What this genre is
The reborn-in-another-world boom came out of web-novel sites and exploded once it was drawn as manga. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and Re:Zero mark the moment web-born work became an industry.
Shonen — about this band: What the weekly boys' magazines built: effort, friendship, victory — and the dark fantasy that came after.
Connections
Three kinds of line: direct evolution, influence, and born in reaction against.
↓ Flowed into this
Key works
A boy climbing a tower to have his wish granted. A worldwide hit Korean webtoon, and the work that spread vertical scrolling globally.
Subaru struggles in a hopeless other world armed with return by death, which rewinds time whenever he dies. One of the defining works to come out of the web-novel sites.
A man left behind in a game world as a skeletal overlord, and his conquest. The standard-bearer of the too-strong-protagonist other-world story.
A hero given nothing but a shield he cannot attack with, betrayed, and taking his revenge. The work that lit the exile-and-revenge branch of web novels.
A recluse restarts life in another world from infancy. A reincarnation chronicle often called the monument of the web-novel form.
An office worker stabbed by a stranger is reborn as a slime. The biggest hit among the web-novel adaptations.
Other-world comedy with a set of useless goddesses. The standard slack comedy parodying the web-novel genre itself.
Shonen — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
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About this entry
Genre boundaries are drawn where the network of manga happens to concentrate, not by decree. Years are approximate. Where opinions differ, this page says so rather than picking a winner.