>NEVER ending story
>it ends
How can you like isekai if they don't end?
Lucas Johnson
Henry Thomas
Are they still making more episodes?
Joshua Powell
What isekai really changes about conventional fantasy is that it distorts the MC's inner thought process. Rather than being a natural part of the world and thinking within it, he maintains a detached and somewhat deliberate point of view. Like the way a player character acts in an MMO, from the perspective of the NPCs. This is as expected, since MMORPGs are a major inspiration for the isekai genre.
I know some say that isekai premises quickly lose meaning and the story eventually turns into something virtually identical to if a boy was born in the same world and was chosen by the gods for greatness, but in my opinion that remote isekai POV always sets it apart from conventional fantasy, even if the origin story ceases to be important.
I really don't think isekai is a 'flavor of the month' that will fade like other stuff such as battle harems. Its replacement will be something even more immersive. Rather than reading/watching a story about someone who was transported to another world, you will be made to feel that way yourself. That's the ultimate end that isekai is pointing towards.
Ryder Davis
Some of them do end - Konosuba, Youjo Senki, Kumo (kinda???), and Slime all have endings.
Only Konosuba has good ending though.
Parker Fisher
Because it would be shit as our anime original endings
Nathan Russell
Like one of those Choose Your Own Adventure books?
Brody Johnson
Actually, when I like a thing, I want it to be endless.
Chase Hughes
>How can people enjoy sitcoms?
>How can people enjoy life?
This is not the place for Metaphysical questions, anom.
Jace White
Yeah but that's 4 titles out of how many hundred isekai?
Oliver Watson
You think that at first. Then The Simpsons happens.