Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi

Sunday Without God (神さまのいない日曜日 Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyōbi) began as a light novel series written by Kimihito Irie, and illustrated by Shino. Irie entered the first novel in the series, originally titled Sunday People (日曜の人達 Nichiyō no Hitotachi), in Fujimi Shobo's 21st Fantasia Prize in 2009 and the novel won the Grand Prize. The first novel was published by Fujimi Shobo on January 20, 2010 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint, and the series has been completed with 9 volumes as of May 20, 2014.

Story Synopsis

On Sunday, God abandoned the world, after admitting failure. Ai is the 12 year-old child of a Grave Keeper, and a man by the name Hampnie Hambart. Her mother told her that one day, her father would come to the village. One day, long after her mother has passed, a mysterious man claiming to be Hampnie Hambart massacres Ai's village, and requests that she bury the dead, as a Grave Keeper.

Series Information

• Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural
• Original Title: 神さまのいない日曜日
• Author: Kimihito Irie
• Illustrator: Shino
• Published Volumes: 9
• Series Status: Complete

Translation

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Updates

• March 28, 2022
  • Project completed
• November 22, 2021
  • Volume 3 completed
• November 20, 2021
  • Volume 2 completed
• August 31, 2018
  • Volume 1 completed
• August 22, 2013
  • Volume 2 Chapter 1 completed
• August 7, 2013
  • Volume 2 Prologue completed
  • Volume 1 Prologue completed
• August 4, 2013
  • Volume 1 Afterword completed
• July 23, 2013
  • Initiated as a teaser project

Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi by Kimihito Irie

Volume I

• Novel Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 - For Those Who Love Legends
• Chapter 2 - Test Me, Birth and Honor
• Afterword

Volume II

• Novel Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 - The City and the Youth
• Chapter 2 - Bad Dragon
• Chapter 3 - The Stars
• Chapter 4 - Alone in Solitude
• Afterword

Volume III

• Novel Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 - The Egg is First
• Chapter 2 - All Night Classroom
• Chapter 3 - Fifteen Monsters
• Epilogue
• Afterword

Volume IV

• Novel Illustrations
• Chapter 1 - Living By
• Chapter 2 - The World Tower
• Chapter 3 - W.W.W
• Chapter 4 - An Episode Concerning a Certain Big Brother & Little Sister
• Afterword

Volume V

• Novel Illustrations
• The Prologue of a Long Time Ago
• Chapter 1 - The Sealed Town
• Chapter 2 - The Death Went Somewhere Far Away
• Chapter 3 - The Academy Rules
• Chapter 4 - The Life Leading to the Deadly Disease
• And the Unending Epilogue
• Afterword

Volume VI

• Novel Illustrations
• Chapter 1 - The Fallen Star Thinks of the Heavens
• Chapter 2 - Ai's Song
• Epilogue
• Afterword

Volume VII

• Novel Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 - The Wind's Solitude
• Chapter 2 - The Cross Horizon
• Chapter 3 - The Ashes and the Flames
• Epilogue
• Afterword

Volume VIII

• Novel Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 - Fireworks
• Chapter 2 - Baby Doe
• Chapter 3 - Alice in Nightmare
• Chapter 4 - Witch Hunt
• Chapter 5 - Silver Bullet
• Afterword

Volume IX (Finale)

• Novel Illustrations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 - Wild Tiger
• Chapter 2 - The Ghost Falls Over
• Chapter 3 - The World's Sounds
• Chapter 4 - A Dead Friend
• Interlude
• Chapter 5 - Sunday Without God
• Final Chapter - Like Ten Billion Ants and One Ant
• Afterword
• Special Appendix - Ai's Hill

Project Staff

• Supervisor: Teh Ping
• Project Manager: Pygmalion

Translators

Active

• Teh Ping

Inactive

• MyProjectAlicization (Chinese translator)
• MochaCookies (Chinese translator)

Editors

Active

• Rage
• Nura rihan
• Rohan123
• dim1
• Gsimenas

Inactive

• KDTV
• Pygmalion

Series Overview

• Volume 1 - 神さまのいない日曜日 (January 20, 2010) ISBN 978-4-8291-3477-1
  
• Volume 2 - 神さまのいない日曜日II (May 20, 2010) ISBN 978-4-8291-3521-1
  
• Volume 3 - 神さまのいない日曜日III (October 20, 2010) ISBN 978-4-8291-3579-2
  
• Volume 4 - 神さまのいない日曜日IV (February 19, 2011) ISBN 978-4-8291-3612-6
  
• Volume 5 - 神さまのいない日曜日V (June 18, 2011) ISBN 978-4-8291-3649-2
  
• Volume 6 - 神さまのいない日曜日VI (November 19, 2011) ISBN 978-4-8291-3699-7
  
• Volume 7 - 神さまのいない日曜日VII (April 20, 2012) ISBN 978-4-8291-3738-3
  
• Volume 8 - 神さまのいない日曜日VIII (July 20, 2013) ISBN 978-4-8291-3912-7
  
• Volume 9 - 神さまのいない日曜日IX (May 20, 2014) ISBN 978-4040701103
  

More Information

• Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Wikia
• Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi English Wikipedia Article