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

By: Ryo Shirakome, takayaki, Ningen - translator
Narrated by: Matt Shipman, Morgan Lauré
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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.

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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

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Very good

Hopefully the rest of the series will come to audiobook very soon so I can listen to it all because waiting is a pain

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I want more!!

I love the anime and not only did this not disappoint, but blew my mind in the way it expanded the universe, characters and story. Matt and Morgan were awesome. My only complaint would be that they didn't do the story together, but nothing in life is perfect.

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love both anime and book

this story is gold 🪙 although better than the anime so far when the next come out??

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F'in' fantastic

The book is absolutely better than the anime.

I gave a 4 on performance, due to two different narrators. Both voice actors/narrators are amazing, but it would have been better for: male for male characters, beasts/monsters, and female for female characters and narrative. It was kinda humorous when she enacted the behemoth's roar.

Great production otherwise. Can't wait for the rest!

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If you liked the anime...

... you'll like this book. Minor spoilers but if you watched the anime you'll already know the story anyway. This novel starts before the anime series in the classroom before they become isakai-ed. Hajime's journey through the labyrinth is longer and more involved than shown in the show. This book covers the first 5 episodes of the anime in greater detail than could be shown. like I said if you like the anime you'll like this book.

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Great story telling

very rich story telling. Watched the anime first, but still enjoying hearing everything that was left out. Here's hoping we'll get more volumes soon

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Finally!

I read up on these books as they were being translated on the Jnovel website and truly love the story. I was so happy to see it get on audible, my preferred way to immerse myself in books.

The switch on narrators confuses me but they both did a good job. I gave it a 4 star for performance because I prefer keeping the same voice actors. Why couldn't they have her do the female voices and him the males? It's what I anticipated and was a little disappointed about.

The story, though, is one of my favorites. I highly endorse this book and wish for more people to experience it!

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fun listen

If you are a fan of the anime, this gives you more depth in the story.

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