isekai

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”).

Noun

isekai (uncountable)

  1. (Japanese fiction) A genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternate fantasy or virtual worlds.
    • 2017, Ryo Shirakome, DxS, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (volume 1)
      It's not every day that an isekai author gets published out of the sea of isekai stories on there.

Verb

isekai (third-person singular simple present isekais, present participle isekaiing, simple past and past participle isekaied or isekai'd)

  1. (fandom slang, transitive) To transport (someone) into an alternate world, often by dying.
    The protagonist was isekai'd by Truck-kun.

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Romanization

isekai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いせかい
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