Hiroshi Noda’s dark comedy isekai manga, Isekai Shikkaku / No Longer Human… In Another World is getting a TV anime adaptation! To celebrate the occasion, the manga’s artist Takahiro Wakamatsu released an illustration on big Comic Spirits 32/33 merger issue, showing the main character the “Author”!
Isekai Shikkaku is based loosely on Osamu Dazai’s award-winning novel, No Longer Human. When a depressed author attempts to commit double suicide with his lover, he is suddenly… Struck by a truck?!? While the world seems enticing to most, the author wants nothing more than to drop dead!
The anime has no official release date yet.
▍About Isekai Shikkaku
An adventure in another world, cute girls, video-game powers, a leveling-up system, and riches! Sounds like the perfect world to go to! Unless you just wanted to actually die. An author tries to commit double suicide with his lover, only to be interrupted by struck by the Great isekai truck and is transported to another world! The author wants nothing more than to find a great place to die poetically, but is interrupted at every turn by his amazing luck! Follow the misadventures of this author in this hilariously dark isekai comedy!
Isekai Shikkaku is based loosely on the 1948 novel, No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai , and considered to be his greatest masterpiece. The novel covers dark subjects, including suicide, social exclusion, and depression. The book is considered by many to be autobiographical, as Osamu Dazai himself committed double suicide several times, only to fail. The book was the last work he ever made before he took his own life.
No Longer Human has since become public domain on January 1, 2019, and has then received several adaptations including a live-action film, an anime feature film, and several manga adaptations including one by Junji Ito. Osamu Dazai has also been referenced several times in anime, such as in Bungou Stray Dogs, Aoi Bungaku’s first four episodes, and Nozomu Itoshiki from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is based on No Longer Human’s protagonist!
