Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest: Volume 1

By: Ryo Shirakome, takayaki, Ningen - translator

Narrated by: Matt Shipman, Morgan Lauré

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

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Very good

Hopefully the rest of the series will come to audiobook very soon so I can listen to it all because waiting is a pain

Even better than the anime

This is the best anime to novel I have ever read. You can feel the author's love bleeding through his words. I cannot wait for the next book to come out.

Great light novel series

I’ve enjoyed this light novel many times and was excited to see it as a audio book. If there is one thing to improve is have male voice actor handle the male parts and the female voice actor handle the female parts instead of having it split the book in half for one then the other it would improve the immersion and overall quality definitely buying the rest in this series as it my favorite series. Looking forward to seeing them released

Finally!

I read up on these books as they were being translated on the Jnovel website and truly love the story. I was so happy to see it get on audible, my preferred way to immerse myself in books.

The switch on narrators confuses me but they both did a good job. I gave it a 4 star for performance because I prefer keeping the same voice actors. Why couldn't they have her do the female voices and him the males? It's what I anticipated and was a little disappointed about.

The story, though, is one of my favorites. I highly endorse this book and wish for more people to experience it!

fun listen

If you are a fan of the anime, this gives you more depth in the story.

Fantastic!

So first off getting the actor who played Hajime to narrate was a master stroke. Especially since he voiced and did the reactions perfectly

I will note on the second narrator, at first when she started I wasn't for her in this book. I had the thought that she was a good narrator, but the sound effects for a good deal of time were more the kinds of sounds you'd do for children than an actual reading of something like this for an audiobook, so it really took away from the book compared to the already perfect sounds used before.

As she read though she really started getting better and better, and by the end really had it down.

You will, when she first comes in likely complain you'd rather just have the first narrator read it all, and I totally understand, but...as you get closer to the end you'll get more happy with her

Yes, the actor who does the voice for Hajime is fantastic and we'd happily listen to the whole book with him, but, now I can say we will be happy with both

I honestly can't wait for the next light novel audiobook to be released! Please!! It can't come soon enough

Major thanks for getting the voice actors on this, and major thanks to the voice actors for doing this. You are majorly appreciated

Loved it all but narrator switch

I´m not a huge fan of switching narrators between chapters. Each narrator should focus in specific characters, there are plenty of audiobooks like this ( monogatari series for example).

For example, Morgan Laure voicing of each character felt the same. It really ruins the immersion when you guess who is talking due to context.

love the story

I love this story I just wish male and female voices would be use for each gender dudes girl voice is horrifying

Story is just as i expected amazing!

the only grip and request i have and if you guys are listening is please have the voice actor voice their respective roles instead of taking turns half way throughout the story but don't get me wrong they both did an amazing job!

Love this series and this audiobook

Both the VA from the anime read this book and they were both amazing in their own way. Matt (Hajime) does an amazing job putting passion into other characters voice lines and "sound effects". Morgan (Tio) reads so smoothly its incredible, she also puts passion into individual characters but when she reads it sounds like a story being told not someone reading from a book. While I've seen the repeated part of 2 VAs swapping over half way etc.. I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it. While I can agree that it would be a nice touch to have Matt still voice male character lines while Morgan voices female character lines, I would still enjoy hearing both read the book. Please have them both continue their amazing work and please continue to release the rest of the series as audio. After reading all the books it's really enjoyable to listen to them by such amazing VA.