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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.
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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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After chasing his missing daughter into a parallel world, the clock is ticking for Mark to find her before their souls get devoured by the monsters that lurk outside the lost city of Serenity. The only way back to reality is through a train. Do not, by any means, miss the last train.
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A world betrayed by its savior… and the salvation who will never save it. An ERROR transmigrator, cursed to a sealed fate. Once from Earth, he now supports the growth of others, while his own is sealed. At the sacred Heartforge Convergence, the Grand Hero falls into madness and betrays the ...
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Demons ravage the land and the banners of war burn bright. Pieces of an evil Deity remain trapped below the earth in ancient, reality warping dungeons. It is a world where divine right is very real, and the social order is determined by a "class" given by God. Such is the world that Loiel Krie...
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Captain Elara Voss discovers ancient data cores that promise true immortality. Hunted by corporations, zealots, and a mysterious AI, she must uncover their secrets while confronting her own dark past. Some technologies should remain buried in the void.
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After playing a zombie game, Kisei Hanabi saves a girl from a truck and dies in the process. He later finds himself in a fantasy apocalyptic world flooded with zombies that can wield magic! He then unlocks a [Zombie Hunter System] to fight back these undead ghouls. Kisei afterward stumbles upon a...
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Arata Renji is thirty-four, a man who buried his youth under commutes and deadlines, wondering if his life would ever matter. Then a flash of blinding light tears him from Tokyo and casts him into Caelestia, a sky-city of crystal towers adrift above the abyss. There, the radiant being Elyon of...
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Satanos was once an ordinary man who reincarnated as the strongest Demon King, the final boss of a game-like world. He discovers a grim truth: if he is ever defeated, the entire world will come to an end. And if the hero dies, the world resets to the hero’s last checkpoint. Unwilling to rule a...
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Sebastian Blackwell was typical in all the ways nobody wants to be typical. Directionless, and always putting off the oncoming truck that was his unplanned future, shunting it away in favor of focusing on whatever was right in front of him. Maybe that was for the best, because a freak accident sa...
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