Questions tagged [isekai]
For use on [story-identification] questions about the sub-genre of Japanese works "Isekai", where the main character(s) are transported to another world/universe. Always use with the media tag when known, for example, [novel], [manga], [anime], [video-games], etc.
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Short story about girl back from a Narnia-like portal trip
A few years back, I found a short story that I'd like to find again. The basic premise was that the main character was a woman who as a girl had stepped into a portal into a fantasy world—much like ...
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Book about people who are taken through portals all over the world and wake up in a strange world
I read this book in 2019, it was a paperback and I believe the cover was green. It wasn't very thick.
It starts with a man waking up in a forest and he finds others after that. They are attacked in a ...
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Isekai manga in which the main character saves the elf continent/island from humans
The main character (MC) is summoned to another world. The king is greedy and the MC leaves the kingdom. He finds an elf who needs help and takes her to the elf continent which is located south of ...
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Manhua where the male lead is cursed by a blue dragon and the female lead must work out how to save him
The female lead, who transmigrates into the story, discovers that the male lead is cursed by a blue dragon and destined to die in six months. The curse causes him to turn anything or anyone he touches ...
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Book about a woman in a wheelchair who ends up getting pulled into a game she was playing; in the game world, her chair has mechanical spider legs
I can't remember the name of a book I would like to reread. It's about a woman in a wheelchair that plays a game that she ends up getting pulled into. She is in the game world in a chair that has ...
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Manga or manhwa about a girl who is transmigrated into a novel as the sick sister of one of the male leads and marries an assassin
The manga or manhwa is about a girl who transmigrated into a novel as the sick sister (I think her hair is green or blue) of one of the male leads or he is a very important character in the novel... ...
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Fantasy isekai manga; young protagonist with the ability to echo any spell he'd heard before
The protagonist starts out young and ends up travelling with some adventurers. One of the team is a younger girl that's close to the MC's age and together they learn a bit about magic. I think ...
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Looking for a novel camping isekai
I'm looking for a novel where the protagonist can travel between dimensions through a portal, which he uses to make content to upload to his YouTube channel in the modern world. The portal closes and ...
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Graphic novel about a boy and his friend who are accidentally sent to another dimension by an alien and meet a redheaded girl with an eyepatch
I've forgotten the title to a graphic novel but it's basically about a boy and his nerd friend who are accidentally sent to another dimension by an alien and meet a redheaded girl with an eyepatch. ...
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Book series about a female protagonist who's transported to another world, where she encounters creatures such as gnomes, witches, and sphinxes
I'm looking for a book series that came out before 2003.
What I remember is that the main character (MC) is a woman who gets transported to another world. There she meets different kinds of creatures ...
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Manga - woman is sent back in time, gets poisoned, cures herself
It's a manga about a time travelling female lead (FL).
The FL is a herbal doctor - or something like that, maybe she studied Chinese medicine - in the modern era. She travelled to ancient times (maybe ...
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Historical manga in which the female lead has to change the fate of the villain
I don't know if it's a Chinese, Korean, or Japanese manga.
I remember that the female lead gets reincarnated into an ancient manga where she has to change the villain's fate.
She found him (the ...
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Manhwa where the main character goes to another world and participates in a game in which regular people have to escape from five people in a city
I'm looking for a manhwa where the main character (MC) goes to another world and participates in a game in which regular people have to escape from five people in a city.
The MC has black skinny hair ...
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MC Fight with magic academy instructor
It's an isekai manga about an ancient sorcerer, his mother is a commoner and his father is a nobleman, his mother dies and he goes to live with his father and his brother and sister from another ...
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Manhua about a super strong female lead reincarnated into the life of a girl who was super weak and bullied
I read this really good manhua a long time ago that had a super strong female lead who is reincarnated into the life of a girl who was super weak and bullied. The girl she transmigrated into had a ...
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Manhwa about a blonde girl who gets adopted to replace a duke's cursed daughter
I'm looking for a manhwa I read some time last year. I think I read it around December and it only had 20 chapters then.
It's about a girl who gets adopted to replace the duke's daughter, who has a ...
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Manga about a character who was reborn/reincarnated as a baby to an elf mother and a human father
I tried to find it multiple times, but was never able to, I can't remember any names related to the manga, but I can remember quite a bit of scenes that happened in the manga.
The MC was reborn/...
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I need help looking for a manhwa with this storyline:
From what I remember, the protagonist was reincarnated/got isekai-ed in a novel wherein originally, her mother (or the love interest's mother?) passed away due to stress and pressure from the father's ...
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Novel where a protagonist who doesn't like the idea of talent reincarnates in a magic world where talent is everything
The main character is a guy who worked very hard in life and hated it when people praised his talent because it felt like they disrespected his hard work. He dies and reincarnate in a word where only ...
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Isekai manga where the main character lives with a sword he created that turned into a girl
I was searching for this manga.
Basically I remember he was playing in a game and creating new weapons, then he receives a message and is transported to a world similar to the game.
He finds a house ...
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Western isekai novel; boy and girl receive fantastic items for a legend-like quest
I just started wondering about the name of a novel I read in elementary school, in Finland in the 90s. It might have been the first fantasy novel I ever read, so my recollection of the elements of the ...
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Picture book about two friends transported into a video game with a magic carpet and a laser sword
I'm trying to find this old kids' book I read in elementary school in the 90s-early 2000s.
I remember it was about two friends that somehow went into a video game. I recall a magic carpet and a laser ...
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Science fiction fantasy manga in which the main character can transport himself back and forth between two worlds
This is a science fiction fantasy manga where the main character can transport himself to another world (back and forth). The time difference is probably one week in the other world to one day for his ...
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Portal fiction fantasy series where the male protagonist has sex with Mother Earth and changes elves to Keebler elf size
What is the name of the fantasy series that is portal fiction that has a male protagonist who has sex with Mother Earth and changes the elves from 7 feet tall to Keebler elf size (less than 40cm). I ...
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I can’t find this manga/webtoon isekai about a blond girl in a magic world
It’s about a girl that reincarnated in a child blond (not sure that she is blond) noble girl. There is also a blond guy that because he has a particular color of eyes he can use magic. She took him ...
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Manhua(?) where both the male and female lead get reincarnated
Here's a few things I remember:
The male and female lead were a couple in a neglectful, unhappy marriage.
The female lead dies while spitting blood after getting poisoned by her husband's mistress.
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Fantasy book about a girl who goes through a portal to another world where her parents once ruled a kingdom
I read this book when I was in middle school, so 2015 or 2016. It started with the main character, a girl, in a computer lab, bored out of her mind. A portal to another world opened up and, very ...
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Anime movie about a girl and her father who go to another world to try and revive her mother
The movie takes place in another world and I can only describe two scenes that I'm certain are in the movie.
If I'm right, the topic of the movie is about a girl and her father who go to another world ...
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Manga where the (female) main character is summoned with another girl, trains with knights for a few weeks, and is sent away
I would be grateful if anyone can tell me the title.
It was a summoning with another girl, where the other girl wants to send her away.
She ends up getting some survival skills with one of the knight ...
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Help finding online Isekai fiction where the summoning targeted wrong time, and got a mangled body instead of a soul?
Help me find online Isekai fiction where the summoning targeted wrong time, and got a mangled body instead of a soul.
All I know about its location is "likely on Royal Road".
As for content, ...
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2009 Naruto fanfic featuring some girl that previously had a power of 'XP counter and allocation'?
Someone told me about a ~2009 Naruto fanfic from Fanfiction.net that featured some likely American girl.
The girl, who from birth or so, secretly used a power of 'XP counter and allocation' to be ...
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Manga where main character joins two people on an adventure to try and control his power
The main character is either reincarnated or summoned (I can't remember) and is extremely powerful, but he can't control his power so it goes off randomly.
He joins two people on an adventure to try ...
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Isekai manga where MC reincarnates in a medieval village and has no power up or skill, he's only good at running
I'm looking for a manga in which the main character (MC) reincarnates expecting magic or power ups, and finds himself weak and powerless. He has to train in a garrison like a commoner soldier and he'...
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Isekai manhwa/manhua where the main character's wife and daughter are murdered
I wanted to ask something. Does anyone know a series like The Live, where the main character's (MC's) wife and daughter are murdered and the murderer disappears from the map for having gone to another ...
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Forgotten Title "Poison Master From Wuxia" Story
This novel is most likely a Western fan creation, not Korean, Japanese or Chinese.
Poison master reincarnates from a wuxia world into a world where monsters exist and pose a threat to humanity.
This ...
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Manga where the main character gets isekaied into a sci-fi world where warships show the power of the family
I am searching for manga where the main character gets isekaied into a sci-fi world where warships show the power of the family. He belongs to a noble family but his mother wants to take over the ...
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Book/novel about a girl who lives in the human world and finds out she's a fairy princess whose parents are the king and queen of the fairies' realm
I’ve been trying to search for this novel that I remember reading years ago.
It’s about a girl who lives in the human world. She has a best friend and a boyfriend. She then finds out that she is a ...
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Manhwa(?) where a girl gets a second chance and tries to become Queen (?). She ends up maturing due to the fact she's experienced death and abuse
Sorry for any spelling mistakes, but the story starts out with a girl being mistreated by her family and her sister keeps framing her. She ends up dying some way (I forgot) but she comes back (same ...
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Manhua about a guy that has a system and can travel to different time lines or dimensions
He might have had blue hair. Every time he went to a new world, his abilities reset and he had to spend points to gain them back. I remember in one of the worlds, he was a martial artist that was ...
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Manga about a thief who is transmigrated and becomes a beast tamer
A female thief gets transmigrated into an ancient Chinese world and becomes a rank 9 beast tamer who tames an ice phoenix. There is also a prince who tamed a horse covered in people flames.
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Manhwa about a guy who is transmigrated to a Murim and now has a System
He is transmigrated to a Murim world and now he has a game like system. The system's first task is to create a sect and take in a disciple. He takes in a chubby guy as his first disciple. After that, ...
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Webtoon or manga has the main character traveling to multiple worlds to prevent isekai’d characters from ruining the original plot
I’m trying to find a story where the main character is transported to multiple worlds and each time they are expected to prevent an isekai’d character from ruining the original plot. I can’t remember ...
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Cartoon show in which a girl somehow went to another world where she fell from the sky but was caught by a horse or Pegasus
I remember watching this magical girls cartoon on YouTube. It was about a girl with a single dad. That girl had this necklace. One day, she somehow went to another world or an alternate universe. She ...
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Cultivation or martial arts manhwa
The main character is isekaied into the video game were he is a side/support character that dies further down road. He wants to prevent that from happening. The main character does have a game system ...
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Korean isekai light novel. Male protagonist inhabits the villain's body and breaks off his engagement
As the title suggests, I'm looking for a Korean light novel, where the male protagonist reincarnates/poses/transmigrates into the body of a villain and breaks off his engagement with his fiancee who ...
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I saw a short on YouTube about a small girl who was on the street and she realized that she is the main villainess of that story
I saw a short on YouTube about a small girl who was on the street and she realized that she is the main villainess of that story. Then a blonde little girl approaches her with a villainess attitude ...
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Manga- about the FL turned into a stone then the ML found her inside the dead dragon and hid her statue
This is about the FL who can use magic then they have this kid in the basement (maybe the ML) who is like very strong yet trust no one. Then the FL became his guardian where he opens up with the FL. ...
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Manhwa in which the female lead was afraid of the male lead, since she remembered that he killed her in the previous timeline
There’s this manhwa I read a long time ago.
I only remember the situation where the female lead was sent by her father to a summer house or something like that to recover herself. She remembered how ...
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Manhwa where the mc changes back into her pre-isekai appearance and the male lead still loves/accepts her
I remember the mc and the male lead (I think there were other people too) in a cave, and the female mc's changes to her appearance before she got isekai'd, with some glowing aura around her, and she ...
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Novel in which the protagonist cultivates to become so powerful that he destroys his world and then reincarnates into another world
This is either a Korean, Japanese or Chinese novel.
In it, the male protagonist cultivates to become so powerful that he destroys/kills his whole world subsequently drawing the wrath of a heavenly ...
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