Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they have acquired the license for Yuki Suzuki and Sanshouuo's Reincarnated Into a Game as the Hero’s Friend: Running the Kingdom Behind the Scenes light novel series.
The light novel will be available for purchase in March 2024.
A modern man is reincarnated into the world of a fantasy game he knows well: as Werner, the son of a powerful noble. The thing is, Werner isn’t the hero or even the villain–he’s a background character likely to die during a climactic siege! Werner seeks out and befriends the hero, but he doesn’t have powerful enough skills to be a hero himself. Unwilling to die as a later plot point, Werner uses his knowledge of the game and his power as a noble to aid the hero and defend against evil attacks. That’s when he realizes that when he does so, he saves other people who were doomed as he was, which changes the “plot” he thought was inevitable. As the hero’s close comrade who can see the future, perhaps Werner will be a savior to this place, after all!
The light novel will be available for purchase in March 2024.
A modern man is reincarnated into the world of a fantasy game he knows well: as Werner, the son of a powerful noble. The thing is, Werner isn’t the hero or even the villain–he’s a background character likely to die during a climactic siege! Werner seeks out and befriends the hero, but he doesn’t have powerful enough skills to be a hero himself. Unwilling to die as a later plot point, Werner uses his knowledge of the game and his power as a noble to aid the hero and defend against evil attacks. That’s when he realizes that when he does so, he saves other people who were doomed as he was, which changes the “plot” he thought was inevitable. As the hero’s close comrade who can see the future, perhaps Werner will be a savior to this place, after all!
Brand-new license announcement! REINCARNATED INTO A GAME AS THE HERO'S FRIEND: RUNNING THE KINGDOM BEHIND THE SCENES light novel & manga series by Yuki Suzuki, Sanshouuo, & Rampei Ashio. In this fantasy isekai, a guy who's a doomed NPC may save the world!https://t.co/xQsppXfxJy pic.twitter.com/D9u4mGS4Qu
— Seven Seas Entertainment (@gomanga) March 22, 2023