Outbreak Company

Shinichi Kanou, a reclusive otaku with encyclopedic knowledge of anime, manga, and games, applies for a job to break out of his shut-in routine—only to be abducted and whisked away to the Eldant Empire. In a fantasy realm of elves, dragons, and dwarves, he finds himself drafted into a peculiar assignment backed by the Japanese government: introduce and popularize otaku culture as an “Otaku Missionary.”

With official support and unlikely allies at his side—including the half-elf maid Myucel and Eldant’s Princess Petralka—Shinichi navigates court intrigue and cultural friction. As he pushes his mission forward, the project forces him to confront politics, rigid social hierarchies, and ethnic prejudice in a world that’s as complicated as it is fantastical.