Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?

But what the hell, I’m pretty sure there’s more isekai now than other genres/settings. It’s gotten to a point that if I see the tag I just move on.

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I’m more sick of the harem trope than the isekai trope, between that and fan service beach days I don’t even feel like trying new shows sometimes

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I stopped watching isekai BECAUSE it always ended up being creepy harem stuff with underage characters, I feel like the two are permanently fused

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You should check out Spellbinder. It’s a live action Isekai from the 90s produced as a collaboration between Australia and Poland. There are no romantic themes except for a subplot where two characters pretend to be in love for plot reasons and they both absolutely hate it. Also the “love” is entirely age appropriate.

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Why are all isekai protagonists white-adjacent guys who end up defending straight-up slavery and have sus relations with minors

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I know what you mean, it’s weird to me too that often the protags are white or European coded, the whole thing is a weird mess and full of ick

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You can also literally tell from the cover what kind of show it’s going to be 😭

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Isekai is more of a setup than an actual genre.

If they weren’t isekai, they’d just be shitty fantasy. Isekai allows writers to skip a bunch of steps and start with a fully-formed character the audience can relate to.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an Isekai

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Probably not, but after something like 2 decade of zombie shit everywhere i will take ANYTHING over it. Also there are good isekai, bad isekai and chinese isekai where the only thing coming of it is the protagonist using modern Earth idioms and perfectly assimilating otherwise.

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Been sick of them for close to a decade now

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I still like the concept, it’s just that 90% of the stuff that uses said concept is terrible. I mean, Isekai is only an initial premise, you need A LOT more to make a good anime.

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Or only use isekai as an arc rather than the general premise like hxh did

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Oh yeah, i love greed island. It being an arc certainly keeps the novelty of the other world’s mechanics from getting old.

To make it work as a full series you gotta have a lot more substance though, because at some point that novelty will inevitably run out. And now instead of “exciting new world where everything is different”, it’s just a regular world we’re already used to. At that point you gotta have an actual compelling story to keep it going.

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