But that's enough isekai - let's look at a fantasy story from one of the better (and deeply underrated mangaka) of our time!
WORLD END SOLTE (Saihate no Solte), by Satoshi Mizukami. First published in 2020 and first published in North America in 2022.
PLOT:
Solte is tired. She's tired of missing her parents, who disappeared years ago on a quest to clean their world of magical pollution. She's tired of being betrayed by the adults who are supposed to care for her. She's tired of feeling powerless. Instead, she's determined to travel on her own deep into the magical realm, all the way to the land of the dead. Along the way she's joined by an immortal swordsman with a death wish, her uncle (now transformed into a human-sized mole), and a chatty fairy who swears she's met and traveled with them all before.
