Series: Book 1 in the Outbreak Company series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Summary
The year is 20XX, and Shinichi Kanou is a pretty typical
otaku: he loves anime, manga, games, and light novels, but
his devotion to the two-dimensional hasn't always made him
the most popular guy around. What he doesn’t know is that Japan has discovered a
portal to another world in the vicinity of Mount Fuji. The
government sees a great chance to make a profit, if they can
keep the secret long enough to corner the market on exports
to the Holy Eldant Empire, their point of first contact with
this new land. The people of the Eldant Empire, though, only have eyes
for one of Japan’s traditional exports: pop culture.
When it quickly becomes evident that government bureaucrats
and “Japanimation” don’t really mix, the
bigwigs realize they’re going to need help bringing
“otaku culture” to the Eldant masses. Enter Amutech, a purveyor of “general
entertainment” that’s secretly run by the
Japanese government. Shinichi lands a job as the
company’s general manager, whereupon he learns the
state’s biggest secret. Now he finally has a chance to
put his nerd know-how to good use spreading the otaku gospel
in the Eldant Empire. And wait... he has to work with a
half-elf maid, an empress, AND a female soldier to get the
job done?