Isekai Inspirations

Alfir

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I need to recharge my creativity bank. So this is what we are going to do. Write random isekai ideas that that one day just popped into your head. Share it here and if anyone just happens to like it and want to give it a shot, let them take a jab at it.

Since I started it, here is one:
Doomed to Be a Chicken in Another World

A regular, down-on-his-luck office worker named Kenji is reincarnated into a fantastical world—only... he’s turned into a chicken. Not just any chicken, though. Kenji retains his human consciousness, and he quickly discovers that his new "powers" as a chicken include a hilarious array of bizarre abilities. He can summon crop circles to confuse enemies, lay enchanted eggs that explode into fireballs, and communicate with other farm animals (who often give terrible advice).

Despite being a small, flightless chicken, Kenji must navigate through this new world, avoiding being eaten, figuring out how to break his chicken curse, and slowly becoming the unexpected leader of a resistance against a tyrannical mage who believes chickens hold the key to world domination. Oh, and there’s a subplot where he gets really into the idea of being a chicken overlord.

The humor comes from his absolute lack of power and dignity, as well as his determination to make the best out of his feathery fate!
 

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  • Isekai'd as the corona virus
  • Isekai'd as a chocolate bar in a fat camp
  • Isekai'd as Hitler's missing nut
  • Isekai'd as the voice in Jean D'arc's head
  • Isekai'd as the last human on the planet
  • Isekai'd as my own son
  • Isekai'd as Truck-kun
Take your picks & good luck.
 

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Isekaid as a human or humanoid race in a pirate fantasy world. Without stupid references to one piece, cheats, systems, retarded magic system. A simple, high fantasy world, but it's not generic Japanese medieval world, or generic sci-fi world. It's not even a cyberpunk world. Fantasy world set in a subtropical or tropical climates with lots of small island states. I understand it's too hard to write. It's easier to come up with another, "Isekaid as the left ball of Don Juan but he is about to get executed." A man can dream though? A man can dream.
 

Sergeandgreen

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My ideas are

Isekaied as Jesus.
Isekaied as a lit rpg system
Isekaied as medusa.
Isekaid as Ceasar in modern times.
Isekaied as the first prisnor sent to Australia
Isekaied as a goldfish in the atlantic.
Isekaied as a neanderthal.
Isekaid as earth.
Isekaied as a spaceship.
Isekaied as a mountain (Dungeon like story)

And my final one "respawning and repeatedly dying as a common weed in fantasy stories. My arch enemy is a lawnmower"
 

DeepWater

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Isekaid as a human or humanoid race in a pirate fantasy world. Without stupid references to one piece, cheats, systems, retarded magic system. A simple, high fantasy world, but it's not generic Japanese medieval world, or generic sci-fi world. It's not even a cyberpunk world. Fantasy world set in a subtropical or tropical climates with lots of small island states. I understand it's too hard to write. It's easier to come up with another, "Isekaid as the left ball of Don Juan but he is about to get executed." A man can dream though? A man can dream.
"I was reborn as the son of a colonial governor, but got kicked out of the family because of my lack of magic talent, so I became a pirate lord?!"
 

CharlesEBrown

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I need to recharge my creativity bank. So this is what we are going to do. Write random isekai ideas that that one day just popped into your head. Share it here and if anyone just happens to like it and want to give it a shot, let them take a jab at it.

Since I started it, here is one:
Doomed to Be a Chicken in Another World

A regular, down-on-his-luck office worker named Kenji is reincarnated into a fantastical world—only... he’s turned into a chicken. Not just any chicken, though. Kenji retains his human consciousness, and he quickly discovers that his new "powers" as a chicken include a hilarious array of bizarre abilities. He can summon crop circles to confuse enemies, lay enchanted eggs that explode into fireballs, and communicate with other farm animals (who often give terrible advice).

Despite being a small, flightless chicken, Kenji must navigate through this new world, avoiding being eaten, figuring out how to break his chicken curse, and slowly becoming the unexpected leader of a resistance against a tyrannical mage who believes chickens hold the key to world domination. Oh, and there’s a subplot where he gets really into the idea of being a chicken overlord.

The humor comes from his absolute lack of power and dignity, as well as his determination to make the best out of his feathery fate!
I Was Reborn as a Duck in the Runequest World
(Runequest is a Fantasy Role-Playing Game set in a fantastical Bronze Age - centuries earlier than the typical RPG ... and one of the first supplements actually had rules for Ducks as PCs. Have never seen said rules, but know people who have PLAYED duck PCs so this one has precedent, at least... :D)
 

RedMuffin

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  • Isekai'd as the corona virus
  • Isekai'd as a chocolate bar in a fat camp
  • Isekai'd as Hitler's missing nut
  • Isekai'd as the voice in Jean D'arc's head
  • Isekai'd as the last human on the planet
  • Isekai'd as my own son
  • Isekai'd as Truck-kun
Take your picks & good luck.
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Alfir

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I Was Reincarnated as a Soap Bar in a Kingdom of Bathing Enthusiasts

A man named Satoshi dies in an unfortunate accident involving a slip in the shower and a catastrophic shampoo bottle explosion. He wakes up in a fantasy world, but instead of being a hero or an adventurer, he is reincarnated as... a bar of soap.

But not just any soap. Satoshi is a sentient bar of soap, with the power to clean, lather, and—most importantly—get dirty in increasingly ridiculous ways. The world he finds himself in is ruled by a kingdom obsessed with cleanliness, where every citizen is either a bathing enthusiast or a professional "cleaning knight" wielding magical sponges and loofahs.

As a bar of soap, Satoshi is constantly at risk of being used in a bath or shower, which would cause him to lose his sentience temporarily. However, he can also use his ability to lather up and create bubbles of magic to temporarily enchant or confuse his enemies. Depending on the kind of soap he becomes (e.g., lavender, peppermint, or industrial-strength), he can unlock different powers—such as the ability to put people to sleep with soothing scents or create a foam army to fight off dangerous bacteria monsters.

Satoshi soon learns that he’s part of an ancient prophecy: the “Legendary Soap” who is destined to cleanse the kingdom of evil dirt and grime that has been infecting the land. To fulfill his destiny, he must travel across the kingdom, gathering rare ingredients to create the “Ultimate Cleansing Potion” and battle dirt demons, oily monsters, and other unclean forces.

Along the way, Satoshi will befriend quirky bath accessories (a loofah knight, a shampoo sorceress, and a bathrobe mage), while avoiding being melted down or, even worse, dropped on the bathroom floor. His ultimate goal is to become the world’s cleanest hero and fulfill his destiny without losing his bubbly personality.

Edit: I must be crazy... any serious suggestions out there that really gets the blood pumping?
 

Sergeandgreen

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I will expand the list of not so serious suggestions:

Reborn as a Spell (With a system)
Reborn as a Castle (With a System)
Reborn as a Labyrinth (with a system)
Reborn as time (or time loop) (Everyone retains their memory and you decide you didn't like what you saw and everyone has to try again)
Reborn as a mage's familiar
Reborn as a prisoner in a world without death. How I spent a thousand years (insert generic action possible in prison) while the world turned into an intergalactic sci-fi empire.
Reborn as the poorest hive mind mage. (How food prices ruined my ascension)


I actually really like the last one. I never read a story about a human hive mind. Well, I honestly never read a real hive mind story. I think it has potential.
 
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Any silly ideas you think of will not be as unique. Everyone are thinking of them. I saw a story on scribble hub that was reincarnated as a pair of tights. Also, there's a major downfall of every story like this.

If you write something like isekaid as a dildo, are you actually gonna keep writing it? No, you are just thinking of a silly premise without having any passion in the idea. So, take something like what Sailus said. At least with a tropical pirate story, you can create a passion project.

Given that I said all of this, here's what you should write. "I was Reincarnated as a Vampirate".
 

RepresentingWrath

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Any silly ideas you think of will not be as unique. Everyone are thinking of them. I saw a story on scribble hub that was reincarnated as a pair of tights. Also, there's a major downfall of every story like this.

If you write something like isekaid as a dildo, are you actually gonna keep writing it? No, you are just thinking of a silly premise without having any passion in the idea. So, take something like what Sailus said. At least with a tropical pirate story, you can create a passion project.

Given that I said all of this, here's what you should write. "I was Reincarnated as a Vampirate".
Vampirates are super cool. Warhammer fantasy has them, and they have this unit, necrofex colossus. It is animated remains of ships in a shape of a gian that have multicannnos instead of one or two arms. They can be controlled by vampires because vampires know necromancy, and those sunken ships are full of dead bodies.
 

Snake99

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  • Isekai'd as the corona virus
  • Isekai'd as a chocolate bar in a fat camp
  • Isekai'd as Hitler's missing nut
  • Isekai'd as the voice in Jean D'arc's head
  • Isekai'd as the last human on the planet
  • Isekai'd as my own son
  • Isekai'd as Truck-kun
Take your picks & good luck.
I would read the one with the voice in Joan of Arc's head, if they wrote Joan of Arc as a cute tomboy anime girl.
 
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