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!
When a pizza delivery ends in a fatal six-story fall, thirty-something handyman Rylan Maxton expects oblivion—not a summoning to the magical floating kingdom of Aeridor Valeria. The hero's welcome is short-lived; the ritual backfires, and he accidentally absorbs a Goddess's divine power instead o...
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He didn’t ask to be summoned. He just wanted a vacation. When office worker Tiberius Kane is ripped from Earth and dropped into a world of gods, magic, and child sacrifices, he’s branded an “anomaly”—a man with no mana, invisible to monsters, and unwanted by the divine. Saved by the infamou...
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Kaito is a tired young corporate worker stuck in the endless grind of overwork and underpayment. When he finally gets transferred to his company's main branch, it feels like a fresh start—new job, new city, and a company-provided apartment. Things are finally looking up. Until his new senior w...
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To die once is a tragedy, to die twice is a lesson. A man was thrust into another world in the body of Marik, a man who once craved death, is forced to live for others The man discovered that it's a world full of magic and mysteries, and in this world, he will learn and reshape himself whil...
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Meet law student and mega-simp Renji Volkov, who dies defending his favorite video game villainess, Queen Evelina, only to be reincarnated into her world as a doomed NPC noble. To save her from her unjust, scripted fate, he forges a pact with Nith, a sarcastic, ancient suit of cursed armor. Armed...
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When Camden Valaraki had to return back to his childhood town and his grandmother’s long abandoned house, he hadn’t expected everything to go badly as fast as they did. After encountering a strange machine locked in the old basement, things took a turn for the surreal as he was suddenly transport...
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When a mysterious stranger named Quill drags her into a dying world of neon and clockwork, Rina finds herself in the Neon Bazaar, a place where emotions are stolen, sold, and weaponized by the ruling elite. A world where silence is deadly -- and hope is rebellion. There, Rina discovers she is ...
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The Disarray, an endless ocean, the soul of our reality. Strangers, travelers of the disarray, engaged in never-ending combat with their enemy... Hysteria, the pain and joy given form, a threat suppressed by strangers. Vein, the heart given form, emotion made physical and dominated. M...
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