I'm a reincarnated blue collar worker and i'm now a conscript in the demon lord's army and i wonder why my living conditions and my wage are better than on Earth, so i'm kidnapping humans in case one of them have the answer and that's how i unfortunately meet my half-elf half-orc wife who talk with a german accent.
I'm a reincarnated blue collar worker and i'm now a conscript in the demon lord's army and i wonder why my living conditions and my wage are better than on Earth, so i'm kidnapping humans in case one of them have the answer and that's how i unfortunately meet my half-elf half-orc wife who talk with a german accent.
My last one was a Banishment title, so here's the other three major Isekai subgenres. Though, at this point, these may or may not just be ridiculous premises that I want to read.
My Daughter is The Villainess?! ~The Hero's Journey After Retirement in Another World!~
娘が悪役令嬢か⁈ 〜異世界に退職後のヒーローズ・ジャーニー（ＭＯＮＯＭＹＴＨ）！〜
(Musume ga Akuyaku Reijō!? ~Isekai ni Taishokugo no Monomyth!)
I'm imagining that unlike most of these sorts of "raising my kid to not be evil" manga, the main character in this would just suck at it, somehow constantly making things worse. It also reveals at the end of the first volume that the main character is actually part of a cosmic cycle of death and rebirth where he has no real free will, hence the "Monomyth" portion of the Japanese title, which I have so graciously omitted from the English title. (Following in the footsteps of official TLs.)
A kindergarten teacher who loved fairy tales is reincarnated in another world and brings his stories to life with a level 100 cheat skill!
昔話の大好きな幼稚園の教員は異世界に転生してレベル１００のチートスキルで話に命を吹き込む！
(Mukashibanashi no Daisuki na Yōchien no Kyōin wa Isekai ni Tensei Shite Level 100 no Cheat Skill de Hanashi ni Inochi wo Fukikomu!)
This one I imagine has a focus on the main character telling these stories to kids in various villages. Something then happens to the kids and the overpowered MC beats the boss with zero effort to save the day, rinse and repeat. Halfway through, there's a chapter where the main character ends up accidentally making the kids think that they can be heroes, which causes them to nearly die, but after that arc is done the question is never brought up again and he continues to do everything as he has been. Also, despite being a kindergarten teacher, the main character looks like a high schooler.
I may be a girl now, but I can't pass up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy an apple orchard in another world!
女の子になったのに、異世界に千載一遇（ゴールデンチャンス）のりんごの果樹園は買う機会が見逃す訳にはいけません！
Onna no Ko ni Natta no ni, Isekai ni Golden Chance no Ringo no Kajuen wa Kau Kikai ga Minogasu Wake ni wa Ikemasen!
This one's fairly self explanatory. Beyond what's described here, though, the prince of the kingdom tries the MC's apple juice (with no overly erotic undertones) and falls in love with her and follows her around everywhere. But the MC was originally a guy, so she can't fall in love with him! (Spoiler, she does.) There're also a bunch of other hot guys which the author constantly abuses to take out her frustration regarding real men in her life. (Such as her father, her editor, her landlord, her friend's boyfriend, &c.) Also, in case it wasn't obvious, this one's shōjo, but half-way through its run it gets switched to a jōsei magazine before eventually switching back to a different shōjo magazine for the last quarter.
Anyways, I wrote too much, so:
It also has an ecchi shōnen spinoff about the MC's younger sister, (Titled お兄ちゃんとルナ and known exclusively in English as "Onii-chan to Runa" despite the official translation technically being "Luna's Brother is Missing!") because the anime was made by a studio that usually adapts shōnen junk and put in way too much fanservice of the female characters, making it very popular with a certain breed of middle school boy. This spinoff got an anime adaptation with twice as many seasons & a three book novelization, and it still gets collab cafés to this day. If you go to one of those gacha machine stores in Japan, instead of a bunch of Haikyū machines, it's a bunch of Oniruna machines. And last week, Akihabara had a bunch of advertisements for it hanging from the lampposts. It also has its own section at Comiket.
Oh, and Oniruna also has a VN spin-off that's canon to the original manga and practically required reading due to a certain plot twist in the final volume that makes literally no sense if you haven't played that VN. This cause outrage among the female fans who had dropped Oniruna in the first volume, which caused the publishers to release a manga adaptation. This didn't help, as it was still a derivative of Oniruna, so it was axed and ended up with an entirely different ending. Oh, and the VN hasn't been localized, with the only fan translation being Windows only (Despite the original game also being available on Mac, Linux, Android, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.) and only complete up to the third chapter. (Out of twelve.) And even in those translated chapters, only around 30% of the optional dialogue is translated.
So the only way for western fans to experience this crucial part of Orchard-Girl / Oniruna lore is to a watch an unedited playthrough on Youtube of someone translating it in real time. Or, rather, it was, because six years ago, the episodes covering chapters 2, 9, and 12 were removed because the main character's best friend's name, Fūko, triggered Youtube's swear detection algorithm. Also, the episode covering chapter 3 was automatically marked as "for kids" due to being titled "Beach Party with my Friends!" The translator famously tried and failed to get this video remonetized, leading to them crashing out and quitting Youtube altogether. This is what most normies know the franchise for.
And though this VN was hated for a lot of reasons, in the year of our lord 2026, it's actually become a meme after someone uploaded a short to Tiktok where the opening movie started out normal before suddenly switching to a car crash. A classic bait and switch that no one on the platform had ever seen before. Someone then made a remix of the OP made entirely of car sounds, with a short gif of Runa / Luna driving a car looping in the background which half way through the video turns into a short gif of a humanoid car riding a car-shaped Runa / Luna. This became a meme of its own with people replicating the gif but with different characters and different car-sound covers. (They also usually switched to the second gif at the first drop rather than half-way through.)
Then, four days ago relative to the present day, (Thus Feb 4, 2026) the writer of Oniruna (different from the writer of Orchard-Girl) posted a drawing of Runa / Luna driving a car on their Twitter and suddenly no one was posting the meme anymore.
Oh yeah, and the author of Orchard-Girl and the author of Oniruna were married when the latter series began, but they divorced in 2021. Recent chapters of Oniruna have, in fact, included subtle jabs at Orchard-Girl's plot and characters since then.
It's actually my friends idea after talking about Orbs anime.
He was like "what if an isekai protag goes to a medieval world, and tried to teach heliocentrism?"
So I told him "there have been some isekai like that"
And then he was "but the isekai world is a flat earth"
What is there was a title called
" I asked God in return for my death to give me a harem, but instead of girls, I got boys?!" That would be so hilarious, BL Isekai for the MC that wants a harem.
"The government banned reincarnation just before I was gonna get reincarnated and live my isekai fantasy life, so my friends resurrected me as a spirit and now we must win a case in court."
This actually got better as I thought about it. I want this to be like Ace attorney but without the attorney doing illegal stuff.
Maybe this would also have a lot of action as the MC and his friends try to save him from being exorcised by all kinds of people.
And the series would end with something like "Reincarnation is like a natural process so you can't regulate it." and then it would be revealed that the MC could've just reincarnated anyway as there isn't a way that could've been stopped by just making a law. Plus, he's getting isekai'd.
Maybe it should be philosophical and the moral of the story would be: Don't waste your time on super pointless things.
I wonder what strategy the Dalai Lama has.
Sorry if this is too political or religious, if somebody asks then I'll change this.
