Isekai - online puzzles

Isekai (Japanese: 異世界, lit. "different world ") is a subgenre of Japanese fantasy light novels, manga, anime, and video games revolving around a normal person from Earth being transported to, reborn or trapped in a parallel universe. Often, this universe already exists in the protagonist 's world as a fictional universe, but it may also be unknown to them. The new universe can be an entirely different world where only the protagonist has any memory of their former life, as in Saga of Tanya the Evil, or one that they reincarnate in. It may also be one where a formerly virtual world turns into a real one, such as in Log Horizon and Overlord.

Characteristics

The subgenre can be characterized as wish fulfillment, with the person being transported often being a NEET, shut-in, or gamer (as in No Game No Life ). In the new fantasy world, they are able to succeed through use of their comparatively unimportant-in-real- life genre knowledge, or gaming skills through the use of a game interface only they can access. Their power can range from tremendous magical abilities surpassing anyone else, as in In Another World with My Smartphone, to relatively weak, as in Re: Zero, where the protagonist does not gain any special power beyond the ability to survive death in a type of temporal loop.While the protagonist of an isekai work is usually a "chosen hero ", there have been a large number of alternative takes on the concept. In Drifters, the people entering the fantasy world are historical generals and other warriors who are more brutal than the inhabitants of the world themselves, and in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, where the protagonist starts as a bloblike monster with special abilities rather than a human. Some stories involve people being reincarnated as unusual inanimate objects, like a magical onsen.