Light Novel

Mushoku Tensei is a Japanese light novel series written by Rifujin na Magonote. Originally published as a web novel serialized between November 22, 2012, and April 3, 2015. A year later, it was announced the series would receive a light novel release under Media Factory's MF Books imprint; the illustrations are done by a Pixiv user called ShiroTaka.

Seven Seas licensed the light novel in English on July 18 of 2018, releasing the first novel on May 21 of 2019.

The series has a Drama CD that covers the events of Volume 12.