As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World (novel) Series

The hit light novel series with over 30 million online views in Japan, now with an anime!


Ars Louvent, former Japanese businessman turned young head of a noble house, has climbed the ranks of the aristocracy thanks to his unique ability: a skill called Appraisal. With it, he’s gathered a whole host of capable retainers from all walks of life to aid and protect him!

Under Ars’s leadership, House Louvent has become a force mighty enough to single-handedly alter the course of wars. His growing power, however, did not go unnoticed by his foes, who dispatched an assassin and nearly succeeded in claiming Ars’s life. Ars was left bedridden…but the fact that he was out of the action didn’t mean that House Louvent’s progress came to a standstill. Word has arrived that Shin Seimallo, the engineer Ars recruited in the imperial capital, has finally achieved his ultimate goal. The airship is complete, and thanks to it, the nature of warfare in Summerforth is about to be turned on its head!

The hit light novel series with over 30 million online views in Japan, now with an anime to premiere in 2024!

Ars Louvent, petty lord and former Japanese businessman, hasn’t been reincarnated into the easiest of circumstances. He’s not much of a strategist and certainly isn’t a fighter, but he does have one trick up his sleeve: a skill called Appraisal, which he uses to gather a host of capable retainers from all walks of life to aid and protect him!

Thanks largely to the skills and efforts of his retainers, Ars has proven himself a force to be reckoned with and racked up a fair share of achievements. The more he displays his power, however, the more his foes come to fear it, and one of them has cooked up a truly fiendish scheme to do away with the young count once and for all. Ars soon finds himself on the wrong end of a killer’s blade, kicking off a life-or-death race to save him. The time has come for House Louvent’s retainers to face their greatest crisis yet!

The hit light novel series with over 30 million online views in Japan, now with an anime to premiere in 2024!

Ars Louvent, petty lord and former Japanese businessman, hasn’t been reincarnated into the easiest of circumstances. He’s not much of a strategist and certainly isn’t a fighter, but he does have one trick up his sleeve: a skill called Appraisal, which he uses to gather a host of capable retainers from all walks of life to aid and protect him! 

After successfully fending off a massive invasion of his territory, Ars has two objectives: clean up the mess left in the war’s aftermath and find even more talented individuals to bring to his side! There’s nobody who Ars won’t consider as a potential retainer—not even former foes—but when he meets a mysterious trio with a seemingly colorful history, he might just find his most unlikely allies yet. Who could they be, and what influence will they have on Ars and his rapidly-growing county?

The hit light novel series with over 30 million online views in Japan, now with an anime to premiere in 2024!

Ars Louvent, current lord of a backwater barony and former Japanese businessman, hasn’t been reincarnated into the easiest of circumstances. He’s not much of a strategist and certainly isn’t a fighter, but he does have one trick up his sleeve: a skill called Appraisal, which he uses to gather a host of capable retainers from all walks of life to aid and protect him! 

At the command of the Count of Canarre, Ars and his retainers join a war of succession between two brothers feuding for the right to rule the entire Duchy of Missian. So great are his achievements over the course of the war that Ars soon finds himself receiving a promotion beyond his wildest imagination: he will become the new Count of Canarre! Now it’s up to Ars to remedy all the political and economic woes that Canarre is plagued with…but before he’s had time to even get started another conflict begins to brew, and this time much closer to home! A crisis is looming large, and only with the combined power of Appraisal and his talented retainers will Ars be able to stop it!