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isekai

/ˈiːsəkaɪ/

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isekai noun: a genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternative fantasy or virtual worlds.

Noun

isekai (countable and uncountable, plural isekai or isekais)

  1. (Japanese, uncountable) A genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternative fantasy or virtual worlds.
    • It's not every day that an isekai author gets published out of the sea of isekai stories on there.2017, Ryo Shirakome, DxS, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (volume 1)
  2. (Japanese, uncountable) A genre of Japanese fiction in which the protagonist is reincarnated.
  3. (countable) Any piece of media in the above genres.

Verb

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

  1. (slang, transitive) To transport (someone) into an alternative world, often by killing them.
  2. (broadly, euphemistic) To murder (someone), to kill (someone).

isekai meaning in Marathi and Vietnamese

isekai in Marathi

To transport into an alternative world
इसेकाई करणे isekāī karṇe

isekai in Vietnamese

Dimension travel genre
isekai, dị thế giới, dị giới

Forms of isekai

Noun
pluralisekai
pluralisekais
Verb
third-person singular presentisekais
present participleisekaiing
past participleisekaied
pastisekaied
past participleisekai'd
pastisekai'd

Origin of isekai

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

Words formed from isekai

Questions about isekai

What does isekai mean?
Isekai means a genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternative fantasy or virtual worlds.
What is isekai in Marathi?
Isekai in Marathi is इसेकाई करणे (isekāī karṇe). See Isekai meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is isekai?
Isekai can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce isekai?
Isekai is pronounced /ˈiːsəkaɪ/.
What is the plural of isekai?
The plural of isekai is isekai.

Words near isekai in the dictionary

  1. isegoric
  2. isegory
  3. iseikonic
  4. Iseion
  5. Iseions
  6. isekai
  7. isekai'd
  8. isekaied
  9. isekaiing
  10. isekais
  11. Isekiri

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: isekai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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