Mind you, not all the isekai fantasy manga that came out this year was dire. Yen Press managed to find a real gem, as well as the first instance of BL isekai I've seen since Kyo Kara Maoh.
THE OTHER WORLD'S BOOKS DEPEND ON THE BEAN COUNTER (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai), based on the light novels by Yatsuki Wakatsu and character designs by Kikka Ohashi with art by Kazuki Irodori. First published in 2020 and first published in North America in 2022.
PLOT:
Seiichiro Kondou was just another salaryman, working long hours at an accounting firm, wondering how his twenties got away from him. Then he stumbles across a young woman getting sucked into a strange portal, and in his attempt to save her gets transported alongside her to the fantastical realm of the Romany kingdom. It seems this young girl is the maiden destined to save them, but the prince and his counselors have no idea what to do with Kondou. He decides to make himself useful by joining the royal accountants, but his efficiency begins to make him enemies and a bad reaction to a magic potion leads to a close encounter with the stern royal captain Aresh Indolark.
