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.
there is way more bad than good, because SAO got popular years ago and showed publishers that isekai fans will accept absolute slop, and not even the kinda slop you might like on a bad day. That said, there are some real good ones out there. In addition to what other people have said, I’d like to point out what should have gotten big instead of SAO; Log Horizon. It’s also about getting trapped in a game but log is generally about dealing with the world and the implications of it coming to life . For a minor spoiler:
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A big part of the early story is realizing using game mechanics to interact with a real world is uncomfortable at best so they figure out you can just interact normally. Instead of using a cooking skill to make a predefined meal, just hold the meat over the fire and put your seasoning on it. Or instead of going through a menu to fight, just swing your sword.