Isekai Shikkaku (異世界失格, Another world disqualification / Disqualification in the World / No Longer Human...In Another World) is a Japanese manga written by Hiroshi Noda and drawn by Takuhiro Wakamatsu. It has been serialized on Shogakukan's manga website "Yawaraka Spirits" since October 2, 2019. An anime television series adaptation produced by Atelier Pontdarc aired from July to September 2024.
The title of the series and its protagonist are a reference to Osamu Dazai, author of the novel No Longer Human, who died by lovers' suicide.
Synopsis[]
An adventure in another world with cute girls by your side and video game-like powers--sounds like an anime fan's dream, right? Not so for melancholic author Osamu Dazai, who would quite literally prefer to drop dead. Video games haven't even been invented yet when he gets yanked into another world in 1948. Really, all the fantastical adventure he keeps running into is just getting in the way of his poetic dream of finding the perfect place to die. But no matter how much he risks his hide, everything seems to keep turning out okay. Follow a miserable hero like no other in this cheerfully bleak Isekai comedy!
(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Summary[]
The book was published by Shincho Bunko after World War II and has accumulated more than 6 million copies so far, surpassing the cumulative circulation of Soseki Natsume's Heart.
The book "Another world disqualification/Disqualification in the World" is written in the tone of a certain writer. "I" (the writer) met the proprietress of the bar in Funabashi after World War II. Later, the proprietress handed over three notebooks and three photos sent by Oba Yezang (the protagonist) to "I" in the story. It is "First Handbook", "Second Handbook", and "Third Handbook" (the third handbook is divided into two parts). "I" inscribed "Foreword" and "Afterword" for it, and presented the three manuscripts intact.
The author of these three notebooks, Oba Yezang, wrote about how he grew up in a powerful family from adolescence to middle age, his relationship with his father, his interactions with classmates, his alcoholism, indulging in women's pornography, participating in "illegal" left-wing groups, getting married, Many negative life experiences such as marriage change, affair, attempted suicide, etc. The protagonist claims that he is very afraid of "human beings " and can only act in front of him at the risk of being exposed.
"Another world disqualification/Disqualification in the World" is Osamu Dazai who skillfully expresses his life and thoughts through the life experiences of the protagonist. "Another world disqualification/Disqualification in the World" can also be regarded as the autobiography of Osamu Dazai himself.
Published books[]
Written by Hiroshi Noda and illustrated by Takahiro Wakamatsu, No Longer Allowed in Another World started on Shogakukan's Yawaraka Spirits website on October 2, 2019. Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on April 10, 2020. As of November 10, 2022, eight volumes have been released.
The manga is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. The first volume was released in January 2023
| No. | Release date | Original ISBN | Release Date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | April 10, 2020 | 978-4-09-860560-6 | December 27, 2022 | 978-1-63858-585-5 |
| 2 | July 10, 2020 | 978-4-09-860650-4 | March 28, 2023 | 978-1-63858-745-3 |
| 3 | October 12, 2020 | 978-4-09-860747-1 | July 11, 2023 | 978-1-63858-913-6 |
| 4 | February 12, 2021 | 978-4-09-860847-8 | November 7, 2023 | 978-1-68579-605-1 |
| 5 | July 12, 2021 | 978-4-09-861104-1 | March 12, 2024 | 979-8-88843-330-0 |
| 6 | January 12, 2022 | 978-4-09-861274-1 | July 16, 2024 | 979-8-88843-479-6 |
| 7 | July 12, 2022 | 978-4-09-861377-9 | November 12, 2024 | 979-8-88843-480-2 |
| 8 | November 10, 2022 | 978-4-09-861534-6 | ─ | ─ |
| 9 | June 12, 2023 | 978-4-09-861832-3 | ─ | ─ |
| 10 | February 9, 2024 | 978-4-09-862743-1 | ─ | ─ |
| 11 | June 28, 2024 | 978-4-09-862884-1 | ─ | ─ |
| 12 | September 11, 2024 | 978-4-09-863057-8 | ─ | ─ |
The first volume of the single book was released on the same day as the first volume of "Ningyohime no Gomen ne Gohan" and "Love After Word Domination" created by Noda Hiroshi and Wakamatsu Takuhiro.
World Setting[]
| A world that continues to summon heroes to defeat the Demon King. |
| The setting of this work, Zauberberg, is a world where various races coexist, including humans, demi-humans, elves, dwarves, and goblins. Under the world church (Hellsehen), which is led by the Pope, four bishops govern the four regions outside the Pope's domain. To defeat the furious Demon King that threatens the peace of Zauberberg, the Pope has been summoning transients from another world. The transients arrive at one of the sanctuaries in the four regions and aim for the Demon King's castle from there. However, many transients have begun to misuse the divine power (Gifted) granted to them for the purpose of defeating the Demon King, referring to it as "cheat skills" and using it for their own selfish desires, leading the world church to struggle with them. The divine powers vary among individuals, including skills that generate an infinite amount of gold coins, skills that unconditionally turn others into slaves, and skills that analyze an opponent's status. |
Character[]
The protagonist of this work. A man with an incredible bad luck, being even denied his desire to just die. Because he does not care about anything but attempting to find his girlfriend in order to complete the suicide pact, his terrible luck causes nothing but increasing amounts of headaches for him; all his bad luck translates to good luck for everyone he ignores while passing through. His ability, Storyteller, triggers effects based on the stories he writes. Most notably, sending otherworlders back to Earth.
THEME SONG
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─ (Summon by Kenichiro Suehiro)
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─ (Thats a boring Story by Kenichiro Suehiro)
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Details[]
The profession seems to be inspired by Osamu Dazai, a writer. The title of this work, "Isekai Shikkaku," which is also the Sensei's skill, was derived from Dazai's representative novel, "No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku)." The date on which the protagonist was transported to the alternate world also corresponds to an actual date relevant to Dazai. However, unlike the real Dazai, whose appearance was that of a "Kainan-type" face, the protagonist has sharp eyes, lacks vitality, and maintains a consistently cynical expression throughout. Additionally, there are traces of inspiration from Dazai in various forms, such as naming the obedient priest's horse "Melos" and occasionally quoting phrases directly from Dazai's novels during chants.
In the Showa era, he attempted to commit suicide with his beloved woman, Sachiko (Sacchan), and ended up being reincarnated in another world after being struck by a "Truck-kun (reincarnation-winning truck)." Originally, this truck appears to those who feel unhappy, but for some reason, it shows up at the moment he felt the happiest and blasts him into another world.
In any case, despite having been transported to another world, he is expected to possess superhuman powers. However, when Anette, a bishop responsible for one of the churches of the world religion at the time of his reincarnation, checked, she was perplexed to find him as the weakest entity there. Although he appears to have made a serious choice regarding dying, he failed four times in the real world and ultimately failed the final suicide attempt in the reincarnation-winning truck "Truck-kun", totaling five failures. Even after arriving in the alternate world, he somehow continues to live despite dying each time. Usually, he consumes a tablet called "Calmotin" like candy, but this turns out to be a tremendous poison in the other world.
When he was hit by the truck, Sachiko, who was with him, also felt that she had come to an alternate world, prompting him to embark on a journey to find her. The reason for searching for her is that this time he aims to succeed in their suicide pact.
Essentially, he spends his time contemplating how to die and what kind of writing to produce. However, he often finds that he dislikes any writing he creates, leading him to tear it up repeatedly. Therefore, while on his adventures, he seeks materials that will stimulate his sensibilities and enable him to write. Even so, when he does write, a sense of vitality and energy emerges.
He also possesses a unique skill that allows him to read the true thoughts of otherworlders and to send reincarnators back to the real world (limited to reincarnators). Naturally, the ability to read thoughts is a tremendously threatening skill for both otherworlders and past-life individuals.
Actions in the Story[]
On June 13, 1948, during the Showa era. He attempted to commit suicide together with a woman named Sacchan near a river but was struck by a reincarnation truck from another world. The moment I woke up, Sensei found himself at the bottom of a luxurious church in another world - the Zauberberg. There he met Annette, the bishop of that church and her guide from his previous life. It was his first time seeing the scenery of this new world, but I felt depressed instead, realizing that he had failed his suicide attempt. He immediately tried to overdose on the industrial sleeping drug "Calmotin," that he had in his belongings to attempt suicide again. When Annette resurrected Sensei by deciphering an order, he regretted his actions and instead contemplated turning Annette into a tree. When Annette mentioned that he was one of the heroes destined to save the world and had a mission to fulfill, he expressed that he didn't know anything about such a mission, just casually picking up and eating the Calmotin, he had just swallowed like a snack. Sensei questioned who had chosen him as the selected person, continuing to show a lack of clear reaction. When Annette revealed my status, he thought his response would change, but it turned out to be only Level 1, with HP 1, MP 0, and severe poisoning (Calmotin). At that moment, his belongings consisted only of cigarettes, matches, a mechanical pencil, a notebook, and tranquilizers.
Annette was astounded, coughing in disbelief at having never seen such a weak reincarnation while he smoked a cigarette. Upon checking the status, Annette remarked that there seemed to be some mistake; I had neither the talent nor the qualifications to live in this other world.
"Hmmm, that's my life. I'm just looking for a place to die because--
I've been a writer since birth, nothing more, nothing less."― Osamu Dazai to Annette
Leaving those words behind, he steps outside the church gate. Naturally, he doesn’t know the way and has no one I know, but by chance, Sensei discovers a signpost, yet struggles to read the otherworldly script. A mysterious voice echoes in my head, saying my experience points have increased, and as I suffer from a headache, Sensei hears a scream and rushes over. There, he finds a cat girl attacked by a plant monster named Death Tree. Upon seeing this, I reflect that the woman dying is truly beautiful. I'm drawn in, leading to my demise, and accumulate enough experience to reach Level 3. Pretending to be weak against the cat beast girl, I defeat Death Tree in one blow, and upon hearing words of praise, I take out a cigarette from my pocket and smoke it, grumbling about how I always tried to kill her but survived after attempting suicide five times, all of which failed.
Meanwhile, I take the cat beast girl's hand, and when he coincidentally looks at his wrist, he sees the remains of a rope that he had tried to use for a suicide attempt. Sensei then think she must have also reincarnated somewhere in Zauberberg, prompting yet another adventure to attempt suicide together with Sacchan.
To inquire about Sacchan's whereabouts, they re-enter a church where Annette is, but Annette also does not know where Sacchan is. Then, they decide to head to the castle of the Rot Kingdom, following the words of a cat beast-girl. Annette, who has a favorable impression of the Sensei, decides to join his adventure. While Annette and the cat beast-girl, Tama, are arguing, they accidentally come across a coffin that has been left in a state of a broken surgery from a distance and take a nap inside it. Annette and Tama say that when they arrive at the royal castle, they want to be awakened from the coffin. When they reach the bustling district of the Roth Kingdom, they have no different reaction even when seeing the bustling district of another world, and when they meet the king, Thomas, he asks them to share the adventure story, telling them how it feels to lie in a coffin, leading to a mild misunderstanding. King Thomas, having decided that his only daughter, Princess Charlotte, will hold a wedding, states that there are two prospective partners and asks if the adventurer Sensei can decide which one. He replies he does not know, and then suggests that an important matter like his daughter's future be decided by the adventurer they just met, accusing the king of being unworthy.
They then leave through the door of Roth Kingdom Hall and find a room in the royal castle to sleep, wandering through the hallway but accidentally discovering Princess Charlotte. They exchange casual conversation, but Charlotte, unable to decide on her wedding the next day, hears about how the speaker has always failed but never left their choices to others. After that, they return to their room to sleep once more. The next day, when the king calls them again, Princess Charlotte, influenced by the Sensei the night before, decides to choose him as her partner for suicide.
When Charlotte explains her reasons for choosing a joint suicide with the Sensei, it is impressive. However, Gomez ends up in danger because he is actually the Minotaur who had planned to conquer the Kingdom of Roth without bloodshed and hand it over to the angry Demon King. But the princess simply disliked Gomez's body odor, which brought her no peace. Then, as the Minotaur begins to rampage, it is suggested that the Minotaur might stop itself from killing the princess. After the Minotaur kills the princess and then slaughters all the citizens, he rushes to conquer the Kingdom of Roth, and it seems that hope has been fulfilled as he disappears.
"...Hmmm, that's the real wind, isn't it? You are a kind-hearted princess after all. You are disqualified for my accompanying suicide."
― Osamu Dazai to Charlotte
At the moment of death, the princess tries to carefully express her true wishes and pushes herself forward to convince him, intending to face the Minotaur’s attack alone. But in that moment, Anette defends the attack with a shield, and Tama survives by using a martial technique to blow the Minotaur far away.
"However, while a woman who dies is beautiful,
but a woman who stands up on her own feet is also very beautiful."― Osamu Dazai to Charlotte
After that, there is news that Charlotte has succeeded to the throne and has become the queen, leaving behind the impression that it has all come to pass. And today, the Sensei occasionally hears a voice as the two of them lie in the coffin, taking a nap.
When the tube that Tama and Annette were pulling for the hungry Tama stopped they opened the tube cover and asked if it's time to eat. Then, realizing that there is no tofu, they twist and close the cover again, going back into the tube. Meanwhile, while Tama and Annette are chatting, they ponder new novel material, opening the tube cover to think about something and get bitten by Annette's ministry. And the ministry does not carry out its mission; when it returns and the soul is out, it names the working spirit Melos. Then, a woman who had flipped her hood over the dragon and its master, a dragon that was passing by accidentally, appears. As soon as the hooded woman learns that the Sensei was a reincarnator, she removes her hood and attacks the Sensei with powerful black magic. Annette tries her best to stop it, can she could only reduce the damage and could not completely defend against it. Then, a horned woman representing a traffic jam— Ordelia tries to kill Annette and Tama, and Sensei blocks the attack from Ordelia in front of them.
Since he had no particular offensive ability or any skill, his body falls through the number of fists of the Ordelia, but somehow he does not die, but gets up again and says a few words that try to go through the Ordelia's mind, driving the Ordelia away and falling again. Then Annette's worker demon desperately takes the whole group to a nearby church, and the doctor finally comes back to life.
Then the next day he picks up a deadly poison at the market, and as soon as the shopkeeper explains it to him, he drinks it like a drink and laughs that he could not die again. Then, while Annette was talking with Ysha, a friend and the bishop of the church who treated the doctor and his group, she takes Annette for an allowance for some medicine she wants to buy. With reference to the west side of the pillar, Ysha looked at the doctor and at once described him as a doomed human being.
He tried to write a text using his adventures up to this point as material, but it was not well written and he tore up the text he was using and appeared on the floor. Then he chewed and ate Calmotin like candy again, and when he met Wodelia, he had the desire to create. Then he rode out to the city at Annette's solicitation, and Annette assumed that the weak teacher needed it most, and a very large and strong armor was forced on him, but of course he could not move, but he liked this oppressive feeling if he liked it. As it is, Annette and Tama go somewhere to see the place while trapped in the armor, and they accidentally face Ysha. He then hears from Ysha that she wants him to cancel the party with Annette, but he hastily laughs.
He then lectures Ysha to the contrary, saying that it is not a matter for Ysha to decide whether Annette will follow him or not. Then he hears one voice from Ysha, who expresses her disbelief in the transferees, and she is attacked by demons and people brainwashed by her previous incarnation Suzuki's Otherworldly Transference Cheat Skill, but thanks to the strong armor Annette bought, she does not suffer any damage. However, the armor is broken by Tama's attack, and she becomes a free body and asks Ysha which way Suzuki went.
"I have a feeling we can finally use a masterpiece."
― Osamu Dazai
TO BE ADDED...
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Abilities[]
"People like you, who go around loudly preaching their own righteousness ── I absolutely detest..."
― Osamu Dazai
Sensei has the raw talent to observe and understand human beings, and their personal feelings, story, motivation, and also their ambitions. This is the raw talent from being a writer to observing and understanding human beings. It is not only limited to observing people, as he can even hypothesize their livelihoods, their likes, and the lifestyles of people whose names he doesn't know. To support this talent, something resembling eidetic memory is required. While Sensei is a pessimist, the basis of that pessimism is not rejection but understanding.
Deadly Poison (Calmotin)
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Unlike most otherworlders, Dazai possesses no fighting skills or combat-applicable divine gifts, not to mention lacking innate survival instincts. Instead, his party does all the fighting while Dazai observes and delegates. The closest he ever gets to fighting is when he poisons any monster that tries to kill him.
Dazai's "A Tale for You (Storyteller)" is a special ability, where several characters have noted that it appears to be made specifically to fight otherworlders. It normally can't be seen on Dazai's status screen, unless he is in the presence of otherworlders that he has taken an interest in. Although the ability to write down someone's backstory doesn't seem impressive, it is apparently a requirement to perform a magic ritual that banishes an otherworlder back to their original world without fail. The same power can be used on natives to power them up by reviewing their history and revealing their Hidden Depths.
Part of "A Tale for You (Storyteller)" ability is how he acknowledges that otherworlders his power affects aren't the straight-up villains or losers they are initially made out to be, but rather broken people that can be mended (the Cowardly Man is braver than he thinks, that Yuriko isn't greedy, but wants to be acknowledged, etc) before tearing up the rough-draft, sending them back to live their old lives with renewed hope for their futures. It's depicted as an incredibly merciful act that allows them a true second chance at turning their lives around.
Writing: A TALE FOR YOU (Storyteller)
It is a Divine skill that is based on the unpolished manuscript of Osamu Dazai's autobiography for a certain person. It was, “the Almost Masterpiece of a Story". According to him, he once stated that "the majority of what I write are projections of other people's stories." It is a compilation that readapts their way of life, the author Dazai's other self in a way, as it is a manuscript with the saying, "For an author, all works are completed piece of that person, but unable be called a masterpiece" as its core. |
"Ahh... Yet again, I couldn't write a masterpiece. Dunno when they appear as the person who will incite my inspiration."
He begins by writing from the beginning to the end. After that, he must tear the book's paper, where the results would depend on how far he can progress with the manuscript. Completing some pages will result in only coincidences occurring around them, but completing all the pages and finishing the manuscript will allow for the person-centered in the story to be what they imagined themselves to be, unleashing a barrier that gathers around them, which is the magic ritual that transfers magic to an otherworlder so that they can to their original world. The book (19th-century books of Japan) is established as the greatest weapon, and he stated that his personal story of this world has been finished but his own story in his original world has yet to be finished.
Another part of this Divine Skill is that it can awaken the true potential of a person by searching their History in memory or a diary. The same method of unleashing the true story of a certain book or a person unleashes their true potential power [awaken] or boosts their parameter. It can also reset or heal any injury made towards the target.
| Type: | Anti-Unit / Awakened | Maximum number of targets: | 1-100 person | Range: | 2 - 10 meters |
Being an Otherworlder, he gained a unique trait of his ── HP [001 → -????-] & his stats [Parameter] begin to boost up ▲ when he feels like he is excited by a simple word or a wonderful memories. Dazai's personality perfectly fits this situation by giving the opponent a gaze that "he doesn't want to fight because he is crazy/Pervert" face. Lacking any fighting skills or experience (not to mention his suicidal tendencies), Dazai usually lets his opponents attack him without so much of a flinch.
That said, his perpetually poisoned status effect makes him a giant safety hazard, instantly poisoning any monster that tries to eat him to death. His dark disposition and sense of Personal Space also make for effective psychological warfare, managing to scare off three thug otherworlders who were perfectly willing to kill him by goading them into doing it.
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TV Anime[]
An anime television series adaptation was announced in July 2022. It is produced by Atelier Pontdarc and directed by Shigeki Kawai, with scripts written by Yasuhiro Nakanishi, characters designed by Tomoshige Inayoshi and Asako Inayoshi, monsters designed by Kenji Terao, and music composed by Kenichiro Suehiro. The series aired from July 9 to September 24, 2024, on AT-X and other networks. The opening theme song is "Shura Nikki [ja]" (修羅日記, lit. 'Shura Diary') performed by Kashitaro Ito [ja], while the ending theme song is "Sayonara, Subarashiki Sekai yo" (さよなら、素晴らしき世界よ, lit. 'Goodbye, Wonderful World') performed by Mayu Maeshima.
- Staff:
- Original Story: Hiroshi Noda, Takuhiro Wakamatsu
- Director: KAWAI Shigeki
- Series Composition/Screenplay: Yasuhiro Nakanishi
- Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Tomoshige Inayoshi, Asako Inayoshi
- Monster Design: Kenji Terao
- Prop Design: Goichi Iwahata, Noritaka Suzuki
- Design Works: Koretsawa Shigeyuki, Kodaka Michiru, Toumu, Inuise Aya
- Director of Photography: Takeshi Hirooka (Nexus)
- Art Director Production: Masakazu Miyake
- Art Setting: Yuri Sanan
- Color Design: Izumi Sakamoto
- 2D Design: Toumu, Aya Inuise
- 3D Director: Miki Yoshida (POLYG)
- Director of Photography: Hirooka Takeshi
- Editing: Hitomi Sudo
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa (Magic Capsule)
- Music: SUEHIRO Kenichiro
- Music Production: KADOKAWA
- Music Producer: WAKABAYASHI Go
- Editing Studio: REAL-T
- Producers: Jotaro Ishigami, Fumi Miura, Akka Nishimae, Mao Azuma
- Animation Producer: Tsunaki Yoshikawa
- Animation Production: Atelier Pontdarc
- 2D Design: Digital Noise
- Production: “Isekai Shikkaku” Production Committee
Crunchyroll licensed the series.
| Episode | Title | Directed by | Storyboarded by | Original air date |
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| 1 | "I Must Commit Double-Suicide!" Transliteration: "Shinjū Se ne ba!" (Japanese: 心中せねば！) |
Ryūta Imaizumi | Shigeki Kawai | July 9, 2024 |
| Sensei and his girlfriend Sacchan make a suicide pact, but before they can do anything, they are hit by a truck. Sensei wakes up in a temple where the elf priestess Annette says she summoned him as a hero to take on the Dark Lord. She is shocked when she checks his stats and finds he has no increased physical traits or special skills. He is uninterested in being a hero and attempts suicide. When she stops him, he leaves. His different attitude compared to other summoned heroes makes her fall in love with him. Sensei meets a catgirl being attacked by a Death Tree. He is unenthusiastic about helping and the tree grabs him and tries to drain his life force, only to get poisoned instead. He calls the catgirl Tama. Offended, she tries to introduce herself, but he keeps ignoring or interrupting her. They go to the temple and Annette is jealous seeing Sensei and Tama together. Sensei wants to find Sacchan so they can complete their suicide pact. The two girls offer to travel with him, but he sleeps in a coffin and makes them pull it. | ||||
| 2 | "Shall I Tell You How It Feels to Sleep in a Coffin?" Transliteration: "Kanoke no Negokochi o Oshie te Age yō ka?" (Japanese: 棺桶の寝心地を教えてあげようか？) |
Ryo Ishimaru | Shigeki Kawai | July 16, 2024 |
| The trio has an audience with King Thomas and Princess Charlotte. Thomas asks for help picking which of Charlotte's suitors to marry, the heroic knight Gomes or the minstrel and Charlotte's childhood friend Otto. Sensei calls him a fool to leave this decision to strangers. That night, as Tama and Annette argue about who can sleep next to Sensei, he leaves the room and meets Charlotte. He talks about his desire to die and she talks about how she cannot decide who to marry. He says she should consider what she truly wants, not what others think. The next day, Charlotte says she picks neither of them and would rather commit suicide with Sensei, making Annette faint. She says Otto does nothing useful except play music and Gomes is stinky, then snaps at her father for trying to make her marry when she did not want to. Infuriated, Gomes reveals he was a demon in disguise and attacks them with Tama defending them. Gomes rushes Sensei and Charlotte, and when she says she does not want to die, he pushes her out of the way. Annette revives and defends Sensei with a barrier, allowing Tama to knock Gomes into a lake. Regretful of his poor judgment, Thomas abdicates the throne and makes Charlotte the queen. | ||||
| 3 | "I'm Ready to Die Anytime" Transliteration: "Boku wa Itsu demo Shinu Kakugo wa Deki te Iru" (Japanese: 僕はいつでも死ぬ覚悟はできている) |
Shintarō Itō | Goichi Iwahata | July 23, 2024 |
| The trio travel to another temple run by Annette's friend Ysha, hoping Sacchan was summoned there. Annette had her familiar deliver a letter explaining why she left her own temple, but the familiar, which Sensei names Melos, returns and failed to deliver it. They meet a dragon and its rider, the dragongirl Waldelia. The meeting is civil at first, but when Waldelia learns Sensei is an otherworlder, she proclaims her hatred of otherworlders and attacks. After she beats up Annette and Tama, Sensei says it is him she wants and she impales him, only to be shocked when he does not die and asks why her eyes are sad, so she retreats. Melos drags them to Ysha who heals them. Ysha does not know Sacchan and scolds Annette for leaving her temple and traveling with an otherworlder, reminding her that everyone summoned so far was a scumbag. As Annette defends Sensei, Kōtarō, an otherworlder with the power to summon gold tries to flirt with them, but Annette smacks him away. Ysha says the Dark Lord was reported killed seven days ago. Meanwhile, Waldelia swears to avenge her father. Tama and Annette buy Sensei a suit of armor. Ysha meets him and warns him to stay away from Annette. Kōtarō announces Suzuki, the otherworlder who killed the Dark Lord. Suzuki says he is taking over and demands the people kneel. Kōtarō points out Annette as the one who smacked him, so Suzuki walks up and threatens her. | ||||
| 4 | "Don't Kill Yourself" Transliteration: "Jisatsu wa, Ike nai" (Japanese: 自殺は、いけない) |
Shintarō Itō | Shigeki Kawai & Kenchi Kawamura | July 30, 2024 |
| Suzuki pets Annette's head, triggering his gift, Total Obedience, turning Annette and soon after Tama into his slaves. Ysha confronts Suzuki and tells him the townspeople will not surrender to him. So he orders his beasts, Annette and Tama to attack the town. Tama attacks Sensei but gets knocked out when his helmet smacks her in the face. Ysha tells him what's going on but this appears to excite Sensei as he goes to meet Suzuki at Ysha's church. Sensei says he has become inspired by Suzuki's story of wannabe hero turned villain and wants to write a story about him. Suzuki takes offense to this and sends his beasts to attack him. The beasts are defeated by a combination of Ysha's magic, Melos using Sensei's helmet as a shield and Sensei's poison, making Kōtarō flee in terror. Suzuki sends Annette to attack them but Sensei manages to get her to free herself from Suzuki's power. Seeing no other way out Suzuki tries to kill himself but Sensei stops him and gets Suzuki to tell his backstory. Inspired by it, Sensei finishes his story, which triggers Sensei's new ability, Storyteller. This activates a summoning circle that sends Suzuki back to Earth. Ysha thinks that Sensei was sent here to fight Other Worlders. Ysha gives Sensei a new coffin and encourages Annette to stay with Sensei. A post-credit scene shows that Suzuki was sent back to Earth and got a job at a supermarket. | ||||
| 5 | "I Am Someone Who Wishes to Die, Not a Corpse That's Already Dead" Transliteration: "Boku wa Shini tai Hito de Atte, Shinin de wa Nai" (Japanese: 僕は死にたい人であって、死人ではない) |
Ryūta Imaizumi | Ryūta Imaizumi | August 6, 2024 |
| Ysha meets with her fellow priests and Cardinal Miller. The Cardinal confirms that seven other worlders killed the Dark King. Thus, the Pope decided to seal the portals and no longer summon other worlders. However, the seven decided to take the Dark King's throne and declare war on the rest of the world. The Pope calls them the Seven Fallen Angels. The other priests are worried until Ysha explains about Sensei and his power to send other worlders back to Earth. It is also revealed that Sacchan is one of the Fallen Angels. Meanwhile, the heroes arrive in a small village where they meet a boy named Nir, who says he will introduce them to a valiant warrior for a price. This is later shown to be a scam that Annette fell for. Later that night, Sensei runs into Nir being threatened by three other worlders. Sensei scares them off when they see his excitement at the threat of being killed and how his HP skyrockets at the thought of it. The next day as the heroes are about to leave, Nir meets them at the gate and joins their party. The team travels to Tama's hometown but are quickly arrested by the guards for unknown reasons. | ||||
| 6 | "Someone Who Wants to Be Eaten Has Come to the Castle" Transliteration: "Tabe rare taki Mono, Jōka yori Ki tari" (Japanese: 食べられたき者、城下よりきたり) |
Ayumu Ono | Goichi Iwahata | August 13, 2024 |
| Annette, Nir, Melos and Sensei are brought before King Syberian and are accused of kidnapping the nation's princess, revealed to be Tama whose real name is Matilda. Tama convinces her father to let her friends go in exchange for giving up on being an adventurer. That night the team meets Tama's former lady in waiting Fawna who reveals that Tama's mom and brother died in a storm and Tama tried to be an adventurer to help her father but he refuses to accept this. Meanwhile, Tama witnesses an attack on the castle by the Fallen Angel of Gluttony, Kaibara. His ability to summon a giant mouth allows him to eat anything and take on the abilities of what he consumes. King Syberian tries to fight him but loses his arm saving Tama. Tama wants to fight back but gets whisked away by her father's assistant to where the rest of the team is. Kaibara announces he has taken over the kingdom and wants to devour all of the demihumans. The team minus Tama go to confront him and Sensei gets the guards to let them in by saying he wants to get eaten. Tama meanwhile escapes the assistant and confronts Kaibara directly. | ||||
| 7 | "Will You Sentence Me to Death Again?" Transliteration: "Mata Shikei ni demo Suru kane?" (Japanese: また死刑にでもするかね？) |
Shintarō Itō | Shigeki Kawai & Kenchi Kawamura | August 20, 2024 |
| Tama fights against Kaibara but is attacked by King Syberian's own skills thanks to Kaibara's Gluttony ability. Meanwhile Sensei and the others break into Queen Lampala's old room to steal her diary. Kaibara's backstory is shown about being a spoiled rich kid who attacked other people to feel alive. Kaibara is about to consume Tama but is stopped by Sensei. Annette tries to get Sensei to use his power but he refuses, believing that Kaibara's story is too boring to write about. However, he finds Tama's story much more interesting. He has Tama read her mother's diary which triggers his Storyteller ability. This time though it awakens Tama's hidden Divine Beast powers that she suppressed to appease her father. She uses her new powers to defeat Kaibara. However, he gets back up as a monster due to the flesh he consumed from the Dark King. Just then Waldelia arrives and quickly kills Kaibara before leaving when she sees Sensei is still alive. In the morning Annette, Sensei and Nir are leaving but are told Tama is staying. However, encouraged by her father, Tama rejoins the party. | ||||
| 8 | "This Hole Stinks of Immortality" Transliteration: "Ano Ana wa Sugoku, Haitoku no Nioi ga Suru" (Japanese: あの穴はすごく、背徳の匂いがする) |
Masahiro Takada, Ryo Ishimaru & Shigeki Kawai | Shigeki Kawai | August 27, 2024 |
| Sensei and the others stop at The World Tree and the town of Toneriko. They are surprised to find it has been taken over by other worlders and turned into a gambling town. The asks the mayor what happened and asks them to help save the dying World Tree by driving the evil other worlders out. They are aided by a hero named Yamada but Sensei wanders off after running out of sleeping pills. He finds a cave where people smoke the leaves of the World Tree but instead gets brought to a bar by a dancer named Esche and quickly becomes friends with her. Yamada destroys the casino and quickly defeats the evil other worlders. The villagers celebrate but soon turn on Esche claiming she willingly helped the evil other worlders. Sensei reveals she used her bar and skills to keep the other worlders in check and keep the villagers safe. Nobody believes him except for Yamada and the villagers force Esche out of town. Sensei and the others leave as well. Yamada becomes horrified when the mayor tells him he plans on continuing the other worlders operations and tries to hire Yamada as a bodyguard. As the heroes leave the World Tree dries up and dies. Esche reveals herself as the World Tree's spirit and as thanks for Sensei's kindness she grants him an infinite supply of his sleeping pills. | ||||
| 9 | "Turn Me Into a Lump of Ash" Transliteration: "Boku o Ichi Katamari no Hai ni Kaeru ga Ī" (Japanese: 僕を一塊の灰に変えるがいい) |
Ryūta Imaizumi | Ryūta Imaizumi | September 3, 2024 |
| The heroes travel through a desert region that Nir reveals is his homeland. they are attacked by bandit other worlders. Annette and Tama fight back but Nir is too afraid to draw his sword. The bandits are scared off by a howl from an alleged wolf monster. Nir guides the team to the orphanage he grew up at to spend the night. Later that night Nir runs into a mysterious man named Saitou whose been secretly donating food to the orphanage. Nir tells Saitou his story and laments his cowardice while Sensei eavesdrops and is seen writing another story. The next day the bandits return and kidnap one of the orphans. Nir is too afraid to fight again and is saved by Saitou. Saitou reveals he is an other worlder and transforms into the wolf monster and savagely defeats the bandits. Nir, afraid Saitou will lose his kind heart, draws his sword and stops him. Saitou reveals his backstory of being unable to help a kind kid from bullies due to him being bound to a wheelchair. Sensei says it was not his handicap but his own cowardice that stopped him. Nir says he is wrong and brings up his own cowardice. Saitou stops Nir and says Nir is a true valiant warrior. Seeing this triggers Sensei's ability again and creates another summoning circle to send Saitou back to Earth. He transports to just after being hit by Truck-Kun and is picked up by his friend. | ||||
| 10 | "Reflect on Your Failure to Kill Me Properly" Transliteration: "Kichinto Boku no Inochi o Ubawanakatta Koto wa, Hontōni Mōsei Shita Ma e" (Japanese: きちんと僕の命を奪わなかったことは、本当に猛省したまえ) |
Shigeki Kawai | Masashi Watanabe | September 10, 2024 |
| A war wages between the dwarven kingdom of Geld and an army of monsters led by the Fallen Angel of Misery. Ysha and fellow priest Wolff are helping the dwarves. Wolff summons a tornado to blast the monsters away but also hits Sensei by accident and destroys his coffin bed. Later that night Sensei and Melos follow Wolff due to Melos falling in love with Wolff's pet dubbed Femmelos by Sensei. They see him talking to a woman through her front door and assume he is talking to a woman he loves and leaves. The next day the monsters attack again but are aided by a giant dragon ridden by the Fallen Angel of Greed, Yoriko. Wolff recognizes her and is unable to stop her. Yoriko takes Wolff hostage and leaves to Dritten Temple. Without Wolff, the dwarves are forced to retreat. Sensei goes to the woman Wolff was talking to, revealed to be an old lady, to find out what happened. Tama volunteers the team to find and rescue Wolff. The dwarves give them new armor to help them. The now reformed bandit leader from the last episode shows up to give the team a ride to Dritten Temple, except for Sensei because he is still upset for Sensei killing his pet scorpion monster. The old lady demands that Sensei take her to see Wolff. | ||||
| 11 | "I Cannot Die Until I've Finished Writing Your Story" Transliteration: "Kimi no Monogatari o Kakioeru Made wa, Shinu Wake ni Ikanai" (Japanese: 君の物語を書き終えるまでは、死ぬわけにいかない) |
Shintarō Itō | Masashi Watanabe | September 17, 2024 |
| The team confront Yuriko at the temple. She summons skeleton warriors to fight them and continues to bring them back no matter how many the team knocks down. Ysha asks Yuriko why she hates Wolff. She says she was his student and loved spending time with him. Until another girl, later shown to be her sister Hikari, was summoned and Wolff focused only on her. This caused Yuriko's power of Greed to awaken and she killed Hikari. Just as Yuriko is about to kill the team, Sensei crashes into the building with his new mobile coffin. He brings the old lady who's actually Hikari but rapidly aged due to the effects of Greed. Sensei gets the two to reveal their backstories. Hikari was a sick child and Yuriko was always forced to care for her instead of living her life. The one day she tried to, Hikari almost died and their father blamed her. This was the night Yuriko was summoned. Hikari was summoned soon after because she did not want to live in a world without her sister. The reason Wolff stopped training Yuriko was because Hikari asked him to so she could live the life that was stolen from her. Hearing all this triggers Sensei's ability, which fixes all the damage caused by Greed and sends Yuriko and Hikari back to Earth. Hikari wakes up to Yuriko opening her window. Only remembering their time in the other world as a dream. | ||||
| 12 | "Tonight I Shall Die, I Ride So That It Will Kill Me" Transliteration: "Kondo Koso Zettai Shinitai" (Japanese: 今度こそ絶対死にたい) |
Ayumu Ono | Kenchi Kawamura & Goichi Iwahata | September 24, 2024 |
| As the team celebrates their victory, they are confronted by the Fallen Angel of Misery. The team is unable to even hurt him but he leaves after Nir blocks and chips his sword. That night, Sensei meets Sacchan in the halls of Geld castle. He is overjoyed to see her and tries to finally complete their lover's suicide pact but she rejects him. Saying that he has changed and now has a light in his eye. Sacchan returns to the dark castle saying she still loves him and sees his new potential. Having been rejected by Sacchan sends Sensei into a spiral. He goes on a chaotic joy ride in his new mobile coffin to try and die. He speeds out of town as the others try to catch up to him. The team finds out he ended up in a mysterious cave in the town of Held. He crashes through multiple monsters before his vehicle breaks down. He finds a portal that sends him to the world of fairies and meets the fairy queen and her minions. The fairy queen deems Sensei worthy of her gift after seeing that he is not like other heroes. She gives him a whistle and tells him to keep living before sending him back. Sensei crashes into the others and a local statue. He uses the whistle to summon the fairy Solulu to fix the statue. The team continues their journey as The Pope, Fallen Angels and Waldelia all question what role Sensei is here to fulfill. | ||||
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WEB Radio[]
Under the title "TV Anime Isekai Shikkaku ~Haji no ōi radjio~," it will be streamed on July 4 at 19:00 on "Onsen" and the YouTube channel "KADOKAWA Anime Channel." The personalities are Rumi Okubo (as Annette) and Sayumi Suzushiro (as Tama).
Reception[]
In 2020, the manga was one of the nominees for the 6th Next Manga Awards in the Web Manga category.
External Links[]
- No Longer Human...In Another World — Work information (Manga Official Website) | Yawaraka Spirits (in Japanese)
- TV Anime "No Longer Human...In Another World" Official Website (in Japanese)
- TV Anime "No Longer Human...In Another World" Official (@isekaishikkaku) - Twitter X
- No Longer Human...In Another World — Wikipedia JP
- No Longer Human...In Another World — Wikipedia EN
Trivia[]
- The main character is based on real-life Japanese rogue novelist Osamu Dazai WP, author of the novel No Longer Human, who died by lovers' suicide.