Light Novel 'Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku' Gets Anime Adaptation
Synopsis
29-year-old programmer Suzuki Ichirou finds himself transported into a fantasy RPG. Within the game, he's a 15-year-old named Satou. At first he thinks he's dreaming, but his experiences seem very real. Due to a powerful ability he possesses with limited use, he ends up wiping out an army of lizard men and becomes a high levelled adventurer. Satou decides to hide his level, and plans to live peacefully and meet new people. However, developments in the game's story, such as the return of a demon king, may cause a nuisance to Satou's plans.
The novel is written by Hiro Ainana, and was first released on Shousetsuka ni Narou in 2013, where it was published under the Fujimi Shobo label. It then received a physical publication by Kadokawa with illustrations by shri. A manga adaptation by Megumi Aya began its serialization in November 2014 in Age Premium before it was moved to Dragon Age in July 2015. The light novel currently has eight volumes and the manga has three volumes released. Both the light novel and manga have been licensed by Yen Press.
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Light novel special site: http://kadokawabooks.jp/feature/deathmarch/
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Aug 16, 2017 7:12 AM by lazy_Modifier
Aug 16, 2017 7:07 AM by lazy_Modifier
Aug 16, 2017 2:35 AM by revyHOLiC
And those who actually read it is saying its a shit WN, i think people who comments that are only thinking about action and not actually the story itself... Bro if someones gonna say like "why the hell is he not pushing them down(his girl companions)" Theyre still god damn kids aging from 12-15 yrs old for all i know. Oh BTW SPOILERS
He already have a god damn someone he loves and that someone actually loves him back thrutfully well damn his willing to ascend the god throne just for the sake of marrying her.
Aug 16, 2017 2:16 AM by Skylight2322
Not really. In the first place I don't get how you, in any way, can even consider "battles" the main focus of the series. There are far too few for that. Secondly if you use the term "generic" then it means it's "just like any other series", but I am not sure which series, at all, can even be considered similar. And no, if there is one single aspect, that you personally consider extremely important, that's "similar" to other series, then that's not enough to call the whole series generic. You can't generalize your own personal focus like that and then say that it's universal.
Read more Japanese WNs (or don't, they vast majority are terrible haha, even if they can be moderately entertaining). Death March becomes a bog standard isekai series. The battle harem genre is pretty broad, under which all of these bland isekai series fall under (well, I put them them under it anyway, because they share the same core framework as all the battle harems).
I still can't recall reading any real positive discussion about the series on r/noveltranslations, again my opinion is pretty common. Its a bad WN, even when the base level of all WNs is bad
I read quite a few WNs and I often dropped the shitty ones. That doesn't apply to this one. Can you name even 3 bad series that's like Death March? And again, I said that there are too few fight scenes. There's like 90% cooking/politics/sightseeing and maybe like 10% fight scenes. That can hardly be called a battle-based LN.
Jun 17, 2017 8:25 AM by Grey-Zone
Not really. In the first place I don't get how you, in any way, can even consider "battles" the main focus of the series. There are far too few for that. Secondly if you use the term "generic" then it means it's "just like any other series", but I am not sure which series, at all, can even be considered similar. And no, if there is one single aspect, that you personally consider extremely important, that's "similar" to other series, then that's not enough to call the whole series generic. You can't generalize your own personal focus like that and then say that it's universal.
Read more Japanese WNs (or don't, they vast majority are terrible haha, even if they can be moderately entertaining). Death March becomes a bog standard isekai series. The battle harem genre is pretty broad, under which all of these bland isekai series fall under (well, I put them them under it anyway, because they share the same core framework as all the battle harems).
I still can't recall reading any real positive discussion about the series on r/noveltranslations, again my opinion is pretty common. Its a bad WN, even when the base level of all WNs is bad
Jun 17, 2017 7:12 AM by pacify
Huh? "generic harem battle LN"? Did you actually read it? It seems you missed the fact that this is a slice of life story about sightseeing and cooking which slowly transforms into a story about the MC becoming something comparable to a underground mastermind who controls everything behind the scenes. When I think back, the VERY few fights, that have anything even just slightly close to being called "tension", definitly aren't prominent enough for it to be used as part of the description like "generic harem battle LN".
Also within Satou's main group, only about half of the main group girls (the ones who are later in golden armors) are actually "interested" in Satou as a member of the opposite sex. And Satou rejects them as love intersts because they are too young and instead goes to brothels for his "needs".
I dropped the WN maybe one arc after it changed into a generic battle harem. And no, the whole point of a Japanese harem series is not for the MC to actually do anything with any of the female characters (very rare for that), its defined by having a bunch of girls who all are in love with MC, who exist almost primarily for shipping.
My opinion isn't unusual, in fact you are about the only person I've seen that has read it that seems to like what it became.
Death March becomes the bog standard JP LN/WN series, I don't know how many others you have read, but what made DM interesting was that it was somewhat different at the start. It threw all of that away alas, and ended up massively disappointing most people who read it. Its a bad WN.
Not really. In the first place I don't get how you, in any way, can even consider "battles" the main focus of the series. There are far too few for that. Secondly if you use the term "generic" then it means it's "just like any other series", but I am not sure which series, at all, can even be considered similar. And no, if there is one single aspect, that you personally consider extremely important, that's "similar" to other series, then that's not enough to call the whole series generic. You can't generalize your own personal focus like that and then say that it's universal.
Jun 17, 2017 5:43 AM by Grey-Zone
Huh? "generic harem battle LN"? Did you actually read it? It seems you missed the fact that this is a slice of life story about sightseeing and cooking which slowly transforms into a story about the MC becoming something comparable to a underground mastermind who controls everything behind the scenes. When I think back, the VERY few fights, that have anything even just slightly close to being called "tension", definitly aren't prominent enough for it to be used as part of the description like "generic harem battle LN".
Also within Satou's main group, only about half of the main group girls (the ones who are later in golden armors) are actually "interested" in Satou as a member of the opposite sex. And Satou rejects them as love intersts because they are too young and instead goes to brothels for his "needs".
I dropped the WN maybe one arc after it changed into a generic battle harem. And no, the whole point of a Japanese harem series is not for the MC to actually do anything with any of the female characters (very rare for that), its defined by having a bunch of girls who all are in love with MC, who exist almost primarily for shipping.
My opinion isn't unusual, in fact you are about the only person I've seen that has read it that seems to like what it became.
Death March becomes the bog standard JP LN/WN series, I don't know how many others you have read, but what made DM interesting was that it was somewhat different at the start. It threw all of that away alas, and ended up massively disappointing most people who read it. Its a bad WN.
Jun 16, 2017 10:10 PM by pacify
Also the 'hate' for this series is not 'hate', it's criticism, and every series recieves it whether it's popular or not. This anime is being criticized because of the unoriginal story and concept. Heck, even the designs sometimes are straight cutout from another popular series. In this case the MC is very similar to Kirito. It's basically the same thing over and over again.
Which is a bit weird. There are LOT of flaws with Death March (mostly in that it completely falls apart within 50 odd chapters, becoming a completely generic harem battle LN), but I wouldn't say it has anything at all to do with SAO, or that the MC is anything like Kirito.
Maybe its because people have only seen SAO, and need to equate everything with it? There are literally hundreds, and hundreds of other LNs that Death march becomes similar to, over SAO.
Huh? "generic harem battle LN"? Did you actually read it? It seems you missed the fact that this is a slice of life story about sightseeing and cooking which slowly transforms into a story about the MC becoming something comparable to a underground mastermind who controls everything behind the scenes. When I think back, the VERY few fights, that have anything even just slightly close to being called "tension", definitly aren't prominent enough for it to be used as part of the description like "generic harem battle LN".
Also within Satou's main group, only about half of the main group girls (the ones who are later in golden armors) are actually "interested" in Satou as a member of the opposite sex. And Satou rejects them as love intersts because they are too young and instead goes to brothels for his "needs".
Jun 16, 2017 6:24 PM by Grey-Zone
When did I compare it to SAO? I'm comparing the character designs. Just because I mentioned Kirito doesn't mean that I'm comparing the whole series to SAO lol.
Wasn't talking about you specifically, just addressing the general trend of equating everything to SAO
Oh my bad. You were quoting me so...
Jun 14, 2017 12:45 AM by mizukasa
When did I compare it to SAO? I'm comparing the character designs. Just because I mentioned Kirito doesn't mean that I'm comparing the whole series to SAO lol.
Wasn't talking about you specifically, just addressing the general trend of equating everything to SAO
Jun 14, 2017 12:35 AM by pacify
Also the 'hate' for this series is not 'hate', it's criticism, and every series recieves it whether it's popular or not. This anime is being criticized because of the unoriginal story and concept. Heck, even the designs sometimes are straight cutout from another popular series. In this case the MC is very similar to Kirito. It's basically the same thing over and over again.
Which is a bit weird. There are LOT of flaws with Death March (mostly in that it completely falls apart within 50 odd chapters, becoming a completely generic harem battle LN), but I wouldn't say it has anything at all to do with SAO, or that the MC is anything like Kirito.
Maybe its because people have only seen SAO, and need to equate everything with it? There are literally hundreds, and hundreds of other LNs that Death march becomes similar to, over SAO.
When did I compare it to SAO? I'm comparing the character designs. Just because I mentioned Kirito doesn't mean that I'm comparing the whole series to SAO lol.
Jun 13, 2017 11:24 PM by mizukasa
Also the 'hate' for this series is not 'hate', it's criticism, and every series recieves it whether it's popular or not. This anime is being criticized because of the unoriginal story and concept. Heck, even the designs sometimes are straight cutout from another popular series. In this case the MC is very similar to Kirito. It's basically the same thing over and over again.
Which is a bit weird. There are LOT of flaws with Death March (mostly in that it completely falls apart within 50 odd chapters, becoming a completely generic harem battle LN), but I wouldn't say it has anything at all to do with SAO, or that the MC is anything like Kirito.
Maybe its because people have only seen SAO, and need to equate everything with it? There are literally hundreds, and hundreds of other LNs that Death march becomes similar to, over SAO.
Jun 13, 2017 9:17 PM by pacify
I have no problems with this kind of story as long as the MC isn't some god-reincarnate to another world. It's stupid, and takes away the fun. Something like Grimgar would be great!
I'm not sure about godly reincarnations not being a part of this, but...
Well, fantasy trending is better than a school girl/boy's, sometimes fun but mostly cringe inducing, love life...
And there was a time when maids were trending and nobody complained, tragedy was popular and everyone loved it (while crying), and finally this and everyone starts hating...
Some people shouldn't really bother commenting on a post about an anime with a genre they don't like... Unless, they actually like it but the synopsis is too disappointing and they are mislead...
Edit: And~ My comment became another post... Keep up the love for anime!!!
God-reincarnate means like the MC is some extremely powerful individual that he is comparable to a god; Meaning: Omnipotent in every other way. Also trends being fun is based on the execution and writing if it just blindly follow whatever's popular then it has a high chance of being shit and usually just a wish-fulfillment work targeting virgin otakus whose mind is filled with such things.
^ That trend is neverending (atleast not anytime soon), extremely repetitive and overused. We have like over 9000 of those (exaggerated; or not at all.) being made into light novels, manga, anime and web novels.
And there was a time when maids were trending and nobody complained, tragedy was popular and everyone loved it (while crying), and finally this and everyone starts hating...
You claimed such a thing I'm sure you'll be able to provide evidence that such trends recieved no complaints.
Also the 'hate' for this series is not 'hate', it's criticism, and every series recieves it whether it's popular or not. This anime is being criticized because of the unoriginal story and concept. Heck, even the designs sometimes are straight cutout from another popular series. In this case the MC is very similar to Kirito. It's basically the same thing over and over again.
Jun 13, 2017 7:28 PM by mizukasa
Jun 13, 2017 2:25 PM by MadaraUchiha69
Another Isekai anime with a kirito looking protagonist *sigh*
I fear that the Industry is losing creativity...
The MC actually looks more calm and effeminate rather than the cool-looking swordsman that is Kirito.
And there are actually many isekai animes...
"Kara Hajimaru Isekai" is just one type that got popular because of great stories like KonoSuba and Re:Zero.
Similar titles doesn't show similar content.
While a character's appearance is also not an indicator of people's lack of creativity.
In anime, I, and most others, would not be shocked by some characters having the same features.
In fact, I would even find it weird if anime characters where totally different from others, aren't they styled the same BECAUSE they're anime?
It is like saying if an anime has Koi in its title it is the same, even though the anime was about a love for killing...
Or saying that an anime with an MC that looks like Goku is not original, even though the anime is about school or romance...
The synopsis just really doesn't give the story any justice... It is losing face even...
Jun 13, 2017 10:05 AM by Box_of_Gears
Hopefully never cuz its one of the best genre which can provide all sorts of things compared to other shizzle.
So to all haters go bite yourself cuz all i see is bitching as soon as you see the word isekai and have no clue how the characters and the story is even...
I have no problems with this kind of story as long as the MC isn't some god-reincarnate to another world. It's stupid, and takes away the fun. Something like Grimgar would be great!
I'm not sure about godly reincarnations not being a part of this, but...
Well, fantasy trending is better than a school girl/boy's, sometimes fun but mostly cringe inducing, love life...
And there was a time when maids were trending and nobody complained, tragedy was popular and everyone loved it (while crying), and finally this and everyone starts hating...
Some people shouldn't really bother commenting on a post about an anime with a genre they don't like... Unless, they actually like it but the synopsis is too disappointing and they are mislead...
Edit: And~ My comment became another post... Keep up the love for anime!!!
Jun 13, 2017 9:29 AM by Box_of_Gears
wtf with ppl nowadays, DeathMarch = SAO = Re:Zero ???
DeathMarch is a place with overpowered characters like gods, unkillable demon lords, summoned hero, and overpowered reincarnators live.
moreover the grand plot starts at the prologue
it's slice of life while the action and world-saving acts as a sub-plot.
he got transfered and got stuck in that world? bruhh he can even teleport back to earth to buy some ramen cups, even though it's slice of life the novel itself have a great mystery regarding the mc identity, its starts with his wife from previous life thats way too mysterious, his former wife is a goddess who fell for a human boy--- skip--- and they're married but the human have a short lifespan so in order to make his husband immortal the goddess sacrifices countless souls in order to create an OP body.
even though the action is a sub-plot there's an arc that action acts as the main plot for example in the arc 15 when the reincarnated humans declares a war agains gods, this arc way too awesome reincarnators vs gods, and divine power vs science this is a whole new originality, empire full of reincarnated ppl which story has it? well the synopsis plainly bad and i understand why ppl misjudge it.
but pls dont compare satou with any other characters because in front of him they all looks plain and worthless... Ainz-sama ? bruhh that inflexible skeleton, and i wonder how Kirito can be compared with Satou ? even Pochi can beat his ass splendidly.
about the harem, he never touches them because the girls are around 12-18, he's an adult not some horny pedophile so if he want to release it out he just need to pay prostitutes, his way of thinking so relateable and his action never full of holes. about the game like elements? it's his ability to make the world easier for him, and it's not like a usual transported into different world where the mc transported out of luck, everything has its reason.
Dam spoilers, hide this please, I almost read it.
What has been read cannot be unread. Unless you didn't. So you are safe I guess?
Well, some sources tell that the MC is rumored to like lolis or undeveloped teens.
But that's not possible since he goes to visit a certain lady, with an age where the number of zeros causes one to be dizzy, to court her... Right?
Jun 13, 2017 9:08 AM by Box_of_Gears
SAO + Re:Zero/Konosuba = this
when japan will calm down with all this transported into a fantasy game world
Well, it's actually:
SAO - Kirito's(as MC) strength = Re: Zero/KonoSuba
While this is:
SAO - Kirito(as MC) (+ Lolis) = THIS
Jun 13, 2017 9:00 AM by Box_of_Gears
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the writing is really terrible.
also it's ok for him to do prostitutes but even with the elf lover's blessing(DEMAND) he doesn't want to make 100 babies with his enormous loli harem or the OTHER elf he's engaged to. yeah that makes sense...
..and he lets his loli army tell him not to lewd his homunculus even though she wants to (why, she's basically a robot).
Feb 1, 2018 4:04 PM by USAS12