reverse isekai (uncountable)
- (Japanese fiction) A subgenre of isekai where people from a fantasy or fictional world are transported into modern-day Earth, rather than the other way around.
2018 October 26, @blackbookalpha, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 2024-04-10:Idea for a reverse Isekai where tired/angry space alien gets to live life as a humble Japanese salaryman observing other humans
2020 December 29, @OccultasHQ, Twitter[2], archived from the original on 2024-04-10: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 book
2023 October 18, Maham Arsalan, Comic Book Resources:CBR[3], archived from the original on 2024-04-10:The anime is a “cute girls doing cute things” spin on the reverse isekai subgenre and follows a group of two angels and two demons sent to Earth, particularly Gabriel, who arrives on Earth in search of knowledge.
2024 February 13, Mark Sammut, Game Rant[4], archived from the original on 2024-04-10:Quite a number of reverse isekai anime start with a human summoning a being from another world, usually to ask for some assistance. So, in terms of premise, Dropkick On My Devil! is about as predictable as they come; however, the show is anything but typical.
2024 April 5, Trent Cannon, Popverse[5], archived from the original on 2024-04-10:One of the biggest hits of the Winter 2024 anime season was Solo Leveling, a show that took the reverse-isekai formula and gave it a dark twist.
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