Kadokawa has announced that Yasukiyo Kotobuki’s The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage’s Carefree Life in Another World (Arafō Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki) light novels are getting an anime adaptation. Additionally, the company revealed the teaser visual.
Takayuki Inagaki is directing the anime at YANCHESTER. Hiroko Kanasugi is handling series composition and Mariko Fujita is designing the characters.
Kotobuki first launched the web novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in 2016. Kadokawa shipped the 20th light novel volume with illustrations by Johndee on February 25, and will release the 21st volume on April 24.
In 2018, the series inspired a manga adaptation by Maneki, which launched on Square Enix’s Manga UP! The manga’s 17th compiled book volume shipped in Japan on January 7. BookWalker published the manga in English under the name The Diary of a Middle-Aged Teacher’s Carefree Life in Another World. BookWalker publishes the series in English. 888 also launched a manga adaptation on Kadokawa’s ComicWalker platform in 2018.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series via MyAnimeList:
Forty-year-old Satoshi Osako is a farmer in the Japanese countryside—and a hardcore player of Swords & Sorceries, an online VRRPG. The day he finally manages to defeat the game’s final boss, it curses him with its dying breath and kills him in real life! With a little help from a carefree goddess, Satoshi finds himself reincarnated into a mysterious new world as his in-game character, the incredibly powerful Great Sage known as Zelos Merlin.
He accordingly decides to use his newfound powers to…continue living a quiet life on another farm! But first, he’ll have to fight his way out of the vast, dangerous forest he woke up in—thanks a lot, goddess—and it won’t be long before he’s running into bandits, getting roped into teaching a young noble girl magic, and more. Will the almighty Great Sage be able to conquer the toughest quest of all: getting some peace and quiet?
