History Literature / ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Nagumo Hajime as a Synergist is this at first, as the best this class could do is to forge weapons at best. Ms. Aiko, the loli teacher, thought so as well, as a Farmer, but [[VeteranInstructor Meld]] who saw it, commented that he never knew the [[LethalHarmlessPowers Farmer Class]] existed before and recognized her potential to cause [[BoringButPractical a new era of food production, a.k.a. an agricultural revolution]].

* BuxomIsBetter: Shea certainly thinks so, Yue does not.

* IWillFindYou: After Hajime fell into the Abyss, Kaori refused to believe he was dead and worked tirelessly to become stronger so that she could look for him.

* GoodIsNotNice: Hajime, definitely. The Liberators, the creators of the dungeons, also count. Evidently, some of their [[SinkOrSwimMentor trials]] are outright dangerous.

%%* TokenMiniMoe: Myuu in the main party and Aiko in hers.

* TookALevelInKindness: He gradually rediscovers his kindness as he met Yue and his eventual harem members.

* UnwantedHarem: Hajime's suitors include all the girls in his party, two of his hottest classmates, his teacher, a princess and a merwoman single mother. He's alright with showing affection for Yue, but mostly ignores the other girls' advances and might straight up ''shoot at them'' if they get too annoying. However, he does evntually learn to care about and even love the girls in the harem besides Yue.

* YouCantFightFate: Why Miledi concluded that Hajime would or is it just [[BatmanGambit what she believed based on his relationships with others and his disposition? ]](Which she is right about either way).

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Many of the monsters in the Orcus dungeon are this, especially the Hydra.

* AntiHero: Hajime, after he fell into the abyssal depths within Orcus Labyrinth.

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: [[spoiler: Since Kouki is literally the Hero, he believes the class comes with OmniscientMoralityLicense, meaning he would be the good guy no matter the situation, which often leads to him engaging in InsaneTrollLogic level mental gymnastics to justify why he is still right and his opponents are wrong.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Hajime goes through a quick one after his fall by hardening and becoming more pragmatic and colder, then he goes through a considerably slower one, [[spoiler: mellowing out due to the girls' influence]].

* EntitledToHaveYou: Averted. Several characters learn that just because you're ChildhoodFriends with someone, or developed [[EveryoneCanSeeIt an obvious crush on them]], that doesn't mean they're obligated to return those feelings. Also, trying to drive a wedge between them and their current lover doesn't mean that you're a shoo-in to get them on the rebound, either.

* OneManArmy: Practically every member of Hajime's party. It took only four of them to wipe out an army of 60,000 monsters. Hajime takes the cake as usual though, as he killed 100,000 monsters by himself [[spoiler: with the help of a KillSat]] and drove back another 1,000,000 through intimidation.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Hajime, after getting his psyche shattered by the isolation he experienced while in the bottom of the abyss. It was so bad that it had shaken off Kaori for a while.

* UnwantedHarem: Hajime declares that he only loves Yue, much to the other girls' chagrin. That doesn't stop them from pursuing him with all their might, however, ''even if he straight up shoots at them''. [[spoiler:The "Unwanted" aspect becomes less true after Hajime accepts that he truly loves Shea, and eventually the rest of his harem as well.]]

* WarIsHell: Just ask those dead Liberators, Melusine will [[MindRape shove this trope right into your memory.]]

''Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest'' (''Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō'') is a 2013 web novel series written by Ryo Shirakome (under the pen name "Chuuni Suki") and was published on the website "Let's Become Novelists". It was later turned into a light novel series illustrated by Takayaki and published by Overlap under its ''Overlap Bunko'' imprint from 2015 to 2022, for a total of 13 volumes. The light novels are licensed in English by J-novel Club, and can be found [[https://j-novel.club/s/arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest/ here]]. An anime adaptation directed by Kinji Yoshimoto and produced by Creator/{{asread}} and Creator/WhiteFox (with [[Creator/StudioPierrot Pierrot Plus]] for episodes 2, 8 and 11) began airing in July 2019; a second season, now with Studio MOTHER co-helming with asread and directed by Akira Iwanaga, premiered in January 2022.\\
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One Japanese high-school class has been transported to another world, where on short notice they are told they are summoned to be heroes and save it from an onslaught of demons. Each student is given overpowered stats and incredibly useful jobs...except Hajime Nagumo, otaku and bully magnet. As if being looked down upon by the "cool kids" for his hobbies, let alone being the object of affection of class sweetheart Kaori Shirasaki, is not enough, in this world not only does he get mediocre stats, but also the equally-mediocre-at-best "Synergist", a job otherwise restricted to such support functions as blacksmithing and alchemy that allows him to transmute anything.\\
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During one live training at the Orcus dungeon, a trap puts the entire class, their homeroom advisor Aiko Hatayama, and their instructor Meld Loggins, at the mercy of a dangerous monster. Against all odds, Hajime makes some ''really'' creative use of his Synergist abilities to defeat the monster. Unfortunately, a stray fireball hits him, sending him hurtling down into an abyss.\\
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Barely surviving the fall, Hajime then struggled to survive the even greater dangers deep in Orcus, nearly losing his sanity with thoughts of vengeance against what he perceived to be the treachery of his class...until he meets Yue, a powerful vampire-girl sealed for centuries in the depths of Orcus. Bound together by similar experiences, Hajime and Yue together successfully escape Orcus and confront anew the world which seemingly betrayed them.\\
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* AdaptationalDumbass: In the anime, Hajime's so busy embracing Yue, after freeing her, that he doesn't notice the steel-scorpion until it's pierced him with a rain of javelins. In the light-novel and manga, he does not lower his guard and uses "enemy scan" to search the area, thus noticing the metal-scorpion, avoiding the ambush.

* AdaptationalModesty: In the anime, Hajime skins the talon bear, so when he meets Yue, he provides her a dress made of bear-fur, rather than having nothing for the poor girl to wear than an ill-fitting cape that doesn't really cover much.

** Shea's whole race were the outcasts of the demi-human peoples. Then Hajime came along...

* ApocalypseMaiden: Anyone with the inherent ability to wielding magic without having to build it up with chanting can be the target of the BigBad. The more powerful, the more likely, just ask [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream Yue]].]] This is [[FridgeBrilliance probably why]] the Beastmen tribe try to off the likes of them as soon as they're discovered. And also explains why [[spoiler: Yue]] got imprisoned ([[AndIMustScream as well as immobilized]]) [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere in the depths of Great Orcus Labyrinth]].
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The God's Crystal. It's the crystalized Mana, and as a mineral it can store large quantities of it inside. When naturally charged it produces a healing elixir of the highest quality. [[spoiler: Oscar Orcus had one made which was accidentally dropped by Miledi when it overcharged her SignatureMove, and found millenia later when Hajime discovered it and allowed him to survive eating monster-meat and saved him and his friends several times.]]

** Shimizu spent his whole life wanting to be whisked away to another world so he could become the "hero" and get a harem devoted to him. He gets the first part, and finds he doesn't like it.

** Ironically, the Divine Mountain Labyrinth that houses the incredibly broken [[SoulPower Spirit Magic]] is relatively easy to clear for a magic that allows their user to [[BodySurf swap bodies]]. Granted, you need to clear two labyrinths beforehand and people who had any belief in the resident MadGod ''can't enter it at all'' (especially since this labyrinth is built right at the Holy Church's doorsteps). And if you had killed any servant of said MadGod, then you can skip the labyrinth's trial altogether.

--->"[[TitleDrop Kick the butt of a dragon]]" is a proverb of this world, it referred to the Ryuujin race and dragons. They boasted their defensive power as an impregnable defense because of their whole body covered by scales, excluding their eyes and mouth, the butt hole that wasn’t covered by scales was their only weak point. Because of their high defense, as they were [[HeavySleeper deep-sleepers]], they wouldn’t awaken once they fell asleep, but they would wake up at once, once their [[AssShove Butt]] that was their weak point received [[BlackComedy stimulus]], and became enraged like raging fires. A long time ago, it was not known why that was done, but the fool was completely crushed. From that, it became the meaning of someone who is foolish enough to purposely disturb someone that was harmless as long as they weren’t disturbed.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: This trope is why Hajime wants to create a tool to prevent his team being summoned against his will again. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop Kouki from being resummoned, however.]]

** The primary problem with the manga adaptation is how the story had been either water-down or outright cut out in order to streamline it. On the one hand this makes the story progress quicker at the cost of '''HUGE''' amounts of characters and characterization. The story focuses solely on Hajime's POV which removes several critical scenes and even then, several scenes featuring him are also cut for no other reason than for the sake of getting the story further along faster.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The main party mostly consists of dark heroic individuals, Hajime has monster blood and dressed in black and red, but leans more towards GoodIsNotNice, Yue is a heroic vampire princess and Tio has the form of a sinister-looking black dragon that can breathe black flames, but lacks a malicious bone in her body.

** Dungeon flooring is usually so hard as to be impenetrable, but by Volume 4, Hajime was able to uses his Pile Bunker to skip roughly ''twenty'' floors of Orcus's starting labyrinth in one shot when he goes to rescue the hero party, and the spike still has enough kinetic energy left to OneHitPolykill two of Cattleya's chimeras when it reaches the room they're trapped in.

* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Hajime and Yue toward each other when they almost died at deepest level of the first dungeon. They became the OfficialCouple afterwards.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Averted. Several characters learn that just because you're ChildhoodFriends with someone, or developed [[EveryoneCanSeeIt an obvious crush on them]], that doesn't mean they're obligated to return those feelings. Also, trying to drive a wedge between them and their current lover doesn't mean that you're a shoe-in to get them on the rebound, either.

** Shizuku's job specializes in dealing damage as quick as possible, but she can't receive any, surviving only because of her armor and Hajime's tools.

** When he [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers trained the Haulia tribe]] into the [[AxCrazy literal]] KillerRabbit tribe, not only did they lost their aversion to kill, they also became so DrunkOnPower that they outright enjoy killing and cornering their enemy. It takes Shea reminding their faces resembling the Imperial soldiers to snap them out of it.
** [[spoiler: He wake Tio Klarus for interrogation, '''[[AssShove by driving the piledriver into her ass]]''', turning her into CasualKink in the process]]. Hatayama Aiko (along with the students escorting her) are [[ShareTheMalePain understandably terrified]].
** [[spoiler: Aiko using her fermentation ability to ferment everything within the Holy Church’s main cathedral to produce flammable gas that Tio could use to destroy the cathedral's barrier. The resulting explosion not only destroys the barrier, it utterly annihilated the whole cathedral and everyone within.]]

** Later on, Hajime and the girls get in trouble more than once because people want to court, kidnap or outright enslave Yue, Shea or one of the others. In fact, thugs, nobles and even random passers-by try to literally steal the obviously high-level girls followed by a ridiculously badass looking guy so often, it becomes a RunningGag.

* HeroicRROD: When Hajime fell into the abyss, instead of having HeroicWillpower, he had a mental breakdown and nearly went insane. And instead of relying on hope, he relies on pragmatism and ruthlessness. Eventually he has indomitable willpower, but lost his drive to help anyone in need, choosing to fight for himself and his comrades. This also shows that not everyone can be a NiceGuy after a horrific experience.

** [[spoiler:The Haulia tribe was considered to be the useless hippies of the demi-human races. [[TookALevelInBadass Then they underwent Hajime's training]], turning them into CrazyIsCool BloodKnights {{Combat Pragmatist}}s. Oh, and they are actual rabbit-people to boot.]]

* LeftForDead: During their training, Hiyama sends Hajime falling down an abyss with the Behemoth and leaves him for dead. [[spoiler:Hajime later inflicts this fate on Hiyama by kicking him into a horde of monsters, where he's eaten alive]].

** Endo Kosuke. At first he is so average and unnoticeable that he becomes a joke, but it gets to the point where [[spoiler:the heroes send him to get help by passing through a huge dungeon because even the monsters don't notice him.]]

* OneCastMemberPerCover: The light novel's covers usually feature a girl from Hajime's party on each volume, although Shizuku and Eri from the Hero Party have at least one cover. Out of the girls, the main heroine Yue has the most covers as she appears on at least four volumes while the other girls only have two covers at most.

* {{Sentai}}: [[spoiler: Later on, the hero's party - Kouki, Suzu, Ryoutarou and Shizuku - were "persuaded" by Hajime to become one such group to act as diversion. Hilariously enough, Shizuku is Pink.]]

** Hajime is double subverted and reconstructed in that he originally looked like a straight case. Despite all the abuse he got from his class, the school idol, Kaori, was fond of him, and he was ardently striving to use his lack-luster "synergist" ability in clever and creative ways, even managing to restrain a Behemoth the rest of the class, and the royal knights together couldn't even scratch...until his classmate betrayed him, knocked him down a pit and left him for dead. Then, after being driven to madness with only his survival and revenge on his mind, he meets and falls in love with Yue, and she brings back enough of his original caring nature to leave thoughts of revenge behind, and then he finds himself being pursued by women he's not romantically interested in, who are trying to get into his pants so hard that even shooting at them doesn't make them stop.
** Kouki is deconstructed. He gets into Tortus, is given the "Hero" job and it goes straight to his head. Already an ObliviouslyEvil twit full of SelectiveObliviousness, he goes full tilt TautologicalTemplar, believing himself the paragon of virtue destined to save the world, and that everyone must follow him, regardless of how stupid or straight up suicidal his actions are. He even drags Hajime into training early, and when Hajime gets dragged off the training field by Hiyama and his three flunkies, whereupon the four of them start using him as a practice dummy against his will, which would have put him in the hospital in any other setting, he turns and blames Hajime for it.

** Atavist in general, as they can freely manipulate magic without having to building it up (either via chanting or magic circle)
** Hajime though certainly takes the cake: He's able to take the ability of the magical beasts by eating them, effectively becoming an Atavist himself in all but name. That being said, he only gained such an ability because he had drunk some Ambrosia along with the meats, which would've been downright lethal for anyone else, as the guy himself can attest to. The feat itself also rendered his body so badly that ''Ehitorujue considered him'' [[spoiler:[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too impure to]] [[GrandTheftMe be possessed by him]]]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And Yue finds his blood more delicious and effective than anything else]].

* YourHeadAsplode: What usually happens when Hajime shoots somebody in the head, since he uses a railgun effect to accelerate the rounds from his guns.

Compares to series like ''Literature/FailureFrame'', ''LightNovel/GarbageBrave'', ''Manga/ImTheOnlyOneWithUnfavorableSkillsIsekaiSummoningRebellion'', and ''LightNovel/NitosLazyForeignWorldSyndrome'' where a group of students are isekai'd to another world and the main character is ostracized for his weak skills before being betrayed.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} From Zero to Hero]].''[[note]]Pictured counterclockwise from center: Hajime Nagumo, Yue, Tio Klarus, Liliana S. B. Heiligh, Shea Haulia, Myu, Shizuku Yaegashi and Kaori Shirasaki. In the background: Noint.[[/note]]]]

** With Daisuke Hiyama as the ringleader. Due to his {{otaku}} status and his relationship with Kaori, Hajime is treated like an outsider by Hiyama and his friends, with his harem as the noteworthy exception.

!!Provides examples of:

** Since the scene where the class is served by very attractive maids is removed in the manga, her {{Yandere}} mode is not seen, making her seem like the perfect girlfriend to Hajime.
** With the anime removing some of his more prominent KickTheDog moments, such as his CondescendingCompassion to Hajime, trying to encourage the members Hajime's party to leave him in favor of the Hero Party, or him trying to [[CockFight challenge Hajime to a fistfight]] in order to keep Kaori from joining Hajime's party, Kouki comes across as a benevolent if naive young man.

** A comedic version. It is how Shizuku got Hajime to accept and look after Kaori. She threatens him with giving Hajime over-the-top and embarrassing nicknames and spreading them among the general population.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The Seven Great Labyrinths are a rare non-video game example, ''and how''. As Miledi Reisen explains, they had went all-out into their design to avoid a repeat of the tragedy that befalls them.
** Special mention goes for the Great Orcus Labyrinth. As this Labyrinth was intended to be cleared last, it was so difficult that it was split into two 100-floor sections, with only a handful of demons ever knowing the lower section even existed. To put it into perspective, the dungeon's FinalBoss was so tough that it ''nearly'' killed Hajime and Yue despite their overpowered firearms, medicine and magic. Ironically, Hajime fell right into the abyss within the True Labyrinth and was forced to clear this Labyrinth first, making the rest of them looks weak in comparison (though they are still psychologically challenging).
** The Great Reisen Labyrinth. On paper, it was an AntiMagic dungeon intended to test the challenger's ability to overcome their reliance on magic. However, this dungeon was filled with humiliating pranks if not downright lethal traps. To top it all off, the dungeon resets and restructures itself over time, often several times throughout the challenger's attempt to clear the dungeon, all the while having insults thrown to the challenger every time they encounters a trap, making it notoriously frustrating to clear. To top it off, the final boss is a golem that is armored with layers and layers of [[MadeOfIndestructium Azantium]] protecting its core, making it nigh-impossible to clear unless if the challengers are similarly CrazyPrepared.
** [[SecretTestOfCharacter The Haltina and Schnee Labyrinths]] are the worst possible Labyrinths for Kouki to challenge, [[spoiler:as Haltina Labyrinth has a LotusEaterMachine that conforms to his idealistic world followed by a rain of milky-white slimes with powerful aphrodisiacs, while Schnee Labyrinth have him fighting against his EvilKnockoff that was so good at his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that he managed to convince Kouki to lash out to Hajime in bloodshot rage]].

--->"[[TitleDrop Kick the butt of a dragon]]" is a proverb of this world, it referred to the Ryuujin race and dragons. They boasted their defensive power as an impregnable defense because of their whole body covered by scales, excluding their eyes and mouth, the butt hole that wasn’t covered by scales was their only weak point. Because of their high defense, as they were deep-[[HeavySleeper sleepers]], they wouldn’t awaken once they fell asleep, but they would wake up at once, once their [[AssShove Butt]] that was their weak point received [[BlackComedy stimulus]], and became enraged like raging fires. A long time ago, it was not known why that was done, but the fool was completely crushed. From that, it became the meaning of someone who is foolish enough to purposely disturb someone that was harmless as long as they weren’t disturbed.

** Later, [[spoiler:a seriously injured Hiyama makes the mistake of taunting Hajime that he will one day kill him. This causes Hajime to kick Hiyama across the courtyard into a horde of monsters, who proceed to [[EatenAlive eat him alive]].]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Hajime goes through a quick one after his fall by hardening and becoming more pragmatic and cold, then he goes through a considerably slower one, [[spoiler: mellowing out due to the girls' influence]].

** The primary problem with the manga adaptation is how the story had been either water-down or outright cut out in order to streamline it. On the one hand this makes the story progress quicker at the cost of '''HUGE''' amounts of characters and characterization. The story focuses solely on Hajime's POV which removes several critical scenes and even then several scenes featuring him are also cut for no other reason than for the sake of getting the story further along faster.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The main party mostly consists of dark heroic individuals, Hajime has monster blood and dressed in black and red, but leans more towards GoodIsNotNice, Yue is a heroic vampire princess and Tio has the form of a sinister-looking black dragon that can breath black flames, but lacks a malicious bone in her body.

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:The Liberators, as they failed in their fight against Ehit and his propaganda; ''[[{{Prequel}} Zero]]'' will let us know how it transpired.]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: The God's Crystal gives an unending supply of perfect healing and completely charges magic reserves too. [[spoiler: It makes sense that it also stops overflowing just after Hajime is healed from his fight with the Hydra, since keeping that supply of elixirs would have made any and all of the following fights even more trivial, and no one Hajime cared about would be in danger.]]

** [[spoiler: After being armed and given a TrainingFromHell by Hajime, the Haulia tribe becomes this for the other beastmen tribes and The Empire.]]

** [[spoiler: The Divine Mountain will take you straight to the magic circle provided you have done three things. One: Cleared at least two other dungeons. Two: Are not a servant of the gods. And Three: Killed a servant of the gods. Hajime fulfilled the last one by killing Noint, while Aiko and Tio fulfilled it by blowing up the entire leadership of the church of Ehit in their attempt to bring down the church's barrier.]]

!!''Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest'' provides examples of:

* OlderThanTheyLook: Yue, a 300-year-old loli vampire and Tio, a 500-year-old busty dragon girl. Also Aiko, the 25 years old loli teacher.

* PapaWolf: Go on. Try to hurt Myuu. I dare you. Completely unnecessary, scare her even by accident and may God have mercy on your soul.

* TokenMiniMoe: Myuu in the main party and Aiko in hers.

** The [[spoiler: Haulia tribe]] are trained like this since is the only thing in which they are competent. [[TheDreaded It works really well for them]].

** [[spoiler: The Haulia tribe was considered to be the useless hippies of the demi-human races. [[TookALevelInBadass Then they underwent Hajime's training]], turning them into CrazyIsCool BloodKnights {{Combat Pragmatist}}s. Oh, and they are actual rabbit-people to boot.]]

* LeftForDead: During their training, Hiyama sends Hiyama falling down an abyss with the Behemoth and leaves him for dead. [[spoiler:Hajime later inflicts this fate on Hiyama by kicking him into a horde of monsters, where he's eaten alive]].

** Endo Kosuke. At first he is so average and unnoticeable that he becomes a joke, but it gets to the point where [[spoiler: the heroes send him to get help by passing through a huge dungeon because even the monsters don't notice him.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hajime gives an absolutely scathing one to [[spoiler: Hiyama]] right before he gives him what's coming to him.

* TooKinkyToTorture: Tio. While the others escape the [[spoiler: LotusEaterMachine in the Sea of Trees Dungeon because of the bonds they share with one another, Tio escapes because the fake Hajime in her dream didn't abuse her as severely as the real one.]]
* TortureIsIneffective: While being tortured by the Empire [[spoiler: Cam not only did not break but started to mock his torturers about how much they sucked at it, to the point that one of them had to be prevented from killing him because of how annoying he was.]]

** Hajime though certainly takes the cake: He's able to take the ability of the magical beasts by eating them, effectively becoming an Atavist himself in all but name. That being said, he only gained such an ability because he had drunk some Ambrosia along with the meats, which would've been downright lethal for anyone else, as the guy himself can attest to. The feat itself also rendered his body so badly that ''Ehitorujue considered him'' [[spoiler:[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too impure to]] [[GrandTheftMe be posessed by him]]]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And Yue finds his blood more delicious and effective than anything else]].

** Not to mention his magically-enchanced modern firearms, as Aiko's (self-proclaimed) guardian knights realized and noted.

** Due to his {{otaku}} status, Hajime's classmates view him as an outsider, with Yue and his harem as the noteworthy exception.

** Due to his {{otaku}} status, Hajime's considered an outsider by everyone else, with Yue and his harem as the noteworthy exception.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Hajime is subjected to this due to his class lacking the oomph of his peers'.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Or anti-heroic people, Hajime and Yue have a very active sex life, to the point that it's a RunningGag that involves the both of them getting lost in each other's eyes over small praise. For the most part, if the other party members aren't there to stop these moments, things will quickly escalate beyond skinship.

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''Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest'' is a 2013 web novel series written by Ryo Shirakome (under the pen name "Chuuni Suki") and was published on the website "Let's Become Novelists". It was later turned into a light novel illustrated by Takayaki and published by Overlap under its ''Overlap Bunko'' imprint and in English by J-novel Club, which can be found [[https://j-novel.club/s/arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest/ here]]. An anime adaptation directed by Kinji Yoshimoto and produced by Creator/{{asread}} and Creator/WhiteFox (with [[Creator/StudioPierrot Pierrot Plus]] for episodes 2, 8 and 11) began airing in July 2019; a second season, now with Studio MOTHER co-helming with asread and directed by Akira Iwanaga, premiered in January 2022.\\

''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 2013 web novel series written by Ryo Shirakome (under the pen name "Chuuni Suki") and was published on the website "Let's Become Novelists", subsequently turned into a light novel illustrated by Takayaki and published by Overlap under its ''Overlap Bunko'' imprint and in English by J-novel Club, which can be found [[https://j-novel.club/s/arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest/ here]]. An anime adaptation directed by Kinji Yoshimoto and produced by Creator/{{asread}} and Creator/WhiteFox (with [[Creator/StudioPierrot Pierrot Plus]] for episodes 2, 8 and 11) began airing in July 2019; a second season, now with Studio MOTHER co-helming with asread and directed by Akira Iwanaga, premiered in January 2022.\\