Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest (Novel) Vol. 12

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest (Novel) Vol. 12

OLD FOES, NEW TRIALS

The battle for the fate of Tortus has begun, and Hajime and his companions have made it into the Sanctuary.

Apostles, monsters, and strange dimensional bubbles bar their path, but this time, they’re ready—with new powers, new weapons, and a ton of new tricks up their sleeves! But traitorous ex-classmates, powered-up rivals, and elite followers of the false god Ehit all stand in their way. Can Hajime find his way to Yue before it’s too late?

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 paradise 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?

Biographical Notes:

Ryo Shirakome is a Japanese author best known for Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest.

Takaya-ki is a Japanese artist best known for illustrating the light novel series Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest.

Title Notes:

In July 2019, the anime series started streaming in English through Crunchyroll. The second season began in January 2022 and is streaming in English through Funimation, along with the first season.

A bestseller in its digital format.

Fans of compelling portal fantasy stories like Mushoku Tensei will love this story about a nerdy teenager thrust into a fantasy world (Isekai)!

Seven Seas is putting out 5 series from this franchise: the original light novels and manga, the ZERO spin-off light novels and manga, and the I Heart Isekai manga spin-off.

The light novels include color inserts in the front of each volume and roughly a dozen black-and-white manga-style illustrations to complement 250-350 pages of text.

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