The Talentless Summoner

About The Talentless Summoner

In a world where summoners use special rings to call forth otherworldly powers and phantom beasts, Minato Minase comes from an ordinary family and lacks the bloodline needed to summon a beast of his own. Because a summoner's talent is strictly determined by lineage, Minato can only manifest basic phantom elements rather than full creatures. After losing his parents to phantom disasters, he is raised by the strongest active summoner and enrolls as a first-year high school student at the First Summoner Academy, refusing to let his lack of innate power crush his optimistic spirit. In sharp contrast to Minato, his childhood friend Yukimi Tono hails from a prestigious fire-wielding clan. Now a second-year student at the same academy, Yukimi is an elite prodigy capable of commanding powerful phantom beasts in combat, though she still watches out for the boy she trained alongside while growing up. As the gap in their abilities continues to widen, Minato refuses to abandon his dream of standing beside Yukimi on the battlefield once more. To make up for his inability to summon phantom beasts, he throws himself into a grueling and reckless physical training regimen, relying on a treasured sword to fight on the front lines. Everything changes during a small-scale subjugation mission when Minato and Yukimi are cornered in a desperate, life-or-death crisis. Facing certain death as his beloved blade shatters in the heat of battle, Minato discovers an old summoning ring hidden inside the broken weapon, from which a mysterious woman named Azami suddenly emerges. Azami is a legendary summoner from the early Edo period who offers to lend Minato her overwhelming strength through a binding contract. Rather than demanding his life or his heart in return, however, the price she sets for her power turns out to be completely unprecedented and utterly unexpected.

Alternative titles

Musai no Shoukanshi / 無才の召喚士 / Musai No Shōkanshi

Status

Ongoing

Genres

SupernaturalActionFantasy

Theme

Fantasy

Type

Manga

Artist

Nomura UFO

Released

2026

Chapters

17

First chapter

Chapter 1

Latest chapter

Chapter 17 · Nov 10, 2026

Released

Sep 16, 2026

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Characters

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  Minato Minase

  Main character

  An optimistic first-year high school student at the First Summoner Academy who comes from an ordinary family unable to summon phantom beasts. Determined to stand beside his childhood friend, he trains relentlessly with a sword.

• Y

  Yukimi Tono

  Main character

  Minato's childhood friend and a second-year high school student at the First Summoner Academy. Born into a prestigious fire-wielding family, she is an elite prodigy who commands powerful phantom beasts while looking out for Minato.

• A

  Azami

  Main character

  A mysterious woman who emerges from an old summoning ring hidden inside Minato's shattered sword. In life, she was a legendary summoner from the early Edo period who spent her days on the battlefield and longed for the thrill of romance.