Isekai is a fom trend

>Isekai is a fom trend
>not realizing that isekai is one of the oldest genres

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>Not realizing the nuances between modern isekai and fantasy
Brainlet

Dorothy: "Wow, all the tropes I learned from reading fantasy books has given me an advantage here! I'm way cooler here than in the real world!"

Oh wait that's not a fucking thing.

If you compare current day isekai to old ones, it says a lot about how miserable people are these days.
In current day ones, nobody wants to go back to the real world.
But in the old ones, going back was usually the protagonist's goal. Even in fucking Kansas from 1900 to 1939, people were conceivably happier with their lives than we are now.

Okay Yea Forums, how would you add video game mechanics to the Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland?

Is the same faggots that complained about moe in the past.

The _trend_ is new. There have been lots of isekai things, but those were incidental details and occurred sporadically. The current isekai density is atypically high.

They're generally shittier nowadays as well, because people aren't being isekai'd into fantasy worlds so much as JRPG land. And JRPG land has lots of incredibly stupid tropes.

>Even in fucking Kansas from 1900 to 1939, people were conceivably happier with their lives than we are now.
No, they were just as miserable: in the novels Dorothy brings her family over into Oz because it's better than living in bland-ass Kansas with a shit-ton of debt.

This is actually the general issue. Older Isekai were built around the concept that the protagonist was a gateway character and that they wanted to return home and live a peaceful life in reality. The protagonists were also almost always girls.

Modern isekai however is far more about accepting fantasy and ignoring the responsibilities of reality. They're also almost always MMOs that don't use the MMO concept in interesting ways or just generic fantasy worlds. You don't see huge worldbuilding like Rayearth, or Esclaflowne.

Post your first Isekais

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>imagine being this fucking dumb

what dumb thing did user write?

Nothing. Escaflowne is an isekai, but being an isekai isn't the point of Escaflowne, its just one of its specific twists on fantasy mecha.

Nowadays isekai is a genre, because genre is a marketing term and people writing isekai are writing them for audiences 'that enjoy isekai', not 'people who like historical romances' or 'people who like fantasy' or whatever. Many of them are trying to be subversive, but 1. the authors aren't good enough to maintain quality subversion and 2. its new enough as a genre that subverting it is more difficult than usual anyway.

narou isekai is a trend

Isekai have all the best girls

How can other genres compete?

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maybe you wanted to quote instead of ? or both?

Isekai isn't a new genre, its popularity/"trendy'ness" is new.

Dorothy only brings her family over eventually because L Frank Baum kept getting forced by fan demand and money issues to write more Oz books and kept trying to find new ways for the series to be definitively over.

Log Horizon is the best isekai

The trend right now is "battle harem in another world" which can be condensed to "isekai"

Its not a new story aspect, it is new as a distinct genre.

The name might be new, but nope.

Only degenerates would watch shows for the girls

Go watch porn dude.

The name isn't particularly new.

I don't think you really understand what genres are. They aren't elemental divisions of fictions that are a priori coherent. They're how you position media in relation to the audience. Back in the day no one was watching isekai qua isekai, therefore it was not a genre. Now they are, therefore it is.

Isekai as the genre's name is kinda new.

"Send to / trapped in another world" isn't new.

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Technically the first isekai would be Alice in Wonderland.

Congratulations on just repeating yourself and not engaging with literally anything I said.

>and not engaging with literally anything I said.
I did, and
these anons also kinda prove your "points" wrong.

>not realizing that japs are just inspired by the only English literature they ever read

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>Now they are, therefore it is.
Or do they? Don't they just want narou-type wish fulfillment, that isn't necessarily isekai?

Except thats wrong and a dumb comparison.
Maybe if most isekai were about 11 year old girls being transported to magical wprlds where they have no powers it would be an apt comparison.
Compare the isekai of today to their counterparts of yesterday and they're pretty much the exact same

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The bible is technically an isekai

if there was something from non-Japanese isekai that you can import to modern Japanese isekai what would it be?

How come Dorothy got three stands?

Those are just monsters