Square Enix’s Young Gangan magazine confirmed that the light novel series Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru: Tada no Inaka no Kenjutsu Shihan Datta noni, Taisei Shita Deshitachi ga Ore o Houttekurenai Ken (From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone) written by Sagazaki Shigeru will get another spinoff manga.
The new manga by Hazama Sasami, titled Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru Gaiden: Ryuusouken no Kiseki, will debut in the magazine’s fourth issue of 2025, which will be available for sale on February 7th, 2025.
Sagazaki started the original novel story in November 2020 on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website, and Square Enix published the first novel with illustrations by Nabeshima Tetsuhiro (108-Kai Korosareta Akuyaku Reijou, Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou, Moto Yuusha wa Shizuka ni Kurashitai) in April 2021. The eighth novel in the series was released in August 2024.
J-Novel Club publishes the novels in English under the name From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone, and it released the fifth novel on January 15th, 2025. The story is described by J-Novel Club below:
Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man,” is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural, backwater village. In his younger years, he dreamed of glory as a master swordsman, but those days are long behind him. Out of the blue, he receives a visit from a famous former pupil who brings him world-shattering news—he’s been appointed as special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order! With his life now turned upside down, Beryl travels to the capital and reunites with some of his former students: elite knights, an ace wizard, and even an adventurer who’s attained the highest guild rank possible. But why do they all want his tutelage?! As far as he’s concerned, they clearly don’t need him anymore.
Can Beryl live up to his new position? And will he ever get a moment’s peace away from his adoring students?!
Satou Kazuki started the manga adaptation of the novel series in August 2021 in Akita Shoten’s Dokodemo Young Champion magazine. Akita Shoten published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in February 2022 and the sixth volume in August 2024. Yen Press Releases the manga in English under the title From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, and it will release the manga’s second volume on January 21st, 2025.
The novel series has also been adapted into a TV anime, which will premiere in April 2025 in the IMAnimation programming block of 24 TV Asahi affiliated channels and BS Asahi. Kazumi Akio (Hitoribotchi no Isekai Kouryaku, Souten no Ken REGENESIS) is directing the anime at studios Passione and Hayabusa Film.
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