Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

### Producer

AT-X, Sony Music Communications, Bushiroad, Toranoana, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, Overlap, FuRyu, Bandai Namco Arts

### Script

Shoichi Sato
Kinji Yoshimoto (S1)

### Studio

Asread
White Fox (S1)
Studio Mother (S2)

### License

Madman Entertainment, Crunchyroll, Plus Media Networks Asia (Aniplus)

### Networks

AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, BS11 (JP)
Aniplus Asia (SEA)

### Original Run

**S1**: Jul 8, 2019 to Oct 7, 2019
**S2**: Jan 13, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022
**S3**: September 10, 2022

### Episodes

**S1**: 13 + 2 OVA
**S2**: 12 + 1 OVA
**S3**: -?-

## Novels

### Publisher

Overlap (JP)
J-Novel Club (NA)

## Manga

### Publisher

Overlap (JP)
Seven Seas (NA)

## Manga

### Publisher

Overlap (JP)
Seven Seas (NA)

## Manga

### Volumes

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***Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest*** (ありふれた職業で世界最強, *Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō*) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryo Shirakome and illustrated by Takayaki. Originally a web novel, the series was published in print from June 2015 to September 2022. The series follows Hajime Nagumo, who is transported to another world with the rest of his class to fight in a war against the demon race. After he is betrayed and left to die by one of his classmates, Hajime begins a journey to improve himself and find a way to return home. The novels are licensed in English by J-Novel Club, with Seven Seas Entertainment publishing them in print. The English translation of the light novel was done by Murtaza Burhan. A prequel light novel was published in 2017.

The series has received a manga adaptation, serialized on Ovelap's *Comic Gardo* website since 2016, as well as a *yonkoma* comedy spinoff and a manga adaptation of the prequel novel, all three licensed by Seven Seas. An anime television series adaptation by White Fox and Asread aired from July to October 2019. A second season by Asread and Studio Mother aired from January to March 2022. A third season has been announced.

## Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

(Source: J-Novel Club)

## List of Published Books

### *Light Novels*

Ryo Shirakome originally published the series as a web novel on the user-submitted content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō. The main story ran for eight books from November 7, 2013, to October 31, 2015, and has been followed by three after-stories and an extra story since. The series was picked up for publication by Overlap, and they released the first light novel, with illustrations by Takayaki, under their Overlap Bunko imprint in June 2015. When the anime adaptation was announced to have been delayed until 2019, the eighth volume of the light novel was also delayed by a month, from March to April 2018. The series ended with the release of its thirteenth volume.

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A prequel light novel series titled *Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Zero* (ありふれた職業で世界最強　零, *Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō Zero*), or *Arifureta Zero*, was published from December 2017 to December 2021 in six volumes.

Digital publisher J-Novel Club licensed the series for an English release, and published the first chapter on February 21, 2017. During their panel at Anime Expo 2017, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they would publish a print version of the novels as part of their collaboration with J-Novel Club. J-Novel Club has also licensed *Arifureta Zero*, and the series was the publisher's first simultaneous publication.

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#### *Audio Drama*

A series of two drama CDs were released with the seventh, eighth, and tenth volumes of the light novel on December 25, 2017, April 25, 2018, and June 25, 2019. The drama CDs share the same voice cast as the anime.

### *Manga*

A manga adaptation by RoGa has been published on Ovelap's *Comic Gardo* website since its inception on December 22, 2016, and the first volume was published three days later on December 25 to coincide with the release of the fifth light novel. The series has been licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment.

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An adaptation of the prequel light novel *Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest Zero* by Ataru Kamichi began serialization on February 23, 2018, on the *Comic Gardo* website. Seven Seas announced their license to the series on January 10, 2019.

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A *yonkoma* comedy spinoff by Misaki Mori, titled *Arifureta: I Heart Isekai* (ありふれた日常で世界最強, *Arifureta Nichijō de Sekai Saikyō*), began serialization on Overlap's *Comic Gardo* website on July 11, 2017. Seven Seas announced their license to the series on January 10, 2019.

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A *Comic Gardo* comedy spinoff by Takayaki, titled *Arifureta Gakuen de Sekai Saikyou* (ありふれた学園で世界最強, *The Strongest in the World in a Common School*), began serialization on Overlap's *Comic Gardo* website on April 24, 2020.

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## Hajime Nagumo

### Aliases:

* God's Apostle
* Love Smashers (w/Yue)
* Duelist Smasher
* Goddess' Sword
* Goddess' Knight
* Fuhren’s Ultimate Weapon
* White-Haired Flame Master
* Lady Killer
* Irregular
* Eyepatch Demon
* Demon Lord
* God Slayer
* God Slayer Demon Lord
* Harem Bastard
* Dragon Knight
* Demon God

### Nickname:

* Boss *(Haulia Tribe)*
* Whitehead *(Gartima)*
* Master *(Tio Klarus)*
* Young Haj *(Lehman)*
* Darling *(Remia)*
* Papa *(Myu)*
* Moe Teacher *(Hope Elegy)*
* Hajihaji *(Suzu Taniguchi)*
* Chuuni Bastard *(Kouki Amanogawa)*

### Affiliation:

* Hero Party *(formerly)*
* Haulia Tribe *(Boss)*
* Returnees *(Leader)*

## 「Biographical Information」

### Traits:

Summoned, Tactician, Magus, Avenger, Godkiller, Maverick

### Relatives:

* Shuu Nagumo *(Father)*
* Sumire Nagumo *(Mother)*
* Yue *(Legal Wife)*
* Shea Haulia *(Wife)*
* Tio Klarus *(Wife)*
* Kaori Shirasaki *(Wife)*
* Shizuku Yaegashi *(Wife)*
* Aiko Hatayama *(Wife)*
* Liliana S. B. Heiligh *(Wife)*
* Remia *(Wife)*
* Myu *(Stepdaughter)*

### Occupation:

* High School Student *(Japan)*
* Adventurer *(Tortus)*

## 「Physical Description」

### Species:

* Human *(Pre "Fall")* ➤ Human-Monster Hybrid *(Post "Fall")*
* Vampire Hybrid *(temporary)*

### Height:

165 cm *(Pre "Fall")* ➤ 175 cm *(Post "Fall")*

### Hair Color:

Black *(Pre "Fall")* ➤ White *(Post "Fall")*

### Weight:

Brown *(Pre "Fall")* ➤ Red *(Post "Fall")*

## 「Voice Actor」

### Japan VA:

Toshinari Fukamachi *(Audio Drama & Anime)*

### English VA:

Matt Shipman

> "*Now where have I heard that before? Never thought someone who’s supposed to be me would take that shit so seriously. If that’s what the definition of human is, then yeah, I guess I’m not human anymore. Maybe I really am a monster who was born in the abyss. A monster, huh? But— Sure, I might be rejected when I get home. I may not have anywhere to return to now.
> But even so, I’m going to keep moving forward. Do you really think this road was such an easy one that I could have traveled this far by deceiving myself? This is how it’s always been. The opponents I’ve faced haven’t been kind enough to wait for me to solve my problems. No matter what doubts or fears I had, my only choice was to turn my resolve into a weapon and push my way forward.*"
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A 17-year-old high school student and self-confessed otaku. In preparation for her future, she works part-time at her father's company, a game creator, and at her mother's work site, a girl manga artist. He plays video games all night long and always dozes off at school, causing those around him to think he is an unserious student. Most of the male students are hostile to Hajime because of the presence of Kaori, the school's madonna, who worries about him and takes kindly to him. Female students also disliked Hajime because he did not change his attitude toward life even though Kaori was giving him trouble.

He and his classmates are summoned to the other world of Tortoise, but he is branded as "*incompetent*" by those around him because his vocation is that of a weakest Synergist who is not suited for combat. During training at the Orcus Grand Labyrinth, he used his Synergist abilities to protect his classmates from the behemoths that appeared and held them back alone, but his classmate Hiyama pushed him into an abyss, where he was attacked by a demon and lost his left arm. He survives by discovering divine crystals and divine water with restorative effects in his escape, but is driven to despair both mentally and physically by the unreasonable situation in which he suffers from phantom limb pain due to the loss of his left arm and pain caused by a fierce hunger. However, his unusual obsession with life and his firm will to return to his hometown cause him to reemerge, albeit with a distorted personality. In doing so, he has formed a value system in which he divides the world into "enemies" and "others," and kills any enemy who stands in the way of his purpose and survival.

Immediately after his reemergence, he suffered the pains of hell, repeatedly destroying and regenerating his body with the deadly poison of demon flesh and divine water, while hunting down demons and eating their flesh in order to survive. As a result of the repeated destruction and rebirth of his body, his muscles have developed, his height has increased by more than 10 cm, and his hair has turned white. In addition, when he eats a demon of equal or superior rank to himself, his status increases and he becomes peculiar in that he can take in the demon's abilities. Furthermore, the discovery of "*Green Glowstone*," "*Taur Stone*," and "*Blastrock*" in the labyrinth led to the refining of weapons such as a large revolver pistol and a flash grenade, which he made based on modern weapons.

After winning a rematch against the clawed bear that took his left arm, he begins his search for the Great Labyrinth of Orcus, meeting the sealed Yue at the 50th level. After freeing Yue, he headed for the innermost level, where he defeated Hydra, who was waiting for him there, after a mortal struggle in which he even lost his right eye. There, Hajime learns the truth about the world left behind by Oscar Olks, the liberator of the innermost part of the world, but he does not care about it and uses one of the "Creation magic" he has obtained to create and attach a prosthetic hand for his left arm and a prosthetic eye made from a magic eye stone (*he also wears an eye patch to hide his right eye*), and sets out with Yue to find a way back to his original world. He sets out on a journey with Yue to find a way to return to his original world.

After falling into the abyss, his mental equilibrium is upset and he undergoes a paradigm shift due to despair and hatred of the unreasonable situation, and his first name changes from "I" to "me." He transforms into a cold-hearted character with an arrogant attitude toward anyone he perceives as an enemy, even his classmates, who he destroys without a trace of mercy. He is a cold-hearted and arrogant person who will destroy anyone, even his classmates, without mercy. However, he is able to avoid falling into a complete outcast because he meets Yue, who is in a similar situation. When he was reawakened, he had abandoned all feelings for Tortoise and his classmates, and he had been uninterested in anything other than returning to Earth and protecting Yue and his friends, but after being told by Aiko that this was a lonely way of life, he gradually regains his kindness, though clumsily. He also values humanity and keeps his promises to the Haurians and goes to help Kaori to let her know that he is alive." He is very protective of Yue, who is "special" to him, and of Sia and the others who have taken a liking to him, and he will not hesitate to use sanctions or coercion to silence anyone who tries to harm them. He is extremely overprotective of Miu, who has unwillingly become his daughter-in-law, to the point that Yue and the others call him a "*parental idiot*". When she learned that Freid had taken her hostage, she emitted such a murderous rage that everyone present cowered. He has a black history of having been a kitchen wreck in the past.

In the town of Brook, he is targeted by adventurers who want to get their hands on Yue and Shea, but he kills them instantly before they duel, earning him the nickname "Duel Smasher," and together with Yue, a "Crotch Smasher," he is known as the "Smash Lovers" and is feared by adventurers (men). They are feared by adventurers (men). In the town of Ur, he makes great use of Aiko's nickname "Goddess of Fertility" and calls himself "Sword of the Goddess. By the time of the final battle, he is called the "*Demon King*" for his unmanageable behavior.

A vocation Synergist has the ability to magically manipulate matter to process it and create weapons. At first, as a blacksmith, he could only process minerals, but as a result of his training, he was able to smelt the ground to create pits and outcroppings. After seeing him in battle, Meld Loggins changed his mind about Synergists not being suitable for practical use. In the battle against behemoths, he showed the versatility of the Synergist in battle by holding off behemoths by himself. As mentioned above, eating the flesh of demons in the abyss allows them to acquire the unique abilities of demons. In particular, "*Mana Manipulation*," which directly manipulates magical power, allows one to handle magic without chanting or using magic circles (*an ability normally limited to demons only*)." After learning "*Mana Manipulation*" and "*Mineral appraisal*," the player is able to create original weapons with the unique abilities of monsters, and from then on, the main focus is on fighting with weapons manufactured with the power of alchemy. After conquering the Great Labyrinth of Orcus, the "*Creation Magic*," which is the mark of a conqueror, can be used to create artifact-class magical tools and weapons of destruction. Since the aptitude for other divine magic is not high, other divine magic is mainly used to create weapons and equipment. By the time he has broken through all the great labyrinths, he is aware that his skills in alchemy have surpassed Oscar's.

At the beginning, his status was about the same as that of an ordinary person, but after eating the flesh of demons, his status improved to an extraordinary degree, and when he escaped from the Great Orcus Labyrinth, all of his stats were over 10,000 and he had the abilities of many demons, making him so strong that even his strongest classmate Kouki could not keep pace with him.

His main combat style is Gun-Kata with two guns, and he also uses various other artifacts for firepower. He has extremely high marksmanship, using ricocheting bullets to efficiently shoot through enemies and firing all bullets at almost the same time. His physical ability has also been greatly improved, so he can fight back with a certain amount of hand-to-hand combat even when approached. The combat skills he has acquired through his harsh experience in the abyss are very rational, and they have influenced Hajime's thinking as well.

He has not paid attention to favors from women other than Yue, but he gradually changes after he accepts Shea as an important person. He also accepts favors from Kaori and Shizuku, and after he is called "*the Demon King*," he opens up and declares Tio as an important person as well, effectively declaring a harem. Its membership was further increased later on.

After the final battle, she uses metamorphosis magic to change her hair back to black and her artificial eyes and hands to be as close to human as possible in order to return to her original world. The epilogue closes with her being welcomed back to earth by her parents, but she is not able to settle down after bringing Yue and the others home as her family, and it seems that she has come to know another world.

### Abilities

In the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime devours numerous powerful Demonic Beasts, manages to survive the lethal process due to the Ambrosia and his iron forged will. As a result, Hajime's constitution was mutated by the magic of the monster, granting him a tremendously high status, even breaking pass the level 100 limit. At the costs of his mutation, he will no longer be considered as human and no longer be afraid at anything anymore.

After continuously devouring many powerful Demonic Beasts and absorbing their powers, by the end of conquering the Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime gained tremendous superhuman physical power that is completely monstrous and inhuman, his base strength being twelve times far superior to Kouki Amanogawa who is Ehit's strongest "hero", surpassing even Tio the strongest dragonborn in her dragon form, able to carry his oversized Pile Bunker or heavy artillery such as Orkan with little effort. Even without resorting to weapons, he can overpower the strongest humans, beastmen, and monsters with pure physical might, blocking a zombified Meld's swordsmanship who was the strongest Knight of Heiligh Kingdom with only one finger, throwing small harmless objects such as sugar cubes with extreme force to knock down knights. When using his true powers, Hajime can easily break bones and strike with enough force to rupture his enemies' internal organs even Humans who were blessed by Ehit with enhanced physical power, such as when Hajime broken almost all of Hiyama's bones and damaging his internal organs severely, as he brutally beat Hiyama up and gripped his neck to lift the latter with only one hand with no efforts.

After continuously devouring many powerful monsters throughout the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime's mana developed to extremely powerful and massive levels, far surpassing Atavists such as Yue, Shea and Tio, all of whom have powerful mana themselves. His original sky blue mana changing to crimson color. When he releases his mana, it's powerful enough to block the immense mana pressure released from Noint, God Apostle, protecting Aiko who was about to fall unconscious. When enraged, he was able to cause all his classmates, who had overpowered cheat abilities to freeze in sheer terror. His mana capacity and regeneration are vast enough for him to operate the "Fenrir" flying craft, which consumes an immense amount of mana to travel between locations.

* ***Transmute*** - The base skill of the "Synergist" Job class. It allows the user to control, transform and manipulate any kind of ores, minerals or materials in any way or shape the user desires. In order to Transmute any object, the user has to be in contact with the object within the maximum range of 3 meters.
	+ ***Ore Appraisal/Mineral Appraisal*** - Allows the user to identify and understand the basic structure of ores, minerals, and materials. In some cases, properties like magical affinity or hardness of the ore or mineral are also notified in numerical range of "1" (weakest) to "10" (hardest).
	+ ***Precision Transmutation/Precise Transmute*** - Increases the precision of transmutations.
	+ ***Increased Transmutation Speed*** - Increases the speed of transmutation.
	+ ***Ore Perception/Mineral Probe*** - Allows the user to sense and locate any kind of ores, minerals and materials within a certain range.
	+ ***Ore Desynthesis/Mineral Isolation*** - Allows separation of ores and minerals.
	+ ***Ore Synthesis/Mineral Fusion*** - Allows the fusion of ores and minerals into alloys.
	+ ***Duplicate Transmutation*** - Allows the user to create duplicates of an already existing transmuted object or item. It's possible to also replicate an item created by someone else.
	+ ***Accelerated Transmutation/Automatic Transmutation*** - Allows for continuous transmutation until the engraved magic circle is drained of mana, even if the caster isn't present during the transmutation process.
	+ ***Image Supplementation*** - A skill to transmute through imagination.
	+ ***Compression Synthesis*** - Allows compression of transmuted items.
	+ ***Reduced Mana Consumption*** - It decrease the magic consumption for using transmutation.
	+ ***Ore Decomposition/Mineral Decomposition*** - It allows mana to slowly seep into objects and break down their structural bonds. It can disassemble objects to the smallest unit of mass possible, but it takes time, so it cannot be used in for combat.
	+ ***Image Composition*** - It allows the user to use imaginary magic circles to cast spells. This skill is considered as the final derivative skill for the Synergist Job.
	+ ***Plunder Transmutation*** - It allows the user to analyze an enemy attack and immediately incorporate that same attack into their artifacts.
	+ ***Expanded Transmutation*** - A skill to transmute metal without directly touching it.
* ***Mana Manipulation*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat)*. Allows direct manipulation of mana without the need for a magic circles or incantations to enhance his body or use special magic.
	+ ***Mana Discharge*** - Allows user to focus and emit mana from their body.
	+ ***Mana Compression*** - Allows the user to compress and expel mana.
	+ ***Remote Manipulation*** - Allows the user to control the emitted mana.
* ***Iron Stomach*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to withstand the side effects of consuming Monster Meat by mutating the body to adapt to it. If the monster's strength and ability are equal or higher than the user, then the user will gain the power and Skills of the Monster consumed.
* ***Lightning Field*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to produce an electrical/lightning field from their own body. Can't be expelled directly from the body, but redirected external if proper conduction is used. often used to give EM acceleration properties to his transmuted equipment arms.
	+ ***Lightning Resistance*** - Increase resistance to lighting spells and lighting-based attacks.
	+ ***Weapon Enhancement*** - Channeled electricity gives railgun qualities to Nagumo's specially crafted armaments.
	+ ***Increased Output***- Further increases the damage output and strength of Lighting Field.
* ***Air Dance/Air Walk*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Increases the base reaction speed of the user, and the ability to move at high speed.
	+ ***Aerodynamic/Aerodynamics*** - Allows the user to create small barrier-like plates of compressed air under their feet, to use as foothold to move around in the air.
	+ ***Supersonic Step/Flash Step/Quick Step*** - Allows quick high-speed movement.
	+ ***Steel Legs*** - Allows the user to reinforce their legs and increase the power and strength of their kicks.
	+ ***Riftwalk*** - The final derivative of the "Air Dance" Skill. Allows the user to move at extremely high-speed, and increases the ability of all five senses to the maximum to allow better focus and process all information easily while in extreme high-speed mode.
* ***Gale Claw/Spirit Claw*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* It allows the user to create pressurized blades of wind/mana upon an object to attack at close range. The blades are really sharp enough to cut through almost anything. Hajime usually lays this skill upon his Guns for close-quarter combat.
	+ ***Triple Gale Claws*** - Instead of one blade, it unleashes three blades of wind/mana at once.
	+ ***Flying Gale Claws*** - Gale Claw can now be fired as a projectile.
* ***Night Vision*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows better vision in dark or night conditions.
* ***Farsight*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows an increased range of vision by focusing mana into the eyes.
* ***Sense Presence*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to gain a better understanding of the surrounding and sense life signs along with being able to sense beings who can utilize basic camouflage abilities. Has a range aof bout 10 meters radius.
	+ ***Precision Sensing*** - Allows focused target search and tracking.
* ***Detect Magic*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to detect and perceive the flow of mana and activation of hidden or ranged spells and magic.
	+ ***Precision Sensing*** - Allows focused target search and tracking.
* ***Sense Heat*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to track and detect heat emitted around. Helpful in tracking warm-blooded creatures.
	+ ***Precision Sensing*** - Allows focused target search and tracking.
* ***Hide Presence*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to hide/mask their own presence, to avoid tracking and detection by others.
	+ ***Illusion Waltz*** - Allows the user to leave behind after-images while masking their own presence.
* ***Poison Resistance*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Increase resistance to poison status.
* ***Paralysis Resistance*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Increase resistance to paralysis status.
* ***Petrification Resistance*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Increase resistance to petrification status.
* ***Fear Resistance*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Increase resistance to fear or panic status.
* ***Elemental Resistance*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Increase resistance to magical elements to a certain degree.
* ***Foresight*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows user to predict and perceive the movements of the opponent.
* ***Diamond Skin*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Coats the user's body in a hardened shell of mana, which increases the user's defenses and protects them from all attacks to a certain degree. The hardened shell of mana has of a diamond-patterned structure, hence the name.
	+ ***Diamond Protection*** - Adds Diamond Skin to objects.
	+ ***Focused Hardening*** - Concentrates Diamond Skin into a small area rather than the whole body or object.
	+ ***Invoked Strength***
* ***Steel Arms*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat)*. Allows the user to reinforce their arms and increase the power and strength of their punches, elbows, chops and etc.
* ***Intimidate*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat)*. Allows the user to cast Fear or Panic status to beings around, by amplifying the user's presence proportional to the amount of mana used to activate the skill.
* ***Telepathy*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat)*. Allows the user to communicate with others by a transference of thoughts in from their mind. Has a limited range.
* ***Tracking*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat).* Allows the user to mark places or beings using their own mana and track them. Helpful to maps or getae general idea of a different region than the user's current location.
* ***Increased Mana Recovery*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Increases the mana recovery rate of the user.
	+ ***Mana Focusing***
* ***Mana Conversion*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to convert mana into stat bonus for a certain period of time, thus allowing them to boost their own strength.
	+ ***Stamina Conversion*** - Converts mana into stamina.
	+ ***Healing Conversion*** - Converts mana to boost natural self-healing rate.
	+ ***Shock Conversion*** - Converts mana into pure force.
* ***Limit Break*** - *(This skill was gained upon consuming Monster Meat.)* Allows the user to temporarily boosts their base stats by three times normal for a limited period of time. But has a risk of leaving the user seriously fatigued after the duration is over. Also, repeated usage of the skill could damage the body of the user.
	+ ***Overload*** - A skill greater than "*Limit Break*" - it multiplies the abilities of the user by five times with more damage recoil to the user than the normal Limit Break.
	+ ***Transcendence*** - A derivate skill of "*Limit Break*," but unlike it, this skill doesn't increase the stats and abilities of the user, but rather raises the skill level of the user's latent talent to the maximum and granted the wielder an average person’s talent in fields of magic they had no affinity for, making it a skill that only a true master of a craft could acquire. This skill is generally considered hard to get and difficult to use, with normal people probably managing to use it only once in their whole life even after acquiring this skill. But if someone is able to master it, they can reach a godly level in their craft.

***Ancient Magic***
* ***Creation Magic*** - one of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which grants control over any object, structure (be it physical or magical), or mineral, allowing the user to shape or transform them in any way they wish. It is the only form of magic that allows the creation of an "Artifact". The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any inorganic material'. As a Synergist, Hajime has high compatibility with this magic and uses Creation Magic to generate his own supply of special and rare minerals for his equipment such as Taur, Shtar, and even Azanthium without the need to mine for it in locations such as the Orcus Dungeon, Hajime can also use Creation Magic to enchant spells or Skills such as the other Ancient Magics into objects or existing Artifacts to make them stronger.
* ***Gravity Magic*** - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", it gives the user control over gravity. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the energy of star', and just not gravity. Theoretically, it could also interfere with things like earth veins or terrestrial heat, bedrock, or magma; and it isn’t impossible to use this magic to purposefully generate earthquake or volcano eruption.
* ***Spatial Magic*** - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", it allows the user to manipulate the space around themselves, allowing them to either bend or expand the space near them or move themselves to another space or location. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the boundary'. Meaning it can allow the user to manipulate anything, like the elimination of race-creature gap, or formulating new boundary to create a spirit world; it's possible to achieve those kinds of things.
* ***Restoration Magic*** - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to restore the state of anything to either its previous or original condition. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the time', meaning it has the ability to manipulate the time of anything, anyplace, or anyone to a point the user desires to.
* ***Spirit Magic*** - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to manipulate the soul of a living being directly. It's possible to revive a living being back from the dead (time restriction applicable), or transfer the soul of a living being from one body to another, or even into a non-physical body as well, practically granting any living being immortality. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the negative material possessed by living thing'. To be more specific, this magic could also interfere with things like energy inside the body that was mana, heat, electricity, then thought, consciousness,and memory. Those who have mastery over this magic can even create an artificial consciousness, and allow it to inhabit anybody they wish.
* ***Evolution Magic*** - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to enhance or evolve all other forms of power, be it strong or weak. It can work on even other "Ancient Magic" as well, boosting their power and scope. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the information about existing things'. This magic enhances or evolves an ability or power by a stage of 1, by interfering with the targets information,and tncreaseingit one-by-one stage. Hajime has used this magic to further improve all his Artifact,s making them all far stronger.
* ***Metamorphosis Magic*** - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows a user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally, it's used to remake a normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. But the true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any organic material'. Meaning not only animals, but it's also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food, can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.
* ***Concept Magic*** - It is a form of "Ancient Magic art" which is a combination of many other ancient magics. The main ability of Concept magic is that allows one to interfere with the laws of the world and impress concepts upon it. By raising up a powerful wish or desire with Spirit Magic and Evolution Magic, it can be raised to a level of a concept before being forcefully materialized with magical power. However, since the user's desire at of the time of use, is used as the base of the magic, to raise up and create the concept, the spell may not remain stable in subsequent uses, thus a single spell can only be used once under most circumstances. However, if the desire is still needed, it can be used more than once, like in the case of Hajime's crystal key which had the concept of "I want to return home" in it, was destroyed by Ehit he was still able to recreate the crystal key again because his desire of wanting to return home was still there. It should be noted however that concept magic requires the user to concentrate on raising up their wish in order to materialize the concept, as such it wouldn't be useful in a battle where the user is under attack. Also, some concepts aren't possible to materialize by the user on their own, for example, Hajime could only make degraded versions of the crystal key without Yue.

***Conceptual Magic***
* **Deny All Existences** - A "Concept magic" created by Hajime, through Evolution magic, which overwrites other's information from "Exist" to "Non-Exist". Hajime combined this with his Transmutation and created several ultra-thin chains that inflict magic on contact. Anything the chains touch will feel excruciating pain, even if they normally wouldn't, and quickly be cut into ever-smaller pieces until nothing is left.

> "*I'll protect you, and you'll protect me. As long as we watch each other's backs, we'll be stronger than anyone. We'll beat down anyone who stands against us and burst our way out of this shitty world!*"
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While his intellectual ability in academic studies is average, Hajime has proven himself to be an extremely clever genius in engineering. He has immense scientific knowledge which was self-taught from manga, anime, movies and video games. Hajime's intuition is also extremely accurate and spot on, as he was able to correctly deduce that one of his classmates is purposely responsible for the apparent misfired fireball that led to his fall into the deepest depths of the Orcus Dungeon and the reason being jealousy towards Kaori's infatuation towards himself and would also commit any horrific atrocities to force Kaori to become his sex slave when Hajime warned Aiko about it. He would later be proven correct when Hiyama had assisted Eri in massacring and zombified all the Knights of Heiligh Kingdom and also the death trap for their classmates and even murdered Kaori herself in order to make her his personal undead sex slave, a fact which even the extremely sharp minded Shizuku had noticed only when it was too late.

Hajime is an extremely resourceful and innovative inventor, combining his scientific knowledge learned from countless manga, anime, and movies with his transmutation skill to create various powerful techno-magical weapons and other advanced magic-powered machinery similar to Earth's modern military technology as well as science fiction technology. Hajime has shown to be an extraordinarily talented firearms designer, having managed to make firearms and artillery with unique customizations such as Donner & Schlag break action revolvers designed for mid-air reloading customized with make-shift swing out cylinders to incorporate the greater firepower of swing out revolvers, incorporating shotguns into Oscar's magical prosthetic arm artifact as well as Shea's Drucken War Hammer, modified the new Schlagen anti-material rifle to function as a sniper rifle by mounting a telescopic scope to shoot from long distances, designed Metzelei as a handheld portable Gatling Gun. Hajime is also a self-taught genius in vehicle engineering, having designed Steiff motorcycle, Brise pickup truck, a submarine and most of all Fenrir airship based on science fiction and military technology. Hajime has trained his craftsmanship as a Synergist to uttermost perfection, due to his earliest attempts to create modern firearms which are extremely difficult to create in comparison to swords and armors, eventually succeed after countless trial and error. With unrivaled precision and dexterity in his craftsmanship, Hajime became an outstanding master gunsmith. Combined with Age of God's creation magic, Hajime can create techno-magical artillery of tremendous power. In addition to guns, Hajime can also apply his skills into crafting melee weapons and armours of the highest quality including refining them to be much more powerful as well as perfectly repair ancient artifacts.

* ***Gun Kata*** - This is a martial arts where the user uses firearms to fight.
	+ ***Weaver Stance*** - Hajime's right arm thrust straight forward and left arm’s elbow slightly bent. His feet, one positioned forward and one backwards. It was the shooting posture, the pose to accurately fire Donner.
	+ **Ultra-Fast Quick Draw** - A technique in which he fires Donner so fast that each round of six bullets had only one gunshot noise accompanying it.
	+ **Polygon Rebound** - A technique in which he correctly calculates all the angles of his shots, so that occasionally his bullets ran into each other and ricocheted off to hit different targets with perfect accuracy.
	+ **Bounce Shot** - A Gun art in which he changes the trajectory of his bullets by hitting them with another bullet to gouge his targets.
	+ **Pinpoint Shot** - A Gun art in which he fires six bullets simultaneously so that they land on the same spot without even a single millimeter of deviation almost at the same time.
* ***Shotgun punch*** - An attack where he uses a shotgun on his prosthetic arm to make his punch stronger.
* ***Oscillation Smash/Fracture*** - An arm thrust at high-speed vibration that is capable of pulverizing a large boulder in a single blow using the prosthetic arm.
* ***Pursuit*** - Magic that allows anything thrown by the user to become a homing object.
* ***108 Harassment Demon king-style*** - It is one of the harassment styles developed by Hajime after the battle with Ehit in order to deal with problems. There are 108 harassment styles in total, but only a few of them are revealed so far.From his experience in fighting monsters, Hajime has developed unconventional yet effective training methods which he used to train himself for two months after conquering the Orcus Dungeon into a master marksman and hand-to-hand combatant.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "Gag Bullet"*
* "Gag Bullet" even though the impact was terrific, by using regeneration magic the target would be able to stand up again in three seconds as though nothing had happened, it was a bullet to make a gag situation in real life.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "Welcome to My Battlefield"*
* (The classmate's naming → You cannot escape from the demon king-sama!) It was a simple harassment done by simply making several hundreds Cross Velts Laying out super wide range space isolation type barrier. The space in a radius of three kilometers around Hajime as well as until the height of three kilometers was completely isolated. It was first used when the illegal agents of a certain country on earth tried to make a move against the returnees. At that time, Shinji and Yoshiki who carelessly entered the range kept yelling? *"Let us out~, let us out from here~?"* while hitting on the invisible wall.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "Everyone Died Here You Know"*
* With the cooperation of Tio who was the best in using metamorphosis magic, Hajime succeeded in developing the Grim Reaper - Bio Hazard version that he was completely fixated upon. And he released them inside the barrier at that time, so the two's reaction was understandable. The Tyrant was especially popular. To the degree that several people completely lost their SAN value.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "I Won’t Say Just Once, Want To Try Dying No Matter How Many Times?*
* This harassment is carried out with the help of Bel Agartha, where Hajime would kill the target then revive him with Bel Agartha, and then kill him again, repeating this process over and over again until the target surrender himself.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "Peek-a-Demon Lord!"*
* It is a small trick carried out by Hajime using space isolation to completely isolate his presence and amplified his presence within isolated space using Coercion after space Isolation was dispelled. What appeared was a bursting crimson mana with the Hajime grinning widely at the center.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "Maou-san’s Phone Call"*
* Hajime uses Arachnee golems while using telepathy to forcefully make the listener have the experience of something gradually approaching, and amplify their sense of fear using spirit magic.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "From Today You Too Are Haulia"*
* Harassment Hajime uses by using an artifact that reproduces a pseudo “Divine Statement” by applying enchanting spirit magic, which makes its target act chūni for a period of time.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - "Wish Upon a Star"*
* He pounded countless random Meteor Impacts from outside the stratosphere to attack the target mercilessly. The trajectory and speed of the meteors are adjusted using gravity control, turning all of them into a suitable meteor shower before ending with a final super giant meteor. It was said that if a mistake was made, this harassment could even make the planet totally broken.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - “Make a Contract With Me and Become a Magical Girl! (Forced)”*
* It brainwashes a person into thinking that they are a pop star. Hajime first uses it against some government agents that try to spy on him.

*108 Harassment Demon Lord-style - “Up, up! 4 km high!"*
* It attaches a rocket to the target and leaves them stranded in the sky while changing their focus into something completely different from before.

While still inexperienced, Hajime possesses incredible artistic skills which he has learnt and developed by handling the illustrations of the game produced by his father’s video game company and helping assist his mother who is a famous *shoujo mangaka* for five years. Hajime would apply his artistic skills to drafting maps for exploring the Labyrinths on stone tablets, blueprints for his weapons and devices, and even incorporating aesthetic designs in his equipment.

## Ending Theme

### ED Audio:

An anime television series adaptation was announced on December 3, 2017. The series was initially intended to premiere in April 2018, but on January 15, 2018, its release was pushed back due to "various circumstances". Originally, the series would have been directed by Jun Kamiya and written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, with animation by studio White Fox and character designs by Atsuo Tobe, who also would have served as chief animation director. However, following the postponement, it was announced on April 29, 2018, that Kinji Yoshimoto would be taking over as director and studio Asread would be joining White Fox as animators. Additionally, Chika Kojima took over from Atsuo Tobe as character designer to adapt Takayaki's original designs, and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu left his position as a scriptwriter, being replaced by Shoichi Sato and Kinji Yoshimoto. Ryō Takahashi composed the series' music. Void\_Chords feat. LIO performed the series' opening theme "FLARE", while DracoVirgo performs the series' ending theme "First Song" (ハジメノウタ, *Hajime no Uta*).

### Season 1

The series aired from July 8 to October 7, 2019, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, and BS11. It ran for 13 episodes. Two original video animations (OVA) were released with the second and third home video sets on December 25, 2019, and February 26, 2020.

Funimation had licensed the series for an English simulcast and SimulDub. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll.

SEASON 2

## Ending Theme

### ED Audio:

After the first season's finale, it was announced that the series would receive a second season. Akira Iwanaga replaced Kinji Yoshimoto as director, and Studio Mother replaced White Fox as the secondary studio. The rest of the staff and cast returned to reprise their roles. It aired from January 13 to March 31, 2022, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, and BS11, and is available to watch on iQiyi. The opening theme is "Daylight" by MindaRyn, while the ending theme is "Gedō Sanka" (外道讃歌) by FantasticYouth.

### Season 2

A two-part OVA was released on September 25, 2022 titled "The Miraculous Meeting and the Phantasmagorical Adventure" (幻の冒険と奇跡の邂逅, *Maboroshi no Bōken to Kiseki no Kaigō*).

SEASON 3

On September 10, 2022, it was announced that a third season is in production. Asread is animating the season, with Akira Iwanaga, Shoichi Sato, and Chika Kojima returning as director, scriptwriter, and character designer, respectively.

### Picture Drama

A one-week limited voice drama will be available on official Twitter immediately after the broadcast of the main story. The original writer, Ryo Shirome, is in charge of the scenario and Misaki Mori is in charge of the manga. It will be included as a "*Twitter serialized picture drama*" as a bonus video in each Blu-ray volume.

## Reception

The series was the 27th best-selling light novel series in the first half of 2017, with 84,372 copies sold.

Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network enjoyed the series, praising it for its central premise and how it was "good twist on the genre conventions" by making its hero have to work for his overpowered hero status instead of immediately gaining it like many light novel protagonists. She praised the series for its depiction of the romantic relationship between Hajime and Yue, which she called "healthy", and also felt that the translation wasn't as good as some of J-Novel Club's other releases.

The anime adaptation was subjected to extremely sharp and negative criticism. Christopher Farris of the Anime News Network, cited manufacturing issues as the main causes of the series's failure. Farris points to the poor quality of the animation and the first episode missing most of the original source of the original novel

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