Tale of an Isekai-d Author ‘Isekai Shikkaku’ Receives Anime Adaptation

Osamu Dazai is one of Japan’s most influential authors of all time. His traumatic life story has inspired several anime and manga, including an isekai series called No Longer Human…In Another World.

Instead of quoting his work or naming a character after him, Isekai Shikkaku takes it up a notch by making Osamu the protagonist. Famous for his suicidal tendencies, the story starts with the author trying to drown himself with his lover.

Named after Dazai’s last and most popular work, Hiroshi Noda and Takahiro Wakamatsu’s No Longer Human…In Another World (Isekai Shikkaku), manga is getting a TV anime.

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Right when Osamu is about to jump into the river, truck-kun strikes and sends him to another world. Dazai is informed that he’s the chosen hero who’ll save the world of Zauberberg from the darkness.

However, the literary master is least interested in the hero gig and only wishes to die, which shocks the other world’s guide, Annette. Seeing Dazai swallow sleeping pills, Annette is forced to purify him of the poison, much to his chagrin.

After checking his power levels, Annette realizes that Dazai is extremely weak and won’t be able to survive in this world. She tells him that his summoning must be a mistake and he’s not qualified to become a hero.

That made Dazai’s work easier as he was just looking for a place to die. In a shocking turn of events, the author discovers that he has a unique power of poison that can kill anything. He sets out to become an author and find his lover Satchan in this world.

Isekai Shikkaku is a unique and hilarious take on Japanese literature and the isekai genre.

None of us want to see another nerd or corporate slave become a hero of some magical world, so I guess we’re all waiting on this one.

About Isekai Shikkaku

No Longer Human…In Another World (Isekai Shikkaku) is a manga series written by Hiroshi Noda and illustrated by Takahiro Wakamatsu. It began serialization in Shogakukan’s Yawaraka Spirits website in October 2019 and has a TV anime adaptation under production.

The story features the famour Japanese author Osamu Dazai as the protagonist. Dazai is hit by a truck and transferred to another world as a hero, but is then deemed unqualified as his power levels are too weakhttps://www.shogakukan.co.jp/ to even survive.

Source: Weekly Big Comic Spirits issue 32-33

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