Cross-posted from “What’s up with the isekai genre? Are there any good isekais out there?” by @[email protected] in [email protected]

It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn’t read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it’s kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just “guilty pleasures”? The only one I’ve been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.

  • enkersEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    I kinda find modern isekai are very formulaic. If you just want some fan service and an OP power fantasy protag who doesn’t struggle at anything, then they look nice enough, but are still kinda trash.

    I’d recommend watching some of the early ones when the genre wasn’t so well defined:

    • Now and Then, Here and There
    • Twelve Kingdoms
    • El Hazard
    • Vision of Edcaflowne
    • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Or even further back:

      • GoShogun The Time Etranger - A weird abstract 1 shot OAV with the characters from the GoShogun combination mecha TV show. This was one of my favorites from the 80s.
      • Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko - A fun 1 shot OAV from the 80s, with fun direction, characters and mecha designs.
      • Aura Battler Dunbine TV show - With its great insectoid mecha, by Yoshiyuki “Gundam” Tomino
      • Super Dimension Century Orguss TV show - less clearly isekai, but it’s fun work by the crew who did Macross: Noboru Ishiguro, Yasumi Mikamoto, character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto.
      • enkersEnglish
        1·
        15 minutes ago

        If I had to pick just one, which one would you suggest?