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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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The world hates Morrigan Harriet. She’s got no friends. Her family don’t want to be anywhere near her. Even strangers dislike her. She relies heavily on her unusual 'relationship' with the elusive sun-hating librarian, Cato, who allows her to read his private collection of strange and mysterious ...
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When a gifted but ordinary pianist discovers a forbidden etude hidden in the real world, curiosity pulls him into a realm unlike any he’s known, a heavenly bathed city, silent except for the echoes of forbidden music. Here, melodies are laws, and playing can bring salvation or ruin. Drawn to an a...
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Meng Mei is someone who was never satisfied by modern life. She spent more time reading webnovels than interacting with the world. So when she is suddenly transported into her favorite series after her death she is beyond excited. Until she learns that she has become the character that leads ...
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Jolted from isolation into a hostile, fantasy world with his real name lost, Admin wields an object-manifesting smartphone to assemble an oddball team—Tundra, Mirai, and Eyrie—and must survive deadly challenges while confronting Mishanter, a being born from his own weaknesses, to claim victory an...
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Every 300 years, the greatest sinner on Earth is chosen from Hell and given one final chance in another world. Ogon, a Hell guardian appointed by the gods to oversee the sinner’s transmigration ritual, has his boring life in hell cut short when his soul is mysteriously swapped with the sinner’s. ...
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Having the burden of taking care of his little sister who is a shut in, Ryo decides for himself to pull an all nighter for the finals exam only to die in the process. After finding himself in another world in the slaves quarters of a noble household he is determined to find a way to support his ...
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A boy obsessed with guns meets his end at the mercy of the very thing he loved most. Now reincarnated in another world as the Gun Hero, he’ll defeat his enemies one by one in the most unconventional ways imaginable. Did I mention—he loves GUNS?!
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It was just supposed to be a game for Selena Suzuki her and her 15-year-old Autistic, fantasy-loving daughter Madoka to enjoy together. They didn't expect to wake up in another world as their characters. But the game was in reality an experiment in contacting other dimensions and, when an error...
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