She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (賢者の弟子を名乗る賢者) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hirotsugu Ryusen and illustrated by Fuzichoco. It began serialization as a web novel published on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in April 2012. Micro Magazine later acquired the series, which began releasing it in print in June 2014 under their GC Novels imprint. Twenty-three volumes have been published as of December 2025. A manga adaptation by Dicca Suemitsu began serialization online via Micro Magazine's Comic Ride website in July 2016, which has been compiled into fourteen tankōbon volumes as of July 2025. Both the light novel and manga have been licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment.[1] An anime television series adaptation by Studio A-Cat aired from January to March 2022.
Synopsis
The series follows Sakimori Kagami, who has been playing the online video game Ark Earth Online for a long time as the character Danblf, an old male sorcerer who is one of the game's nine great sages. One day after adjusting his character, he is sucked into the game world, and finds himself inhabiting his character's body, who after his adjustments looks like a young woman; he tries to convince the people of the game world that he is Danblf's pupil while figuring out on how to turn himself back to normal and escape the game world.