Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

無職転生

Story: Rifujin na Magonote, Shirotaka, Yuka Fujikawa

light novelJapanStory completed · Anime ongoing

Anime 2021–present · Light novel 2014–2022

Anime 8.2

A dying shut-in is reborn in a sword-and-sorcery world and tries, slowly, to live a life he did not waste.

Where to keep reading

Select the season you finished to find your continuation.

Light novel

Volume 13

After the university arc. Season 3 (2026) picks up from here on screen.

Open the light novel

Seven Seas Amazon

Season 3 is listed as 2026 (airing) · Asura Kingdom aftermath / next turning points. That’s a later season — the chapter above is the continuation now.

Series Run

Anime

January 2021 – present

5 years in service

Still going

Next: Season 3 · 2026 (airing)

Web novel

2012–2015

ran 3 years

Finished

Light novel

January 2014 – November 2022

ran 8 years

Finished

Manga

May 2014 – present

12 years in service

Still going

Source material

Some stories start as a novel, then a comic, then an anime. Pickup below names the medium the recommendation is for.

Work	Role	Score	Ran	Vols	Read
Web novel Mushoku Tensei (web novel) 2012–2015 · ran 3 years	Earlier / other edition	—	2012–2015 ran 3 years	—	—
Light novel Mushoku Tensei 2014–2022 · ran 8 years	Anime follows this	—	2014–2022 ran 8 years	—	—
Manga Mushoku Tensei manga 2014–present · 12 years in service	Earlier / other edition	—	2014–present 12 years in service	—	—

Web novel. Original web novel, later revised as light novels — the LN is the canonical pickup.
Light novel. Seven Seas publishes the English LN. A manga exists but trails the novels.
Manga. Adaptation only. Continue in the light novels after the anime.