Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?
Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? (なぜ僕の世界を誰も覚えていないのか?, Naze Boku no Sekai wo Dare mo Oboeteinainoka?) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kei Sazane with illustrations by Neco. It was published under Media Factory's MF Bunko J imprint from July 2017 to August 2020. A manga adaptation illustrated by Arikan began serialization in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive manga magazine in February 2018. An anime television series adaptation produced by Project No.9 premiered in July 2024.
Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? | |
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なぜ僕の世界を誰も覚えていないのか? (Naze Boku no Sekai wo Dare mo Oboeteinainoka?) | |
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Genre | Fantasy[1] |
Light novel | |
Written by | Kei Sazane |
Illustrated by | Neco |
Published by | Media Factory |
Imprint | MF Bunko J |
Demographic | Male |
Original run | July 25, 2017 – August 25, 2020 |
Volumes | 9 |
Manga | |
Written by | Kei Sazane |
Illustrated by | Arikan |
Published by | Media Factory |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Monthly Comic Alive |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | February 27, 2018 – present |
Volumes | 11 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tatsuma Minamikawa |
Written by | Satoru Sugizawa |
Music by | Akiyoshi Yasuda |
Studio | Project No.9 |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Original network | Tokyo MX, BS Asahi, Kansai TV |
Original run | July 13, 2024 – present |
Episodes | 6 |
Plot
editA war between five races for supremacy on Earth is won by humanity, led by the hero Sid. Suddenly, history gets overwritten so that Sid never existed, leading to humanity losing and becoming subjugated by the other races. All of this is witnessed by a boy named Kai, who is mysteriously unaffected by the alterations. In this new world, Kai finds that he never existed previously, so no one knows him. After meeting a mysterious girl named Rinne, Kai is inspired to become the hero himself and free humanity.
Characters
edit- Kai Sakura Vento (カイ・サクラ=ヴェント, Kai Sakura Vento)
- Voiced by: Shōya Chiba[2] (Japanese); Ricco Fajardo[3] (English)
- A soldier of the Urza Federation.
- Rinne (リンネ, Rin'ne)
- Voiced by: Kana Ichinose[2] (Japanese); Emi Lo[3] (English)
- A girl of an unknown non-demon race whom Kai rescues. She is brought to the human resistance camp where she helps them in the fight against the demons.
- Jeanne E. Anis (ジャンヌ・E・アニス, Jannu E. Anisu)
- Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi[2] (Japanese); Megan Shipman[3] (English)
- A high-ranking soldier of the Urza Federation Army and Kai's close childhood friend from his world. In the alternate world, she leads the human resistance masquerading as a man, with her true identity as a woman only known to a few close aides.
- Ashran Highroll (アシュラン・ハイロール, Ashuran Hairōru)
- Voiced by: Seiichiro Yamashita[4] (Japanese); Justin Green[3] (English)
- A soldier and Kai's colleague of the Urza Federation Army. In the alternate world, he is a member of the human resistance force.
- Saki Miscotti (サキ・ミスコッティ, Saki Misukotti)
- Voiced by: Sayumi Suzushiro[4] (Japanese); Jill Harris[3] (English)
- A soldier and Kai's colleague in the Urza Federation Army. In the alternate world, she is a member of the human resistance force.
- Falin Rina Yubikitasu (花琳・リナ・ユビキタス, Farin Rina Yubikitasu)
- Voiced by: Lynn[5] (Japanese); Corey Pettit[3] (English)
- Jeanne's close aide and bodyguard.
- Reiren Reiru Reicherieru (レーレーン・レイル・レーチェリエル, Rērēn Reiru Rēcherieru)
- Voiced by: Hana Hishikawa[5]
Media
editLight novel
editNo. | Release date | ISBN |
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1 | July 25, 2017[6] | 978-4-04-069351-4 |
2 | October 25, 2017[7] | 978-4-04-069509-9 |
3 | February 24, 2018[8] | 978-4-04-069739-0 |
4 | June 25, 2018[9] | 978-4-04-069955-4 |
5 | October 25, 2018[10] | 978-4-04-065239-9 |
6 | February 25, 2019[11] | 978-4-04-065530-7 |
7 | August 25, 2019[12] | 978-4-04-065799-8 |
8 | February 25, 2020[13] | 978-4-04-064446-2 |
9 | August 25, 2020[14] | 978-4-04-064876-7 |
Manga
editA manga adaptation illustrated by Arikan began serialization in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive manga magazine on February 27, 2018.[15] It has been collected in eleven volumes as of April 2024.[16] The manga adaptation is published digitally in English on Kadokawa Corporation's BookWalker website.[17]
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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1 | June 23, 2018[18] | 978-4-04-069991-2 |
2 | November 21, 2018[19] | 978-4-04-065324-2 |
3 | May 23, 2019[20] | 978-4-04-065657-1 |
4 | November 22, 2019[21] | 978-4-04-064090-7 |
5 | March 23, 2020[22] | 978-4-04-064527-8 |
6 | October 23, 2020[23] | 978-4-04-064889-7 |
7 | April 23, 2021[24] | 978-4-04-680406-8 |
8 | October 21, 2021[25] | 978-4-04-680797-7 |
9 | February 21, 2023[26] | 978-4-04-681314-5 |
10 | September 22, 2023[27] | 978-4-04-682746-3 |
11 | April 23, 2024[16] | 978-4-04-683457-7 |
Anime
editIn July 2023, during the MF Bunko J Summer School Festival 2023 event, an anime television series adaptation was announced.[1] It is produced by Project No.9 and directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa, with scripts written by Satoru Sugizawa, and characters designed by Hiromi Kato.[2] While the anime received an advance screening on June 16, 2024 at the Grand Cinema Sunshine in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, it later officially premiered on July 13, 2024, on Tokyo MX and other networks.[28][29] The opening theme song is "Sekai Rinne" (セカイ輪廻, lit. 'World Reincarnation') performed by Unlucky Morpheus, while the multiple ending theme songs are performed in the following: the first is "Togirenaide" (とぎれないで, lit. 'Don't Stop') performed by Susu, the second is "Ai, Amnesia" (アイ、アムネジア, lit. 'Love, Amnesia') performed by Urbangarde, and the third is "Umbra" performed by Elfensjón.[29] Crunchyroll licensed the series.[30] Medialink licensed the series in East, Southeast Asia and Oceania (except Australia and New Zealand) for streaming on Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel.[31]
Episodes
editNo. | Title [32][33] | Directed by [a] | Written by [a] | Storyboarded by [a] | Original air date [34] | |
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1 | "The Boy Forgotten By the World" Transliteration: "Sekai Kara Wasurerareta Shōnen" (Japanese: 世界から忘れられた少年) | Project No.9 | Satoru Sugizawa | Tatsuma Minamikawa | July 13, 2024 | |
The hero Sid once led humanity to victory against the demons, celestials (which include angels, elves, dwarves, and fairies), spirits, and magical beasts (which include dragons). In the present, the soldier Kai and his comrades Ashuran and Saki regularly inspect a monolith that seals the demons away. Kai is the only one who takes this job seriously because he once fell into the demon realm as a child, though no one believed him. Kai goes on a date with fellow soldier Jeanne. As they talk, reality suddenly distorts and Kai finds himself in a ruined city and attacked by two demons. He kills one and is rescued from the other by Ashuran and Saki, who take him to an underground shelter. He is hurt and confused when neither they nor Jeanne recognize him. They have never heard of Sid and explain humanity was defeated in the war so they formed the last human resistance. Realizing the monolith is still there, Kai enters it and finds Sid's holy sword. He is transported to another area and finds a girl in chains with angelic and demonic wings, who begs him to free her. | ||||||
2 | "Rinne" (Japanese: リンネ) | Asahi Yoshimura | Satoru Sugizawa | Tsutomu Miyazawa | July 20, 2024 | |
The girl introduces herself as Rinne before passing out. Kai uses the holy sword, Codeholder, to break the chains, but Rinne attacks him, accusing him of being a demon sent by Vanessa. After he defeats her, a seemingly mechanical woman attacks them, but Kai uses Codeholder to slice through dimensions and return them to the monolith. Rinne apologizes and explains Vanessa is the hero of the demons whom she feuded with as she is an outcast from all races. She remembers the original timeline with Sid. Kai takes Rinne back to the shelter after she conceals her wings, but she causes problems since she is unfamiliar with modern technology and keeps picking fights. That night, demons break into the shelter. The defenders' guns are useless, but Kai saves Ashuran and Saki and kills the demons with anti-magic bullets and techniques unknown to the people here with Rinne's assistance. Kai and Rinne are brought to a council who do not believe their tale of an alternate timeline, but Jeanne decides to trust Kai after he reveals knowledge of her nicknames for her father and grandfather and the fact she is a girl pretending to be a man. They make a plan where Jeanne's troops will distract the demons while Kai and Rinne assassinate Vanessa. | ||||||
3 | "The Demon Hero" Transliteration: "Akuma no eiyū" (Japanese: 悪魔の英雄) | Kōsuke Shimotori | Satoru Sugizawa | Tsutomu Miyazawa | July 27, 2024 | |
Ashuran and Saki are assigned to help Kai and Rinne. The troops storm the capital building to take on the demons and rescue human slaves. Besides Kai and Rinne, only Farin, who uses swords made from a dragon's fangs, and Jeanne, who uses an elf garment for protection and an angelic blade, can actually fight the demons. Rinne makes invisibility cloaks for her group, but they are spotted anyway due to infrared cameras. Rinnne takes on the guards, who sense she is a mongrel of several races, while Kai takes on Vanessa. Vanessa is a succubus, and when her charms are ineffective, questions him. He tells her of his original world and she has a strange reaction to hearing Sid's name and seeing Codeholder. She puts Kai on the ropes with several destructive spells. A wounded Rinne joins them, but Vanessa does not recognize her. Suddenly, the mechanical woman, whom Vanessa calls Last Rising, appears and attacks Vanessa, saying anyone who learns of Sid must be eliminated. Vanessa angrily blasts her and makes her retreat. A terrified Rinne says Vanessa is even more powerful than the one she knows. | ||||||
4 | "And So, She Remembered That World" Transliteration: "Soshite Sekai o Kioku Suru" (Japanese: そして世界を記憶する) | Project No.9 | Satoru Sugizawa | Shinji Itadaki | August 3, 2024 | |
Rinne tries to contain Vanessa with a force field and tells Kai to run, but Vanessa breaks it and blasts Kai, seemingly killing him. Enraged, Rinne displays the powers of all the races, allowing her to hurt Vannesa, but she mocks Rinne for not showing this power earlier out of fear of being called a monster. Rinne tries to kill her with a suicidal spell, but runs out of mana due to Vanessa draining it. Kai revives and resumes the battle. Ashuran and Saki turn off the lights, distracting Vanessa long enough for Kai to fatally wound her. As she slowly dies, Vanessa suddenly remembers Sid and says he trusted her to hide Codeholder in the monolith in order to counter the world being rewritten. Before she disintegrates, she acknowledges Kai as a worthy opponent and promises to come back and seduce him. With the other demons defeated, the humans retake the capital city. Jeanne plans to join the resistance groups fighting the other races. Kai and Rinne agree to join her. | ||||||
5 | "To the East of the World" Transliteration: "Sekai no Azuma e" (Japanese: 世界の東へ) | TBA | TBA | TBA | August 10, 2024 | |
Vanessa's sister Hinemarill greets Kai and Rinne, thanking them for killing Vanessa and letting her take her place. She calls a truce between humans and demons and encourages them to fight the other races, warning them about the hero of the celestials, the angel Alfreya. The army moves from the Urza Federation to the Io Federation, which is occupied by the celestials. En route, they are attacked by a dragon until Kai and Rinne fend it off. As they camp, Kai is uncomfortable when Rinne and Jeanne share his bed. They reach the Io resistance, but their leader Dante is rude and egotistical, accusing Jeanne of stealing his glory. Dante gets increasingly angry when Jeanne rises in popularity due to being willing to fight alongside the men. His secretary Qubirey encourages him to lead an offensive from the front without informing Jeanne's forces. Rinne later voices suspicions that Qubirey is not human. Meanwhile, Alfreya has allied with Last Rising and shocks his allies by proclaiming all other races except angels are unneeded and will be eliminated. | ||||||
6 | "Elven Forest" Transliteration: "Erufu no mori" (Japanese: エルフの森) | TBA | TBA | TBA | August 17, 2024 | |
Alfreya traps the High Elf Elder in crystal and the elf shrine maiden Reiren barely escapes. Dante and his forces are missing, so Kai's group searches for them. They enter the elf forest and learn Qubirey was an elf in disguise who captured and paralyzed Dante and his forces. Reiren tells them of how Alfreya betrayed them and asks for help, offering to go with them. Kai asks Reiren if she knows Sid, but she does not. Reiren teleports herself and the group to the angels' palace, where they find several angels burning alive. The angel Vicious explains they were punished not obeying Alfreya and that the High Elf Elder will be executed soon. Farin, Ashuran, and Saki hold her off. The angel Raphaelo attacks and Rinne holds him off. Kai, Jeanne, and Reiren reach the High Elf Elder, but Alfreya appears and rants that all other races are inferior to angels. | ||||||
7 | "Heartless Angel" Transliteration: "Kokoro nai Tenshi" (Japanese: 心無い天使) | TBA | TBA | TBA | August 24, 2024 | |
Farin defeats Vicious by disabling her wings. After Rinne punches his helmet apart, Raphaelo surrenders and tells her to stop Alfreya as he has gone mad. As they fight Alfreya, he mocks Jeanne's weapons even when she cuts him and points out that they are draining her life force. Reiren had been in love with Alfreya and asks why he is doing this, and he says she is inferior. Alfreya is intrigued by Codeholder's ability to block his attacks, but mocks Vanessa when Kai points out he defeated her. Reiren tries to free the Elder from the crystal, but her sacred dagger shatters against it. Alfreya is many times more powerful than normal and he calls on Last Rising, who makes an explosion that sends Jeanne flying. Rinne catches her and is relieved when Jeanne doesn't mind seeing her wings. Kai asks Alfreya if he was the one who reset the world and if he knows Sid. He doesn't know what he is talking about, but he starts to remember Sid. Last Rising turns on and disintegrates Alfreya for learning about Sid, then resurrects and possesses him. The new Alfreya stabs Reiren, prompting an angry Kai to fight him. |
Reception
editBy July 2023, the series had over 700,000 copies in circulation.[35]
See also
edit- Gods' Games We Play, another light novel series by the same author
- Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, another light novel series by the same author
Notes
editReferences
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External links
edit- Light novel official website (in Japanese)
- Manga official website (in Japanese)
- Anime official website (in Japanese)
- Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? (light novel) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia