The Villager of Level 999 (Japanese: LV999の村人, Hepburn: Lv999 no Murabito) is a Japanese light novel series written by Koneko Hoshitsuki and illustrated by Fuumi. It was initially serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō from July 2015 to December 2018. The series was later acquired by Enterbrain and published from April 2016 to January 2019. A manga adaptation illustrated by Kenichi Iwamoto began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Comp Ace in May 2017. An anime television series adaptation produced by Brain's Base premiered in July 2026.
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Plot
Everyone is born with a class assigned to them. Their class—warrior, hero, magician, cleric, etc—determines the life they will live. Among these classes is the weakest: the villager. Villagers have no power; they are protected by the other classes. Koji Kagami is one of them. At the age of two, Kagami understood that money was the key to a better life, and that killing monsters was the fastest way to earn it. He spent 20 years killing monsters and reached level 999, despite the average level of villagers being 10.
Characters
Koji Kagami (鏡 浩二, Kagami Koji)
Voiced by: Satoshi Inomata
Alice (アリス, Arisu)
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama
Takako (タカコ)
Voiced by: Hiroya Egashira
Rex (レックス, Rekkusu)
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki
Krull (クルル, Kururu)
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami
Tina (ティナ)
Voiced by: Aoi Koga
Paruna (パルナ)
Voiced by: Lynn
Menо̄ (メノウ)
Voiced by: Yūichirō Umehara
Militaria Remote (ミリタリア・リモート, Miritaria Rimōto)
Voiced by: Yōji Ueda
Dark Dragon (ダークドラゴン, Dāku Doragon)
Voiced by: Tetsu Inada
Media
Light novel
Written by Koneko Hoshitsuki, The Villager of Level 999 was initially serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō from July 14, 2015, to December 1, 2018. It was later acquired and published by Enterbrain with illustrations by Fuumi in eight volumes, from April 30, 2016, to January 25, 2019.
Manga
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Kenichi Iwamoto, began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Comp Ace on May 26, 2017, with its chapters compiled into twenty-one tankōbon volumes as of July 2026. The manga adaptation is published in English on Kadokawa's BookWalker website under the title The Level 999 Villager.
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on August 21, 2025. It is produced by Brain's Base and directed by Yoshinobu Kasai, with Shinzō Fujita supervising series scripts, Kentarō Matsumoto designing the characters, and Hiroshi Nakamura composing the music. The series premiered on July 2, 2026, on TV Tokyo and BS Fuji. The opening theme song is "Not a Hero", performed by Nakuru Aitsuki and Itsuki Natsume, while the ending theme song is "HP", performed by Yukimura. Crunchyroll is streaming the series.
Reception
The manga adaptation won the grand prize at the Minna ga Erabu!! Denshi Comic Taishō 2019 competition hosted by NTT Solmare. The manga adaptation also won the Terra Award at the 2020 Piccoma Awards.