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 Sou Akaike and illustrated by Kururi. 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 May 2020. It was later acquired by Overlap who began publishing it under their Overlap Novels imprint in September 2021. 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 Maro Aoiro began serialization on Overlap's ''Comic Gardo'' manga service in August 2021. An

anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...

television series adaptation has been announced.

Media

Light novel

Written by Sou Akaike, ''Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City'' began serialization on the user-generated novel publishing website

on May 15, 2020. It was later acquired by Overlap who began releasing it with illustrations by Kururi under their Overlap Novels light novel imprint on September 25, 2021. Seven volumes have been released as of January 2025. The series is licensed in North America 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 Maro Aoiro began serialization on Overlap's ''Comic Gardo'' manga service on August 13, 2021. The manga's chapters have been collected into seven volumes as of April 2025. The manga adaptation is also licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment.

Anime

television series adaptation was announced during the "Great Overlap Bunko All-Star Gathering Special 2025" first livestream on April 20, 2025.

Reception

By March 2024, the series has over 1 million copies in circulation. The series was also ranked third in the category in the 2022 Next Light Novel Awards.

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