Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made (ハズレ枠の【状態異常スキル】で最強になった俺がすべてを蹂躙するまで , Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kaoru Shinozaki. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in November 2017, before Overlap acquired and published it in print with illustrations by KWKM in July 2018. A manga adaptation with composition by Keyaki Uchi-Uchi and illustrations by Shō Uyoshi began serialization on the Comic Gardo website in July 2019. An anime television series adaptation produced by Seven Arcs aired from July to September 2024.
Synopsis[]
Abruptly catapulted into a fantasy world, Mimori Touka and his classmates have been summoned by the world’s resident goddess to serve as heroes. Luckily, most of the students display amazing skills upon arrival—except for Mimori, whose abilities bottom out at a measly E-rank. With no further use for him, the goddess banishes Mimori to a dungeon from which no one has ever returned alive. Yet, as it turns out, Mimori’s skills aren’t so much worthless as they are abnormal. Abnormally powerful, even. If Mimori can only claw his way back to the surface, nothing will stand in his way from getting revenge.
(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
List of Published Books[]
Light Novel[]
Written by Kaoru Shinozaki, the series began serialization on the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō on November 24, 2017. The series was later acquired by Overlap, who began publishing the series in print with illustrations by KWKM on July 25, 2018. As of June 2023, eleven volumes have been released.
In July 2020, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they licensed the novels for English publication.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | July 25, 2018 | 978-4-86-554372-8 | December 10, 2020 (digital) March 9, 2021 (print) |
978-1-64-827069-7 |
| 2 | December 25, 2018 | 978-4-86-554426-8 | May 13, 2021 (digital) June 8, 2021 (print) |
978-1-64-827089-5 |
| 3 | May 25, 2019 | 978-4-86-554494-7 | November 11, 2021 (digital) December 21, 2021 (print) |
978-1-64-827265-3 |
| 4 | October 25, 2019 | 978-4-86-554559-3 | June 2, 2022 (digital) August 2, 2022 (print) |
978-1-64-827320-9 |
| 5 | April 25, 2020 | 978-4-86-554645-3 | August 25, 2022 (digital) October 11, 2022 (print) |
978-1-63-858326-4 |
| 6 | November 25, 2020 | 978-4-86-554782-5 | November 3, 2022 (digital) February 21, 2023 (print) |
978-1-63-858699-9 |
| 7 | May 25, 2021 | 978-4-86-554909-6 | March 2, 2023 (digital) June 13, 2023 (print) |
978-1-63-858994-5 |
| 8 | November 25, 2021 | 978-4-82-400044-6 | August 10, 2023 (digital) October 10, 2023 (print) |
978-1-68-579853-6 |
| 9 | June 25, 2022 | 978-4-82-400186-3 | December 28, 2023 (digital) February 20, 2024 (print) |
979-8-88-843197-9 |
| 10 | December 25, 2022 | 978-4-82-400363-8 | June 18, 2024 (print) | 979-8-88-843591-5 |
| 11 | June 25, 2023 | 978-4-82-400527-4 | — | — |
| 11.5 | January 25, 2024 | 978-4-8240-0711-7 | — | — |
| 12 | July 25, 2024 | 978-4-8240-0854-1 | — | — |
Manga[]
A manga adaptation, with composition by Keyaki Uchi-Uchi and illustrations by Shō Uyoshi, began serialization on the Comic Gardo manga website on July 26, 2019. As of June 2023, the series individual chapters have been collected into eight tankōbon volumes.
In July 2020, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they also licensed the manga adaptation for English publication.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | December 25, 2019 | 978-4-86-554593-7 | April 13, 2021 | 978-1-64827-090-1 |
| 2 | June 25, 2020 | 978-4-86-554688-0 | August 10, 2021 | 978-1-64827-301-8 |
| 3 | December 25, 2020 | 978-4-86-554814-3 | December 14, 2021 | 978-1-64827-571-5 |
| 4 | June 25, 2021 | 978-4-86-554949-2 | August 16, 2022 (digital) August 23, 2022 (print) |
978-1-63858-367-7 |
| 5 | December 25, 2021 | 978-4-82-400074-3 | December 20, 2022 | 978-1-63858-828-3 |
| 6 | May 25, 2022 | 978-4-82-400199-3 | July 11, 2023 | 978-1-68579-610-5 |
| 7 | December 25, 2022 | 978-4-8240-0374-4 | January 23, 2024 | 979-8-88843-120-7 |
| 8 | June 25, 2023 | 978-4-8240-0537-3 | August 13, 2024 | 979-8-89160-179-6 |
| 9 | January 25, 2024 | 978-4-8240-0722-3 | — | — |
| 10 | June 25, 2024 | 978-4-8240-0869-5 | — | — |
Character[]
The protagonist of this series. He is called "Touka" by his party. Before coming to the other world, he had been suppressing his distorted ego due to the harsh experiences of his childhood, and his acting is unusually good. When she attended Ogiju Academy, he lived as an "mob". When he was summoned to another world with his class, his hero rank was recognized as E, and he was considered useless by the Goddess Vicious and “discarded,” and was sent to the abandoned ruins. He survived by using his skills to defeat the demons in the ruins one after another, gaining a huge amount of experience as well as precious relics of those who were discarded like himself.
He defines his true nature as "evil," and he kills without mercy those who have malicious or harmful intentions toward him or his friends, even human beings, let alone demons, and he does not hesitate to carry out atrocious acts such as torture and destruction of corpses. On the other hand, he is respectful and loyal to those who have "goodness" in them, such as those who believe in him and those who are kind to him without calculation.
However, he survived by using his skills to defeat the demons in the ruins one after another, gaining a huge amount of experience as well as valuable relics from those who had been discarded like himself. He has been able to survive by acquiring valuable relics of those who were discarded like himself, in addition to the experience he gained. He recognizes his own rank as EXTRA because of the terrifying characteristic that all his skills, which should only trigger with low probability against single targets, hit many targets simultaneously and without fail, including demons, humans, the undead, and inorganic matter, regardless of their targets.
After escaping from the ruins, he used the alias “Hati Skoll” for a while, but then he started calling himself “Belzegia, the Lord of the Flies”. Furthermore, he applies his surplus magical material (MP), which he still has even after making full use of his skills, to activating all kinds of magical tools and strengthening the demons he has allied with him, and he repeatedly overruns and exterminates groups of enemies.
Then begins to take revenge on the Goddess Vicious, who summoned him and then tried to discard him, and on his classmates (except Ayaka Sogou, who was the only one who tried to save him) who mocked and betrayed him.
Personality
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THEME SONG
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Abilities[]
"Just wait, Vysis... I will lay waste to everything you have!!"
― Mimori Touka
Like all the other summoned heroes Touka poses a status window that indicates him his level and stats modifiers. He possesses the skills of paralysis, sleep, and poison, and honed his skills using monsters in the waste ruins as test subjects. As an E-Rank hero, Touka had extremely small modifiers (parameter), being cataloged by Vysis as worse than a commonfolk. However, as he defeated many strong monsters in the Disposal Ruins his level and stats skyrocketed, and obtained stats higher to the S-Rank heroes in their non-specialized fields.
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At the same time, Touka's stats growth seems to be abnormal, growing by multiplication, meanwhile, his classmate's stats seem to follow other patrons, since if they evolve the same way the S-Class heroes would have largely superpassed Touka, having extremally higher stats on the start. It should be noted that Touka's best stat is his MP, the unique stat and aura [Purple] that completely eclipses the S-Rank's growth.
"Impossible things happen to me all the time. And I tend to make them happen to others too.
So I've decided to follow the rules of this world. Fight Evil with Evil.
Murder with Murder. Tough Break."― Mimori Touka
At the same time, Touka's can create a absolute strategy that make the opponent feel of unease. When creating a mystery of that unease is solved, it gives a sense of absolute correctness and omnipotence decisions. That feeling of omnipotence paralyzes thought and turns into poisons. With a right strategy Touka can make other noise to draw his opponent out into areas, where he can put them into the range of his spells even creating opportunity to control the situation in the battle.
After escaping from the abandoned ruins, he used the alias "Hati Skoll" for a while, but later changed his name to "Belzegia, Lord of the Flies". He modified his mask to change his voice also and Touka embed a skill [Cover] in his equipment to hide his personal information while in Belzegia, also giving him a dangerous aura when he see him.
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Lord of the Flies, Belzegia (蠅王ベルゼギア)
A deformed mask was worn by Touga to conceal his survival from Goddess Vysis and his high school classmates. The origin of this mask is a demon king whose activities have been handed down in other worlds. His disfiguring appearance, the ferocity of his 【Abnormal Status Skill】 hidden under the name of "Belzegia," and his wisdom and behavior befitting the name of a Demon king make those who know the legends, including Cattleya, say he is the real thing, while his classmates and others who do not know the legends are terrified of him. |
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Paralyze
— Touka's main skill which he uses to restrict his enemies, contrary to a normal paralyze spell this abnormal state generates damage to anyone strong enough to force their bodies to move under its effects. As a new feature of leveling it up, Touka is able to use it in 20 targets at the same time, cancellate the effect, and partially release the head of his targets from the paralysis.
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Poison
— The main weapon that Touka use to deal damage to his enemies and his only way to harm others at the beginning of his journey. This abnormal state put painful poison in his target and generates purple pustules over all their bodies. After leveling up Touka gets the features that allow him to disable the poison or use non-mortal poison in his targets, becoming a useful tool for negotiations.
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Sleep
— Another abnormal state that Touka uses to immobilize his enemies and which alternates with paralysis in order to deal with the ones whose Poison takes a lot of time to kill.
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Dark
— The skill blocks a target's sight, Touka also uses it for torture purposes.
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Berserk
— This skill puts an opponent under an unstoppable rage, Touka can also control the victim by designating a target.
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Freeze
— This skill applies an ice seal on the target for 300 days, and nothing can break said ice, not even Touka. The skill can also be use on an inanimate target, but it has a very low number of max target.
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— Causes slowing to all the living and objects inside the skill's AOE (area of effect) after 1m away from Touka (the user). The range is unknown (large enough to enable easy escape).
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"I'm nothing grand like a hero who will save the world anymore... Now I'm just a simple avenger."
― Mimori Touka
A special combination technique that he uses along with Pigimaru. Touka can connect to Pigimaru and this would help him expand all the range of on his attack (Assault Accel), making any spell that was hard to hit making a surprisingly easy task. Not only would he be able to hit enemies that are outside of his range while using the connection on Pigimaru, on this Touka would also have tentacles that can attack his opponent, whenever Touka needs them to for offensive attacks and not only this he can have Pigimaru make any weapon, he wants and needs for any situation and with the properties of Pigimaru being a slime, after applying a monster enhancement to Pigimaru. Pigimaru would be able to crawl across ceiling and allow the Touka to climb, walls, and buildings and allow himself to stick on to any surface, not only this but Pigimaru would also be able to create a bunch of slimes to overwhelm an enemy now what makes this connection.
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Pigimaru (ピギ丸) is the slime companion that Mimori Touka encounters after he leaves the dungeon the goddess sent him to. When Mimori first saw him, he was being bullied by other slime reminding Mimori of himself so he saved it. It was voiced by Ayami Tsukui.
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| — Pigimaru has a bright and active personality, always ready to back up his group and being sensitive enough to cheer up them when they felt down or to relate with the new members. At the start of the series, he feels insecure about himself and tries to be useful to Mimori to not be cast aside, but as he starts to spend more time with him and later with his new friends he learns to trust their friendship. He also has shown to be very brave, following Mimori in very dangerous battles as when he faced Civit Garland along with his Black Dragon Knights corps or when they two-faced an army of golden-eyed monsters in order to secure the welfare of their companions. | |
Pigimaru would not be able to take any damage, so if the opponent out of Touka's range and he uses a tentacle to increase his range to hit the opponent with a spell then the opponent wouldn't be able to do anything about it because it cannot damage any tentacles.
"To achieve my goal, I'll use anything necessary. Dragging others into revenge, trampling on everything."
― Mimori Touka
Following the formation of the Fly King Squadron Touka started to learn martial arts, both close combat and weapon techniques from Seras and Eve, to improve his battle efficiency and prepare for the times when he's forced to fight alone or in situations in which his Abnormal state Skill doesn't work or couldn't be used. Later in the series, Touka gets another lesson of proper Orient martial arts from one of his classmates Takao Itsuki that is extremely suitable for actual combat.
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A magical beast that hatched from an egg recovered by Touka from the remains of the Skeleton King. The name was given by Touka, and it is derived from Sleipnir, the divine beast of Norse mythology. Its usual form is that of a white-haired foal, but by receiving a supply of magical essence from Touka, it can transform into a black-haired stallion, and further into a sinister form with two horns and eight legs.
He has abnormal strength, durability, and maximum speed with his eighth legs, in his final form. It recognizes Touka as its father and Seras as its mother and quickly becomes friendly with Pigimaru, Eve, and Liz. |
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TV Anime[]
An anime television series adaptation was announced during the second livestream for the "10th Anniversary Memorial Overlap Bunko All-Star Assemble Special" event on January 21, 2024. It will be produced by Seven Arcs, in cooperation with SynergySP, and directed by Michio Fukuda, with scripts written by Yasuhiro Nakanishi, character designs handled by Kana Hashidate, and music composed by Tatsuhiko Saiki. The series aired from July 5 to September 27, 2024 on TBS and other networks. The opening theme song is "Hazure" performed by Chogakusei, while the ending theme song is "pray" performed by Hakubi.
- Staff
- Original Author - Yoshi Shinozaki (published by Overlap Bunko)
- Character draft - KWKM
- Director - Michio Fukuda
- Series composition - Yasuhiro Nakanishi
- Character design/chief animation director - Kana Hashidate
- LO supervision - Kenji Masuda
- Creature Design - Yasuyasu Moriki, Koichi Usami
- Prop design - Goichi Iwahata, Noritaka Suzuki
- World view setting - Hijiri Edamatsu
- Color design - Sodai Fukura
- Director of Photography - Shintaro Nakamura
- Art setting - Akihiro Hirasawa
- Art director - Yoko Nakao
- 3DCG director - Kotaro Sasaki
- Sound director - Nobuyuki Abe
- Sound production - DAX Production
- Music - Tatsuhiko Saiki
- Music production -Nichion
- Animation production - Seven Arcs
- Animation production cooperation - SynergySP
Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date |
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| 1 | "The Goddess Announcing Her Summons" Transliteration: "Shōkan o Tsugeshi Megami" (Japanese: 召喚をし女神) |
Michio Fukuda | Yasuhiro Nakanishi | Michio Fukuda | July 5, 2024 |
| The goddess Vicius summons a class of Earthlings to her world to fight as their heroes against the Demon King. Due to the summoning, each one of them is bestowed with a special power. However, one of them, Touka Mimori, is immediately discarded by Vicius and left to die in a dangerous dungeon for having a seemingly weak ability which is to inflict debuffs on enemies. Mimori soon discovers that his skill has a special perk that gives him a chance to survive and seek revenge. | |||||
| 2 | "The Ruins of Disposal" Transliteration: "Haiki Iseki" (Japanese: 廃棄遺跡) |
Tōru Kitahata | Yasuhiro Nakanishi | Michio Fukuda | July 12, 2024 |
| Mimori explores the dungeon and develops his powers, eventually confronting the strongest monster in the ruins who carries the key that he needs to escape. | |||||
| 3 | "Encounter ~Avenger(s)~" Transliteration: "Kaigō ~Abenjā(zu)~" (Japanese: 邂逅〜AVENGER（S）〜) |
Hideki Takayama | Yasuhiro Nakanishi | Michio Fukuda | July 19, 2024 |
| Back to the surface, Mimori encounters a weak slime whom he adopts and calls "Piggymaru" and meets a woman running from some pursuers. Meanwhile, the rest of the students struggle to get stronger and fulfill Vicius' expectations. | |||||
| 4 | "The Woman Known as the Princess Knight" Transliteration: "Hime Kishi to Yoba Reta On'na" (Japanese: 姫騎士と呼ばれた女) |
Tomonori Kogawa | Kazuyoshi Yamamoto | Tomonori Kogawa | July 26, 2024 |
| Mimori meets the woman again and the two decide to explore the nearby dungeon together in search for treasures. In the occasion, Mimori discovers that the woman in question is Seras Ashrain, an elf princess and knight with a bounty on her head. | |||||
| 5 | "The Chain Known as Trust" Transliteration: "Shinrai to iu na no Kusari" (Japanese: 信頼という名の鎖) |
Yūichi Satō | Kazuyoshi Yamamoto | Takehiro Nakayama | August 2, 2024 |
| Mimori and Seras return from the dungeon and part ways. However, Seras' disguise is revealed and she is forced to flee, with the most powerful warriors in the world, the "Black Dragon Knights" pursuing them and Mimori decides to help her. | |||||
| 6 | "Humanity's Strongest, Civit Gartland" Transliteration: "Jinrui Saikyō Shibito Gātorando" (Japanese: 人類最強 シビト・ガートランド) |
Kazunobu Fuseki | Kazuyoshi Yamamoto | Tomu Sashizuke | August 9, 2024 |
| Mimori and Seras are approached by Civit Gartland, the leader of the knights and known as the most powerful warrior in the world. In the occasion, Mimori kills Civit taking advantage of his excess of confidence and deals with the rest of the knights with a new ability he obtained by fusing with the evolved Piggymaru. | |||||
| 7 | "Monroy's Bloodsport Champion" Transliteration: "Monroi no Chi Tōshi" (Japanese: モンロイの血闘士) |
Hideki Takayama | Ohine Ezaki | Kazunobu Fuseki | August 23, 2024 |
| Now traveling together, Mimori and Seras look for clues about the Witch of the Taboo whom Mimori seeks for counseling. They discover that Eve Speed, a leopardkin and colosseum warrior, knows the witch's whereabouts. | |||||
| 8 | "Together with the Lord of Flies" Transliteration: "Hae-ō to Tomoni" (Japanese: 蠅王と共に) |
Norihiko Sudo, Yūki Sakamoto | Ohine Ezaki | Tomonori Kogawa | August 30, 2024 |
| Mimori attempts to convince Eve to assist him but she refuses, until she discovers a plot to kill her. She and her friend, the child dark elf Lisbeth decide to escape together and join Mimori's party. | |||||
| 9 | "Dark Plot ~missing~" Transliteration: "Kokusaku 〜Misshingu〜" (Japanese: 黒策 〜missing〜) |
Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Ohine Ezaki | Tsutomu Miyazawa | September 6, 2024 |
| Mimori and his friends deal with some pursuers sent to recapture Eve and Lisbeth, with Eve taking revenge on those who betrayed her in the occasion. The party then departs to the Land of Golden Eyed Monsters, a dangerous region where the Witch of Taboo lives. Meanwhile, Vicius decides to send the heroes there as well for training, in preparation for the imminent battle with the Demon Lord's forces. | |||||
| 10 | "The Land of the Golden-Eyed Monsters 〜encounter〜" Transliteration: "Kinsei Maguntai 〜Enkauntā〜" (Japanese: 金棲魔群帯 〜encounter〜) |
Tomonori Kogawa | Yasuhiro Nakanishi | Tomonori Kogawa | September 13, 2024 |
| As Mimori's group travels though the forest in search of the Witch of Taboo's house, the egg in Mimori's possession hatches and a horse-like monster is born, whom Mimori names "Sleip". Not far from there, the heroes fight the monsters in the forest to improve themselves. Close to their destination, Mimori and the others are attacked by a monster whom Eve kills, but after dying, sends a signal to countless monsters who converge on their position. | |||||
| 11 | "To the Limit, and Beyond" Transliteration: "Genkai no, Sono Saki e" (Japanese: 限界の、その先へ) |
Yūsuke Nakagama | Yasuhiro Nakanishi | Michio Fukuda | September 20, 2024 |
| Mimori decides to face the monsters with Sleip and Piggymaru while Seras and the others take shelter in a cave. While Mimori takes down the countless monsters, the other students face some of them and have some casualties. Worried about Mimori, Eve leaves the hideout to look for him but comes across some students instead and is attacked by them. | |||||
| 12 | "The King and the Sword" Transliteration: "Ō to Ken (Tsurugi)" (Japanese: 王と剣（つるぎ）) |
Kazunobu Fuseki | Yasuhiro Nakanishi | Kazunobu Fuseki | September 27, 2024 |
| While searching for Touga, Eve encounters Kobato, along with Sei and Itsuki, who have come to rescue her. Eve carefully tries to leave the area so Sei does not notice Touga's presence. Meanwhile, Touga, although badly injured, has managed to fend off almost all of the monsters. All that remains is a cunning human-faced creature who has been carefully observing the battle. He will return alive. To keep his promise to Seras and to exact revenge on the goddess, Touga musters all his strength. | |||||
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WEB Radio[]
From July 10, 2024, to September 25, 2024, "Megan Visis's 'Hazure Waku' Chatting Ruins (女神ヴィシスの「ハズレ枠」おしゃべり廃棄遺跡)" was broadcast on Chō! A&G+. The host was Ami Koshimizu, who played the role of Visis. The time was Wednesdays from 19:30 to 20:00. The content was updated twice a month. It was also archived on the PONYCANYON official YouTube channel.
Reception[]
Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network praised the character development and high school politics, though she also felt it relied on tropes too much. In BookWalker's Next Big Light Novel Hit poll, the series ranked ninth in the bunkobon category.
The series has 1.1 million copies in circulation between its digital and print releases.
External Link[]
- Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made — Web novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
- Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made — Official Light Novel Website
- Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made — Manga official website at Comic Gardo (in Japanese)
- TV Anime "Hazurewaku no 'Joutai Ijou Skill' de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made" Official Website
- TV Anime "Hazurewaku no 'Joutai Ijou Skill' de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made" Official (@hazurewaku_info) - Twitter X
- Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made — Wikipedia JP
- Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made — Wikipedia EN
See Also[]
- Seiju no Kuni no Kinjutsukai, Another light novel series with the same Author.
Trivia[]
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