Cross-posted from “What’s up with the isekai genre? Are there any good isekais out there?” by @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !manga@ani.social

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.

    • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      4 humans of “reality” becoming Kings and Queens of a fantasy world after meeting the god of that world? With Judeo-Christian slop words thrown around to sound deeper?

      Definitely an Isekai.

      Alas, its too 'new". Its decades after “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, which not only has kings, queens, fantasy, overpowered main character, science (gatling guns used on fantasy troops)… but also has the “Full Sentence Title” that Isekai are known for.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        The first isekai was Robinson Crusoe. New World? ✅ Weird pro slavery rants? ✅ Overpowered MC with a cheat weapon? ✅

        Full original Publishing Title btw:

        The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
      • Unboxious@ani.socialEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        “That Time I was Just a Connecticut Yankee but then I Appeared in King Arthur’s Court?!!”

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

        MC does not get hit by a truck because trucks hadn’t been invented yet.

        He gets hit by a baseball.

    • Endmaker@ani.socialEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      I’d say Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is a contender for best isekai if the target demographic is kids.

      • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        English dub of Digimon S1 is seriously a masterpiece, if we are talking about kid-based Isekai.

        Yes. English dub only. Saban changed a lot of dialogue, music and such. Yeah yeah Butterfly (Japanese song) is great. But have you heard ‘Hey Digimon hey Digimon’??