Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest: Volume 1

By: Ryo Shirakome, takayaki, Ningen - translator

Narrated by: Matt Shipman, Morgan Lauré

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

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Even better than the anime

This is the best anime to novel I have ever read. You can feel the author's love bleeding through his words. I cannot wait for the next book to come out.

Great light novel series

I’ve enjoyed this light novel many times and was excited to see it as a audio book. If there is one thing to improve is have male voice actor handle the male parts and the female voice actor handle the female parts instead of having it split the book in half for one then the other it would improve the immersion and overall quality definitely buying the rest in this series as it my favorite series. Looking forward to seeing them released

Book 2 please

As a truck driver audiobooks make up the bulk of my library. As an anime fan spanning over 3 decades now I’m so happy to live in a time where I can listen to audiobooks of the LNs I’ve come to enjoy while driving. The novel went into far more depth than the anime as to be expected expanding on Hajimes classmates and their various exploits while he’s trapped in the Orcus labyrinth. A bit more lovey dovey incite into the relationship between Hajime and Yue. A boat load of exposition (though none of it boring) about Hajimes personality and his experimentation with magic, equipment, and weapons. Overall, a good book presented by two voice actors who did an excellent job in both narration and character voices. Hoping and praying for a quick but, quality second book. Thanks so much to all involved in its production.

very entertaining

we need the rest of this series authorized for audible hard to get one book not knowing when the rest will be available loved the story

Glad to see them getting audiobooks

It's a great series, glad to see it getting audiobooks. As a series with significantly more female main characters than male, hopefully we see a continued narration by Morgan Lauré.

outstanding

well gotta day its really good to listen to i love the anime itself so this extra detail is amazing. and im like 95% sure the reader is Hajime's Dubbed Voice Actor

Really good

An amazing journey with a lovable MC. Can’t wait for book two. Hopefully it isn’t a long wait.

Fantastic!

So first off getting the actor who played Hajime to narrate was a master stroke. Especially since he voiced and did the reactions perfectly

I will note on the second narrator, at first when she started I wasn't for her in this book. I had the thought that she was a good narrator, but the sound effects for a good deal of time were more the kinds of sounds you'd do for children than an actual reading of something like this for an audiobook, so it really took away from the book compared to the already perfect sounds used before.

As she read though she really started getting better and better, and by the end really had it down.

You will, when she first comes in likely complain you'd rather just have the first narrator read it all, and I totally understand, but...as you get closer to the end you'll get more happy with her

Yes, the actor who does the voice for Hajime is fantastic and we'd happily listen to the whole book with him, but, now I can say we will be happy with both

I honestly can't wait for the next light novel audiobook to be released! Please!! It can't come soon enough

Major thanks for getting the voice actors on this, and major thanks to the voice actors for doing this. You are majorly appreciated

Loved it all but narrator switch

I´m not a huge fan of switching narrators between chapters. Each narrator should focus in specific characters, there are plenty of audiobooks like this ( monogatari series for example).

For example, Morgan Laure voicing of each character felt the same. It really ruins the immersion when you guess who is talking due to context.

Plot

I really enjoyed this book. Waiting for the next volume. When will it come out?