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

By: Ryo Shirakome, takayaki, Ningen - translator

Narrated by: Matt Shipman, Morgan Lauré

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

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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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

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.

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

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!

fun listen

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

Was pulled in to the book

Was very happy with the book. I was pulled into it and loved the detail of everything made it so easy to follow and made it where my imagination could picture everything and the over all performance of the narrators was excellent. I just so enjoyed the book to its fullest and can’t wait for the next book.

very entertaining

we need the rest of this series authorized for audible hard to get one book not knowing when the rest will be available loved the story

Book 2 please

As a truck driver audiobooks make up the bulk of my library. As an anime fan spanning over 3 decades now I’m so happy to live in a time where I can listen to audiobooks of the LNs I’ve come to enjoy while driving. The novel went into far more depth than the anime as to be expected expanding on Hajimes classmates and their various exploits while he’s trapped in the Orcus labyrinth. A bit more lovey dovey incite into the relationship between Hajime and Yue. A boat load of exposition (though none of it boring) about Hajimes personality and his experimentation with magic, equipment, and weapons. Overall, a good book presented by two voice actors who did an excellent job in both narration and character voices. Hoping and praying for a quick but, quality second book. Thanks so much to all involved in its production.

Glad to see them getting audiobooks

It's a great series, glad to see it getting audiobooks. As a series with significantly more female main characters than male, hopefully we see a continued narration by Morgan Lauré.

outstanding

well gotta day its really good to listen to i love the anime itself so this extra detail is amazing. and im like 95% sure the reader is Hajime's Dubbed Voice Actor