What was the first super popular isekai everything else is ripping off? Will this fad die off soon?

>despite not being an isekai itsel
?

kirito's body is still in the real world. he's not completely transported to the game world

game world technically isn't isekai, but SAO popularized all the cancerous tropes.

if thats the case isnt hack the exact same story years earlier

The characters aren't actually in another world. SAO is really different from the current basic Isekai model

we call it ネイティブ isekai.

your point being?

that hack did it first

hack isn't isekai

neither is sao?

yes? what's your point?

SAO is the more popular one and what most isekai ripping off from.

I call it 自殺しろ

>Will this fad die off soon
Yep.

A more interesting thing to ponder would be what would take its place.

you sure? what do you think will replace isekai when it dies off?

netflix anime

violet evergarden rip offs

VEG isn't even half as popular as SAO when it came out, so i doubt it

SCI-FI CYBERPUNK ISEKAI
hopefully

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Zero no Tsukaima. Definitely not the first but it was popular

El Hazard
It you mean a neet in another world then it's Zero no Tsukaima, he is the summoned hero who brings modern technology and has a cheat skill.

A rip off of the .hack project

Magic Knight Rayearth is an old one

But even older is the story of Urashima Tarō, a widely known folk tale in Japan that isekai writers grew up with.

Dragon Ball was technically an isekai

Just don't watch them instead of being triggered for the next 20 years.
Or stop trying to impress others with how "sophisticated" you're pretending to be and realize that fun things are fun.

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As modern humans continue their involution towards subhuman, retarded forms in the age of technology, the only thing that can possibly replace something as vapid as isekai will be even worse. Personally I don't want to find out what that will be.

Fun things are indeed fun, it's just that isekai isn't fun

Lazy scifi is just fantasy in space.
Lazy cyberpunk is just porn pop-ups and robot prostitutes.

There will always be well-written exceptions, but hoping for a mainstream trend means to hope for a flood of lazily written garbage.
I do not understand why people think the quality will rise if lazy writers begin writing crap of a "new" flavor.

Nigger, what isekai fad? There's just one or two anime per season. You have only yourself to Blame for only consuming isekai.

Isekai isn't going away any time soon, you only need to look at the current state of light novels to see that.

Isekai anime adaptations have barely scraped the surface either.

>current state of light novels
You mean translated LNs?

that sao isnt the origin if hack isnt

I suppose you're right. LNs aren't just dominated by isekai, but by narou-kei in general.

OP isn't asking about the origin. He's asking what people are ripping off.
There is a difference.

How many isekai anime do we have this season? I really don't feel this isekai fad bros. Maybe web novels are filled to the brim with isekai.

but sao ripped off hack ergo everything is ripping off hack?

2. 4 next season.

web novels aren't LNs unless they get picked up and published under LN label. More than 200 LNs get published per year and only a part of them are isekai. There's variety in LNs, just explore different publishers.

>ergo everything is ripping off hack
No, that is not how it works.
When cliches have clearly been altered by the middle-man, and people are not aware of the original (which hack wouldn't be anyway) - then that middle-man cannot just be ignored.

nah hack best

The quality of Hack was never in question.

Mushoku Tensei comes to mind. It wasn’t the first, but it was the first example of “modern isekai” at least at the time that I read it.

>What was the first super popular isekai everything else is ripping off?

Wasn't Digimon technically Isekai even though it was adapting a videogame?

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>everything else is ripping off

where does the "consume enemies to gain their abilities"-meme come from? Arifureta, Slime, Re:Monster, Dungeon Seeker etc. all do this.

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My dick.
Unironically

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