When the young noble Caterina Claes accidentally hits her head she comes to a startling realisation – in her past life, she died at the age of 17 after a traffic accident. Now, she finds herself living in the last game she had played before her death, an otome game called Fortune Lover – where […]
Weary and overworked, middle-aged office worker Ryoma Takebayashi dies in his sleep of a brain haemorrhage, only to find himself face to face with three gods. Acknowledging the hardships he faced in his previous life, the gods offer Ryoma the opportunity to be reincarnated in another world where he can be happy. Familiar with the […]
Otherside Picnic posits the question – what would you do if you accidentally stumbled across a doorway to another dimension that wasn’t dominated by JRPG tropes and otaku power fantasies? Sorawo unwittingly finds herself travelling back and forth to a bizarre parallel dimension contemplating the value of her own existance when she crosses paths with […]
Uncle From Another World dropped onto Netflix last week, promising a somewhat unusual take on contemporary Isekai anime tropes by thrusting my Japanese doppleganger into the story. It is arguably the greatest new anime streaming on any platform right now, with scenes like this dominating the narrative: The above is from the opening episode where […]
When Kaede’s friend Risa convinces her to start playing the virtual reality MMORPG NewWorld Online, her lack of gaming experience results in Kaede pumping every single one of her skill points into her defence stat to avoid getting hurt. Entering NewWorld Online under the username Maple, she discovers that maxing out her defence has left […]
Digimon Adventure Last Evolution Kizuna promises an end to the 20 year run of the mainline Digimon Adventure series. With so much to draw on the premise may prove difficult to pull off in practice. Or is it? Set five years after the events of Tri, Digimon Adventure Last Evolution Kizuna kicks off with Taichi […]
Following his premature death at the hands of a co-worker, a middle-aged salary man is forcibly reincarnated as Tanya Degurechaff, a girl living in an alternate semi-fantasy world in the midst of war. God (or ‘Being X’ as Tanya refers to them) is to blame, punishing Tanya for her lack of faith in her previous […]