Exiled Merchant Novels Get TV Anime and Manga Adaptations
The announcement confirms the series is expanding across anime and manga simultaneously, with character visuals already released.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Daken and Kasane Bench's light novel Tsuihō Sareta Shōnin wa Kin no Chikara de Sekai wo Sukū is getting a TV anime. Staff shared character visuals for Torao and the Garnet party. A manga adaptation by Sen Higashiyama with composition by Masahiro Itosugi started on Comic PASH! on Friday.
The light novel series by Daken and Kasane Bench follows Torao, a merchant in the S-rank party Blue Ring who is fired for secretly funding the female adventurer party Garnet. After Blue Ring is wiped out by the Demon King, Torao joins Garnet to recover his party's equipment and defeat the Demon King, using money as his main weapon.
Alongside the anime, a manga adaptation by Sen Higashiyama with composition by Masahiro Itosugi launched on Shufu to Seikatsu Sha's Comic PASH! website on Friday. The web novel debuted on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in March 2023, and the light novel followed in March 2024.
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