A TV anime adaptation of The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker (Sekai Saikyo no Koei ~Meikakoku no Shinjin Tansakusha~) has been announced.
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The World’s Strongest Rearguard started as a Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel by Towa in 2017. A light novel series Illustrated by Huka Kazabana and published under the Kadokawa Books label began the same year. Yen Press describes the premise as:
Corporate slave Arihito Atobe’s death in a freak bus accident marks the beginning of his new life as a kind of adventurer called a Seeker. Reborn into a fantasy world, he settles into a previously unknown job class called “rearguard,” capable of providing his (all-female) party with critical attack, defense, and recovery support. And it comes with an added bonus: Simply being at the back of the party line increases his companions’ fondness for him! Freed from the shackles of corporate life, Arihito is eager to start fresh.
The light novels’ ninth volume will be released on September 10, 2025 JST. There is a manga from Rikizo as well.
Source: @Rearguard_PR
