
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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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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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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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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“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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The Story Has Only Just Begun. Pt II Is Here. 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 an...
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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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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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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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Working late nights as a janitor, Oliver Warren gets into a car wreck on his way home and awakens in another world. He happens to find himself in a massive castle on the night a mysterious figure arrives and slaughters the royal family. Oliver gets caught and is framed for the murder of the royal...
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After intensive near-death events due to an incurrable heart ailment, Arda becomes increasingly weary that his death is imminent, and his children orphaned. An otherworldly entity takes pity on him and promises to grant him an elixir of life only if he can save a dying world within the time limit...
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During his daily commute to school, Rei spots a mysterious phone left behind on the train. Upon inspecting the device, he discovers a girl named Inertia trapped in a new world, with her every move streamed live through an app called the Live App. What begins as a simple lost-and-found moment quic...
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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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After losing his corporate job as a middle manager, Peter is transported to the medieval, Balkan-like city of Zemliharos and mistaken as the Lord of the Land. His rule is short-lived, however, as a band of Strigas invade the city. Peter must now learn to master his newfound powers as a Krsnik, or...
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She looks like a little girl in a school uniform—but beneath her petite face lies a body forged by tragedy and vengeance. This is the story of main protagonist Yao Shiromi, a girl who lost everything... and trained to destroy the one who took it all—only to fall in love with his son.
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Just another boring day turns into a fight for survival when college student Jianna is violently kidnapped from her world and thrown into the magical In-Realm. Her abductor is Malakor, a cynical, disgraced god forced into service, who reveals a terrifying truth: Jianna is the mirror image—the pro...
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When Anthony Gerhardt finds himself in the cockpit of the spaceship he designed in Project Phoenix Prime, he must come to grips with his new reality quickly—or become a field of rapidly cooling space debris. As if being summoned into a video game were not difficult enough to swallow, his next rev...
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