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reverse isekai

reverse isekai noun: a subgenre of isekai where people from a fantasy or fictional world are transported into modern-day Earth, rather than the other way around.

Noun

reverse isekai (countable and uncountable, plural reverse isekai or reverse isekais)

  1. (Japanese, uncountable) A subgenre of isekai where people from a fantasy or fictional world are transported into modern-day Earth, rather than the other way around.
    • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is a reverse-isekai show? That's actually a really cool concept2017 January 22, @alltsun_nodere, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024
    • Thinking intensely about the reverse isekai story that lives rent free in my head where a depressed writer gives up on her novel and the protagonist and the villain lose their powers so they find a way to travel to the author's world to make her finish her book2020 December 29, @OccultasHQ, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2024
  2. (countable) Any piece of media in this genre.
    • Idea for a reverse Isekai where tired/angry space alien gets to live life as a humble Japanese salaryman observing other humans2018 October 26, @blackbookalpha, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2024

Forms of reverse isekai

pluralreverse isekai
pluralreverse isekais

Questions about reverse isekai

What does reverse isekai mean?
Reverse isekai means a subgenre of isekai where people from a fantasy or fictional world are transported into modern-day Earth, rather than the other way around.
What part of speech is reverse isekai?
Reverse isekai is a noun.
What is the plural of reverse isekai?
The plural of reverse isekai is reverse isekai.

Words near reverse isekai in the dictionary

  1. reverse infringement
  2. reverse infringements
  3. reverse intaglio
  4. reverse intaglios
  5. reverse integration
  6. reverse isekai
  7. reverse isekais
  8. reverse jinx
  9. reverse jinxes
  10. reverse komi
  11. reverse layup

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