Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest ① (ありふれた職業で世界最強 ①, Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō ①?) is the 1st volume of the light novel series, written by "Ryo Shirakome" and illustrated by "Takaya-Ki", and was released on June 25, 2015 in Japan.
Synopsis[]
FROM ZERO TO HERO
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!
While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers and tasked with saving the human race from extinction, Hajime’s job, a Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with nothing but a glorified blacksmith’s level of strength?
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?
Chapters[]
- Prologue
- Chapter I: Summoned to Another World with a Commonplace Class
- Chapter II: The Monster of the Abyss
- Chapter III: The Golden Vampire Princess
- Chapter IV: Guardian of the Depths
- Chapter V: Setting Off
- A Very Prologue-ish Epilogue
- Extra Chapter: An Unwinnable Battle
Bonus Short Stories[]
- A Man's Dream
- The Holy Goddess' Descent unto Paradise
- A Case of What If
- A Nightmare in the Abyss
- The Liberators' Game
- Dreams of Family
Characters[]
Adaptations[]
Web Novel[]
- Chapters 1-27
Manga[]
- Manga Volume 2
Anime[]
Trivia[]
- When Hajime first sees his stats, he thinks about how is power is not over 9,000. This is a reference to a meme from Dragon Ball Z.
- When the students first explore the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Shizuku jokingly tells Kaori that it is wrong to pick up guys in a dungeon while the latter is looking at Hajime. This is a reference to the series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?.
- When Hajime tells Yue he wants to bathe alone in the hot spring at Oscar Orcus' lair, to which she responds by saying "...But I refuse," Hajime makes a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure due to her response being the same as Rohan Kishibe from the series.
- A comparison is made of Hajime's fondness to the Divinity Stone with Chuck Noland's attachment to "Wilson the volleyball" from the movie Cast Away.
- The line "Be still, my sealed left arm!" is based on the series Silence! My Left Arm (This Light Novel is Amazing!) (しずまれ！俺の左腕 （このライトノベルがすごい！文庫）, Shizu Mare! Ore no Hidariude (Kono Raito Noberu ga Sugoi! Bunko)?).
- The heat knuckle that Hajime makes for his prosthetic arm in the short story "A Man's Dream" is based on the God Gundam's special attack "Bakunetsu God Finger" in Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
Haruka reading volume 1 of Arifureta.
- The titles for chapters two, three and four of this novel are the same titles for Episodes one, three and four of Season One of the Anime.
- In episode 1 of Loner Life in Another World, the series' protagonist Haruka is reading this novel just before he and his classmates are summoned to another world.
