is a Japanese

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series written by Himawari. Originally posted to the

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 ove ...

novel posting website in November 2012, the series was later acquired by

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, who began publishing the series with illustrations by Kiouran in July 2016 under their M Novels f imprint. As of July 2023, 15 volumes have been released. A

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) 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 prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is use ...

adaptation with illustrations by Yuriko Takagami began serialization on Futabasha's ''Gaugau Monster'' manga website in November 2017. As of April 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into eleven volumes. An

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television series adaptation by

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is set to premiere in January 2024.

Characters

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Media

Light novel

The

began publication online on the novel posting website

on November 5, 2012. The series was later acquired by

Futabasha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Higashigokenchō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.会社概要
" Futabasha. ...

, who began publishing the series with illustrations by Kiouran on July 15, 2016 under their M Novels f imprint. As of July 2023, 15 volumes have been released. In June 2023,

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announced that they licensed the series in English.

Volume list

Manga

adaptation with illustrations by Yuriko Takagami began serialization on Futabasha's ''Gaugau Monster'' manga website on November 6, 2017. As of April 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into eleven ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or m ...

'' volumes. Coolmic is publishing the manga in English.

Volume list

Anime

adaptation was announced on July 9, 2022. It was later revealed to be a television series produced by

and directed by Jun'ichi Kitamura, with scripts supervised by

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, and character designs handled by Asami Miyazaki. It was initially scheduled for 2023, but was later delayed to January 2024 due to "various circumstances". Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia.

Reception

The light novels and manga combined have 1.6 million copies in circulation.

References

External links

Official website at Shōsetsuka ni Narō

Official anime website
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