Higuchi Katsuro was a normal Japanese youngster, athletic and full of vigor. As a child, he lived a life not uncommon for children of the time. He played video games, watched anime, and went through his school life with a sense of ease. However, in his 2nd year of middle school he was introduced to the Isekai genre1, a genre of second chances and rebirth, which would come to define his life forever!

It started off with the classics: stories of ingenuity and redemption. It was a fresh and new genre that seemed like a perfect match for the literary cravings of Katsuro’s personality. Revenge, Harem, Power-fantasy; Katsuro even developed a deep appreciation for the trashiest tropes the genre had to offer. The vigorous and energetic boy people knew him as was replaced by one who was solely obsessed with stories of Isekai. This obsession crossed over to mania when he began to fixate on his most unhealthy inner thought,

“I wonder if I can Isekai myself.”

This thought would remain with him for the rest of his first life.

Notes:

1 Isekai is a Japanese storytelling genre centering around the idea of transmigrating the protagonist to another world. It directly translates to “other world”.