Hazure Skill

For the web novel series by Hanyuu, see Hazure Skill "Kinomi Master".

Hazure Skill: The Guild Member with a Worthless Skill is Actually a Legendary Assassin (Japanese: 外れスキル「影が薄い」を持つギルド職員が、実は伝説の暗殺者, Hepburn: Hazure Sukiru "Kage ga Usui" o Motsu Guild Shokuin ga, Jitsuha Densetsu no Ansatsusha) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kennoji. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in June 2018, before being published in print with illustrations by KWKM by Fujimi Shobo beginning in March 2019. A manga adaptation with illustrations by Fuh Araki began serialization in the ComicWalker-based Dengeki PlayStation Comic Web manga service in July 2019.

Hazure Skill: The Guild Member with a Worthless Skill is Actually a Legendary Assassin
Cover of the first light novel volume
外れスキル「影が薄い」を持つギルド職員が、実は伝説の暗殺者 (Hazure Sukiru "Kage ga Usui" o Motsu Guild Shokuin ga, Jitsuha Densetsu no Ansatsusha)
Genre	Fantasy[1]
Novel series
Written by	Kennoji
Published by	Shōsetsuka ni Narō
Original run	June 19, 2018 – present
Light novel
Written by	Kennoji
Illustrated by	KWKM
Published by	Fujimi Shobo
English publisher	NA: Yen Press
Imprint	Kadokawa Books
Demographic	Male
Original run	March 9, 2019 – present
Volumes	7
Manga
Written by	Kennoji
Illustrated by	Fuh Araki
Published by	ASCII Media Works
English publisher	NA: Yen Press
Imprint	Dengeki Comics Next
Magazine	Dengeki PlayStation Comic Web
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	July 5, 2019 – present
Volumes	7

Media

Light novel

Written by Kennoji, the series began publication on the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō on June 19, 2018.^[2] The series was later acquired by Fujimi Shobo, who began publishing the series in print with illustrations by KWKM on March 9, 2019.^[3] As of August 2021, seven volumes have been released.^[4]

In October 2020, Yen Press announced that they licensed the series for English publication.^[5]

Volumes

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	March 9, 2019[3]	978-4-04-073084-4	April 6, 2021[1]	978-1-97-531877-2
2	July 10, 2019[6]	978-4-04-073086-8	October 5, 2021[7]	978-1-97-531879-6
3	December 10, 2019[8]	978-4-04-073381-4	March 15, 2022[9]	978-1-97-531881-9
4	June 10, 2020[10]	978-4-04-073599-3	September 20, 2022[11]	978-1-97-534799-4
5	October 10, 2020[12]	978-4-04-073827-7	May 23, 2023[13]	978-1-97-534831-1
6	March 10, 2021[14]	978-4-04-074004-1	September 19, 2023[15]	978-1-97-536911-8
7	August 10, 2021[4]	978-4-04-074154-3	January 7, 2024[16]	978-1-97-537115-9

Manga

A manga adaptation with illustrations by Fuh Araki began serialization in the ComicWalker-based Dengeki PlayStation Comic Web manga service on July 5, 2019.^[17] As of March 2024, the series' individual chapters have been collected into seven tankōbon volumes.^[18]

Yen Press is also publishing the manga in English.^[19]

Volumes

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	December 9, 2019[20]	978-4-04-912884-0	May 4, 2021[21]	978-1-97-532437-7
2	June 27, 2020[22]	978-4-04-913244-1	November 9, 2021[23]	978-1-97-532514-5
3	January 9, 2021[24]	978-4-04-913604-3	December 14, 2021[25]	978-1-97-533611-0
4	August 10, 2021[26]	978-4-04-913912-9	July 12, 2022[27]	978-1-97-534442-9
5	March 26, 2022[28]	978-4-04-914300-3	February 28, 2023[29]	978-1-97-536091-7
6	March 27, 2023[30]	978-4-04-914728-5	March 19, 2024[31]	978-1-97-538047-2
7	March 27, 2024[18]	978-4-04-915581-5	April 1, 2025[32]	979-8-85-541257-4

Reception

Demelza from Anime UK News criticized the story for its sex scenes and the main character as generic.^[33] Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network felt the series was a bit generic, though she also positively noted that the series had little fan service despite the sex scenes.^[19]

See also

• Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells, another light novel series illustrated by KWKM