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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They say you can't escape inflation. They were right. My greatest ambition was financial freedom, a decent job, and a life without stress. A simple, achievable dream for a simple man. I never asked to be a hero. I certainly didn't have a savior complex. But when I overheard a man with a kni...
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18-year old college student, Chihara Yoru, is an ordinary guy who dreams of having an easy life. One day, this dream is granted to him. Chihara is summoned into another world as a Hero with three other Japanese students. The country they were summoned into, Medrea, is a complete Utopia for mages,...
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Akari never expected to wake up as a flickering flame in a frozen world she didn’t belong to. The northern fortress teeters on the brink of collapse - sacred flames are dying, monsters roam the ice, and its people are haunted by grief. Alone, she seems powerless. But together with Noel, an exi...
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Shironeko Renji and his childhood friend, Yumehime Tsukiko suddenly got transferred out of nowhere to another world when they wanted to enter their classroom. Renji suddenly was treated like a prince and Tsukiko was treated like a personal maid of his.
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Kaito is a 17-year-old high school student who just wants to live his life to the fullest, but the routine life he is set to live is the exact opposite of what he wants. To escape it all, he stays rebellious, aiming to do whatever he wants every day. Through this lifestyle, he got himself kille...
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It was supposed to be the greatest game ever made. They never expected it to become their new world. When the long-awaited virtual reality game Elysium finally launches, millions of players rush to log in—including Ray Clayton and his three younger brothers. But the excitement quickly turns t...
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In another world, the beautiful kingdom of Horringar is under attack by an invading demon force. Its armies are amassed at 70’000 per cel and its numbers are often overwhelming and unpredictable. Although many other noble armies are easily able to defeat most of their forces and come back unscath...
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