isekai

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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 alternative 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 alternative world, often by killing them.
    The protagonist was isekai'd by Truck-kun.

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Romanization

isekai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いせかい