Earth Isekai

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An ordinary overworked man dies in the course of doing something a little noble and is reincarnated in a different world.  He retains all his old knowledge and uses it to his advantage in his new home. But what happens when that ordinary man is a salaryMAGE?  And what happens when that new world is Earth? This is just an amusing little project caused by too much time and too many isekai animes.  It’s an experiment in having fun with some of the usual isekai and anime tropes and topics while telling a story that really should get told more often: what happens when the roles are flipped?  What happens when the isekai protagonist goes to Japan instead of coming from Japan? But before we begin let’s make one thing very clear: this is still a fictional Japan.  It’s more realistic than many of the other versions you usually see but it’s still not reality.  So take everything with a grain of salt, between the stuff changed for the purposes of the story and the stuff the author’s just plain gotten wrong you should be very leery of treating this world as the ‘true’ Japan. (Just for starters, the fact that I’m using Japan instead of Nippon… sigh) I’m trying to imitate a more Japanese light novel style since the story isn’t too serious as fiction goes and to make things seem more accurate.  Plus it is Isekai and it feels really appropriate for a foreigner in Japan.  But given that A) I am not Japanese B) occasionally the story gets a little harsh on aspects of Japanese culture (something you should always take with a HUGE shaker’s worth of salt if you’re not a part of the culture yourself) and C) that there are changes made for the sake of drama I have to emphasize, underline, and repeat once again: This is a fictional Japan in a fictional world, not the real one.  Don’t mix them up. Apart from that I should note the story does occasionally deal with some serious and disturbing topics, has some non-explicit but occasionally notable sexual subject matter, and characters will definitely swear when they get excited.  Nothing too major, and I try to always note the disturbing chapters when they come up (don't worry, it's not often) but they do exist. This was originally posted to my DeviantArt account, but given some of the issues that site's undergoing right now I figured it was time to branch out a little more and post it elsewhere as well.