The Level 999 Villager

The Level 999 Villager
First light novel volume cover
LV999の村人
(Lv999 no Murabito)
GenreFantasy[1]
Novel series
Written byKoneko Hoshitsuki
Published byShōsetsuka ni Narō
Original runJuly 14, 2015 – December 1, 2018
Light novel
Written byKoneko Hoshitsuki
Illustrated byFuumi
Published byEnterbrain
Original runApril 30, 2016 – January 25, 2019
Volumes8
Manga
Written byKoneko Hoshitsuki
Illustrated byKenichi Iwamoto
Published byKadokawa Shoten
English publisher
ImprintKadokawa Comics A
MagazineComp Ace
Original runMay 26, 2017 – present
Volumes20
Anime television series
Directed byYoshinobu Kasai
Written byShinzō Fujita
Music byHiroshi Nakamura
StudioBrain's Base
Original networkTV Tokyo, BS Fuji
Original run July 2026 – scheduled

The Level 999 Villager (Japanese: LV999の村人, Hepburn: Lv999 no Murabito; 'The Villager of Level 999') is a Japanese light novel series written by Koneko Hoshitsuki and illustrated by Fuumi. It was initially serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website from July 2015 to December 2018. It was later acquired by Enterbrain who published eight volumes from April 2016 to January 2019. A manga adaptation illustrated by Kenichi Iwamoto began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Comp Ace in May 2017. An anime television series adaptation produced by Brain's Base is set to premiere in July 2026.

Plot

Everyone is born with a class assigned to them. Their class—warrior, hero, magician, cleric, etc—determines the life they will live. Among these classes is the weakest: the villager. Villagers have no power; they are protected by the other classes. Koji Kagami is one of them. At the age of two, Kagami understood that money was the key to a better life, and that killing monsters was the fastest way to earn it. He spent 20 years killing monsters and reached level 999, despite the average level of villagers being 10.

Characters

Koji Kagami (鏡 浩二, Kagami Koji)
Voiced by: Satoshi Inomata[2]
Alice (アリス, Arisu)
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama[2]
Takako (タカコ)
Voiced by: Hiroya Egashira[3]
Rex (レックス, Rekkusu)
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki[3]
Krull (クルル, Kururu)
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami[3]
Tina (ティナ)
Voiced by: Aoi Koga[3]
Paruna (パルナ)
Voiced by: Lynn[3]

Media

Light novel

Written by Koneko Hoshitsuki, Lv999 no Murabito was initially serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō from July 14, 2015, to December 1, 2018.[4] It was later acquired by Enterbrain who published eight light novel volumes with illustrations by Fuumi from April 30, 2016, to January 25, 2019.[5][6]

No. Release date ISBN
1April 30, 2016[5]978-4-04-734117-3
2August 31, 2016[7]978-4-04-734286-6
3December 28, 2016[8]978-4-04-734411-2
4May 31, 2017[9]978-4-04-734666-6
5September 30, 2017[10]978-4-04-734847-9
6February 5, 2018[11]978-4-04-735026-7
7July 5, 2018[12]978-4-04-735244-5
8January 25, 2019[6]978-4-04-735417-3

Manga

A manga adaptation, illustrated by Kenichi Iwamoto, began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Comp Ace on May 26, 2017.[13] The manga's chapters have been compiled into twenty tankōbon volumes as of February 2026.[14] The manga adaptation is published in English on Kadokawa's BookWalker website.[15]

No. Release date ISBN
1December 26, 2017[16]978-4-04-106300-2
2February 26, 2018[17]978-4-04-106304-0
3June 25, 2018[18]978-4-04-107063-5
4January 25, 2019[19]978-4-04-107810-5
5July 25, 2019[20]978-4-04-108472-4
6December 26, 2019[21]978-4-04-108473-1
7May 26, 2020[22]978-4-04-109627-7
8October 26, 2020[23]978-4-04-109628-4
9February 26, 2021[24]978-4-04-109629-1
10August 26, 2021[25]978-4-04-111673-9
11February 26, 2022[26]978-4-04-111799-6
12August 26, 2022[27]978-4-04-112850-3
13February 25, 2023[28]978-4-04-112851-0
14May 26, 2023[29]978-4-04-113690-4
15November 25, 2023[30]978-4-04-113691-1
16February 26, 2024[31]978-4-04-113692-8
17August 26, 2024[32]978-4-04-115218-8
18February 26, 2025[33]978-4-04-115864-7
19August 26, 2025[34]978-4-04-116480-8
20February 25, 2026[14]978-4-04-117091-5

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on August 21, 2025. The series will be produced by Brain's Base and directed by Yoshinobu Kasai, with Shinzō Fujita supervising series scripts, Kentarō Matsumoto designing the characters, and Hiroshi Nakamura composing the music.[2] It is set to premiere in July 2026 on TV Tokyo and BS Fuji.[3]

Reception

The manga adaptation won the grand prize at the Minna ga Erabu!! Denshi Comic Taishō 2019 competition hosted by NTT Solmare.[35] The manga adaptation also won the Terra Award at the 2020 Piccoma Awards.[36]

See also

References

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