Well, Isekai has to be one of the worst trends ever. It’s so overly reliant on self-fulfillment and self-insert as a hook that it has nothing to go for in terms of story. Almost all having the same setup and structure with a gimmick.
In terms of anime, the vast majority hasn’t been isekai. Just in the fantasy genre alone the current season has five that aren’t isekai (6 if you want to include MAO) and Daemons of The Shadow Realm and Witch Hat Atelier are very highly rated.
Other people enjoying slop shouldn’t harm your own enjoyment.
Pandantic@midwest.social
on 20 May 04:05
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I didn’t even know what isekai was but this headline made me know what it was instantly.
TwilightKiddy@programming.dev
on 20 May 07:16
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Yea, sure, the genre is the problem. Certainly not the fact that 90% of all the modern anime just feels like you have a ready preset of character types and reactions, couple stereotypes about Japan and world building blocks, then you just mix and match those together.
There are plenty of good isekai anime, the genre rarely defines whether the show is good or not. It’s just that if your main character is a regurgitated Mary Sue (or a male version, doesn’t really matter), your world is a dead standard LitRPG teen creation and supporting characters only exist for the sake of posing as a harem, maybe the show being isekai is not the problem?
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Well, Isekai has to be one of the worst trends ever. It’s so overly reliant on self-fulfillment and self-insert as a hook that it has nothing to go for in terms of story. Almost all having the same setup and structure with a gimmick.
And the glorification of slavery… my god…
Don’t forget the 17.–century-style titles that go on for two whole paragraphs (that they’re all light-novel adaptions is not an excuse).
will this finally be the end of isekai? i want to finally enjoy anime, pls.
Fr man. I swear there’s more Isekai than actual fantasy anime at this point.
In terms of anime, the vast majority hasn’t been isekai. Just in the fantasy genre alone the current season has five that aren’t isekai (6 if you want to include MAO) and Daemons of The Shadow Realm and Witch Hat Atelier are very highly rated.
Other people enjoying slop shouldn’t harm your own enjoyment.
I didn’t even know what isekai was but this headline made me know what it was instantly.
Yea, sure, the genre is the problem. Certainly not the fact that 90% of all the modern anime just feels like you have a ready preset of character types and reactions, couple stereotypes about Japan and world building blocks, then you just mix and match those together.
There are plenty of good isekai anime, the genre rarely defines whether the show is good or not. It’s just that if your main character is a regurgitated Mary Sue (or a male version, doesn’t really matter), your world is a dead standard LitRPG teen creation and supporting characters only exist for the sake of posing as a harem, maybe the show being isekai is not the problem?