is a Japanese light novel series written by Koneko Hoshitsuki and illustrated by Fuumi. It was initially serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō from July 2015 to December 2018, before being acquired and published by Enterbrain from April 2016 to January 2019. A manga adaptation illustrated by Kenichi Iwamoto began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine Comp Ace in May 2017. An anime television series adaptation produced by Brain's Base aired from July to September 2026.
Plot Everyone is born with a class assigned to them. Their class—warrior, hero, magician, cleric, etc—determines the life they will live. Among these classes is the weakest: the villager. Villagers have no power; they are protected by the other classes. Koji Kagami is one of them. At the age of two, Kagami understood that money was the key to a better life, and that killing monsters was the fastest way to earn it. He spent 20 years killing monsters and reached level 999, despite the average level of villagers being 10.
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Media Light novel Written by Koneko Hoshitsuki, The Villager of Level 999 was initially serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō from July 14, 2015, to December 1, 2018, before being acquired and published by Enterbrain with illustrations by Fuumi in eight volumes, from April 30, 2016, to January 25, 2019.
Manga A manga adaptation illustrated by Kenichi Iwamoto began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine Comp Ace on May 26, 2017, with its chapters compiled into twenty-one volumes as of July 2026.
The manga adaptation is published in English on Kadokawa's BookWalker website under the title The Level 999 Villager.
Anime An anime television series adaptation was announced on August 21, 2025. It is produced by Brain's Base and directed by , with supervising series scripts, Kentarō Matsumoto designing the characters, and composing the music. The series aired from July 2 to September 17, 2026, on TV Tokyo and BS Fuji. The opening theme song is "Not a Hero", performed by and , while the ending theme song is "HP", performed by Yukimura. Crunchyroll is streaming the series.
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Reception The manga adaptation won the grand prize at the Minna ga Erabu!! Denshi Comic Taishō 2019 competition hosted by NTT Solmare. The manga adaptation also won the Terra Award at the 2020 Piccoma Awards.
See also Management of a Novice Alchemist, another light novel series with the same illustrator
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References
External links at Shōsetsuka ni Narō