When Sei is reborn into another world, he chooses the weakest class—Carrier—not for power, but for freedom. Armed with an oversized inventory skill, he's ready to travel solo and live life entirely on his own terms.

But his plans take a turn when he meets Lunamillia, a pure and innocent cleric clearly unfit for adventuring alone. Sei can't bring himself to leave her behind—and soon discovers that traveling with company brings unexpected pleasures… and even more unexpected complications.

A Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Another World has a story by Tarō Koumi and art by Hayashi. English translation is done by Jarod Blackburn with an adaptation by The Smut Whisperer and lettering by Simone Harrison. Published by Seven Seas Entertainment (January 27, 2026). Rated M.

Lucas DeRuyter
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I think I like A Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Another World as much as I can like a nakedly misogynistic, male power fantasy, isekai story. While I think either writer Tarō Koumi or artist Hayashi might have the spirit of a freak in them, this work's charm points are buried under heaps of regressive tropes, boundless amounts of misogyny, and even a little bit of homophobia sprinkled in for (the opposite of) fun! Even if there are a handful of inspired sex scenes or kink considered scenarios, so much of this manga is steeped in whiny bullshit that I can't recommend that anyone read this.

The protagonist, Sei, suffers the standard fake discrimination common in these kids of isekai stories; he's a totally alpha and/or chad and/or sigma badass dude who can kick a ton of ass, but everyone thinks he sucks because his chosen job, a Carrier in this case, has poor stats. It never fails to annoy me that these stories that are so heavily steeped in JPRG conventions have characters that don't understand how JRPGs work. A given “Job” is rarely wholly worse than any other one in this kind of game, and the fact that the universe this story takes place in is apparently an unbalanced one or filled with characters that obsess over game design systems they don't understand is immediately frustrating to me.

After this set up, the plot of A Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Another World proceeds as these stories typically do: Sei saves a virginal cleric from being sexually assaulted, they begin travel together, hijinks ensue, and by the end of the first volume Sei's met the monotone ninja girl and mature sorceress that are likely to fill out his party/harem in future chapters. If you've experienced any kind of isekai media in the past 15 years, you know the broad strokes of how this story is going to unfold.

What sets Carrier's Strategy apart from many of its contemporaries, though, is that it depicts actual sex scenes instead of just perfunctory fan service. The kinds of sex scenes fully featured or gestured in this work at are surprisingly varied for a male power fantasy isekai, which are often fairly vanilla to reach as broad an audience as possible. To name a few, Carrier's Strategy features kinks like bukkake, watersports, and ahegao. There's also a drawing of feet in a particular sex scene that could only be created by someone who has an affinity for that part of the human anatomy, and I respect Hayashi for likely letting their freak flag fly.

However, for every positive comment I can make about Carrier's Strategy I have at least twice as many negative ones, with the biggest offender being a “gag” where characters assume Sei is gay after he's seen recovering what appears to be a large dildo. A character then asks him what could charitably be referred to as ignorant questions about sex involving two cis males, and I don't need this kind of casual, juvenile homophobia in any form of media in 2025. The sex scenes in A Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Another World are distinct enough to be noted as such, but the work falls into a lot of the same pitfalls as others in this genre and will probably only be appreciated by isekai diehards.

Erica Friedman
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A Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Another World feels very much like a story pitch. This guy wants to travel around and not be a hero, so he chooses this low-ranked class to be reborn as, but he's actually powerful and is irresistible to women and has a big…carrier inventory. Sex rejuvenates him, he's also amazingly good at it, and he's a very decent person, so he saves this naïve cleric with a huge chest from a series of bad, rapey men and monsters. If you throw enough story at the wall, some of it sticks, some is held on by the blood and gore of fight scenes, and some by other bodily fluids.

This volume feels to me more like how a regular straight guy thinks in a manga than I have ever read before. If the female characters weren't drawn with such extreme anatomy, I might even be convinced to like it. Sadly, every woman in the story is visiting from a JAV, rendering Sei's regular-guy-ness pretty meaningless. I mean, I actually don't mind that he's ogling the T&A, or that pages go buy when he's boning women past their point of enjoying it. I mind that the T&A are weirdly humongous and that all the sexual content is also censored because this isn't an 18+ comic. It's like reading a story while someone keeps putting things up in front of your face. We get the point, but ugh.

Occasionally, a story peeks around a corner to introduce itself, but it quickly retreats in the face of another sexualized scene that has nothing to do with sex, or a desexualized scene that is about sex. I hoped I could like this. The carrier magic thing seems like it could be a handy form of hammer space, and Sei is tolerable as a character. It's just that everything else wasn't.