Hanashi Media has announced that it has licensed the fantasy light novel series The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage: Building a Mighty Empire of Monsters Within the Monsters’ Forest. The company stated on its Twitter/X account that more new licenses will be announced later in the future.
The fantasy light novel series is written by Miraijin A and illustrated by Kikkaiki. It was initially self-published as a web novel on Shosetsuka ni Naro, before being picked up for publication by Micro Magazine’s GC Novels imprint on December 26, 2019. Five volumes have been released as of November 2023.
A manga adaptation by Kurikaramaru was launched in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket app on June 28, 2020 and ended on May 8, 2022. Eight total tankobon volumes were released. The manga was released digitally in English on the K MANGA app in select territories.
Synopsis:
Once hailed as a Sage, he sought peace not glory. At the end of a long life filled with power and prestige, a man once known as the Sage activated a reincarnation spell, hoping for nothing more than a quiet life in a new era. But when he awakens in a time where magic is no longer valued, he’s cast aside as worthless and abandoned in the Forest of Monster as a newborn.
Left to die, he’s miraculously saved by a kind-hearted goblin who raises him as her own. Given the name Belamus, the former Sage grows up in a monster village, far from the human world that rejected him. Determined to repay the goblin who took him in, Belamus uses the wisdom of his past life to help the village thrive.
Now begins the tale of a once-great Sage rebuilding a nation—for monsters. The strongest kindom rises not for mankind, but for those they fear.
