• teddy2021
    224·
    1 year ago

    I feel like a fantasy world that you can semi-freely travel to without death is not isekai.

    • TallonMetroid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      If you’re going to apply that restriction you might as well go whole hog and also apply the “new world runs on shitty JRPG mechanics” part that also plagues modern isekai too.

      • teddy2021
        4·
        1 year ago

        And has a 90% likelihood of being boring as far as storytelling is concerned.

      • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m actually enjoying the result of this, where they are now exploring these partial video game worlds in world.

        Berserk of Gluttony is a current example. The isekai genre posits these videogame-esque worlds. So I like that other animes are now exploring them.

    • Jax
      71·
      1 year ago

      I mean, Inuyasha exists.

        • Jax
          6·
          1 year ago

          Uh, the main character Kagome falls through a well into feudal era Japan and cannot get back.

          Not sure how that doesn’t qualify as an Isekai.