Just like how everyone adored heroes in their childhood, a certain young man adored those powers hidden in shadows. Ninjas, rogues, shadowy mentor types, that sort of deal.

Just like how everyone adored heroes in their childhood, a certain young man adored those powers hidden in shadows. Ninjas, rogues, shadowy mentor types, that sort of deal.
After hiding his strength and living the mediocre life of a NPC by day while undergoing frenzied training by night, he finally reincarnates into a different world and gains ultimate power.
The young man who is only pretending to be a power in the shadows... his subordinates who took him more seriously than he expected... and a giant organization in the shadows that gets accidentally trampled...
This is the story of a young boy who had adored powers in shadows possibly eventually reigning over the world of shadows in another world.

Shadowbrokers are those who go unnoticed, posing as unremarkable people, when in truth, they control everything from behind the scenes. Sid wants to be someone just like that more than anything, and something as insignificant as boring reality isn’t going to get in his way! He trains in secret every single night, preparing for his eventual rise to power—only to denied his destiny by a run-of-the-mill (yet deadly) traffic accident. But when he wakes up in a another world and suddenly finds himself at the head of an actual secret organization doing battle with evil in the shadows, he’ll finally get a chance to act out all of his delusional fantasies!


(Source: Yen Press)

Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! has been licensed in English as The Eminence in Shadow by Yen Press since March 3, 2019.

Great heroes and diabolical villains are the types of characters that people long to be—but not Cid Kagenou. He longs to become the true mastermind behind it all, pulling the strings, and having his machinations drive the entire story. In his previous life in modern-day Japan, he was not able to achieve his goals. But now, reborn into a world of magic, he will show the true eminence of shadow!


As Cid pretends to be just another average mob character, he recruits members to his (fake) organization Shadow Garden, aiming to take down the mysterious cult who lurks in the shadows. With plenty of ad-libs, Cid leads his (fake) organization against the foul (yet surprisingly real) Diabolos Cult.

Just like how everyone adored heroes in their childhood, a certain young man adored those powers hidden in shadows. Ninjas, rogues, shadowy mentor types, that sort of deal.
After hiding his strength and living the mediocre life of a NPC by day while undergoing frenzied training by night, he finally reincarnates into a different world and gains ultimate power.
The young man who is only pretending to be a power in the shadows... his subordinates who took him more seriously than he expected... and a giant organization in the shadows that gets accidentally trampled...
This is the story of a young boy who had adored powers in shadows possibly eventually reigning over the world of shadows in another world.
Russian / Русский Подобно тому, как некоторые в детстве боготворят героев, один юноша обожал силы, скрывающиеся в тени. Скрыв свою силу и прожив посредственную жизнь посредственного персонажа, проходя в это время через безумные ночные тренировки, он в конце концов перерождается в ином мире, обретая абсолютную силу. Юноша, отыгрывающий роль скрывающейся в тени силы, его неправильно всё понимающие подчинённые и огромная стёртая в пыль теневая организация... Это история о юноше, обожавшем скрывающиеся во мраке силы, который, вероятно, в итоге обретёт власть над теневой стороной иного мира.


Japanese Light Novel (Bookwalker)
Japanese Light Novel (Amazon.co.jp)
LN Vol. 1 Youtube Promo,with Kentarou Kumagai (熊谷健太郎) voicing the MC (Cid Kagenou)