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Trapped in a Dating Sim Novels to End in 13th Volume in March

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai Desu) light novel series will be the final volume. The volume is slated to ship on March 29.

Mishima launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Be Novelists) website in 2017 and ended it there in 2019. Micro Magazine's GC Novels imprint publishes the story in print with illustrations by Monda in Japan.

publishes the light novel series in North America, and it describes the story:

Office worker Leon is reincarnated into a particularly punishing dating sim video game, where women reign supreme and only beautiful men have a seat at the table. But Leon has a secret weapon: he re everything from his past life, which includes a complete playthrough of the very game in which he is now trapped. Watch Leon spark a revolution to change this new world in order to fulfill his ultimate desire...of living a quiet, easy life in the countryside!

releasing the manga in English.

Micro Magazine has also published two volumes of a spinoff novel series titled Renji Fukuhara that is running on Dra Dra Flat♭.

The novels inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered in April 2022, and the anime is streamed an English dub.

Source: Micro Magazine

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