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The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World Manga Gets TV Anime in 2025

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Junichi Suwabe stars as Ken'ichi

Kadokawa announced on Saturday that Umiharu's The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World manga adaptation of author Hifumi Asakura and illustrator Yamakawa's Arafō Otoko no Isekai Tsūhan Seikatsu light novel series is inspiring a television anime adaptation that will debut in 2025.

The anime will star Junichi Suwabe as Ken'ichi.

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Image courtesy of Kadokawa

Square Enix's Manga UP! Global and Comikey publish the manga digitally, and the series is also available on Kadokawa's BookWalker Global Store. Manga UP! Global describes the manga's story:

Ken'ichi, a single man who's almost 40, is suddenly transferred to another world. As he navigates his way through the dangerous forests of that world, he realizes that he can use a huge online shopping site. Ken'ichi aims to use his cheat ability to live a slow life in another world!

Umiharu launched the manga in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy magazine in April 2019. The manga ended its main story on May 17, and two side story chapters released on July 18 and August 17. Square Enix published the manga's first compiled book volume in October 2019, and the seventh volume on February 27. Update: The manga's eighth and final volume will ship on December 27.

Asakura launched the original light novel series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2017, and ended the series in June 2021. SB Creative published the novel series' first volume with illustration by Yamakawa in May 2018, and the third volume in April 2019.

Source: Press release



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