Daisuke Aizawa’s “The Eminence in Shadow” (陰の実力者になりたくて！) light novel series is confirmed to inspire a TV anime. The novels have sold over 1 million copies in Japan.
▍About the Series
Aizawa began serializing the story of “The Eminence in Shadow”on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō” website in May 2018. It is collected into three volumes with art by Tōzai. The light novel’s 4th volume is published today on 26th February. A manga adaptation by Anri Sakano started serialization in Kadokawa’s Comp Ace magazine in December 2018. The manga’s fifth volume is also published on 26th February.
Shadowbrokers are those who go unnoticed, posing as unremarkable people, when in truth, they control everything from behind the scenes. Sid wants to be someone just like that more than anything, and something as insignificant as boring reality isn’t going to get in his way! He trains in secret every single night, preparing for his eventual rise to power—only to deny his destiny by a run-of-the-mill (yet deadly) traffic accident. But when he wakes up in another world and suddenly finds himself at the head of an actual secret organization doing battle with evil in the shadows, he’ll finally get a chance to act out all of his delusional fantasies!
▼ A new illustration by manga artist Anri Sakano
