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Tōwa's The World's Strongest Rearguard - Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker Light Novels Get TV Anime
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
A teaser website opened on Monday and revealed the television anime adaptation of Tōwa's The World's Strongest Rearguard - Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker (Sekai Saikyō no Kōei: Meikyūkoku no Shinjin Tansakusha) light novel series.
The novels' illustrator Huuka Kazabana and the manga adaptation's artist Rikizo both drew illustrations to celebrate the anime announcement:
Yen Press publishes the light novels in English and describes the story:
Corporate slave Arihito Atobe's death in a freak bus accident marks the beginning of his new life as a kind of adventurer called a Seeker. Reborn into a fantasy world, he settles into a previously unknown job class called “rearguard,” capable of providing his (all-female) party with critical attack, defense, and recovery support. And it comes with an added bonus: Simply being at the back of the party line increases his companions' fondness for him! Freed from the shackles of corporate life, Arihito is eager to start fresh as a newly minted Seeker!
Tōwa launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in April 2017. Kadokawa published the novels' first volume with illustration by Kazabana in November 2017. The ninth volume will ship on Wednesday.
Rikizo launched the manga adaptation on Kadokawa's Comic Walker web manga site in March 2018. Kadokawa published the first compiled book volume in September 2018, and the ninth volume shipped on February 21. Yen Press also publishes the manga adaptation in English.
Sources: The World's Strongest Rearguard - Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker anime's teaser website, Comic Natalie
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