Benriya Saitō-san, Isekai ni Iku (便利屋斎藤さん、異世界に行く, Handyman Saitō in Another World ) is a Japanese fantasy manga series by Kazutomo Ichitomo. It has been serialized online via Kadokawa Shoten's ComicWalker website since October 2018 and has been collected in six tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by C2C is set to premiere in January 2023.

Synopsis[]
Handyman Saito has never been anyone special. All his life, he's had average grades, ordinary athletic skill, a commonplace job... But his unremarkable path takes a turn when he wakes up in another world. Here, warriors, wizards, and elves accompany him on quests delving deep into dungeons, and Saito realizes for the first time what it's like to be needed. After all, who other than the handyman could be trusted to open locked treasure chests or to repair his allies' equipment? Beginning with a simple "thank you," this is the story of an ordinary person's fulfilling life.
(Source: Yen Press)
Bibliographic Information[]
Manga[]
Handyman Saitō in Another World is written and illustrated by Kazutomo Ichitomo. The series began serialization online via Kadokawa Shoten's ComicWalker website in October 2018. It has been collected in 8+ volumes as of December 23, 2022. At Anime NYC 2022, Yen Press announced that they licensed the manga for English publication.
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | July 22, 2019 | 978-4-04-065896-4 | June 20, 2023 | 978-1-97-536467-0 |
2 | December 23, 2019 | 978-4-04-064332-8 | September 19, 2023 | 978-1-97-536469-4 |
3 | August 21, 2020 | 978-4-04-064932-0 | January 23, 2024 | 978-1-97-536472-4 |
4 | January 22, 2021 | 978-4-04-680144-9 | May 21, 2024 | 978-1-97-536473-1 |
5 | June 23, 2021 | 978-4-04-680525-6 | August 20, 2024 | 978-1-97-538863-8 |
6 | January 21, 2022 | 978-4-04-680927-8 | February 18, 2025 | 978-1-97-539126-3 |
7 | July 23, 2022 | 978-4-04-681642-9 | — | — |
8 | December 23, 2022 | 978-4-04-682043-3 | — | — |
9 | June 23, 2023 | 978-4-04-682415-8 | — | — |
10 | December 22, 2023 | 978-4-04-683057-9 | — | — |
11 | July 22, 2024 | 978-4-04-683671-7 | — | — |
Side Story[]
Characters[]
Saito's party in both anime and manga. The voice section is the voice actor for the animated TV version.
An ordinary young man who came to another world from modern Japan. His occupation is a thief. His original name was "Saito" and he worked as a handyman employee in Japan. He got into a traffic accident on the night of his retirement after getting into a dispute with the manager's overtreatment due to his low salary. start a new life He has dark brown short hair, and he wears work clothes even after he came to another world. He has a serious personality, always acts honestly and without forgetting consideration, and is good at caring and taking care of others. Raelza, Morlock (Bergheim Chrome), Lafanpan immediately after the transfer to another world, He meets the three of them and joins the party, and while being swayed by them, he continues to work on activities such as dungeon exploration.
In this way, you help your friends and are often helped, and as you continue your adventure, you gradually come to think of Raelza and his friends as if they were family. Since there are more opportunities for her efforts and talents to be recognized and appreciated than when he was in Japan, he feels a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in living in a different world, although there are many dangers. Because of his good personality and well-proportioned features, Raelza secretly fell in love with him. It attracts many people regardless of gender, such as falling in love at first sight. However, he is dull to her love affairs and is described as "Park Nenjin" by Lafanpan. Morlock, who regained part of his memory during the Great Exploration battle, found out that he had summoned Saito to another world by mistake, but when he tried to send him back to Japan, he returned to the same situation as before the transfer. Due to the fear of dying, he gives up on returning to Japan and continues to enjoy life in another world.
Abilities[]
Originally, there were many residents in the world, but there were only many capturing techniques. Among them, there was nothing outstanding, and it was treated as "very useful but nothing special." However, when the technology of the other world fell below that of the original world, it achieved unparalleled success in technology-related fields.
In addition to technology-related tasks, they also effectively performed supportive roles such as preparing tools suited to the situation, analyzing enemies' abilities and conditions, supplying appropriate backup weapons, repairing broken equipment, and dismantling traps. Although they have no magical power and cannot use magic, they have a special talent for memorization, allowing them to remember spells and teach them to Marlock when he loses his spells.

As a regular person who had never fought, he had no combat ability at the beginning. He could raise a shield to block the approach of weak monsters, but if left alone in a dungeon, his chances of survival were close to zero. Therefore, he trained diligently, and by volume 5, he could easily handle a single orc. By volume 8, he reached level 19 and could easily defeat adventurers of a moderate level.
Although he cannot use magic, he uses his excellent memory to memorize all of his spells, assisting the spellcasting of the Morlocks, who quickly forget spells, and making their allies' weapons more effective depending on the enemy's abilities. By exchanging it for a more powerful weapon, it gradually becomes an irreplaceable existence as an excellent support role. On the other hand, his combat power is almost non-existent, and he is often protected by his companions during battle, and sometimes gets caught up in enemy attacks and drags his feet.
- Supply Raelza with weapons that match the enemy.
- Use your shield to protect Lafanpan from enemies.
- Memorize spells to help Morlocks chant.
He has a chef's license and is good at cooking, although not as good as his main job. His special personality is his attentiveness, so he attracts people and sometimes makes men fall in love with him. As a result, when Saito took a break from a cold, the party was driven to the point of being wiped out, and he was expected to return as soon as possible. Although he sometimes thinks of himself as "useless", he is now an indispensable presence at the party. The Saito party would collapse in no time without Saito, but once, when he caught a cold, the existing party members went to the dungeon, resulting in an overall difficult situation, so they waited until Saito recovered from his cold.
A female adventurer and she is a heavy warrior. Normally, she wears armor, so that even her gender is indistinguishable. Underneath her helmet, however, she is a beautiful woman with long, rat-colored hair. She is friendly to her friends but also has a tsundere side, and often acts suspiciously, especially toward Saito. When she was a novice adventurer, she was once scarred by a monster on her face, a scar that remains to this day, so she covers her face with a helmet and armor and rarely removes it in front of her friends. While resting at an inn, she met Saito, who had been summoned from another world, and the four of them, she, Morlock, and Lafanpan, began working together as a party. In her childhood, his father was killed by a wolf tribe and she lived alone with her mother. After her death, she lived alone, hunting in the forest.
She lived with a young skinny wolf she met in the forest, but after Morlock picked her up, she became his adopted daughter, and when necessary she goes by her full name of "Raelza Morlock." She usually has a cold attitude toward Morlock, calling him an old man and playing the role of a Vanguard, but in her heart, she loves him as a nurturing parent. She has lived a solitary life in the past, and she cares for her friends as if they were her family, and tries to protect them in any crisis.
Although hidden by her armor, her breasts are slightly larger than average (big breasts in the anime). It is standard for her to show her sexiness by having her armor melted by slime and her underwear removed together. She also has silver hair in the original manga version, but in the anime, it has been changed to brown, perhaps because it is inconspicuous against the color of her armor. (On Pixiv, the number of illustrations has increased massively since the anime adaptation, and so far only the author has posted the original silver-haired Raelza).
Abilities[]

For these reasons, not only does she value Saito as an irreplaceable comrade, but she has also been in love with him for a long time, but has had difficulty being honest with him about her feelings. When Morlock regains part of his memory and Saito, who has come from modern Japan, is told that he is to return to his original world, she immediately opposes the idea out of a desire not to be separated from him. However, Saito decided to stay in the other world instead of returning to Japan, and through various events and battles, she and Saito have become close friends.
In battle, she is a power fighter in the vanguard and has a manly personality and tone of voice. However, she is madly in love with Saito, and although she is unaware of it, the other members know. Although she does not hide her love for him, she usually transforms into a clumsy, suspicious-looking maiden when he gets involved. When she first appears, she is 46 level, wears over shoulders, heavy breasts, and plate mail, and uses a great broad sword as her weapon of choice.
He is a magician and he had retired from adventuring due to old age, but has returned to active service and is now active in a party with Saito and his friends. He is a gray-haired old man with a white beard and wears a wizard's robe and hat. He is a womanizer and a lecher, and whenever he sees a beautiful woman, regardless of her race, he makes a ferocious approach to her, to the amazement of Raelza and his friends. He meets Saito, who is summoned from another world, and the four of them, Raelza, Lafanpan, and Saito, begin to work together. When he first appears, he is level 84 and is equipped with a robe and a magic wand. His main skills are super-grade fire magic and lightning magic, and his special personality is medium-frequency amnesia.
He protects the orphaned Raelza and is her foster parent on the surface, but she often calls him an old man and treats him coldly. He loves to gamble and has spent all of his earnings at the casino in no time. He has been a high-level, legendary magician since the beginning, but he is quite forgetful, often forgetting the names of his friends, conversations from minutes ago, or even that he is alive and the magic spells he is using, and he is often slowed down. Since Saito became his friend, his good memory supports him in the form of teaching him the spells he has learned, which makes it easier for him to use magic even in battle. He cannot stop drinking and gambling and is often lax, but as he goes on adventures and overcomes crises with them, he comes to love Saito and his friends as if they were his children, and he tries to protect them no matter how dangerous the situation.
He has a wife and children, and his real name is "Bergheim Chrome." He lived with his young daughter and his wife, but he devoted himself to magical research more than he loved his family, and while he was away from home, preoccupied with becoming the nation's highest-ranking mage, his daughter became ill and died. His disappointed wife leaves him, and he spends his days in solitude, regretting that he cannot bring his daughter back to life. In the process, he engages and defeats a mysterious great sorcerer, and is returned to the entrance of the dungeon with no memory of his family. He temporarily regains his memory and awakens while challenging the Great Labyrinth of the State Management with Saito and his friends, but he loses his memory again and returns to his usual state.
Since then, whenever he is in a pinch, he awakens and demonstrates his power as the great magician Chrome to protect Saito and his family, who are like family to him. After returning from the Grand Labyrinth, he was poisoned by a demon and died, but the magic that someone had cast on him in the past was activated and he was revived in his undead form. He was unable to revive fully because the hellhound ate a part of his lower body, but he succeeded in regaining his magical power after a mortal struggle with him and the senior demons.
Abilities[]

An old sorcerer. He is a legendary sorcerer and is by far the most advanced in the party, and can use advanced offensive magic. Because of his forgetfulness and senility, and sometimes forgets his companions or the chanting of magic, so he is useless without Saito's help. He is also a bit sloppy in other ways, but he shows a sense of responsibility and dignity as an elder. He is Raelza's foster father, who rescued Saito when he was summoned to another world.
After returning from the labyrinth, he was poisoned by a giant serpent and died while recovering from his illness. However, the magic that someone had cast on him in the past was activated and he was resurrected, but when he was dead, the Hellhound ate his male organ and much of his magic power, so the magic was incompletely activated and he was resurrected in the form of an undead man.
After that, he repeatedly revived and became undead, but during a battle with the twin demons, Hellhound returned his magical power, and he was fully revived with dog ears and rejuvenation. He hunts down the demon with the power of his prime, but just before he is about to finish it off, he ages all over again. After defeating the demon, he shares his magical power with the dying Hellhound and loses consciousness, but then returns to his normal state of health.
A moonlight fairy girl who came from the moon and she mainly acts as a healer for the party. She is a small beautiful girl with long bluish silver hair pulled into twin-tails and fairy wings on her back. She is a strong-willed tease with a penchant for money, but she also shows a friendly side in emergencies. Her nickname is "Lafa." She is more strict about money than most people, and she charges for healing magic except in emergencies, even if she is working with his friends. While she is a miser, she also has a high sense of pride, as she hates receiving free charity and will not accept money except for work.
The real reason for her fussy attitude toward money is that she has inherited a curse from his ancestors that her body will shrink if she does not offer a gold coin to the moon on a full moon night, and she is obsessed with gold coins to prevent the curse. She is a mood-maker who adds to the atmosphere of the party by playing the role of a sharp talker for Morlock and by teasing Raelza, who is in love with Saito. Since meeting Saito, she has been inspired by him and is increasingly helping others without regard to profit or loss.
The curse of the "Moonlight Fairy" was not caused by a goddess, but was left behind by an evil god who was sealed by the moonlight fairies in ancient times. Even after the sealing, the evil god interfered in the outside world through his dependents, spreading lies to various races over a long period, and as a result, the moonlight fairies of the present day believed them.
Abilities[]
A female moonlight fairy cleric. However, while her healing magic and her ability to turn undead are highly appreciated, she charges fees for her services, even from her friends and allies. She uses the gold coins thus gained as sacrifices to the Goddess of the Moon, who had cursed her race to shrink in size if not receive such regular offerings. As a moonlight faery, her powers come from the moon.

Her main skills are defensive sacred magic and elementary magic in general (offensive power and defensive buffs), and his special trait is the curse of the moon goddess. Her healing White Magic requires her hands to be at least close to the wound.
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Term[]
- Madelaka
- A unit of dimensions in a different world. 1 Maderaka = about 30 centimeters.
- Maderaka I, who built the country, is said to have had 300 male genitalia for a long time, and in honor of him, this unit was set.
TV Anime[]
On January 19, 2022, an anime television series adaptation was announced. It is produced by C2C and directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka, with scripts written by Kenta Ihara, character designs handled by Yōko Tanabe, and music composed by Tomotaka Ōsumi. The series aired from January 8 to March 26, 2023, on AT-X and other networks. The opening theme song, "kaleidoscope", is performed by Teary Planet, while the ending theme song, "Hidamari no Saido" (ひだまりの彩度, "Sunny Spot's Saturation"), is performed by Konoco. Crunchyroll has licensed the series.
- Staff
- Original Author & Illustrator - Kazutomo Ichichi
- Supervision- Shoji Masuda
- Director - Toshiyuki Kubooka
- Series Composition/Screenplay - Kenta Inohara
- Deputy Director - Hiroki Ikeshita
- Character Design - Yoko Tanabe
- Monster Design - Yoshiyoshi Nagamori
- Action supervision - Shinichi Wada
- Prop Design - Koji Nagatomi
- Prop Supervision / Character Design - Yuki Yokoyama
- Art Setting - Chikako Shibata
- Art Director - Asuka Kashiwamura
- Art supervision - Masaru Sato
- Color design - Masato Takagi
- Special Effects - Yoshitaka Murakami, Yi Yang, & Jun Kubota
- Cinematographer - Nobuyuki Murakami
- Editing - Keisuke Yanagi
- Acoustic Director -Yuichi Imaizumi
- Sound effects - Michiyo Saito, & Yasumasa Koyama
- Music - Chiu Ohsumi
- Music production - KADOKAWA
- Music Producer - Chieko Mizutori
- Producers - Norifumi Kikushima, Hidetake Nishigaya, Aya Iizuka, & Hajime Maruyama
- Animation Producer - Kazumasa Hayasaka
- Animation production - C2C
- Production - "Handyman Saitō in Another World" Production Committee
Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku was released on Blu-ray and DVD in three volumes from March 24, 2023, to May 24, 2023.
1 | "Handyman, Saitou" Transcription: "Benriya, Saitō-san" (Japanese: 便利屋、斎藤さん) |
Kōji Nagatomi | Kenta Ihara | Toshiyuki Kubooka | January 8, 2023 |
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Saitō, a handyman from Japan displaced into another world, proves his usefulness to the adventuring party he has joined, which includes Raelza the fighter, fairy priestess Lafanpan, and the aged wizard Morlock. The rest of the episode includes brief descriptions of the other party members and the world he has landed into. | |||||
2 | "What Saitou Can Do" Transcription: "Saitō-san ga Dekiru Koto" (Japanese: 斎藤さんが出来ること) |
Tsutomu Yabuki | Kenta Ihara | Hiroki Ikeshita | January 15, 2023 |
As Saito continues adventuring, he finds that even a new life in another world is not without mishaps and quirky events. He ends up killing - and cooking - a hydra eel after Raelza's phobia of slimy creatures prevents her from fighting it; Franlil and Ninia are introduced; Maderaka, the King of the realm ends up friends with Demon King Dorg's decapitated but still-living head; Saito learns about the curse the Moon Goddess has put on Lafanpan's people, and is saved from dying by Raelza after helping to vanquish an iron golem. | |||||
3 | "Adventurers in the Great Labyrinth" Transcription: "Dai Meikyū no Bōkensha-tachi" (Japanese: 大迷宮の冒険者たち) |
Satoshi Saga | Kenta Ihara | Toshiyuki Kubooka, Hiroki Ikeshita, Kōji Nagatomi | January 22, 2023 |
This episode is a collection of short stories detailing certain quirks about the other world and its inhabitants, including how adventuring in a peaceful kingdom has affected social and political dynamics. The king's advlsors form a party of idol heroes. The assassin Kisurugi and the witch Lavella are introduced. Saito makes the acquaintance of Donbain, a reclusive dwarven mastersmith, after easily breaking through his 108-lock door. In the Great Labyrinth, the kingdom's main adventuring grounds, Saito finds both a vacuum robot from Earth and a hidden passage which leads to an as yet unexplored part of the dungeons, thus reviving the kingdom's flagging adventuring business. | |||||
4 | "The Dawn of a New Era" Transcription: "Atarashii Jidai no Makuake" (Japanese: 新しい時代の幕開け) |
Tadahito Matsubayashi | Kenta Ihara | Yoriyasu Kogawa | January 29, 2023 |
Dorg and Maderaka's Minister are two of the first to delve into the revitalized Labyrinth, but are later attacked and temporarily killed by Kisurugi. Saito's group meets the kingdom's idol party and the adventuring duo Lilyza and Gible, and Raelza develops a rivalry with Franlil. While delving deeper into the Labyrinth, Saito comes upon a cave filled with artefacts from all over Earth's eras and cultures; they are attacked by Kisurugi and Primas, but are saved by Gibungle, who then addresses Morlock as his former mentor. | |||||
5 | "Ninja and Witch" Transcription: "Ninja to Majo" (Japanese: 忍者と魔女) |
Yūsaku Saotome | Kenta Ihara | Hiroki Ikeshita, Shinpei Nagai | February 5, 2023 |
Morlock is shown to suffer from apparent amnesia, possibly due to the influence of forbidden magic he tried to investigate 20 years ago. Before Gibungle can rouse the mage's memory further, the party is attacked by Kisurugi, who desperately seeks ancient time magic hidden inside the Labyrinth to save Lavella from dying of old age. The ninja is thwarted by Lilyza, Gible, Franlil, Ninia and the idol adventurers. To help Ravella, Primas rips off her own wings to release the magic stored within, thus turning them all into a powerful dark spirit. | |||||
6 | "Memories of an Old Sorcerer" Transcription: "Rō Majutsushi no Kioku" (Japanese: 老魔術師の記憶) |
Tsutomu Yabuki | Kenta Ihara | Tsutomu Yabuki | February 12, 2023 |
The adventurers team up to combat the common threat, but are unable to damage the dark spirit. Saito remembers finding a secret magic formula which can manipulate time in one of Morlock's books. It is revealed that Morlock, in his ambition to be recognized as a great mage, lost his daughter to a heavy fever after neglecting her. He then entered the Great Labyrinth to find Crom, a legendary mage who created time magic, in order to bring his daughter back to life, but lost his challenge, whereupon Crom stripped him off his memories. Theorizing that it was Morlock who had called him into this world, Saito helps the old wizard in casting the spell, which freezes everyone but Morlock in time. | |||||
7 | "Extreme Contact" Transcription: "Kyokugen no Sesshoku" (Japanese: 極限の接触) |
Kōji Nagatomi | Kenta Ihara | Kagetsu Aizawa | February 19, 2023 |
In the 100 seconds the time-stop spell has granted him, Morlock tries to destroy the dark spirit, but instead has an insight into its motive and cancels the magic upon them, separating them into their individual entities and giving them the chance to atone. The revived Dorg and Royal Minister join them, and Morlock is forced to dash Kisurugi's hopes when he explains that Crom had left this world after growing tired of it. The Minister explains that King Maderaka can restore Lavella's youth if a life connected to her is sacrificed. Knowing he will face the death penalty for his slayings anyway, Kisurugi volunteers his own, and with the agreement of the other adventurers, the Minister and Dorg take Kisurugi with them. | |||||
8 | "What I Gained from the Battle" Transcription: "Tatakai de Eta Mono" (Japanese: 戦いで得たもの) |
Hiroki Ikeshita | Kenta Ihara | Tetsuya Endō | February 26, 2023 |
Instead of getting killed, Kisurugi and Primasse are crippled until their sacrificed life essence restores Lavella youth, but she loses her memory. About to leave her alone, Kisurugi is reprimanded by Primasse, inspiring him to start his life anew at Lavella's side. In the Labyrinth, the other-worldly artefacts conjured by Crom are confiscated by the crown, but Morlock has regained part of his memories, including how he had accidentally called Saito into this world. With the chances of returning him to Earth being very slim, and having nothing to return for anyway, Saito decides to stay in this world, and Raelza confesses her affection for him. Right afterwards, however, Morlock is bitten by a venomous monster and dies soon after. | |||||
9 | "Sad Dog Warrior" Transcription: "Kanashiki Inu no Senshi" (Japanese: 悲しき犬の戦士) |
Yūsaku Saotome | Kenta Ihara | Kagetsu Aizawa | March 5, 2023 |
After having fallen in love with a female white wolf, who was killed by his master's orders after leaving a single cub as their offspring, a demon wolf has exiled himself to the mortal world. Morlock surprisingly rises from his grave due to a one-time resurrection spell he had cast on himself long ago, but he returns in an undead form because the demon wolf has devoured one of his body parts, making the magic incomplete. Gibungle helps out with his former master's magical journal, which states that the body part must be retrieved to make the spell successful. As they look for the demon wolf, Morlock reveals how Raelza had lost her parents and she came to him, and asks Saito to take care of her if he does not make it. | |||||
10 | "Tracker of the Demon World" Transcription: "Makai no Tsuisekisha" (Japanese: 魔界の追跡者) |
Kazunobu Shimizu | Kenta Ihara | Shinpei Nagai | March 12, 2023 |
Maddened by the magical energy in Morlock's flesh, the demon wolf attacks and wounds Saito and Morlock. Raelza manages to injure it, but the appearance of its pup brings it back to its senses, and it asks Raelza to kill it. A minion of the wolf's former master arrives to bring it back to the netherrealm, but Saito, Raelza and Lafanpan fight it until the demon lord itself arrives to claim Morlock's magic for its own. When Raelza engages it and is imperiled, Saito carries Morlock's body close to the demon wolf and then intervenes to save her. Morlock asks the wolf to return of his magic in exchange for looking after the wolf's pup. Fully restored, Morlock beats the demon; but as he appears before his companions, he suddenly sports a pair of dog ears and a tail. | |||||
11 | "The Final Battle" Transcription: "Saishū Kessen" (Japanese: 最終決戦) |
Hiro Ōki | Kenta Ihara | Takayuki Inagaki | March 19, 2023 |
With his magic combined with the demon wolf's essence, Morlock temporarily regains his youth and engages the demon lord when the latter promptly returns for revenge. The demon proves too tough even for the mightiest magic Morlock can summon, but before it can attack the companions, the wolf pup intervenes and slays it. Unwilling to leave the pup fatherless, Morlock returns the wolf's essence to free it from its bondage to the demon lord, restoring him to life while giving up his own. In gratitude, the demon wolf offers to settle the debt one day, which the grieving Raelza refuses. | |||||
12 | "The One Who Needs It Most" Transcription: "Ichiban Hitsuyō Toshite Iru Hito" (Japanese: いちばん必要としている人) |
Kōji Nagatomi | Kenta Ihara | Shinji Ishihira | March 26, 2023 |
The next day, Saito awakes from his injuries to find that Morlock has completely recovered, and he finally acknowledges his own feelings for Raelza. Otherwise, his life as an adventurer returns pretty much to normal, except for a few unexpected new developments. The most important ones are that Saito has finally won more confidence in himself, and that his exploits have made him so famous that all his friends and the people in the kingdom begin approaching him and asking him for his skills as a handyman, making him feel fulfilled at last. |
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