is a Japanese

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

series written by Yuki Suzuki and illustrated by Sanshouuo. It began serialization on the user-generated novel publishing website

Shōsetsuka ni Narō is a Japanese novel self-publishing website created by . It was launched on April 2, 2004. Users can upload their novels free of charge and the novels are also free to read. As of December 2022, the site hosts close to 1,000,000 novels, has over ...

in March 2021. It was later acquired by Overlap who began publishing it under their Overlap Bunko light novel imprint in March 2022. A

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

adaptation illustrated by Rampei Ashio began serialization on Overlap's ''Comic Gardo'' manga website in July 2022.

Media

Light novel

Written by Yuki Suzuki, ''Reincarnated Into a Game as the Hero's Friend: Running the Kingdom Behind the Scenes'' began serialization on the user-generated novel publishing website

on March 2, 2021. It was later acquired by Overlap who began publishing it with illustrations by Sanshouuo under their Overlap Bunko light novel imprint on March 25, 2022. Six volumes have been released as of December 2024. The series is licensed in English by

Seven Seas Entertainment Seven Seas Entertainment is an American publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original English-language manga, but now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan, as w ...

Manga

adaptation illustrated by Rampei Ashio began serialization on Overlap's ''Comic Gardo'' website on July 15, 2022. The manga's chapters have been collected into four ''

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

'' volumes as of July 2024. The manga adaptation is also licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment.

Reception

The series was ranked second in the ''bunkobon'' category at the 2023 Next Light Novel Awards. The manga adaptation was ranked seventeenth in the 2024

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Book of the Year Ranking.

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