The Truth about Isekai

Many anons have been arguing in the past about whether or not a series is an isekai or not. Escpacially in regards to VRMMOs stories like SAO.
Look no further! Pic related gives the answer!
The New Gate illustrates how someone from a SAO-like "Death Game" VRMMO, where you supposedly die for real if you die in the game, manages to clear the game's final boss and then gets isekai'd into the game world after it became an actual, real world, all in the very beginning of the story.
If you still can't distinguish real isekai from fake ones after reading that, then there's no hope left for you!

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>Aileen using spirit speech to up the power of her death flag
Cute!

By the powers bestowed to me by the high lords of isekaigen i declare this thread off limits

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Would definitely walk both elves home gently.

>check out how's the EN > (my native language) TNE translation doing out of curiosity
>Free chapters: 0-92
>Paid chapters: 93-157, everything else is untranslated.
>1 free chapter every 2 days, 1 paid chapter every 1-2 days.

Seems pretty slow and kinda greedy to me. Thinking about just hijacking the translation and posting stuff for free somewhere.

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>Many anons have been arguing in the past about whether or not a series is an isekai or not.
No they haven't

DO NOT USE THIS THREAD YOU GOOKFAGS

We haven't got that much isekai anime looking at the numbers, so why are people saying "enough with the isekai" and shit?

It's a preemptive strike by mutiple ironic weeb fandoms who for some reason abhor wish fullfilment stories
and given most of those scum browse the board, they make anti isekai threads, a clear sign they aren't from here

there's not even an argument on SAO. it's just one retard who thinks playing the htc vive means you got isekai'd

So what's about this new gate thing?

Not sure. I remember reading it about a year ago but I can't remember the mc's name, his agenda, the girls and what the hell was happening there at all. It also felt pretty bland back then so yeah.

>series is called New Gate
>setting is cliche and unoriginal
What did Japan mean by this?

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>Cliche
I bet you think it's "tropey" too you fucking redditor, these words don't mean anything

It's just a virtual isekai.

Do it fag.

delet

>comfy adventures with OP hero exploring the land he saved centuries ago
>nooooo don't kill the horrible bandits or you'll become edgyyy
Fucking elf bitch, just let the man kill those scumbags.

>no delet
DELET

Bunch of people get trapped in a game, a party of heroes manages to beat the final boss and get everyone out, but in the process the game world becomes real and he gets thrown through time into the future of it. In the future of the world, magical power and the strength of most things has been greatly reduced. The old players who left the game are regarded as near-mythical figures and a lot of the stuff they crafted and left behind are treated as powerful relics. MC is traveling around collecting some of his old stuff (And former NPC allies who are still alive) while some sort of plot to revive the former final boss or something is happening. All while MC keeps his identity as a former player (And one of the most powerful at that) secret.

Why keep it secret?

Are classic shojos like Escaflowne and Fushigi Yuugi an example of Isekai?

How about InuYasha? Magic Knight Rayearth?

I've argued Inuyasha isn't isekai because Kagome can go in and out of that well at will

Because governments would be all over him and he'd never get any peace. One of his old allies is an elf NPC maid (who in the current world is considerably powerful due to the power drop) and she's monitored by one of the nations almost 24/7 while doing jobs for them and they flipped the hell out when she disappeared for a few weeks along with the portable shop that the MC had left behind previously but came to collect. They treat anything related to the old heroes as serious business.

That's a silly definition, Jew Loli even has isekai in the title and it's exactly like that.
Isn't Inuyasha just time travel though? THAT makes it not isekai.

Inuyasha is tricky. TECHNICALLY it's time travel, although in Inuyasha ancient Japan just happens to be filled with monsters.

No it isn't because Kagome isn't stuck in the other world

Being stuck in the other world isn't a requirement for isekai, there are plenty where they people can travel back and forth fairly conveniently or even at will.

it doesn't matter
if an isekai isn't called "Those who hunt elves", then it's shit

>A dwarf breaths so loud, one can shoot him in the dark.

Hey guys! Ugh... What's the difference between isekai, SAO, Digimon and native isekai?