This month the Oxford English Dictionary is adding 23 Japanese words, including isekai and tokusatsu! OED’s website explains: Isekai is a Japanese genre of science or fantasy fiction featuring a protagonist who is transported to or reincarnated in a different, strange, or unfamiliar world. The …Read more »
Surprise, surprise: another isekai light novel series is getting an anime adaptation. This time around, it’s Loner Life in Another World, a series of books by Shoji Goji. Seven Seas is releasing Loner Life in Another World in English, and describes it like this: When …Read more »
The winter 2024 anime season is just around the corner, bringing with it a huge crop of new titles. Some are original, others hail from manga… and others still are light novel adaptations. And you know what that means: more isekai! If you’re eager to …Read more »
If you play mobile games, you may have noticed ads for ISEKAI: Slow Life lately. This anime-inspired app just launched a few days ago, with hundreds of thousands of potential dimension-hoppers pre-registered before release. So, the big questions are—what is it, and is it worth it? We’ve …Read more »
The isekai genre has really exploded in the worlds of manga, light novels and anime. Isekai stories have their own genres and sets of tropes, like the reincarnation setup or the villainess plot. SoraNews24 interviewed an anonymous manga editor at a large Japanese publisher to …Read more »
Need your isekai fix? Great news: there’s plenty in the new fall season! So if you need to escape this dimension and travel to a fantasy world, you’re all set. Looking for love? Action? Cat girls with huge swords? We’ve got you covered. Check out these …Read more »
Today, it seems as if everyone from heroic-yet-angsty teenagers to giggling schoolgirls, bored middle-aged businessmen and attractive housewives are finding themselves whisked away to save distant worlds from some kind of unspeakable evil. But how do you prepare for such an amazing adventure? And, more …Read more »
Isekai, the genre in which folks travel to parallel worlds, is all the rage these days. So it makes sense that a new online manga magazine, launching next month, is entirely devoted to isekai. The online magazine is called Young King Lambda, and it’s going …Read more »
If you checked the calendar you’ll know it’s April Fools’ Day, and part of that means plenty of quirky, funny and irregular stuff on the internet. If you go on the Wikipedia main page, today’s “Did you know …” section includes some unusual things to …Read more »
In Kirby and the Forgotten Land, you get to steer everyone’s favorite hungry blob through an overgrown, possibly formerly human, landscape. More importantly, though, you get to eat all sorts of crazy things. Like cars. If you can dream it, he can devour it. But should he? …Read more »
When it comes to isekai anime—literally “another world” stories in which a main character or group of characters end up transported into an alternate world of some type—there’s no shortage of series and films to choose from. With no signs of slowing down, Japanese website …Read more »
You don’t get much more straightforward than the title Game World Reincarnation ~Sex on the First Night~, do you? The AnimeFesta anime adaptation of the manga by Re:mimu has more details for us, including plans for a January 9, 2022 premiere at 1:00am Japan Time …Read more »
Isekai anime are getting progressively weirder… especially reincarnation isekai. There was a time you could just show up with a couple of cheat powers and get on with things. But now people are waking up as villainesses and soda machines and skeletons and spiders. Light novel …Read more »
I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss, a series of isekai novels by Sarasa Nagase, is getting animeified. Here’s how Yen Press describes the light novel series, which kicked off in 2017. When her engagement to the prince ends unceremoniously, details of the …Read more »
The second season of the Restaurant to Another World anime will debut in October, and a teaser trailer has been released ahead of this. According to the trailer, Shinobu Ookawa is doing Prop Design, Kenji Kato is Art Director, Tatsue Ohzeki is Color Key Artist, …Read more »
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