Light Novel 'Kenja no Mago' Gets Anime Adaptation

The seventh volume of Tsuyoshi Yoshioka and Seiji Kikuchi's Kenja no Mago (Magi's Grandson) light novel series, which will be released on September 30, has revealed that an anime adaptation of the series is in the works. An official website for the anime was also launched by Kadokawa.

Synopsis
A young man who had surely died in an accident, was reborn in another world as a baby! After that, he was picked up by the patriot hero "Sage" Merlin Wolford and was given the name Shin. He was raised as a grandson by Merlin and soaked up Merlin's teachings earning him some shocking power however, when he became 15 his grandfather Merlin said: "I forgot to teach him common sense"!

An "abnormal" boy's unconventional other world fantasy life starts here!! (Source: Translated from official synopsis)

The series has been published under the Famitsu Bunko imprint since July 2015, and currently has six volumes in print. A manga adaptation drawn by Ogata Shunsuke has been serialized in Young Ace UP magazine since March 2016. The manga's fifth volume is scheduled to be published on October 24.

Announcement


Source: Official publisher site

Kenja no Mago on MAL

the premise makes it look like it will be comedy.
hope it will be as funny as konosuba.

i see hot girls and fanservice.. *adds to ptw*

Look Another Butchered Isekai crap

Nvm I'll pass

From the PV it doesn't look like it'll be comedy focused. Hopefully it's not just another cliché LN adaptation.

Read the manga. I can say it's not horrible if I remember right.

I've had a feeling it would receive an anime adaptation.
I don't know whether the source material is good or not though but I'm down for more Isekai and pretty girls.

The isekai truck keep chugging along, no survivors.

I red that manga quite long time ago, and well it was something meh for me. I mean Isekai stuff is bit getting rough these days... no more realistic story :\

Nothing special just your regular harem in another world anime well as long as it's better than Smartphone then I will give it a try I suppose

It sounds like it doesn't have even an ounce of originality.

What is that anime that started this isekai trend again? Why are most isekai MCs overpowered af anyway?

Why, why my favorite Isekai series still didn't have an anime adaptation. Sigh...

Well this series is good , I have a fun time when reading the manga, hope the anime will follow the source perfectly.

The first sentence was enough to make me roll my eyes. The isekai adaptations are never-ending.

OHMYGOSH that synopsis is hilarious xDD enough to make me want to watch it! Looking forward to it :D "I forgot to teach him common sense" LMAOOOO

As long as a good studio picks this up it should be interesting.
The synopsis does sound hilarious, a boy with no common sense, it should be a fun ride!

Looks like a solid pass for me

Sounds lazy, terrible and entirely unoriginal. Pass.

Don't pass up the chance to watch yet another of those 100 same anime that came out in the last 5 years.

Anyways, I have read it in the past and it is boring. If you think you are in for some comedy, nope. It tries to be funny but the humour is pretty low-tier. It won't make you laugh unless you are one of those who laugh at anything (like an idiot).

Also, it surprises me how on earth these stories get 7+ in MAL. What's so great about reading rinse and repeats time and over again?

more of the same shit anime..

I am in
Reincarnation is great

Well yes I can accept it as a manga series, but NOT when it's adapted into anime... When I saw the battle scene for the first time, It's so anticlimatic.. Rather than a battle, it looks more like a slaughter... The plot development is way too convenient for the MC, In the end It's just your typical "transfered to another world" anime...

I have read few chapters of the manga version of this series and i had to say that i enjoyed it very much so i am happy to see it getting an anime adaptation.Now,if only 'mushoku tensei' could also get an anime adaptation.

Looks so good

I like the way the girls dress !! It reminds me of Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records from last season

I've added the manga to my ptr ages ago but now that it's getting an anime, I'll watch it instead and see what it's like, hopefully it'll be good.

Another isekai, so this is the revenge for those two nukes ?

This is sum up what happen in the LN!

MC: Use magic without chant.
Other: Wow cannot believe he did that.
MC: Make something he thought ordinary.
Other: Wow it must become national treasure.
MC : Invent something yet again.
Other: Wow he is crazy.

Anyway that is what happen in the LN when MC did something and other look in awe.

Another thing is this is not harem since he only have one love interest.

@NeoAnkara
the main love interest in this Ln is a tsundere?

Nope. They often unconsciously flirting with each other even before becoming couple. Other people can see it clearly and ship them.

Only a man of culture would say this :D

@Prog_upworks13
@NeoAnkara
thx guys

from a quick research people say that she is a very nice girl
so i'll give this anime a try

Haha, that fucking PV.
"Are you a normie with no taste!? Fam! Step right up!"

Read its WN & LN together to a pretty far away, all I can say is its NOT a harem. lol

PV? It is just copy/paste of the manga.

After checking the manga, it's not that bad. The strong point seems the romance with a heroine that looks like a deredere.

Yeah... if you're not a fan of isekai there's no point in checking this series out. Unless the romance interests you or you like OP protagonists.

Edit: Oh my god that PV is trash.

So is this one of those "fujoshi have TAKEN OVER ANIME" shows, or are those people gonna just pretend this garbage doesn't exist

lmfao funniest line in this thread

LOL never mind

What's funny about my line? 😢😢

Ugh, and people didn't believe me when I said shitty LN isekai adaptations were incoming.

I can almost see the waifus untouched... In very different ways!




I was just fully aware of my situation... I'm dreaming... Indeed I am....

"Incoming?" We've been living this for about 2-3 years now. Death March and Tate no Yuusha are coming up soon too.

I think they could've had just pull a reverse-isekai than just a normal isekai with this plot.

The "I forgot to teach him common sense" works on isekai people coming to Japan.

I've been doomsaying it for at least 2 years now lol (okay, maybe one. I can't keep track of time).

Another day, another isekai where the MC dies and put into another world.

Also, the PV... dammit. Without a doubt the most creative PV I've seen to date.

so, is it funny? that's all what important...

It's good at first but the novelty start to wear off each passing chapter. Still decent read if you are into romcom since the rom part is quite straight forward.

so, kinda like rakudai kishi no cavalry? so no then... thanks...

It's more on the idiotic couple territory. They fall in love at first sight when the MC save the girl from thug. He is smitten by her beauty and she too is smitten by his strength and kindness. Not too much spoiler since this will basically in the first episode anyway.

I don't see this being good as an anime tbh. Its should stay as a manga.

I like how you can somehow determine that based on basically nothing.