The sub-genre of Japanese “isekai” fantasy light novels, stories about characters either transported to alternate worlds or reincarnated in alternate worlds, is so populated with titles and series that readers may easily and quickly tire of the trope. In the afterword of his first published novel, author Densuke explains the origin of his isekai novel […]
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