Light Novel 'Kenja no Mago' Gets Anime Adaptation

by Stark700
Sep 21, 2017 9:37 PM | 62 Comments

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

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What are the chances of this being aired by Autumn 2018 ? Has the voice acting just started, or the drawings for the storyboard for all the planned episodes not finished yet ??

Will Winter 2019 or beyond be a more realistic time for airing ?

Jan 31, 2018 5:37 AM by CoolitzHubertXVI

Looking forward for this.

Jan 31, 2018 4:46 AM by Slarkero

When will this be aired ? Autumn 2018 or Winter 2019 ?

The anime is worth watching for MC's close friend, Prince August von Earlshide, as I think he's the best and most interesting male sidekick character for an MC of an LN series in quite an extremely long time. Prince also has his own loyal girl like the MC. His imouto is also very cute.

Jan 25, 2018 8:00 PM by CoolitzHubertXVI

marmondesu said:
No Game No Life shows how OP characters still could have interesting battle/match
Konosuba shows how isekai genre could be interesting using comedic way
Re Zero shows that adding realistic things into fantasy world could be interesting

And here we are anyway, back to generic fantasy world genre...
Already read some of the manga chapters, probably gonna pass on this one...

Konosuba and Re Zero's MCs, Kazuma and Subaru, doesn't have a Male Best Friend, while Kenja no Mago's MC, has both a Love Interest and a Male Best Friend, so this MC is your Typical Riajuu MC. But Riajuus are actually quite common in real life anyways, since many people who have girlfriends or wives would also have best friends of the same gender.

Harem MCs are not Riajuus, because in real life, nobody has harems or have 3 or more of the opposite sex romatically interested in someone ( admiration, obsession and fanboying is not romance ) except for those involved in Polygamous Marriages, and the amount of people involved in that Marriage is less than 0.1 percent of Earth's population now.

Jan 11, 2018 5:57 AM by CoolitzHubertXVI

I read the Manga, and I can happily say that it's not Harem.

There is only love interest for the MC, and it's a pretty official relationship, and most of the rest of MC's female friends treat him respectfully as a true-to-goodness friend without the Harem antics and Lucky Sukebe, as they all behave like real people instead of some Dere and family status/racial/Loli tropes.

The same is true of MC's male friends, of which the closest are the Prince, and the MC's mentor and father figure is his Grandpa.

This is proof of how Isekai and High Fantasy Anime/LN can be done without the Harem crap.

Dec 5, 2017 8:09 AM by CoolitzHubertXVI

Isekai Bugged Game When ?

Been reading Kenja a while ago . It's pretty generic for most part. I think I will pass

Oct 5, 2017 10:50 PM by podetus

Grey-Zone said:
This is a "common-sense breaker isekai". I don't recall there being one of these yet, so calling it generic is really ignorant. Knights&Magic might barely count as such, but it's rather on the lower end in that respect.

The only true "common-sense breaker isekai" series whose anime adaptions were announced are really only this and Death March.

Also this series is one of the first reincarnation (i.e. not just merely transported, but reborn as a baby) isekai series. Knights&Magic being the only other one that comes to mind.

You must have missed Youjo Senki earlier this year, then.
Also, we need an adaptation of Honzuki no Gekokujou as an Isekai-full tensei. I would definitely watch that one, especially with good seiyuu for the main cast.

Sep 30, 2017 4:42 AM by Zefyris

Tony_SansNom said:

Grey-Zone said:
Also this series is one of the first reincarnation (i.e. not just merely transported, but reborn as a baby) isekai series. Knights&Magic being the only other one that comes to mind.

Then check

Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu
Sayounara Ryuusei, Konnichiwa Jinsei
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken
Spirit Migration

They are others where MC is actually reborn (reincarnated) instead of transported.

I was talking about those series that got an anime adaption at least announced.

Sep 30, 2017 2:01 AM by Grey-Zone

Sep 28, 2017 9:16 AM by SirLezard

No Game No Life shows how OP characters still could have interesting battle/match
Konosuba shows how isekai genre could be interesting using comedic way
Re Zero shows that adding realistic things into fantasy world could be interesting

And here we are anyway, back to generic fantasy world genre...
Already read some of the manga chapters, probably gonna pass on this one...

Sep 24, 2017 4:36 PM by marmondesu

Kuma said:

NeoAnkara said:

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...

imho, even rakudai is better than this... rakudai still has some conflict in its plot even though its pretty mediocre...
while the MC in this one is just totally have it easy and OP af... seems like a story written to be a total self insertion of teenage neet who wish to have love and admiration which he cant get in real life...

Sep 24, 2017 4:13 PM by marmondesu

This is a "common-sense breaker isekai". I don't recall there being one of these yet, so calling it generic is really ignorant. Knights&Magic might barely count as such, but it's rather on the lower end in that respect.

The only true "common-sense breaker isekai" series whose anime adaptions were announced are really only this and Death March.

Also this series is one of the first reincarnation (i.e. not just merely transported, but reborn as a baby) isekai series. Knights&Magic being the only other one that comes to mind.

Sep 24, 2017 2:45 PM by Grey-Zone

This isn't very good. Why do they even?
I would have prefered mushoku tensei or something instead of this.

Kittens-kun said:

RnDNEET021 said:
Look Another Butchered Isekai crap

Nvm I'll pass

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

Didn't you know? It's pretty much the norm these days to talkshit about isekai stuff. But you don't see them whining about all those school settings or other overused craps. They have a selective vision and selective memory.

Sep 24, 2017 11:00 AM by SirLezard

RnDNEET021 said:
Look Another Butchered Isekai crap

Nvm I'll pass

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

Sep 23, 2017 8:46 PM by TsukuyomiREKT

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

Sep 23, 2017 2:00 PM by TheNoseOfDeath

Kuma said:

NeoAnkara said:

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.

Sep 22, 2017 9:23 PM by NeoAnkara

NeoAnkara said:

Kuma said:

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...

Sep 22, 2017 8:57 PM by Kuma

Kuma said:

NeoAnkara said:
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.

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.

Sep 22, 2017 8:48 PM by NeoAnkara

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

Sep 22, 2017 8:39 PM by Kuma

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.

Sep 22, 2017 6:45 PM by GalacticMagna

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