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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!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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Ren, a 17-year-old boy, has lived too long in the shadows. Unassuming, isolated, a prisoner of his own insecurities, the only times he has tried to blossom before the world are when he has ended up dying horribly, a victim of ruthless humiliation because of a case of mistaken identity. But whe...
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All you need to go down is a bad day, when life punches you harder than ever, you just want to disappear and start all over again. But is the best option? You already made the decision. Ryuzaki Hikari is a 28 years old man working as a salaryman, things doesn't go as he thought and life isn't so ...
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In the young world of Ecliptica, a strange phenomenon has quickly become commonplace. The Gatebreak. Yet to have been understood, much less controlled, this seemingly natural occurence randomly brings people from different worlds to its lands. The Kingdom of Ispron however, known as the fore...
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Rent Starté has had a less-than-fortunate life, plagued by health problems, financial difficulties, and other challenges, but it's a life he's grateful to have... lived. As a sudden heart attack strikes him in the night, however, instead of being greeted by pearly gates or eternal fire or even a ...
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Kimi Tanaka was a rising high school senior in Sapporo who excelled in her academics - and her parents hoped that she'd use this scholarly prowess to attend the University of Tokyo, the University of Osaka, or Kyoto University! Kimi however, had other plans! She wanted to follow and further pe...
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Kai’s world shatters when his lover is suddenly taken from him. Trapped between memories and haunting possibilities symbolized by a fragile flower, he must face a surreal journey through parallel realities to uncover the truth, confront his darkest nightmare, and seek redemption.
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How the wicked witch became the hero's sidekick A witch is meant to be cruel and evil. The hero will save the princess, and she will be killed by the hero. Not with me. Transmigrated into the body of the wicked witch, I will not play this role. I will look at the story from the side and do not...
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After getting murdered by his friends, Teri wakes up in a dungeon that reeks of roses, ink, and flesh. No fanfare. No big-tiddied goddess handing him a cheat ability. Nada. He just clings to a single thought: if he wants to go home, he needs to clear this dungeon. It doesn’t take long for him ...
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In a world plagued by mysterious portals, emotionally guarded Tomiko takes on a perilous, well paying bodyguard job for a stranger, delving into an unknown world and confronting her insecurities. Problems arise when she finds the client is not telling the whole truth
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