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Loner Life in Another World (Japanese: ひとりぼっちの異世界攻略, Hepburn: Hitoribotchi no Isekai Kōryaku) is a Japanese light novel series written by Shoji Goji. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in October 2016, before being published in print with illustrations by Booota and Saku Enokimaru by Overlap beginning in January 2018. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Bibi, began serialization on the Comic Gardo website in January 2019. An anime television series adaptation produced by Hayabusa Film and Passione premiered in October 2024.
| Loner Life in Another World | |
First light novel volume cover | |
| ひとりぼっちの異世界攻略 (Hitoribotchi no Isekai Kōryaku) | |
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| Genre | Isekai[1] |
| Novel series | |
| Written by | Shoji Goji |
| Published by |
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| Original run | October 12, 2016 – present |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Shoji Goji |
| Illustrated by |
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| Published by | Overlap |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Overlap Bunko |
| Demographic | Male |
| Original run | January 25, 2018 – present |
| Volumes | 15 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shoji Goji |
| Illustrated by | Bibi |
| Published by | Overlap |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Comic Gardo |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | January 25, 2019 – present |
| Volumes | 21 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Akio Kazumi |
| Written by | Kenta Ihara |
| Music by | Shūji Katayama |
| Studio |
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| Licensed by | Sentai Filmworks |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, BS Fuji, AT-X |
| Original run | October 4, 2024 – present |
| Episodes | 8 |
An entire class of high school students is summoned to another world by its god, who selected them to become heroes. The god allowed each of the students to pick a special skill of their choice, but one of the students, Haruka, a loner student, tried to escape the selection ritual but got dragged along anyway, and the god allowed him to keep all the remaining skills the other students did not pick. Despite not having a single powerful skill, Haruka makes use of his multiple abilities to live a comfortable life by himself in the other world, until his classmates start having trouble trying to deal with their new environment and conflicts between them, forcing him to take action, leave his loner existence and help them.
Written by Shoji Goji, the series began publication on the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō on October 12, 2016.[8] The series was later acquired by Overlap, who began publishing the series in print with illustrations by Booota and Saku Enokimaru on January 25, 2018.[9] As of October 2024, fifteen volumes have been released.[10]
In February 2021, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they licensed the series for English publication.[11]
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 25, 2018[9] | 978-4-86-554302-5 | August 3, 2021 (print)[12] July 1, 2021 (digital) | 978-1-64-827419-0 |
| 2 | June 25, 2018[13] | 978-4-86-554362-9 | July 5, 2022 (print)[14] May 26, 2022 (digital) | 978-1-64-827438-1 |
| 3 | February 25, 2020[15] | 978-4-86-554478-7 | October 25, 2022 (print)[16] September 15, 2022 (digital) | 978-1-64-827457-2 |
| 4 | May 25, 2020[17] | 978-4-86-554661-3 | January 31, 2023 (print)[18] December 15, 2022 (digital) | 978-1-63-858165-9 |
| 5 | October 25, 2020[19] | 978-4-86-554761-0 | June 20, 2023 (print)[20] May 11, 2023 (digital) | 978-1-63-858299-1 |
| 6 | January 25, 2021[21] | 978-4-86-554824-2 | August 22, 2023 (print)[22] July 13, 2023 (digital) | 978-1-63-858647-0 |
| 7 | May 25, 2021[23] | 978-4-86-554910-2 | November 7, 2023[24] | 978-1-63858-880-1 |
| 8 | October 25, 2021[25] | 978-4-82-400001-9 | March 5, 2024 (print)[26] February 8, 2024 (digital) | 979-8-88843-434-5 |
| 9 | March 25, 2022[27] | 978-4-82-400130-6 | July 9, 2024 (print)[28] June 20, 2024 (digital) | 979-8-88843-469-7 |
| 10 | August 25, 2022[29] | 978-4-82-400270-9 | November 12, 2024 (print)[30] October 17, 2024 (digital) | 979-8-88843-750-6 |
| 11 | February 25, 2023[31] | 978-4-82-400414-7 | March 11, 2025 (print)[32] | 979-8-89160-578-7 |
| 12 | June 25, 2023[33] | 978-4-82-400501-4 | — | — |
| 13 | January 25, 2024[34] | 978-4-8240-0712-4 | — | — |
| 14 | April 25, 2024[35] | 978-4-8240-0796-4 | — | — |
| 15 | October 25, 2024[10] | 978-4-8240-0971-5 | — | — |
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Bibi, began serialization on the Comic Gardo manga website on January 25, 2019.[36] As of October 2024, the manga's individual chapters have been collected into twenty-one tankōbon volumes.[37]
In March 2020, Kaiten Books announced that they had licensed the manga for English publication.[38]
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 25, 2019[39] | 978-4-8655-4550-0 | March 31, 2020 (digital) August 19, 2020 (print)[40] | 978-1-95-224100-0 |
| 2 | February 25, 2020[41] | 978-4-8655-4617-0 | July 10, 2020 (digital) November 30, 2020 (print)[42] | 978-1-95-224105-5 |
| 3 | May 25, 2020[43] | 978-4-8655-4670-5 | November 20, 2020 (digital) June 15, 2021 (print)[44] | 978-1-95-224113-0 |
| 4 | July 25, 2020[45] | 978-4-8655-4709-2 | May 7, 2021 (digital) January 4, 2022 (print)[46] | 978-1-95-224123-9 |
| 5 | October 25, 2020[47] | 978-4-8655-4773-3 | September 10, 2021 (digital) June 23, 2022 (print)[48] | 978-1-95-224129-1 |
| 6 | January 25, 2021[49] | 978-4-8655-4837-2 | May 27, 2022 (digital) December 9, 2022 (print)[50] | 978-1-95-224141-3 |
| 7 | May 25, 2021[51] | 978-4-8655-4924-9 | September 16, 2022 (digital) June 9, 2023 (print)[52] | 978-1-95-224145-1 |
| 8 | August 25, 2021[53] | 978-4-8655-4991-1 | February 14, 2023 (digital) February 9, 2024 (print)[54] | 978-1-95-224155-0 |
| 9 | October 25, 2021[55] | 978-4-8240-0035-4 | August 11, 2023 (digital) January 31, 2025 (print)[56] | 978-1-95-224159-8 |
| 10 | January 25, 2022[57] | 978-4-8240-0099-6 | December 22, 2023 (digital) TBA (print)[58] | 978-1-95-224165-9 |
| 11 | March 25, 2022[59] | 978-4-8240-0143-6 | — | — |
| 12 | May 25, 2022[60] | 978-4-8240-0202-0 | — | — |
| 13 | August 25, 2022[61] | 978-4-8240-0284-6 | — | — |
| 14 | November 25, 2022[62] | 978-4-8240-0348-5 | — | — |
| 15 | February 25, 2023[63] | 978-4-8240-0429-1 | — | — |
| 16 | June 25, 2023[64] | 978-4-8240-0540-3 | — | — |
| 17 | August 25, 2023[65] | 978-4-8240-0596-0 | — | — |
| 18 | January 25, 2024[66] | 978-4-8240-0724-7 | — | — |
| 19 | April 25, 2024[67] | 978-4-8240-0814-5 | — | — |
| 20 | September 25, 2024[68] | 978-4-8240-0958-6 | — | — |
| 21 | October 25, 2024[37] | 978-4-8240-0989-0 | — | — |
An anime television series adaptation was announced during the second livestream for the "10th Anniversary Memorial Overlap Bunko All-Star Assemble Special" event on January 21, 2024.[2] It is produced by Hayabusa Film and Passione (in cooperation with Frontier Engine) and directed by Akio Kazumi, with scripts written by Kenta Ihara, characters designed by Keiya Nakano, and music composed by Shūji Katayama.[69] The series premiered on October 4, 2024, on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji.[3][7][a] The opening theme song is "ODD NUMBER" performed by Yoshino, while the ending theme song is "Hello to Goodbye" (ハローとグッバイ, Hello and Goodbye) performed by Kujiraki.[6] Sentai Filmworks licensed the series in North America, Australia and British Isles for streaming on Hidive.[70] Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia.[71][72]
| No. | Title [73][74] | Directed by [73] | Written by [73] | Storyboarded by [73] | Original air date [b][a] | |
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| 1 | "Loner with the Worst Skills" Transliteration: "Bocchi to Baddo Sukiru" (Japanese: ぼっちとバッドスキル) | Yuta Kida | Kenta Ihara | Akio Kazumi | October 4, 2024 | |
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At a school, a magic circle begins transporting everyone to an alternate world and class loner Haruka (the only one who tried to escape) ends up being the last person transported. A God reveals that his classmates have already selected the best skills and equipment, so Haruka's only choices are useless skills nobody else wanted. Tired by his complaining, God gives him all the useless skills and equipment left. Arriving in a forest, Haruka applies all his available skill points to Luck and begins experimenting with what he has. He discovers a Loner skill that enables him to survive alone. He also relies on Contact Lenses that give him appraisal abilities. Discovering a cave, he sets up camp and discovers Loner keeps monsters away. Discovering goblins, he defeats them with the only weapon he can use, a Wooden Staff. Realizing he could live comfortably by upgrading his skills properly, he sets about training and levelling up. On Day Five, he detects his classmates wandering around in their various groups, including the Class Rep (on whom he has a crush). He avoids them. | ||||||
| 2 | "Reunion" Transliteration: "Saikai" (Japanese: 再会) | Chikayo Nakamura | Kenta Ihara | Akio Kazumi | October 11, 2024 | |
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Haruka continues his levelling up, which has stalled at level 3 due to the useless skill Master of None. He eventually encounters the school Nerds, who have already reached level 16 as magicians and warriors due to their familiarity with Isekai media, but are now leaving everyone behind. After he takes them in and feeds them, they explain that the Delinquents (a student class clique) attempted to use the skills Charm and Puppeteer to hypnotize the Gals (another clique) into a harem; the Nerds used Magic Seal to prevent the Delinquents from using those skills, causing them to destroy the camp. Everyone blamed the Nerds for provoking the Delinquents. The Nerds leave to reach the nearest town and start lives as Adventurers. Haruka visits the destroyed camp and finds the Gals regretting their actions. Haruka advises them to learn to survive and then find the Nerds to apologize. Haruka agrees to help them, but accidentally activates his skill Subjugate, turning the Gals into mindless slaves. Haruka panics at what the Class Rep will do to him if she finds out, only for her to appear. Elsewhere, the Delinquents plan to take the girls by force. | ||||||
| 3 | "Life With The Girls" Transliteration: "Joshi-tachi to no Seikatsu" (Japanese: 女子たちとの生活) | Yū Yabuuchi | Kenta Ihara | Akio Kazumi | October 18, 2024 | |
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The effect of Haruka's Subjugation soon wears off. Haruka admits his renovated cave is large enough to house everybody, and agrees to the Class Rep's request that they temporarily stay with him. At his "house", Haruka has built bedrooms, a kitchen and bathroom. Haruka is horrified when everyone except the Class Rep strips naked and takes over the bathroom. That night, the Class Rep admits to having failed as a leader, though Haruka assures her nobody (except the Nerds) could prepare for such an extreme situation. The next morning, the girls cook fish, which so far Haruka has been unable to catch. His Packing skill, which can capture objects within a 3D space, can capture the girls' Lightning magic and unlock it permanently as one of his own skills. The girls plan to leave to find a town, but Haruka decides to help them train first. The girls eventually learn how to fight monsters. The Class Rep then reveals that he is coming with them to the city. Elsewhere, one of the delinquents is murdered by a hooded student. | ||||||
| 4 | "Headed to Town" Transliteration: "Machi o Mezashite" (Japanese: 街を目指して) | Ryo Yasumura | Kenta Ihara | Akio Kazumi | October 25, 2024 | |
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Fighting orcs along the way, Haruka and company encounter the Jocks, who warn him about the dangerous skill Hijack; as the Delinquents do not possess Hijack, it is possible that one of the girls does. The Jocks then leave. The Class Rep admits to Haruka that she possesses Hijack, which allows the stealing of another person’s skills via murder. Haruka combines skills attempting to fly and invents Air Walk, which allows him to walk on steps of air. After they leave the forest, Haruka spots people being attacked by wolves and decides to rescue them. Defeating the wolves, he meets Ofter and his adventuring party. Everyone travels together to the nearest town of Omui. Elsewhere, the Delinquents, being manipulated by Tanaka, decide to hunt down the Nerds to get back their Charm and Puppeteer skills before going after the girls. Spying on them, the Jocks are worried. | ||||||
| 5 | "Life in Town" Transliteration: "Machi no Kurashi" (Japanese: 街の暮らし) | Yusuke Onoda | Kenta Ihara | Ichizo Kobayashi | November 1, 2024 | |
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The Class Rep takes everyone to register at the Adventurer's Guild. As they are all above level 30, the girls register without issue. However, new adventurers must be level 10 and in a party, so level 9 Haruka with his Loner skill cannot register. Haruka attempts to sell monster crystals but has so many the guild runs out of money, so the Guild Boss offers a down payment of 8 million. Haruka goes shopping and finds a Combine-Seven necklace that allows him to combine the effects of seven items onto 1 normal item. However, he is startled by the Class Rep and falls onto the display, combining items at random. The furious merchant demands payment for everything he combined. Penniless again and missing the forest, Haruka slips away. However, he witnesses bandits attacking a carriage, whom he defeats. The carriage belongs to Merielle, and while escorting her home Haruka complains about Omui, realising too late that she is the daughter of the Lord of Omui. Insulted, she refuses to let him escape until she has proven Omui's value. Elsewhere, the Jocks and Delinquents prepare to fight, when the hooded student appears and stabs a Delinquent in the back. | ||||||
| 6 | "Alone Again" Transliteration: "Futatabi Bocchi e" (Japanese: 再びぼっちへ) | Chikayo Nakamura | Kenta Ihara | Chikayo Nakamura & Akio Kazumi | November 8, 2024 | |
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The hooded student kills all four Delinquents. Merielle drags Haruka to her father's mansion to reward him with money and an ID as proof of his Omui citizenship. However, he keeps ignoring her, so she eventually lets him leave. The Class Rep confines him to their lodgings, unaware that his ID allows him to leave Omui the next day. Reaching his cave, he discovers the Jocks all badly wounded. They say that the hooded student stole their weapons and is going after the Class Rep to acquire Hijack. Haruka uses his healing mushroom potions to recover the Jocks, sends them to Omui, then experiments with randomly combining skills, hoping to invent something useful. After defeating a Goblin Emperor, he reaches level 11. He names his new skill Made Up: a lightning-fast attack with instant activation. He confronts the hooded student; Tanaka, a mathematical genius who, like Haruka, did not fit into any of the groups. Tanaka has been manipulating the Delinquents and causing the class to split up. He has planne his murders so that their only classmates left are girls, Jocks and Nerds. Haruka challenges him to a fight. | ||||||
| 7 | "Haruka & the Hooded Man" Transliteration: "Haruka to Fūdo no Otoko" (Japanese: 遥とフードの男) | Yuta Kida | Satoshi Ozaki | Toshikatsu Tokoro | November 15, 2024 | |
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Tanaka affects Haruka with Meddle, which slows down his movements. Tanaka tries to burn him, but is shocked when Haruka absorbs his magic with a combined magic staff. Tanaka has weapon skills from the Delinquents and has Copycat, which lets him copy skills. However, Copycat only lets him use a skill three times. Tanaka unleashes Death, a skill that kills Haruka instantly. Haruka, however, recovers, revealing that his skill Well-Being makes him resistant to health-based attacks, plus having maxed out his Luck gave him a chance to avoid dying. They continue fighting and Tanaka demands to know how Haruka is resisting Meddle, so Haruka reveals that for the whole fight he has been using Dummy to move his own body like a puppet. With no moves left, Tanaka becomes angry. According to Haruka, Tanaka cannot win because he never really Levelled himself up; he only stole other people's skills. Haruka then uses Made Up and kills Tanaka. Severely injured, Haruka is recovered by the Nerds, to whom The Gals apologize. Haruka once again tries to sneak away only for the Class Rep to stop him with a hug. She then gives him to the rest of the girls, who subject him to a group scolding for worrying them that lasts until sunrise. | ||||||
| 8 | "Dungeon Exploration" Transliteration: "Meikyū Tansaku" (Japanese: 迷宮探索) | Hiroto Kato | Kenta Ihara | Hiroto Kato | November 22, 2024 | |
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The Nerds reveal that they are going dungeon-crawling to find an artifact that will make them irresistible to women; this inspires Haruka to go after it himself (primarily to get the Class Rep and the other girls off his back). En route to the dungeon, he encounters and annihilates a horde of Orcs, then spends the rest of the day searching the upper floor of the dungeon without success. Returning to town that evening, he finds everyone on high alert because of a warning of a horde about to attack; when he reveals that he took them all out, everyone scolds him for being reckless. The next day, he questions the shop keeper about the artifact; the shop keeper mentions a Charisma-boosting Ring on the dungeon's lowest level. Some of the girls overhear Haruka's plan to find it, and the next day, when he is on his way to the dungeon he finds himself tailed by the Class Rep and all of his classmates who are determined to stop him. He flees into the dungeon, but accidentally falls through a wall and all the way down to the dungeon's 101st level. Uninjured (thanks to his Luck and Earth Magic skills), he enters the Final Boss Room, only to find himself facing the Dungeon Emperor, an armed skeletal figure. | ||||||
| 9 | "The Loner & the Dungeon Emperor" Transliteration: "Bocchi to Meikyū Sumeragi" (Japanese: ぼっちと迷宮皇) | Hiroto Kato | Kenta Ihara | Hiroto Kato | November 29, 2024 | |
Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network praised the humor and illustrations, though she had mixed feelings on the character Haruka.[76] Demelza from Anime UK News praised the story, especially its action and comedy elements.[1]
The series has 1.9 million copies in circulation between its digital and print releases.[34]
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