A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life

A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life (とあるおっさんのVRMMO活動記) is a Japanese light novel series written by Shiina Howahowa and illustrated by Yamaada. It began serialization online in January 2013 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, and it moved to the AlphaPolis website in August 2016. It was also later acquired by AlphaPolis, who have published twenty-nine volumes since February 2014. A manga adaptation illustrated by Shūya Rikudō began serialization online via AlphaPolis' manga website in June 2014 and has been collected in eleven tankōbon volumes. The manga is published digitally in English through Alpha Manga. An anime television series adaptation produced by Maho Film aired from October to December 2023.

Characters

 * Earth (アース) / Daichi Tanaka (田中 大地)


 * Fairy Queen (フェアリークィーン)


 * Zwei (ツヴァイ)


 * Milly (ミリー)


 * Ryū-chan (龍ちゃん)


 * Pikasha (ピカーシャ)


 * Nora (ノーラ)


 * Reiji (レイジ)


 * Kazamine (カザミネ)


 * Rona (ロナ)


 * Ward (ウォード)


 * Myun (ミュン)


 * Grad


 * Black (ブラック)


 * Skeleton Knight (スケルトンナイト)


 * Elizabeth (エリザヴェート)


 * Zephana (ゼファーナ)


 * Zetan (ゼタン)


 * Ulna (ウールナ)


 * Karen (カレン)


 * Mina (ミーナ)


 * Natalnia (ナタルニア)


 * Igraon (イグラオン)

Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on February 10, 2023. The series is produced by Maho Film and directed by Yuichi Nakazawa, with Touko Machida handling series composition, Yūko Watabe and Yūko Oba designing the main characters, and Technoboys Pulcraft Green-Fund composing the music. It was premiered at the filmstudio in Babelsberg, germany, where the first two episode where shown.It aired from October 3 to December 19, 2023, on Tokyo MX and other networks. Saji performed the opening theme song "Magic Writer", while Miho Okasaki performed the ending theme song "Kibō no Recipe" (キボウノレシピ). Muse Communication licensed the series in Southeast Asia. Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia.

Reception
The series won "The AlphaPolis 6th Fantasy Novel Grand Prize" reader award, and has 1.5 million copies in circulation.

Volumes of the manga adaptation have ranked on the Oricon bestseller chart.