is a Japanese light novel series written by Shizuru Minazuki and illustrated by Yamakawa. Originally published online since June 2016, AlphaPolis has published nineteen volumes of the series since April 2017, with two of the volumes published in English by Hanashi Media since April 2026. A manga adaptation illustrated by Tomomi Mizuna began serialization online via AlphaPolis' manga website in January 2018 and has been collected in twelve volumes; the manga is published digitally in English through Alpha Manga since July 2021, which has been collected in eleven volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by EMT Squared and Bros. Bird aired from July to September 2024.
Characters Main characters
A seemingly ordinary Japanese man sent to another world called Etelldia, who was tasked to take care of fraternal twin siblings.
The boy of the twins. Like his sister, he has a water-based ability. The child of a water god. He and Elena tend to speak in unison
The girl of the twins. Like her brother, she has a water-based ability. The child of a water god. Its rare for her not to speak in unison with Allen.
The wind god of Etelldia. Accidentally killed Takumi while trying to fix a rift in space-time, compensated for it by reviving him, giving him a new body, and sending him off to the Forest of Gaia, where he fought monsters and found the twin siblings.
Secondary characters
Second Captain of a local branch (Shireen Branch) of an order of knights (the Knights of Guadia), which protected its citizens from monsters coming from the nearby Forest of Gaia. Nicknamed Vault.
Receptionist at Shireen's local Adventurer's Guild. Has an obsession for rare items like carcasses from defeated strong monsters.
Guild master at Shireen's local Adventurer's Guild.
A high-ranking knight in Etelldia, bearing the title of "Vice Captain of the Shireen Branch of the Knights of Guadia". Often gives hour-long lectures to his superior Granvault whenever the latter acts hastily instead of thinking through his decisions first.
Contracted beasts
Fenrir
Heavenly Tiger
Thunder Hawk
Scarlet King Leo
Media Light novel Written by Shizuru Minazuki, A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring began serialization as a web novel on AlphaPolis' website on June 2, 2016, as well as on the popular web-novel platform Shōsetsuka ni Narō. During the month of September of that same year, AlphaPolis hosted the 9th Fantasy Novel Grand Prix, an annual literary contest where participants submitted their original web novels with the hopes of seeing them someday accepted for commercial publishing as books. Out of 1,406 total works submitted to the contest, and after making it into the list of 15 finalists, A Journey Through Another World placed in second place, earning the Special Award alongside Shiki's An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess (which had placed sixth).
After the editors at AlphaPolis contacted the authors of the Grand Prix finalists (including Minazuki) with regards to discussing commercialization of their works, Minazuki announced on March 14, 2017 that AlphaPolis accepted publishing A Journey Through Another World as a light novel. Because of AlphaPolis' content guidelines that require withdrawing, taking down, or privatizing web chapters slated to be published in book form (as well as deleting them completely from any other websites where they had been cross-posted), on March 25 A Journey Through Another World was removed from Shōsetsuka ni Narō and its first 30 chapters (the main corpus of Volume 1) were delisted from public view on AlphaPolis, while newer chapters that were not yet part of a book volume were still being posted on AlphaPolis.
Incorporating illustrations drawn by Yamakawa, Volume 1 was published on April 28. Nineteen volumes have been released as of May 2026.
In February 2026, Hanashi Media announced that they had licensed the light novel for English publication. Two volumes have been licensed and released (only in digital e-book format) as of July 2026.
Manga A manga adaptation illustrated by Tomomi Mizuna began serialization on AlphaPolis' manga website on January 17, 2018. Twelve volumes have been released as of May 2026.
The manga is published digitally in English through Alpha Manga. Eleven volumes have been licensed and released digitally as of May 2026.
Anime An anime television series adaptation was announced in November 2023. It is produced by EMT Squared and Bros. Bird and directed by Atsushi Nigorikawa, with Atsushi Maekawa handling series composition, Yuki Nakano designing the characters, and Akinari Suzuki composing the music. The series aired from July 8 to September 23, 2024, on TV Tokyo and other networks. The opening theme song is performed by Tebasaki Sensation, while the ending theme song is "Makuake" performed by Gohobi. Crunchyroll licensed the series for streaming outside of Asia; five audio languages (Japanese, English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and German) were made available in simulcast. Muse Communication licensed the series in Southeast Asia.
Episodes
See also The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World, a light novel series also illustrated by Yamakawa
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