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MyAnimeList and Honeyfeed are once again teaming up to deliver the most thrilling and challenging contests, and this time, we've joined forces with one of the industry's most iconic companies: KADOKAWA—the publisher behind some of the biggest hits in the Isekai light novel scene, such as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, The Rising of the Shield Hero, Overlord, and Sword Art Online.
The “MyAnimeList x Honeyfeed Writing Contest 2025 – THE ISEKAI presented by KADOKAWA” will reward the top 3 Fantasy Isekai stories with $3,000 each, and if one entry truly stands out, it could take home the Grand Prize of $5,000 instead, along with the chance to get picked up for publication.
Ready to transport readers to your own Isekai world? Submit your story between July 7 and September 29, 2025, and seize the chance to win big and gain incredible exposure!
Sayane was a struggling, down on her luck J-Pop idol who was crushed on stage. After dying, she wakes up in a dangerous realm where music was once the source of magic but is now long forgotten. A tyrannical empire wiped all music from history and silenced the realm so that no one could ever op...
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Two drinking buddies get isekai’d after a thunderstorm at a medieval music festival. Armed with cheap costumes, bad hangovers, and endless thirst, they stumble into a fantasy world full of magic, monsters, and mead. Alongside a sharp-witted elf girl, their misadventures may just turn into the stu...
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“Every sky needs its clouds. Every captain needs a ship. And every Lock needs its Key.” Rokuro Adachi was just an ordinary high school delinquent—until the day everything burned. When a mysterious invader descends on his world, Rokuro loses everything. Then… he wakes up somewhere else. A ne...
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Being taken to a strange new world with your best friend might be a dream for some, but when Mitsuta finds himself in a fantasy land he is shocked to find that he has no cool powers, no new skills, and is just as much of a loser as he was back home. His dog however...
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Empathy can be an error. Forgiveness can be fatal. These two lessons have burned deep within her bones for as long as Sheila can remember. Even without the weight of family or friends, she has never known true freedom. Undistracted by both poverty and terminal illness, she races towar...
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Jesse’s war should have ended with his death. Instead, he awakens in another world - his nineteen-ton light tank beside him. But machines can’t run on miracles alone, and fuel is running out. His only hope is Evren, a persecuted girl with the cursed power of creation: a magic that demands souls f...
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Hiroyuki Satoyama is an HR manager. That much is abundantly clear. So much so, he doesn’t know why he’s chosen as the Light’s hero to fight the demon king? On top of that, his only skill is Appraisal and the world he arrives in is already almost lost. What is an HR manager to do—except recruit...
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A grandma got isekai'd?!? Follow the tale of granny Annie Smith and her "mentor" Lilin Conquista, looking at a dark world already conquered by the demon king that needs to be fixed from within! Will Annie Smith be able to fix the world with her kindness?
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Raymond Roberts is a game dev at 2-Square Studios who finds himself summoned into their latest game, Angel Sword Online; An unfinished mess of a MMORPG on the verge of being released to the public. While most others on the team had lost hope, the game’s mascot Tensei claims that he can fix it fro...
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When Hikaru Takahashi is pushed into traffic by a jealous coworker, he awakens in another world as Ren. Just Ren. Nothing special; no talents, no magic, and no floating EXP gauge that will let him progress through an overpowered skill tree. Instead, he is simply a baby, a twin son of a humble ...
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Once a feared and ruthless emperor known as Raien Valtor, who ruled over kingdoms with an iron fist, Shimei Kureha met his end, betrayed in the stillness of his own bed. Now, he finds himself reborn in the frail body of a powerless child from a fallen ninja clan, yet he carries within him the sou...
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Ren Fujitora, one of many children of the Enokida foster home, was all set to leave for university, when he and his entire foster family are transported to the magical realm of Rayvon after opening a mysterious box. But that's not all, each of them are wearing embarassing animal onesies! Trying t...
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Awakened from the simulation. Awakened from immortality. Awakened from false idols—hope, evil, and humanity itself. From artificial balance. From the myth of perfection. What defines the ideal human? And what separates that from an angel? Is it us—the slaves to divinity— who birthed the ...
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College student Misumi Okan meets his end at the hands of the mafia, but what he thought would be his end turns out to be a new beginning, as he finds himself in a new world called Limbo. Here, he will meet those who will be his companions on the journey they will undertake in an unexplored world.
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For Yamamoto Yuya, fantasy stories are about easy fulfillment. A brilliant but lazy high school student, he likes a story where someone unassuming like him rises to a call to adventure, saving the world, getting the girl, and making it look easy every step of the way. He will not live such a stor...
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The story is about a group of friends who are trapped into the world of the dead and are trapped there till the gates of the living gets opened again and stars are to be aligned according to the same constellation, time flows differently in this world it may feel like years have passed but for ...
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A no-name corporate engineer gets whisked off to his long dreamt-of isekai world! There he makes contact with the first year student of the Widrow Magic Academy and eldest daughter of the Lumiere family: Julie Lumiere, who was on a detachment to a small, innocuous village in her domains for a sec...
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Luke's life was a mess... but at least he knew the rules. Until he woke up in a strange world that doesn't speak his language and doesn't care if he survives. No friends. No guides. No chances to get it "right". Here, survival is a philosophy and a skill he needs to learn. Cynical, selfish, and ...
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After a series of misfortunes, the author of a discontinued novel, who uses the pen name Lapis Lazuli, woke up inside the world of the story that she wrote many years ago. A self-proclaimed guide named Ollie was the first person that she met and… he’s calling her Goddess?! An unfulfilled dream...
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