Living It Up in Another World Until I Get Bored Light Novels Get TV Anime for January 2027
Hero Bunko announced on Friday that Fudaya Sanmongarasu and illustrator Tomozo's Living It Up in Another World Until I Get Bored light novels are getting a television anime in January 2027.
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Why it matters
The adaptation lands with eight light novel volumes and a running manga behind it, so the anime arrives with a print catalog already in place rather than as a launch vehicle for volume one.
Key Facts
- Hero Bunko announced a television anime for Living It Up in Another World Until I Get Bored on Friday, with a January 2027 premiere.
- Fudaya Sanmongarasu debuted the web novel on Shosetsuka ni Naro in June 2016.
- The first light novel volume with illustrations by Tomozo shipped in April 2019, and the eighth volume ships on November 30.
- SAA launched a manga adaptation in Shufunotomo's Hero Comic in July 2025, and the first compiled volume shipped on September 30.
- Hanashi Media licensed the light novels in English.
Sanmongarasu began the web novel on Shosetsuka ni Naro in June 2016, and the first print volume shipped in April 2019. The eighth volume ships on November 30, and SAA's manga adaptation launched in Hero Comic in July 2025.
The announcement came from Hero Bunko's official X account, the imprint that publishes the novels under IMAGICA Infos. Hanashi Media holds the English license and frames the story around a thirty-something man dropped into a game-like world who gains power without effort and picks none of the usual paths: not hero, not demon, just his own amusement.
The print side is already deep. The eighth volume ships on November 30, seven years after the first volume appeared in April 2019, and SAA's manga adaptation has been running in Shufunotomo's Hero Comic since July 2025, with a first compiled volume out on September 30. No studio or cast was named in the announcement.
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