
The “THE ISEKAI presented by KADOKAWA” Contest Has Officially Concluded!
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!
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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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Unmei Tokita is a teenager who has created several stories. Why? Because his world is boring. He always dreamed of going to one of these wonderful worlds. And guess what? It happened! Now he has to fight all kinds of mystical creatures and evolve in his new life. But why him specifically?
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Kazuki Suzuki used to be a hardcore whale gacha gamer, then he gets reincarnated as a “hot-spring dungeon core”!? As a dungeon that controls healing baths, he opens a mixed-species “Holy Spa.” But if his core gets “secured,” he’s doomed to spend his life as a device that only obeys orders, bas...
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Misa is just a schoolteacher who loves to escape into the world of books after work--until she actually does it! When Misa is suddenly transported to the world of monsters from the comfort of her own home, she learns that she has been called in fulfillment of an old prophecy. The vampire kingd...
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After being struck by a bolt of lightning, resident shut-in Otis Keizer finds himself lost in another world. On the backs of both of his hands, he finds two numbers that seemingly count down with each day that passes and each death he experiences.
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Two lovers, bound by the promise of marriage, tragically lose their lives in a car accident during a storm. They are then met with a deity which offers to grant them one final wish. Without thinking, they wished "to be together forever". The deity agrees to fulfill their wish, but with a rather c...
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Wait, isn't it supposed to be the Goddess who reincarnates you, not the demon lord? And they're sending me after the hero that slayed them, too?! At least I've reincarnated as a badass dragon... hatchling. What a headache.
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Kairin dies in his world only to awaken in the Blackwood, a brutal forest teeming with monsters far beyond his strength. Bound to a restless shrine spirit, he must learn dark magic through pain and sacrifice—consuming the fallen, botching spells, and battling nightmarish beasts. Alongside the sca...
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Jake and Alex are not heroes. They are simply 16 year old boys who life keeps beating up. It was pure chance they saved the girl from the monsters which chased her that day. It was also pure stubbornness that led them into following her to the world of Ekodyne, a world of magic and science ov...
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A developer named Kagami Ren is betrayed by one of his own teammates,someone who helped build the game who intends to sacrifice the players inside it to an entity claiming to be a goddess. During the third anniversary celebration of Ren’s RPG-themed, hyper-realistic game Real Realm, the event ...
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