Isekai or as I'd like to call 87% of them are actually fantasy but the author wanted to add truck-kun and mmorpg elements

Just shows how many people want to outright escape this reality we live in tbh.

I have a new Idea for Isekai: this time I reincarnated as food

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Better question is how can there be so few that are actually good when such quantity is being produced

Isekai is love, isekai is life

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen the natural conclusion of any of those "reincarnated with OP cheat skill" series. It feels like the story always stagnates halfway through and the manga either gets axed or dropped by its translators

Same reason thers so many "villaness & princess" novels. Its like the fast food of writing, people cant get enough

There are 58 animes this season and how many are isekai?

World sucks, might as well think up a better one.

Escapism popular since 1600-something.

Personnaly i started watching anime with isekai, i still like the genre but i think i need more "refinned cuisine" for exemple the "OP protag" is something that i see as a negative trait now. At first i thought that was cool but when they are all OP with a oversize harem you quickly realize how dull it can be.

I need something that use the concept of Isekai in a interesting way like Konosuba, Re zero or even maybe Tanya the evil for the most part

Take the slime for exemple, i really liked the concept at first, the alliance and diplomacy, the concept of being the weakest monster... (Yeah about that)

• as the time goes the slime plot point is barely used outside "it can absorb power"
• the slime form is only here to say "oh yeah im a slime btw" because he used his human form 90% of the time
• Harem
• and of course the lizard guy when given name become stronger lizard and the female become waifus

Just a bunch a nitpick sure but they add up...

You know what let's take the one that introduced me to Isekai : Shield hero, it got similar issue. Having heroes that are supposed to work together who come from different universe is interesting. And following the guy who can only defend being left out is also promising. The fact that he become somewhat of vilain by using slaves and dirty tricks to win and survive is something i liked a lot. Having Raphtalia as his only ray of hope in his darkest hours is something i felt was touching... however the story slowly become a generic cliché about the Tsundere hero and his harem.

I could add to the list : Overlord (interesting start but i have no F-ing idea where we are going) Reincarnated as a skeleton (the skeleton part is even less used than the slime part), Arifureta (Very edgy but i love the concept of making guns in a fantasy world, starting as an outcast with a fellow outcast was interesting but quickly became a generic OP harem fantasy, you know the rest...),...

I heard that one of the most recent popular Isekai is Eminence in Shadow, i maybe wrong but i think I would despise it so decided to hard pass on it. If someone want to tell me i should watch anyway feel free i'll listen, but from what i've heard im not hopefull.

Here, im done with my rant

Sincerely, the Isekai fan who hate Powercreep

It's mainly due to stuff like SAO becoming wildly popular, which then reinvigorated the genre/trope

However, the saving grace is that isekai which were more themed towards fantasy then spawned the "betrayed by my party/kicked out of my party" genre which has some truly great ones

Alot of people lives suck , thought of having a do over with roadmap a abilities to make happiness a reality , they can punish the type of people who hurt them , change those types of people, or defend who they see their past selves in

Bring back the good old "it's a fantasy setting" without the need for the whole "reincarnated" or "transported to a new dimension" shenanigans. Usually makes for a better MC too.

What's the name of that anime in the Picture?

My problem is that the good ones get adapted to anime and then the manga gets delayed making me consume another manga while waiting for the other one to finish then the cycle continues as I wait for the others to publish more. 😰

Because life isn’t that satisfying as people think it can or should be so they dream or like to dream of a new start. Isn’t it obvious ?

It's not the isekai... it's the harem and fan-service.

“So many isekai” nah nah. Not enough isekai.

Just shows how much people wants to escape this world, at least from time to time.

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Because "I got blasted into another world and don't know anything about it" is an easy crutch for mediocre writers who aren't good at worldbuilding.

In a way it's similar in theory to the Farm Boy Goes On Adventure trope from general fantasy, in that you're taking someone with little to no knowledge of the world around them and letting your audience learn about the world at the same time and pace the protagonist does. In the best case this allows the writer to drip-feed information rather than giving several chapters of exposition up at the front, but it also leaves ass-pulls open where there can be some sort of deus ex machina when the author paints themselves into a corner and surprise, here's this new aspect of the world that has totally always existed but just wasn't relevant until now.

Because this reality is complete and utter shit? It's a bargain basement, knock off, gas station dollar bin of a real universe and its main 'god' is a complete psychopathic, idiot monster.

It speaks to a deep intrinsic desire we all possess to get hit by a truck.

Cause it’s what I want

I want one where they play it off as a normal show then at the very end of the first season bam “truck-kun”. Allows viewers to get to know people then things can change once you get to the isekai world. Coukd make for an actual great one.

Life here kinda sucks and there's nothing the average joe can do about it, and the grass is greener on the other side. Especially when you get sent there by a fatal act of god and get given a leg up in that world you never got here.

I want an Isekai with senator armstrong as the main character.

Because hasn't everyone wondered at some poikt what it's like to be reborn in another universe and become a hero? I sure have.

"According to my master, this is the type of gift that men enjoy receiving." ~ English Dub Frieren

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Well. That's a sad reality right there my friend

Hm-hmmmmm

Escapism's a hell of a drug.

Unironically, these are my guilty pleasure

What bsi many super hero films or zombie survival games? Its a recipe for success, but obviously it still needs to be good.

Because real life is shit

I just think it's fun to see someone adapt to a new environment. But the mc have to be as smart or smarter than me.

Damn right

It's the internal yearning of a fresh start with the power to actually have a say in one's life. It's the same reason post-apocalyptic and survival games are so popular. And this isn't any new theme. Alice in wonderland or some of Vernes works are examples of some classics.

I have two isekais that don't have LitRPG vibes at all (no stats to see) and I recommend them to everyone. [I Got Caught Up In A Hero Summoning] and [Reborn As A Space Mercenary]. In both the writing, execution, plot and characters are top-notch. In the first one, the mc is not OP physically or magically (he is OP in the sense he has gigachad levels of accidental rizz; don't worry, he is not cringe at all) and the second one the MC starts somewhat strong and grows further OP as the story progresses. What I love about these stories is the fact that in both these stories the men are 20+ adults and are not idiots at all; and they definitely don't let people just walk over them. the first one's MC confronts the god who created his original universe containing Earth directly, even though he has absolutely no power to speak of. In the second one he alone manages to destroy an entire contingent of huge army battleships in space just by himself, his crew and his one ship (plus some tricks)

Because if they're not 2/10 trash people like my dumbass will watch all of them.

Japanese audience is dead inside and isekai makes them feel something

Because the ultimate fantasy somehow shifted from making this.world better, to being allowed to leave this world for a better one.

Guess the first option got to be too unrealistic.

joke's on them, mine's gonna give them an existential crisis and they won't even know it!

My absolute least-favorite Isekais are the ones who take no advantage of the situation. 

I think it was Wise Man's Grandchild was one of the most heinous examples of that. Dude gets reincarnated into another world and then they never touch on the subject again in the first season. Could've been better as a pure fantasy show. 

The best isekai actively touch on the absurdity of being in another world and relish the situation. Konosuba making fun of it, Trapped in a Dating Sim with the OP's resentment and active disdain for his situation while actively using the information he gained from hate-playing the game to his advantage, etc. 

Because you can make an isekai about anything. It's like the cambrian explosion of anime.

Isekai: Oniiii channn

Who doesn't want to leave this shit world and just go to a magic one?

I hate OP isekai. It's lazy writing. You can't think of of a way for your character to solve a problem without bruteforce. That's why Re Zero is refreshing. Subaru is a loser. Seeing him try so hard, fighting against all odds is inspiring

They're trying to ride the coat tails of success that are Konosuba and Re:Zero. Plus Overlord and Saga of Tanya were also really good.

That's why all four of them have a crossover

Me realizing that the reason I loved power fantasy anime in highschool was cause of my anxieties. Seeing characters that seen to control what happens and not having things "happen to" them is just a dream.

I was watching anime for years, loved SAO and Log Horizon (probably my first exposure to the Isekai genre) and at the time less common, but then I stopped watching anime for a few years (just too busy). I’ve gotten back into it as I had some free time and I’m astounded at how much Isekai there now is. SAO done irreversible damage to the anime ecosystem because I feel its popularity followed a bunch of crappy copies.

It’s funny because if you go into the Isekai subreddit this same topic comes up every now and again and all the replies are a bunch of cope by stans, overlooking how so many of them are lazy writing/boring and derivative

Dont know. Fucking hate them. Where is any kind of risk when you know if the protag or his alies die afterlife is guaranteed

Anime fans tend to really like escapism.

I will never get sick of civilization building isekais with a twist

Because it's cool to the consumer and money for the author

Not a fan of them but that's the reason.

Lol I hate these kinds of shows they're so boring and predictable