The afterlife used to be simple, in that a just life was rewarded with somewhere good and a cruel life earned eternal punishment. There were all kinds of variations, from the Greek's "Being dead sucks for everyone in the miserable afterlife of Hades" to the Norse "Party it up, valiant warriors, in the mead halls of Valhalla!" Then along came isekai, and all of a sudden being dead was less about the final reward and more getting a second chance but powered up this time. Whether on a date with truck-kun or slumped over in the office never to move again, the end of a life that never reached its potential was sad enough that the universe awards a round two, this time in a world much more suited to the strengths of the no-longer-deceased.
New Life, New World, New Responsibilities and Ways to Shirk Them
Warota: I Live Next to the Demon King's Castle is a village management action RPG that just released into Early Access, and in it you're an office drone who slumped over their PC one late night at the office. A goddess needs your abilities that simply didn't work on Earth, calling...
