The novels won the Japan Booksellers’ Award and won the fourth “Japan Medical Novel Award” in 2015.
G revealed the main staff members and September 18 opening date for the anime film adaptation of Nahoko Uehashi’s Shika no Ō (The Deer King) medical fantasy novel series on Tuesday.
Kadokawa originally published the novels in two volumes simultaneously in September 2014, and then rereleased the series in four volumes in June and July 2017.
The North American publisher Scholastic published the first two volumes of Moribito in English.