, or simply ''My Isekai Life'', is a Japanese

light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...

series written by Shinkoshoto and illustrated by Huuka Kazabana. It began serialization online in October 2017 on the user-generated novel publishing website

Shōsetsuka ni Narō is a Japanese novel self-publishing website created by . It was launched on April 2, 2004. Users can upload their novels free of charge and the novels are also free to read. As of December 2022, the site hosts close to 1,000,000 novels, has over ...

. It was later acquired by

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, who has released the series since May 2018 under their GA Novel label. A

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

adaptation with art by Ponjea has been serialized online since July 2018 via

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's online manga magazine '' Manga Up!''. The manga is licensed in North America by Square Enix. An

anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...

television series adaptation by

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aired from July to September 2022.

Plot

Whether at the office or at home, corporate drone Yuji Sano works all the time. So when his home PC flashes a message about him being summoned to another world, Yuji restarts his machine ... only to find that he's inadvertently accepted the summons! Now in a fantasy world far removed from paperwork and computers, Yuji has just one thing on his mind: waking up from what he thinks is a dream and getting back to the mountain of work he left behind! But this other world has other plans for Yuji, who quickly discovers his Monster Tamer character class allows him to befriend slimes! And thanks to their number, those slimes help him absorb so much magical knowledge that he gains a second character class in the blink of an eye! How will Yuji wield his power now that he's the greatest sage the realm has ever known?! And what about all that paperwork?!

Characters

; : :Falling asleep as a salaryman but waking up in the world of a game he was playing as a novice Tamer. Despite his confusion he tamed a slime and immediately discovered the disused hut of a deceased

sorcerer Sorcerer may refer to: Magic * Sorcerer (supernatural), a practitioner of magic that derives from supernatural or occult sources * Sorcerer (fantasy), a fictional character who uses or practices magic that derives from supernatural or occult sou ...

. He found that as the slimes read the sorcerers’ book collection he instantly gained all the skills and knowledge from the books and within minutes gained the title of Sage. ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; :

Media

Light novel

The series is written by Shinkoshoto and illustrated by Huuka Kazabana. Originally serialized online on

in October 2017,

published the first novel in print under their GA Novel label on May 15, 2018. As of March 2025, seventeen volumes have been released.

Manga

adaptation, illustrated by Ponjea, started serialization in

's '' Manga Up!'' website on July 29, 2018. The first volume was released on September 13, 2018. As of February 2025, twenty-seven volumes have been released. On March 13, 2021, Square Enix announced that they will begin publish the manga in English in December 2021. They later released the first volume in January 2022.

Anime

television series adaptation by

was announced during the "GA Fes 2021" event livestream on January 31, 2021. It is directed by Keisuke Kojima, with Kojima and Norihito Saitama serving as character designers.

Kiyotaka Suzuki is a Japanese anime director. He starting working in 2008 and directed his first series in 2014 with ''Psycho-Pass 2''. He later directed '' Infini-T Force'' and ''Babylon''. He also is currently a board member at anime studio Revoroot. Biograph ...

is serving as the assistant director, with scripts written by Naohiro Fukushima, and music composed by Gin from Busted Rose. The series aired from July 4 to September 12, 2022, on AT-X,

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, and

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, with the first two episodes airing back-to-back. The opening theme song is "Mujikaku no Tensai" by Non Stop Rabbit, while the ending theme song is "Gohan da yo! Dadadadan!!" by

Hikaru Tono is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Hibiki. She is known for voicing Serena in '' Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale'', Yujia Wang in '' Assault Lily'', Sura in '' My Isekai Life'', and Suzuran in '' In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki''. ...

, Mai Kanno, Haruna Mikawa, Erisa Kuon,

Nichika Ōmori is a Japanese voice actress from Nagano Prefecture who is affiliated with Across Entertainment. After graduating from acting school, she made her voice acting debut as the character Yurika Nijino in the anime series '' Invaders of the Rokujoum ...

, and Miharu Hanai under the unit name Surachanzu△.

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has licensed the series.

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also licensed the series in Asia-Pacific. At their

Otakon Otakon ( ) is an annual three-day anime convention held during July/August. From 1999 to 2016, it took place at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor district; in 2017, it moved to the Walter E. Washing ...

panel in July 2022, Sentai Filmworks announced that the series will receive an English dub in August 2022. The first promotional video was released on January 4, 2022. According to the director, Keisuke Kojima, all key frames in the video were illustrated with Clip Studio Ex.

Episodes

Video game

An online

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video game, developed by CTW Inc., was released on July 4, 2022.

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