"Isekai Rebuilding Project," a fantasy novel by a Hokkaido-based writer who publishes under the pseudonym Yukika Minamino, has become available to English-reading audiences through a website run by an American digital publisher of Japanese novels aimed at teenagers and young adults.
The addition of Minamino's work and four other fantasy novels to J-Novel Club's offering is in response to the growing popularity of anime and "light novels" — illustrated novels targeting young readers — among American youths.
The book, published in Japanese in March, is a tale about Eiji, an ordinary city clerk from Hokkaido leading a prosaic life who is transported to a parallel world on a mission to restore it to its authentic form. He also befriends a mythical dragon.