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Written by: Swornim K.C - 22017, Grade XII

Posted on: 05 April, 2022

ARIFURETA: FROM COMMONPLACE TO WORLD'S STRONGEST

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryo Shirakome and illustrated by Takayaki. Originally a web novel, the series has been published in print since 2015.

Its story follows as the ordinary life of 17 year old otaku Nagumo Hajime is disrupted when he and his classmates are summoned to a fantasy world and tasked with saving mankind. While his classmates are gifted with impressive abilities useful in combat, Hajime is belittled for only gaining an inferior transmutation skill that lacks any real offensive power. During an expedition in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime is betrayed by one of his classmates, plummeting him to the bottom of an abyss. Though he survives the fall, Hajime is faced with menacing monsters and misfortunes that send him spiraling into a grim nightmare. Desperate to live and return home one day, he resolves to fight for his survival only to meet an imprisoned vampire he names Yue, who is also seeking to escape the labyrinth. Taking an interest in him, Yue , Shia who is an Atavist rabbitman with a unique Skill which allows her to view the future, especially when her own life is in danger , Tio who is the princess of the exiled dragonmen and later becomes one of Hajime's companions along the way ,Kaori Shirasaki who is one of the students from Japan involved in the Summoning Incident and ended up in Tortus along with her other classmates accompany and Myu is a young dagon girl who was saved by Nagumo and Shea after getting kidnapped when they came across her in Fuhren Initially she had been calling Hajime as "Onii chan" but later changed it to "Papa" Hajime on his journey to find a way back home, while steadily transforming from commonplace to the world's strongest. 

It is a great anime which is rated 6.66 in myanimelist.net. This is one of my favorite anime so I recommend you to watch this anime as its 2nd season is on going.


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