BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. (Light Novel)

BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. originally began on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, written by the author, Yuumikan, some time in 2016, being viewed by more than 60 million times on the site as of today. In the following year, the series was acquired by game publisher company Fujimi Shobo, to be published as a light novel with illustrations by Koin on the Kadokawa Books Imprint, with the first volume being published on September 2017.

The latest volume of the Light Novel series was released on March 2020.