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BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense is a light novel series about a girl, Kaede Honjo, who plays a VRMMORPG and invests all her character points into defense, basically making her invincible and the most powerful player in the game. It was later adapted into an anime series that premiered in January of 2020.

History

The series is written by Yuumikan and illustrated by Koin.^[1] The series premiered in Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2016 before being adapted into a light novel series. The first issue premiered on September 8th, 2017. As of January 31st, 2020, here are eight issues in the series.

Anime

On December 16th, 2018, an anime adaptation of the series was announced in development, animated by Silver Linka.^[2] The series premiered January 8th, 2020 (intro shown below). There have been four episodes released as of January 31st, 2020.

Online Presence

The series has a growing fanbase online. While the series has yet to get its own subreddit, threads about the series' first episodes have gained over 1,500 points each in /r/anime.^[3] It has a score of 7.38 on MyAnimeList^[4] after votes from 11,000 users. The series has 300 likes on Facebook.^[5]

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