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Isekai (異世界)
Isekai (異世界, "different world") is the Japanese fantasy genre in which a protagonist is transported, summoned, or reincarnated into another world; it grew from Narō web novels around 2011 and entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2024.
Truck-kun
Truck-kun is fandom slang for the recurring truck in anime, manga, and light novels that kills the protagonist to launch an isekai story. Coined online around 2015, it appears in Mushoku Tensei, is parodied in Konosuba, and inspired Strange Scaffold's game.