The recent Great Overlap Bunko All-Star Gathering Special 2025 livestream revealed that Sou Akaike’s Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City (Japanese title: Okiraku Ryōshu no Tanoshii Ryōchi Bōei) light novel series will receive a new TV anime series.
To celebrate the announcement of the anime, Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord illustrator Kururi and manga artist Aoiro released new illustrations:
Akaike launched the Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord story on May 15, 2020 on the Shōsetsu ni Narō website. Moreover, Overlap Bunko began to publish the light novel series with illustrations by Kururi in September 2021. The seventh volume released on January 25 this year.
Maro Aoiro launched the novel on Overlap’s Comic Gardo website in August 2021, and the manga’s seventh volume will release on April 25 in Japan.
Lastly, Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English and describes the story as follows:
Van, the fourth son of a powerful noble, is only two years old when he remembers his past life as a salaryman in Japan. With his adult brain in a young body, he’s considered a child prodigy…until he displays the “Production Magic” skill when he turns eight. In a family that favors offensive magic, this crafting skill is considered useless in battle, and Van is banished to oversee a tiny country town in disgrace. With only his personal maid, the memories of his past life, and his “worthless” magic, can Van improve the fortunes of this little village—and himself?
