{"status":200,"data":{"id":134872,"state":"active","merged_with":null,"canonical_url":"https://mangabaka.org/novel/134872/This-Alluring-Dark-Elf-Has-the-Heart-of-a-Middle-aged-Man","authors":["Yuuhi Shimano"],"artists":["Naji Yanagita"],"description":"A New Life As A Dark Elf!\n\nHaruka Yamagishi, a 43-year-old, lonely salaryman without friends, family, or love. Never very good at expressing himself, he’s avoided building relationships with people and finds himself a withered old man before his time. Then one day, he wakes up in another world, only to discover he’s a dark elf, and a beautiful woman at that! Despite having a body as tough as steel and a vast reserve of magical power, the timid Haruka still goes through life indecisively. Yet she (he) forms a party with fellow adventurers twice her (his) age and steadily adapts to this new world. The middle-aged man who once gave up on bonding with others opens his heart and strives to grow as his new self in another world. So the curtain rises on a twisted but classic story of adventure!\n\n(Source: Cross Infinite World)","published":{"start_date":"2023-06-02","end_date":null,"start_date_is_estimated":false,"end_date_is_estimated":null},"status":"releasing","is_licensed":true,"content_rating":"safe","type":"novel","rating":63,"popularity":{"global":{"current":79992,"history":{"1d":79892,"1w":79492,"1mo":79245,"3mo":87501,"6mo":91031,"1y":56974}},"type":{"current":5771,"history":{"1d":5760,"1w":5767,"1mo":5702,"3mo":12801,"6mo":13509,"1y":2499}}},"publishers":null,"last_updated_at":"2026-09-04T09:29:23.277Z","source":{"anilist":{"id":189698,"rating":6.3,"rating_normalized":63},"anime_planet":{"id":"this-alluring-dark-elf-has-the-heart-of-a-middle-aged-man-light-novel","rating":null,"rating_normalized":null},"anime_news_network":{"id":null,"rating":null,"rating_normalized":null},"kitsu":{"id":null,"rating":null,"rating_normalized":null},"manga_updates":{"id":null,"rating":null,"rating_normalized":null},"my_anime_list":{"id":178710,"rating":null,"rating_normalized":null},"shikimori":{"id":178710,"rating":null,"rating_normalized":null}},"rating_count":37,"final_volume":4,"total_chapters":null,"titles":[{"language":"en","traits":["official"],"title":"This Alluring Dark Elf Has the Heart of a Middle-aged Man!","is_primary":true},{"language":"ja-Latn","traits":["native"],"title":"Watashi no Kokoro wa Ojisan de Aru","is_primary":true},{"language":"ru","traits":[],"title":"У меня душа дяди","is_primary":true},{"language":"ja","traits":["native"],"title":"私の心はおじさんである","is_primary":true}],"cover":{"raw":"https://s4.anilist.co/file/anilistcdn/media/manga/cover/large/bx189698-JqG7YR2ahX80.png","x150":"https://cdn.mangabaka.dev/imgproxy/plain/x150@1/aHR0cHM6Ly9zNC5hbmlsaXN0LmNvL2ZpbGUvYW5pbGlzdGNkbi9tZWRpYS9tYW5nYS9jb3Zlci9sYXJnZS9ieDE4OTY5OC1KcUc3WVIyYWhYODAucG5n","x250":"https://cdn.mangabaka.dev/imgproxy/plain/x250@1/aHR0cHM6Ly9zNC5hbmlsaXN0LmNvL2ZpbGUvYW5pbGlzdGNkbi9tZWRpYS9tYW5nYS9jb3Zlci9sYXJnZS9ieDE4OTY5OC1KcUc3WVIyYWhYODAucG5n","x350":"https://cdn.mangabaka.dev/imgproxy/plain/x350@1/aHR0cHM6Ly9zNC5hbmlsaXN0LmNvL2ZpbGUvYW5pbGlzdGNkbi9tZWRpYS9tYW5nYS9jb3Zlci9sYXJnZS9ieDE4OTY5OC1KcUc3WVIyYWhYODAucG5n","blurhash":"|LEyfJx_Y5JBwI$gVra#WCyZog$*aekrbbofs:jZD$aeD%MwoLt8XTR*WVxCkWozNGVrt8aeRjR+IUS4xvxGtRW;R%ogofr=s:ODoJogjYoKbvofoybIxGozS5aKsms:WURPofkCoJWBWXW=jEjFNFoMogWBRjWXW=aeWB","width":460,"height":688},"anime":{"exists":false,"start":null,"end":null}}}