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I doesn't interest me. I like fantasy but I prefer it to happen in a world that has some similarities to our own.
The thing I personally wonder is why then are we not seeing more traditional high fantasy excluding characters from Earth? And further, why is it these isekai are following such rigid paths when the broader genre of portal fantasy can do so much more?Why are all isekai anime all the same, or at least similar?
Because corporations are creatively bankrupt and the outsourced semi-amateur Light Novel writers want to desperately please them.
Why are all isekai posted on sites like this one similar?
Because sites like this usually have the community entirely obsessed with certain story quirks. Unlike the above example, you can post anything without worrying about corporate fat cats, but they want to be read. They can post just about anything, but stories built about specific quirks need to be moved around the Internet to find the site that caters to a specific community.
Why isekai exist?
Did you ever try to watch the news? Try to watch one of the 24-hours news channels. Depression about the current status of the world is guaranteed. You will dream about escaping to the world where you don't have to worry about that shit and where you get the harem of devoted catgirls of questionable age as a bonus.
Because it would be another genre.The thing I personally wonder is why then are we not seeing more traditional high fantasy excluding characters from Earth? And further, why is it these isekai are following such rigid paths when the broader genre of portal fantasy can do so much more?
I know the answer is "it's what the readers want," but I feel like that isn't always the case. Even given the expectations of isekai on these sites there is still much that can be done with it, but I do not see that happening.
My mind is in pain, I'm not even sure if I'm right now, with how much you used it,I don't really look at the overabundance of isekai as a bad thing; quite the opposite in fact. If anything, I tend to look at it like the mystery genre, which has so many subgenres. There's an isekai style story for everyone. You get your video game/litRPG isekai, you get your slow-life isekai, you get your NTR/betrayal-and-revenge type isekai, you get your villainess isekai, you get your harem romance isekai, you get your death-by-truck-san isekai, you get your OP MC isekai, you get your going-back-and-forth-between-real-world-and-isekai-world type isekai, and you even get your ecchi/hentai isekai. There are so many varieties, and variety is the spice of life, yo!
It feels as though Isekai has lost its touch. I just don't find it as good anymore. Numb to it. I don't hate it and always welcome moreI have nothing against the genre; there are a lot of intriguing things you can do with it. I just get the impression that they don't do anything with it and stick to what's popular.
I think that the first anime I watched, and first isekai too, was InuyashaHonestly, I watched 12 Kingdom and Fushigi Yugi as my first "isekai" (or is it transmigration) anime. It was Hella good.
Oh yes. I totally forgot about inuyasha. That was good too!I think that the first anime I watched, and first isekai too, was Inuyasha
good.I have nothing against the genre; there are a lot of intriguing things you can do with it. I just get the impression that they don't do anything with it and stick to what's popular.
Help. This comment destroyed me.I'd say that isekai as a genre is so popular because of how easy it is to write, like Temple said somewhere on the previous page. I don't have problem with isekai in itself, but I do have a problem with people who write iseaki because they don't have a better idea, and ten chapters into the story you don't even remember what was the character's origin. In way too many cases it's just being killed and reincarnating, and that's boring, generic, and incredibly repetitive.
I like when isekai is stretched over new ideas and concepts that actually affect the story and the plot in tangible manner. A few examples from the top of my head are Ryn of Avonside; We're not so different, You and I; The Reincarnation of Alysara (to a smaller degree). All of them are techincally isakai, but they are original and have reasonable, significant connections to the previous world that can be felt in the story.
Yes, I know those three are all gender bender, but that's not my fault.
The overabundance of isekai is basically market demand and simplicity having a child. Both of those things make it very simple for even inexperienced authors to find reasonable success easily. Not that I like it. It's just that in niche genres you find a gold amidst a few silvers and a few tens coppers or worse, and in isekai genre you have those numbers squared.
Like what? I don't understand.Help. This comment destroyed me.
Lmfao I was making a joke. I agree with your comment so much to the point that you forced me to be introspective and made me realize my isekai story is exactly that haha (a dime a dozen isekai story).Like what? I don't understand.
Welp, glad to help.Lmfao I was making a joke. I agree with your comment so much to the point that you forced me to be introspective and made me realize my isekai story is exactly that haha (a dime a dozen isekai story).