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In a recent interview during IGN Fan Fest, author TurtleMe revealed that Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation served as a key inspiration for his own series, The Beginning After The End.
Speaking about the journey behind The Beginning After The End, TurtleMe explained that he was drawn to Japanese light novels featuring reincarnation themes, a genre that was still relatively niche when he began writing a decade ago.
“There’s been a lot of stories that had this sort of uh theme into it where you know reincarnation the whole isekai genre that’s so popular right now. 10 years ago when I started writing it wasn’t as popular and there was a couple of like light novels in Japan that I was reading that kind of inspired me like oh this is really cool.” he stated, noting the lack of English-language stories exploring similar concepts at the time.
This desire to fill that gap led him to create The Beginning After The End.
When asked about specific inspirations, TurtleMe highlighted Mushoku Tensei as an important influence on his work.
“Mushoku Tensei is a title that really made me think about what reincarnation would be like,” he said.
He also cited classic fantasy epics like Eragon and The Lord of The Rings as foundational inspirations for building TBATE’s expansive fantasy world.
“I grew up reading so much that The Beginning After the End has sort of become a culmination of a lot of different stories that I digested throughout like elementary, middle school, high school, college,” he added.
In addition to this, the first minute of The Beginning After The End‘s episode 1 was also revealed ahead of its release during the interview. Check it out below:
The Beginning After The End anime will be released in April 2025.
It will be produced by Studio A-Cat and directed by Keitaro Motonaga, with Umeki and Takamitsu Kono writing series scripts, Masami Sueoka designing the characters, and Keiji Inai composing the music.
The first season will consist of 24 episodes, split across two cours.
Crunchyroll confirmed that the series will be available to stream on its platform.
The Beginning After The End is a web novel series written by TurtleMe and illustrated by Fuyuki23. It began serialization on Tapas in January 2017.
A webtoon adaptation, also illustrated by Fuyuki23, began serialization on Tapas in July 2018. Yen Press is publishing the webtoon in English; as of August 2024, six volumes have been released.
Turtle me can also say “Yes, they were a great source of inspiration”, but copying in an almost identical way certain scenes, characters, and situations from Mushoku tensei and the Eragon literary saga is not “taking inspiration”, it is plagiarism.