isekai

American  

[ees-uh-kahy, ees-ay-kahy] / ˈis əˌkaɪ, ˈis eɪˌkaɪ /

noun

plural

isekai, isekais

1. a Japanese science fiction or fantasy genre in which the main character is transported to another world.

2. a work in this genre of Japanese science fiction or fantasy, especially a video game, animated film, or graphic novel.

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Example Sentences

Oh, come be the first on your block to meet its eye In addition to being a life-sim game, Disney Dreamlight Valley is a Disney adult’s ultimate isekai fantasy.

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Square Enix also showed off new gameplay from Forspoken, the isekai RPG developed by Luminous Productions.

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As my astute colleague Adi Robertson points out, this is classic Isekai, the Japanese term for the kind of story where someone gets pulled into another world.

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But Slime is a good reminder that not every isekai is like that.

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If you like That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime or books Ascendance of a Bookworm Speaking of isekai shows with interesting concepts, Ascendance of a Bookworm follows a book-loving college-aged woman who dies and is reincarnated as a five-year-old peasant girl in a medieval European-like fantasy world.

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