of his classmates is purposely responsible for the apparent misfired fireball that led to his fall into the deepest depths of the Orcus Dungeon and the reason being jealousy towards Kaori's infatuation towards himself and would also commit any horrific atrocities to force Kaori to become his sex slave when Hajime warned Aiko about it. He would later be proven correct when Hiyama had assisted Eri in massacring and zombified all the Knights of Heiligh Kingdom and also the death trap for their classmates and even murdered Kaori herself in order to make her his personal undead sex slave, a fact which even the extremely sharp minded Shizuku had noticed only when it was too late.
Hajime is an extremely resourceful and innovative inventor, combining his scientific knowledge learned from countless manga, anime, and movies with his transmutation skill to create various powerful techno-magical weapons and other advanced magic-powered machinery similar to Earth's modern military technology as well as science fiction technology. Hajime has shown to be an extraordinarily talented firearms designer, having managed to make firearms and artillery with unique customizations such as Donner & Schlag break action revolvers designed for mid-air reloading customized with make-shift swing out cylinders to incorporate the greater firepower of swing out revolvers, incorporating shotguns into Oscar's magical prosthetic arm artifact as well as Shea's Drucken War Hammer, modified the new Schlagen anti-material rifle to function as a sniper rifle by mounting a telescopic scope to shoot from long distances, designed Metzelei as a handheld portable Gatling Gun. Hajime is also a self-taught genius in vehicle engineering, having designed Steiff motorcycle, Brise pickup truck, a submarine and most of all Fenrir airship based on science fiction and military technology. Hajime has trained his craftsmanship as a Synergist to uttermost perfection, due to his earliest attempts to create modern firearms which are extremely difficult to create in comparison to swords and armors, eventually succeed after countless trial and error. With unrivaled precision and dexterity in his craftsmanship, Hajime became an outstanding master gunsmith. Combined with Age of God's creation magic, Hajime can create techno-magical artillery of tremendous power. In addition to guns, Hajime can also apply his skills into crafting melee weapons and armours of the highest quality including refining them to be much more powerful as well as perfectly repair ancient artifacts.
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Having never received any form of training before being summoned to Tortus and falling into the abyss, Hajime had self-taught himself how to fight. His fighting style has been regarded as the height of rationality, focusing on effectiveness. Hajime trains extremely extensively to incorporate kicks into his fighting style, which he combines with his monstrous superhuman physical prowess and leg enhancement skills, allowing him to overpower his enemies even those who were blessed with superhuman physical abilities without any effort.
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While still inexperienced, Hajime possesses incredible artistic skills which he has learnt and developed by handling the illustrations of the game produced by his father’s video game company and helping assist his mother who is a famous shoujo mangaka for five years. Hajime would apply his artistic skills to drafting maps for exploring the Labyrinths on stone tablets, blueprints for his weapons and devices, and even incorporating aesthetic designs in his equipment.
TV Anime[]
An anime television series adaptation was announced on December 3, 2017. The series was initially intended to premiere in April 2018, but on January 15, 2018, its release was pushed back due to "various circumstances". Originally, the series would have been directed by Jun Kamiya and written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, with animation by studio White Fox and character designs by Atsuo Tobe, who also would have served as chief animation director. However, following the postponement, it was announced on April 29, 2018, that Kinji Yoshimoto would be taking over as director and studio Asread would be joining White Fox as animators. Additionally, Chika Kojima took over from Atsuo Tobe as character designer to adapt Takayaki's original designs, and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu left his position as a scriptwriter, being replaced by Shoichi Sato and Kinji Yoshimoto. Ryō Takahashi composed the series' music. Void_Chords feat. LIO performed the series' opening theme "FLARE", while DracoVirgo performs the series' ending theme "First Song" (ハジメノウタ, Hajime no Uta).
Season 1[]
The series aired from July 8 to October 7, 2019, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, and BS11. It ran for 13 episodes. Two original video animations (OVA) were released with the second and third home video sets on December 25, 2019, and February 26, 2020.
| STAFF (SEASON 1) | |
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| Original Author | Shirakome, Ryou |
| Character Draft | TakayaKi |
| Director | Yoshimoto and Kinji |
| Series Composition | Katsuichi Sato (Season 1) |
| Character Designer | Tomoka Kojima |
| Sub Character Design | Kanako Watanabe |
| Prop-Designer | Shigeyuki Korezawa and Seiki Tanaka |
| Monster Designer | Shigeyuki Koresawa |
| Art Director | Naoki Aoyama |
| Visual setting | Barnstorm Design Lab |
| Color Design | Naoki Fukutani |
| CGI director | Kishi Koremi |
| Cinematographer | Kenji Takehara |
| Editor | Junichi Ito |
| Sound director | Yasushi Nagura |
| Music Director | Ryo Takahashi |
| Music Producer | Sekine Yō |
| Music Production | Lantis |
| Producer | Takashi Soyama, Satoshi Fukao, Moriharu Ando, Aya Iizuka, Yuta Kashiwabara, Yoichi Sekine, Yuichi Izumi |
| Yuusuke Sumimoto | |
| Animation Producer | Konori Hiramatsu |
| Animation production | Asread Co. & WHITE FOX |
| Production | Arifureta Production Committee |
Funimation had licensed the series for an English simulcast and SimulDub. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll.
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No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date |
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| 1 | "The Monster of the Abyss" Transcription: "Naraku no Soko no Bakemono" (Japanese: 奈落の底の化け物) |
Masayuki Iimura | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Kinji Yoshimoto | July 8, 2019 |
| The episode begins with Hajime Nagumo being thrown into the abyss of the Orcus Labyrinth, filled with monsters stronger than he's ever seen. A bear monstrosity severs his arm and eats it. Hajime escapes by transmuting his way deep into the ground where fortunately he finds a Divinity Stone that creates a constantly refilling pool of Ambrosia healing fluid, allowing him to survive the removal of his arm. In flashbacks, it is revealed Hajime has no warrior skills, his only real skill being Transmute, allowing him to manipulate matter. When his class entered the dungeon they were confronted by a Behemoth and he was deliberately pushed into the abyss by one of his classmates after trying to save Kaori. In the abyss Hajime starts to break due to intense hunger and begins to hunt the extremely strong wolves by using traps. Upon eating one, the cells of the monster change his DNA, and only the constant healing from the Ambrosia saves him. His body transforms, becoming much stronger due to the constant tearing apart of his muscles from the symbiosis of his and the monsters DNA and the healing of the Ambrosia. After his transformation, he hunts further monsters, eating them to raise his levels and gain their physical and magical abilities. He even uses his Transmutation skill to create powerful weaponry through trial-and-error, crafting his first pistol: Donner. Finally he hunts and eats the bear monstrosity that ate his arm before looking for a way deeper into the abyss. | |||||
| 2 | "Pandora's Box" Transcription: "Pandora no Hako" (Japanese: パンドラの箱) |
Taiji Kawanishi | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Naoki Ōhira | July 15, 2019 |
| The King is told of Hajime’s death and, unwilling to admit to a Hero’s death, forbids any mention of the incident. Shizuku, Kaori’s friend, reveals through flashbacks that the Pope summoned their high school class and their teacher to this world to act as Hero’s in humanity’s war against demons and monsters. She notices her classmate, Hiyama, acting strangely but does not hear him reassuring himself that no one saw him attacking Hajime. Hajime eventually reaches a giant stone door and defeats the guardians, retrieving keys from their corpses. Kaori is determined not to give up on finding Hajime. Behind the doors Hajime finds a young girl imprisoned in a crystal but decides to leave her, believing she must be a monster imprisoned for a reason. She admits she is an immortal vampire princess but insists she was betrayed by an uncle who wanted her position, but unable to kill her he sealed her away. Feeling sympathy for being betrayed himself Hajime frees her. Deciding to abandon her old name she asks Hajime for a new one, so he names her Yue for the moon, as her golden hair reminds him of moonlight. | |||||
| 3 | "The Golden Vampire Princess" Transcription: "Ōgon no Kyūketsuki" (Japanese: 黄金の吸血姫) |
Hiroyuki Tsuchiya | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Jun Takahashi | July 22, 2019 |
| Hajime and Yue are attacked by a giant scorpion monster. Yue feeds on Hajime’s blood, recovering her magic, and they kill the scorpion. While eating the flesh Hajime tells Yue all vampires were exterminated 300 years ago, making her the last vampire. Yue explains the labyrinths were built by Mavericks, powerful magic users who attempted and failed to defeat God, so they each constructed a labyrinth as sanctuaries against Gods revenge and may still be alive on the deepest floors. Hajime transmutes the scorpion’s shell to create a rifle named Schlagen. Hajime tells Yue how he was betrayed but no longer cares about his classmates, or even revenge, he just wants enough power to return to Japan, and as Yue no longer has a home he asks her to go with him. Hajime’s classmates decide to enter the labyrinth again. Hajime and Yue enter a floor where all monsters are infected and psychically controlled by a plant-like monster. Yue is infected; however, one of the monsters Hajime previously ate makes him immune to the infection, allowing him to kill the monster. Later, Yue strips naked to drink Hajime’s blood and seduces him. Several days later they reach the bottom floor and prepare to face the final boss monster. | |||||
| 4 | "Guardian of the Depths" Transcription: "Saiō no Gādian" (Japanese: 最奥のガーディアン) |
Naoki Ōhira | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Naoki Ōhira | July 29, 2019 |
| Hajime and Yue confront the final boss, a giant hydra-like monster with six heads, each capable of a different type of magic and one of which can heal the others. Yue is distracted by the fear inducing hypnosis of a second head and almost eaten, so Hajime snaps her out of it with a kiss. Hajime succeeds in using Schlagen to destroy three heads, including the healing head, and Yue destroys the remaining three with lightning. Before they can relax a surprise seventh head emerges. Hajime is injured protecting Yue and Schlagen is destroyed. Seeing Hajime unconscious Yue drags him to safety and tries to attack with his pistol but is injured. Even unconscious, Hajime hears Yue crying and somehow increases his speed such that he can dodge all attacks. He explodes grenades all around the room, dropping the roof on the head and allowing Yue to kill it for good with lightning. As the final door opens Hajime passes out from exhaustion. Meanwhile, Aiko Hatayama, Hajime’s teacher also summoned as a Hero, argues with the Pope who is insisting they re-enter the labyrinth. The Pope agrees to only send students that volunteer as long as Aiko continues using her fertility magic to support the kingdoms struggling agriculture. | |||||
| 5 | "The Maverick's Lair" Transcription: "Hangyakusha no Sumika" (Japanese: 反逆者の住処) |
Hiroyuki Tsuchiya | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Naoyuki Kuzuya | August 5, 2019 |
| Hajime awakens in bed with Yue, having lost his right eye, and learns they are in the Mavericks home. They discover the skeleton of the Maverick before a magic circle. Hajime has his memories forcibly examined by a spell which activates a recording the Maverick left behind. The Maverick introduces himself as Oscar Orcus and for defeating his labyrinth deems Hajime worthy to know the truth of the Maverick/God war. Hajime’s classmates enter the labyrinth and defeat the Behemoth they believe killed Hajime. Oscar grants Hajime his power and memories before disappearing. Hajime realises the Mavericks were actually Liberators and reveals he has inherited Oscars Ancient Creation Magic, allowing him to add magical properties to transmuted objects to create Artefacts. They bury Oscar and Hajime takes his ring which controls a portal to the surface. Hajime decides to conquer all the labyrinths for their Ancient Magics. Over two months Hajime takes advantage of Oscar's treasure, library and workshop to learn as much as he can, crafting weapons and vehicles and outfitting himself with an advanced prosthetic arm and a magical jewel to replace his eye. Yue continues seducing him several times so he gives her a magical ring and warns her that his plans will eventually make them enemies of the Church and their God, Ehit. Yue swears to stay with him regardless as they teleport to the surface. | |||||
| 5.5 | "Omnibus: Great Orcus Labyrinth" Transcription: "Sōshūhen Orukusu Dai Meikyū" (Japanese: 総集編 オルクス大迷宮) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | August 12, 2019 |
| A summary of the events so far. | |||||
| 6 | "Worthless Rabbit" Transcription: "Zannen na Usagi" (Japanese: 残念なウサギ) |
Kinji Yoshimoto | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Naoki Ōhira, Naoyuki Kuzuya | August 19, 2019 |
| Shea Haulia, a Rabbit-girl, waits impatiently at the spot Hajime and Yue are supposed to appear. When they arrive Hajime and Yue attempt to ignore her as she is quite annoying. Hajime eventually agrees to listen and she explains her tribe is threatened by monsters, and with her magical ability to predict possible futures she foresaw Hajime would save them. Hajime agrees in exchange for her guiding them to a Great Tree mentioned in Oscar’s library. Arriving at the tribe’s forest Hajime kills several monsters, using an unfortunate Shea as bait. The rabbit-men ask Hajime for training as they are tired of being helpless. Hajime struggles to overcome their natural rabbit-like timidity so he puts them through a merciless training routine of “kill monsters or I'll kill you instead”, turning them into tough monster killers. Shea takes them to the tree which Hajime determines is the entrance to another labyrinth, but a stone slab nearby with slots for rings like Oscars, makes Hajime realise this labyrinth will only open after he has defeated other labyrinths first. The rabbit-men decide to continue training and guard the tree until Hajime returns. Shea, having fallen in love with Hajime, travels with them and Yue is forced to let her after Shea technically won a duel by managing to scratch Yue’s face. | |||||
| 7 | "Great Reisen Labyrinth" Transcription: "Raisen Dai Meikyū" (Japanese: ライセン大迷宮) |
Masaharu Tomoda | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Masaharu Tomoda | August 26, 2019 |
| They travel to Reisen Gorge, containing the entrance to another labyrinth. They are greeted by the voice of hyperactive Maverick Miledi Reisen who built a maze-like labyrinth filled with practical jokes which mostly target Shea. Several of Hajime’s classmates decide to abandon the labyrinth and help Aiko on the farms. Hajime and the girls make it to the bottom of the labyrinth to face the boss, Miledi herself operating a giant robot. After a lengthy battle they succeed in cracking her crystal heart. She uses the last of her energy to wish Hajime luck against Ehit, though Hajime claims he has no intention of defeating Ehit, Miledi assures him he will one day be a God-Killer. However, upon entering the treasure room they find the actual real Miledi’s soul inside a small, cartoonish golem, whom Shea punishes for all the pranks. For completing the labyrinth she gives Hajime her ring, and Yue her Ancient Gravity Magic. She then expels them from the labyrinth through a whirlpool, though Shea drowns as she cannot swim. Hajime brings her back with CPR though tries to drown her again after she wakes up and seizes the chance to violently kiss him. Tired, they find an inn where Shea loudly insists Hajime spend the night taking her virginity. Now publicly humiliated Hajime punishes Shea yet again. | |||||
| 8 | "Reunion with the Past" Transcription: "Kako to no Saikai" (Japanese: 過去との再会) |
Natsumi Yasue | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Naoyuki Kuzuya | September 2, 2019 |
| Hajime is asked by the Adventurers Guild to find missing adventurers, including a noble’s son. They travel to a nearby farming village, unaware the farms are being visited by Aiko and several classmates, though one classmate, Shimizu, has disappeared. Hajime tries to avoid them but they hear Shea calling him by name. Aiko tearfully confronts him about where he has been but he ignores her. They are confronted by an arrogant Templar Knight who insults Shea, so Hajime severely injures him. His classmates are shocked and scared by his new merciless personality though Aiko swears she will find a way to bring him back. Later, Hajime visits Aiko alone to tell her the truth about the war against the demons. Centuries ago several humans discovered the truth, the God Ehit was not on their side, he was merely controlling the war for his own amusement. These humans became the Liberators to free mortals from Ehit’s tyranny. Unfortunately, Ehit, through the Church, had them labelled heretics and renamed Mavericks. The remaining Liberators built the labyrinths to keep their Ancient Magics safe until someone capable of defeating Ehit came along to claim their powers. Before leaving he also tells her in no uncertain terms that one of his classmates tried to murder him. The next morning Aiko and the students stubbornly insist on helping them search the mountains for the adventurers as Aiko wants to ask more questions about the Liberators. | |||||
| 9 | "Dragon Slayer" Transcription: "Kokuryū o Ugatsu Mono" (Japanese: 黒竜を穿つ者) |
Motoki Nakanishi | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Naoyuki Kuzuya | September 9, 2019 |
| Once in the mountains Hajime uses transmuted drones connected to his jewel eye to search for the adventurers. They find the nobles son, Will, the only survivor who reveals they were attacked by an army of monsters and a black dragon. While returning they are attacked by the dragon. Hajime succeeds in knocking it from the sky and attempts to pierce its armour with his weapon the Pile Bunker, which can drive Azanthium stakes through any material. The dragon almost escapes until Shea knocks it out with Drucken. Deciding to forgo piercing the armour Hajime sadistically shoves the stake into its only unarmoured area; the anus. However, the pain causes the dragon to reveal she is a female Dragonborn, capable of taking a human form and begs him to remove the stake in exchange for everything she knows. She admits she was magically forced by someone to attack Will and his friends and as atonement, offers to help them stop that person. Hajime decides to kill her anyway but Yue convinces him to spare her. He removes the stake and the dragon transforms into a young woman named Tio, a shameless masochist who admits she enjoyed the stake, just a little. Now their ally Tio reveals the person, whoever he is, has an army of 60,000 monsters and is planning to attack the farming village. | |||||
| 10 | "The Goddess' Sword" Transcription: "Megami no Ken" (Japanese: 女神の剣) |
Hiroyuki Tsuchiya | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Masaharu Tomoda | September 16, 2019 |
| Hajime is convinced to fight when Aiko asks him to. He erects barricades around the village while avoiding the amorous intentions of Tio who finds his mixture of neglect and verbal abuse exciting. Hajime decides to dedicate their victory to “Aiko, Goddess of Plenty”, embarrassing her, then proceeds to massacre the monster army with transmuted mini-guns and rocket launchers. With his ammunition depleted and Yue and Tio out of magic Hajime and Shea rush to capture the mysterious robed commander as the monsters retreat. Hajime realises the commander is the missing Shimizu. Shimizu admits he was disappointed not to be the only summoned Hero, especially as he paled in comparison to his more powerful classmates, so he signed a contract with a demon, power in exchange for killing Aiko. He scratches Aiko with a poisonous needle but is shot from behind by a monster sniper. Hajime shoots the sniper and heals Aiko with Ambrosia via a kiss. As Shimizu lies dying he offers loyalty to Hajime who spots the lie in his eyes and mercilessly executes him, devastating Aiko. As they leave Yue correctly guesses the sniper was aiming at Aiko, so Hajime finished killing Shimizu so Aiko would blame him and not herself, enabling her to recover much quicker psychologically. | |||||
| 11 | "The Monsters' Day Off" Transcription: "Bakemonotachi no Kyūjitsu" (Japanese: 化け物たちの休日) |
Natsumi Yasue | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Atsushi Ōtsuki | September 23, 2019 |
| A slavery gang captures a rare mermaid child named Myu and decide to sell her. Hajime returns Will to his father and collects his fee. Deciding they need a break they explore the city as tourists. At an aquarium they meet a sentient talking fish and decide to free him. As thanks he passes on a rumour of a captured mermaid child. Deciding this bothers him Hajime and Shea wander the city until he senses the child in the sewers underground and rescues her, enraging the slavers boss. Hajime and Shea keep Myu safe but struggle with what to do next. Elsewhere Yue and Tio discuss sharing Hajime between them. Hajime decides to give Myu to the city guards, despite her begging to stay with Hajime. After handing a tearful Myu over the guardhouse is attacked and Myu kidnapped again. Enraged, Hajime begins systematically executing known associates of the slavers looking for the upcoming auction. saving many children along the way. Locating the auction in a noble’s mansion Hajime executes the boss, rescues Myu and blows up the mansion along with the auctions customers. Myu decides to start calling an uncomfortable Hajime “Papa”, which causes Yue, Shea and Tio to demand Hajime get them all pregnant with his children. | |||||
| 12 | "A Looming Shadow" Transcription: "Shinobiyoru Kage" (Japanese: 忍び寄る影) |
Hiroyuki Tsuchiya | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Masafumi Tamura | September 30, 2019 |
| Despite his unease Hajime takes to parenting Myu quite well. They return to the city where Hajime and the other heroes were summoned. While visiting the Adventurer's Guild Hajime meets a panicked Endou, one of his classmates, who warns them Cattleya the Demon set a trap in the Labyrinth for the rest of the class. The class are overwhelmed by Cattleya’s summoned Monsters, unable to even get close to Cattleya to try killing her. Hajime is indifferent until Endou upsets Myu and he becomes downright reluctant to help at all. A student, Suzu, is injured, causing most of the class to flee. Hiyama and Nakamura both suggest signing contracts with the demon to survive. Kouki, the main Hero who refuses to back down, gets close to Cattleya, but hesitates after she drops a locket with a picture of her lover, realizing she has a life outside the war as well. While hesitating, he is seriously injured. With support from the girls, Hajime decides to save his class, reasoning only one of them tried to kill him, meaning most of them are innocent. Shizuku’s original sword is broken during the fight, so she prepares to die alongside Kaori. However, they are saved at the last second by Hajime, having created a shortcut using his Pile Bunker to blast through the upper floors. Everyone is shocked to learn Hajime is still alive. | |||||
| 13 | "The Best at Being the Worst" Transcription: "Munō no Musō" (Japanese: 無能の無双) |
Naoki Ōhira, Satomi Nakamura | Shōichi Satō, Kinji Yoshimoto | Naoki Ōhira | October 7, 2019 |
| Hajime sees through Cattleya’s magic and kills all her monsters. Hiyama is terrified at Hajime’s return, fearing he will be discovered as his attempted murderer. Hajime transmutes Shizuku a new indestructible sword. Myu calls Hajime “Papa”, confusing everyone and upsetting Kaori. Cattleya attempts to flee but is caught by Hajime who tortures her for information, shocking his classmates. Hajime learns a powerful demon has cleared one of the labyrinths and is using its Ancient Magic to create a monster army. Cattleya warns him her lover will kill him in revenge, but Hajime kills her anyway. In the aftermath Kouki is outraged Hajime executed the helpless Cattleya so Hajime berates him in return for being too weak to do what is necessary, warning Kouki if he or any of his classmates try to stop him, he will kill them too. Kaori confesses she loves Hajime but he turns her down as he already loves Yue. Kaori insists on joining his team anyway to compete with Yue. Shizuku tries to return the sword he gave her but he tells her to keep it, though it is suggested she may be developing a crush on him. As they leave in Hajime’s transmuted SUV Kaori is furious to discover she must share the back seat with Shea and Tio while Yue automatically gets the passenger seat beside Hajime. Hajime remains determined to make it back to Japan no matter who he has to kill, even God himself. | |||||
| OVA–1 | "Yue's Diary" Transcription: "Yue no Nikkichō" (Japanese: ユエの日記帳) |
Naoki Ōhira | Shōichi Satō | Naoki Ōhira | December 25, 2019 |
| The ladies of Hajime’s team stumble across Yue’s diary, beginning with meeting Hajime and her seduction of him. She describes meeting Shea, the "worthless rabbit" and coming up with ways to torment her for falling in love with Hajime. She also describes her addiction to Hajime-nium, her name for Hajime’s blood. Then, after Shea defeated her in their duel she starts describing her fondly, admiring her skill and determination. Next she describes meeting the annoying Miledi, after which Yue describes feeling an almost sisterly bond with Shea and deciding to protect her. This causes Shea to burst into tears. She also describes meeting Tio, the “scrap dragon” and helpless pervert, as well as her jealousy of Hajime giving Aiko Ambrosia with a kiss and wonders if Hajime might be a sexual sadist, or have a teacher fetish. Next she describes meeting Myu, how seeing her cling to Hajime while insistently exclaiming "Papa, Papa!", had given rise to a desire to have a child with him. Lastly, the diary describes Yue meeting Kaori, the result of which being Yue's overwhelming desire to defeat Kaori and keep Hajime for herself. Yue finally arrives and, upon discovering the girls huddled over her diary, she punishes them - severely. Lastly, diary in-hand, she thoughtfully writes "it is a good day when you can punish the people you care about". | |||||
| 0 | "Prologue" Transcription: "Purorōgu" (Japanese: プロローグ) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | January 19, 2020 |
| OVA–2 | "Hot Love Springs Eternal" Transcription: "Naresome Onsen" (Japanese: なれそめ温泉) |
Naoki Ōhira | Shōichi Satō | Naoki Ōhira | February 26, 2020 |
| While bathing with Myu, Hajime overhears the ladies in the women’s baths talking. First, the girls demand the story of how Kaori met Hajime. She reveals it was when she saw him defending a grandmother and grandson from thugs, despite still being weak at the time, and she fell in love with his humility and not his strength. Yue jealously labels her a stalker, prompting Kaori to insist upon the details of Yue's first encountering and meeting Hajime. Yue describes being trapped in the crystal, and Hajime almost abandoning her, but then reconsidering after she literally begged him. Shea interrupts with her tale of meeting Hajime after he defeated the labyrinth, also begging him for help, then being used as bait to hunt monsters. Finally, Tio recounts her story of Hajime trying to kill her by impaling a spike up her anus while in her dragon form. Pushed beyond embarrassment, Hajime tries to stop Myu hearing what the ladies are saying. Kaori wonders how so many weird meetings caused anyone to fall in love with Hajime. As soon as they leave the baths, they resume competing for the harried Hajime. | |||||
| TRAILERS (SEASON 1) | |
After the first season's finale, it was announced that the series would receive a second season. Akira Iwanaga replaced Kinji Yoshimoto as director, and Studio Mother replaced White Fox as the secondary studio. The rest of the staff and cast returned to reprise their roles. It aired from January 13 to March 31, 2022, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, and BS11, and is available to watch on iQiyi. The opening theme is "Daylight" by MindaRyn, while the ending theme is "Gedō Sanka" (外道讃歌) by FantasticYouth.
Season 2[]
| STAFF (SEASON 2) | |
|---|---|
| Original Author | Shirakome, Ryou |
| Character Draft | TakayaKi |
| Director | Akira Iwanaga |
| Series Composition & Screenplay | Katsuichi Sato & Kinji Yoshimoto |
| Character Designer | Tomoka Kojima |
| Sub Character Designer | Kanako Watanabe |
| Prop Designer | Shigeyuki Korezawa and Seiki Tanaka |
| Monster Designer | Shigeyuki Koresawa |
| Art Director | Akira Fujisawa |
| Visual Art Setting | barnstorm design lab |
| Color Designer | Naoki Fukutani |
| CGI director | Kishi Koremi & Shosuke Uechi |
| Cinematographer | Kenji Takehara |
| Editor | Tomoki Nagasaka |
| Sound director | Yasushi Nagura |
| Music Director | Ryo Takahashi |
| Music producer | Sekine Yō |
| Music Production | Lantis |
| Producer | Takashi Soyama, Satoshi Fukao, Moriharu Ando, Aya Iizuka, Yuta Kashiwabara, Yoichi Sekine, Yuichi Izumi |
| Yuri Koinuma & Hironori Hiramatsu | |
| Animation Producer | Konori Hiramatsu |
| Animation production | Asread Co. & Studio MOTHER |
| Production | Arifureta Production Committee |
A two-part OVA was released on September 25, 2022 titled "The Miraculous Meeting and the Phantasmagorical Adventure" (幻の冒険と奇跡の邂逅, Maboroshi no Bōken to Kiseki no Kaigō).
| No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Irregular" Transcription: "Iregyurā" (Japanese: イレギュラー) |
Kaito Asakura | Shōichi Satō | Kaito Asakura | January 13, 2022 |
| Kouki returns with the others to the castle, disheartened by the fact that Kaori had not only confessed her love for Hajime, but had also left the group to be with him. Meanwhile, Hajime's group (which now includes Kaori, of course) travels the Gruen Desert, where they are attacked by dozens of Sand Worms. After defeating the monsters they rescue a noble by the name of Bize Feuward Zengen, the son of the Duke of Ankaji. Bize is afflicted with a strange condition that overloads his body with mana, and which will eventually kill him. He reveals that Ankaji is in a dire situation, with its water supply poisoned or tainted, such that the inhabitants have begun to exhibit symptoms of the same "mana overload" ailment afflicting Bize. Hajime and the girls soon decide to help the Anjaki residents. Meanwhile, General Freid of the Demon Army is informed first of Cattleya's death at Hajime's hand, then of the destruction of the monster army - also at Hajime's hand. Freid begins making preparations - for facing Hajime in battle - and killing him. | |||||
| 2 | "Burning Light" Transcription: "Shakunetsu no Hikari" (Japanese: 灼熱の光) |
Takao Kato, Natsumi Uchinuma | Shōichi Satō | Kaito Asakura | January 20, 2022 |
| Hajime's party arrive at Ankaji, where they provide aid to the citizens afflicted by the curse and destroy the monster responsible. While Kaori stays behind to treat the sick with Myu, Hajime and the rest of the party infiltrate the Gruen Volcano, the site of the third labyrinth. The group push forward through great rivers of molten lava, all the way to the core, which they discover is guarded by a hundred monsters. Hajime and the girls readily attack the monsters guarding the core, but just as they slay the last of them, a massive beam of light strikes Hajime. Desperately concerned for his safety - the depth of the girls' feelings for Hajime has never been more clear - they immediately converge to protect him, then prepare to ferociously retaliate. | |||||
| 3 | "Black and White" Transcription: "Kuro to Shiro" (Japanese: 黒と白) |
Kazuya Fujishiro | Shōichi Satō | Seiki Tanaka | January 27, 2022 |
| Hajime is wounded by Freid's surprise attack, but despite having the advantage, the enemy fails to defeat Hajime's party in combat. As a last resort, Freid destroys the controls that keep the volcano from erupting, and traps Hajime and the others inside so that the eruption will kill them. Before the volcano is sealed, Hajime instructs Tio (owing to her Dragon talents) to quickly escape to rejoin Kaori and Myu in Ankaji, while he and the others look for another exit. Meanwhile, at the palace, Shizuku is informed by princess Liliana that the King intends to brand Hajime as an heretic for his defiance. Daisuke Hiyama, the student who unbeknownst to the others had intentionally targeted Hajime (resulting in his fall and near death within the labyrinth), is increasingly despondent since Kaori (an object more of lust than any imagined "love") has joined Hajime after confessing her love to him. Meanwhile, another classmate, whose identity is a mystery, reveals that they've known all along that Daisuke had intentionally tried to kill Hajime at Orcus. This mystery person approaches Daisuke, proposing an alliance while subtly hinting that he's no choice but to accept. | |||||
| 4 | "Reunion" Transcription: "Oyako no Saikai" (Japanese: 親子の再会) |
Ryō Miyata | Shōichi Satō | Naoyuki Kuzuya | February 3, 2022 |
| Having barely escaped from her pursuers, Tio returns to Ankaji and is treated by Kaori and Myu, while Hajime, Yue and Shea reach the core of the labyrinth and seize its power before escaping in a submarine created by Hajime. Some time later, the party regroups in the middle of the ocean and arrives at the sea city of Erisen, home to the merfolk, where Myu reunites with her mother. Meanwhile, Shizuku consults with Aiko and learns that Hajime was officially branded as a heretic by the church for refusing to comply with their orders. Aiko also reveals that both the king and the nobles are behaving strangely and that according to Hajime, they can't trust neither the church nor the God Ehit, as he knows his true objective. | |||||
| 5 | "Memories from the Bottom of the Sea" Transcription: "Kaitei no Kioku" (Japanese: 海底の記憶) |
Hiromichi Matano | Shōichi Satō | Naoyuki Kuzuya | February 10, 2022 |
| The party departs Erisen to explore the underwater ruins of Melousine, the site of the fourth labyrinth. As they fight their way inside the ruins, they encounter a powerful monster. As the group retreats, Hajime and Kaori become separated from the others. The pair continue fighting the illusory foes of the labyrinth together, until finally they find time to rest and confer about their circumstances. Hajime reprimands Kaori for continuing to compare herself, and feel inferior, to Yue, who stood beside Hajime when he was most in need of someone, but reiterates that Yue is the one he loves, and suggests that Kaori leave the party if she can't accept that. Meanwhile, back at the castle, Aiko is kidnapped by a nun as Lilliana is shown watching the scene from afar. | |||||
| 6 | "Someone Important" Transcription: "Taisetsu na Hito" (Japanese: 大切な人) |
Shintarō Itoga | Shōichi Satō | Kaito Asakura | February 17, 2022 |
| Hajime and Kaori keep exploring the dungeon together until they watch a scene from the past where a peace treaty between the races is broken by Ehit's intervention. As they proceed, a spirit possesses Kaori and attempts to force Hajime to submit, but he refuses and proceeds to torture it with magic bullets instead unless it leaves Kaori's body, until Kaori exorcises it from within using her powers. After she is freed, Kaori kisses Hajime and affirms that she still loves him and wants to be by his side, despite his feelings for Yue. The two then reach the core of the Labyrinth, where they reunite with the others. The monster who previously attacked the party returns to fight, but is destroyed by Hajime with help from the same sentient fish Hajime and Shea freed on another occasion. Meanwhile, the rest of the students are worried about Aiko's disappearance, unaware that she is being held captive at the Divine Mountain. | |||||
| 7 | "A New Vow" Transcription: "Arata na Chikai" (Japanese: 新たな誓い) |
Satoshi Nakagawa | Shōichi Satō | Atsushi Ōtsuki | February 24, 2022 |
| Hajime and the girls spend some days at Erisen, with Hajime reluctant about parting ways with Myu. Once her mother reassures Hajime that she will be fine with his departure, Hajime promises to Myu that he will take her to visit Earth once he finds a way back there. As the party departs to continue their journey, Liliana flees from the castle, certain that she can't trust anyone there, and the Demon Lord's forces prepare a large scale attack on the humans. Meanwhile, Commander Meld considers sending a letter to Hajime to ask for his help, when Daisuke appears to talk to him. One of Meld's subordinates is hypnotized and attempts to kill him, and just when Meld protects Daisuke from the attacker, Daisuke takes the opportunity to stab him. | |||||
| 8 | "A Disturbing Darkness" Transcription: "Fuon na Kage" (Japanese: 不穏な影) |
Natsumi Uchinuma, Takao Kato | Shōichi Satō | Atsushi Ōtsuki | March 3, 2022 |
| Meld escapes from his attackers, but is intercepted and killed by the apostle Noint. Meanwhile, Hajime's party rescues some travelers from a group and bandits and reunite with Liliana, who reveals that she ran away from the castle to look for a way to rescue Aiko, who is being held at the Divine Mountain, which is also the site of the Fifth Labyrinth. Hajime rescues Aiko from prison, but they are attacked by Noint, while an army of one hundred thousand monsters led by Freid and his subordinates approach the capital. | |||||
| 9 | "Invasion of The Capital" Transcription: "Ōto Shinkō" (Japanese: 王都侵攻) |
Kazuya Fujishiro | Shōichi Satō | Yūichi Nihei | March 10, 2022 |
| Weakened by the priests' magic and protecting Aiko from harm, Hajime is in a disadvantage fighting Noint. Yue and Shea confront and defeat Freid and his soldiers, forcing him to flee, while Kaori and Liliana search for the rest of Hajime's classmates. Tio rendezvouses with Hajime, who entrusts Aiko to her care and begins to counterattack his enemy. | |||||
| 10 | "God's Apostle" Transcription: "Kami no Shito" (Japanese: 神の使徒) |
Hiroaki Matsushima | Shōichi Satō | Atsushi Ōtsuki, Naoyuki Kuzuya | March 17, 2022 |
| Having nothing left to hold him back, Hajime fights Noint and defeats her after a costly battle. Tio and Aiko combine their powers to launch an attack on the temple, but ends up destroying it completely while killing all the priests. Hajime joins the duo and the spirit of one of the Liberators guide them to the core of the Labyrinth, where they claim their rewards. Elsewhere, the students learn about the monster invasion and regroup with the knights by Eri's suggestion, but Eri betrays her classmates and subdue them with help from the knights under her control. | |||||
| 11 | "Betrayal" Transcription: "Uragiri" (Japanese: 裏切り) |
Natsumi Uchinuma | Shōichi Satō | Naoyuki Kuzuya | March 24, 2022 |
| Eri reveals that she sided with the demons and used her necromancy to have the knights killed and turned into undead under her control. She also assumes that her main objective is to turn Kouki, with whom she is in love, into an undead as well so she can have him all to herself. Kaori and Lilliana arrive to help and Kaori uses her powers to heal the rest of the classmates, who begin to fight back. However, Daisuke mortally wounds Kaori, and Eri was about to turn her into an undead and he can have her by his side. In a last second, Hajime appears and slays all of the possessed knights using his minigun. Eri orders Meld; now a reincarnated undead, to kill Hajime. However, mustering his last bit of soul, he begs Hajime to end his misery, to which he obliges without question. Hajime is about to kill Eri when Daisuke attacks him, resulting in the latter brutally beaten to near-death and thrown into the outskirts of the arena; left for dead as the monsters devours him. Freid arrives and challenges Hajime to defeat the thousands of monsters invading the city, which he easily does with a space weapon developed by him. Eri takes the opportunity to escape with Freid and Hajime's party take Kaori's body, having a plan in mind to fully resurrect her. | |||||
| 12 | "A New Journey" Transcription: "Arata na Tabidachi" (Japanese: 新たな旅立ち) |
Kaito Asakura | Shōichi Satō | Kaito Asakura | March 31, 2022 |
| Hajime and the others manage to preserve Kaori's soul, but by her request, they implant it on Noint's restored body so that she can increase her combat abilities while having her original body preserved for when they return to Japan. Hajime reveals to the other students Ehit's true intentions and Kouki remarks that they should fight him to save the world, but Hajime insists that they should focus on returning to their own world instead. Despite that, the students decide to join forces with Hajime and split into two groups, one accompanying Hajime's party to the next Labyrinth, including Shizuku and Kouki, in order to get stronger and another escorting Liliana to meet the emperor at the capital in their effort to stop Ehit's plans. | |||||
| OVA–3 | "Arifureta: From a Detour to The World's Strongest" Transcription: "Arifureta Yorimichi de Sekai Saikyō" (Japanese: ありふれた寄り道で世界最強) |
Naoyuki Kuzuya | Shouichi Satou | Kaito Asakura | April 7, 2022 |
| This episode sets when Myu was still in the group. While Kaori heals some travelers, Shea, Tio, and Myu ask Yue to teach them magic. Hajime warns them not to and is proven right because Yue's explanations are too vague and make no sense. However, Kaori joins the lesson and instantly learns a force field spell to everyone's surprise. They stop in a town and by Myu's suggestion swap clothes to see how it is like. Myu wears Yue's, Yue wears Tio's, Tio wears Myu's, Shea wears Kaori's, and Kaori wears Shea's. Hajime is impressed, but Kaori is embarrassed by Shea's revealing outfit. After switching back and going back on the road, Yue is bothered that Myu always calls her "Big Sister" instead of "Mama". Myu assures her that she loves her and pats her head, causing Yue to regress to an infantile state and almost making Hajime lose control of the vehicle due to how cute they look. | |||||
| TRAILERS (SEASON 2) | |
On September 10, 2022, it was announced that a third season is in production. Asread is animating the season, with Akira Iwanaga, Shoichi Sato, and Chika Kojima returning as director, scriptwriter, and character designer, respectively.
| STAFF (SEASON 3) | |
|---|---|
| Original Author | Shirakome, Ryou |
| Character Draft | TakayaKi |
| Director | Akira Iwanaga |
| Series Composition & Screenplay | Katsuichi Sato & Kinji Yoshimoto |
| Character Designer | Tomoka Kojima |
| TRAILER (SEASON 3) |
Picture Drama[]
A one-week limited voice drama will be available on official Twitter immediately after the broadcast of the main story. The original writer, Ryo Shirome, is in charge of the scenario and Misaki Mori is in charge of the manga. It will be included as a "Twitter serialized picture drama" as a bonus video in each Blu-ray volume.
Reception[]
The series was the 27th best-selling light novel series in the first half of 2017, with 84,372 copies sold.
Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network enjoyed the series, praising it for its central premise and how it was "good twist on the genre conventions" by making its hero have to work for his overpowered hero status instead of immediately gaining it like many light novel protagonists. She praised the series for its depiction of the romantic relationship between Hajime and Yue, which she called "healthy", and also felt that the translation wasn't as good as some of J-Novel Club's other releases.
The anime adaptation was subjected to extremely sharp and negative criticism. Christopher Farris of the Anime News Network, cited manufacturing issues as the main causes of the series's failure. Farris points to the poor quality of the animation and the first episode missing most of the original source of the original novel
External Links[]
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest ─ Official Website at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
- TV Anime "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" ─ Official website (in Japanese)
- TV Anime "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" Official (@ARIFURETA_info) - Twitter
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest ─ Official manga website (in Japanese)
- Arifureta: I Love Isekai ─ Official yonkoma website (in Japanese)
- Arifureta Zero ─ Official manga website (in Japanese)
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Gakuen ─ Official manga website (in Japanese)
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest ─ Official website at J-Novel Club
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest ─ Wikipedia JP
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest ─ Wikipedia EN
Trivia[]
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