At which point mediocre isekai turned into just another seasonal genre?

At which point mediocre isekai turned into just another seasonal genre?

And why am I enjoying them all?

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Most of the time it's just cute and fun, comfy watching

What we really need is more highschool battle harems.

I had to increase speed to 300% to finish IS
England a best

It just werks

I'm enjoying watching isekai Jesus as he performs his miracles

thank goodness the shitposters went off

Neck yourself

Why you afraid enjoying something on the first place? Harem is love, harem is life. Being isekai is just a plus.

why not sci-fi isekai? it would be nice if one of these shows put actual effort into the environment designs and world, they're completely interchangeable.

2011 - the rise of web novel isekai
2012 - sao anime unintentionally aided the isekai boom
2013 - smooth growth
2014/2015 - successful anime transition with NGNL, overlord
2016 - even more isekai to the point of banning them in some contests
2017 - manga isekai on the rise and most isekai getting into anime adaptation range (7+ vol)
2018/2022 -isekai anime boom

>some contests
>its actually one and its kyoani's rigged one at that
c'mon now son, no disinfo pls

>2011
DATABASE DATABASE

>why am I enjoying them all?
The isekai world is a look int the authors deepest desires.

Isekai downplayer begone, these are just the big ones, who knows how many small contests banned them.
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I think the Kadokawa one banned them as well.

because all of the light novels became isekai and it is now trickling down.

How many isekai anime does it take until you're burnt out?

It seems like a lot of people dislike them now, but I'm still finding it enjoyable.

is Digimon isekai ?

Shit taste, like most on this board apparently.

Oh boy! Harem, overpowered MC, and harem AGAIN? Just what I wanted. I love when bland protagonists fulfill my wishes.

oh please, only Sup Forums hates on isekai

Meant to type "rpg mechanics" instead of "harem" one of those times. Whatever

No.

So this Isekai Smarthphone Yadadawhatever is also categorized as romance.

Most romance series are pretty obvious. MC usually ends up with the first girl he sees. However, he meets twins in this one.

Who the fuck wins?

reborn as a hot spring in a fantasy world.
Did isekai go too far?
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Yes

>first chapter
>he can already take human form

Didn't the mage do that?

Every anime is isekai because you self insert therefore getting isekai'd from Earth for a while. Isekai anime is double escapism, for when regular escapism through anime isn't enough and you need the story happen in an entire different world so it doesn't remember of anything from your real life by accident.

Eventually we'll have shows about people that write novels, about people that write isekai novels and about people that write about people writing isekai novels, and like this consecutively, adding another layer of meta-media every time.

And of course we must go in deeper.

I think SAO, and the way it sold so well despite being awful and only getting worse, really kicked things off.

>Every anime is isekai because you self insert
Speak for yourself

Yeah

> they are rich as fuck at the second episode and they walk with a fucking demigod
> lets hunt rats in the sewers for sum copper, yay

What?

>you self insert

That depends on you. People generally have a genre that they can just eat shit up.

Well sometimes you get bored of seeing highschool

OPs anime

Purple long hair > samurai reimu > purple short hair

Okay that's dumb as shit.

What about western isekai
>Alice in Wonderland
>Oz
>John Carter
>Narnia

>Purple
Your eyes are broken

Why do people watch this trash?

I'm not memeing or trolling here. I'm genuinely curious why anyone is watching this garbage past episode 1.

When you run out of good anime to watch bad anime is better than no anime

Same reason why people like watching really bad trashy movies I gues.

This.

I know Isekai sucks. But I'm bored and I might as well watch something.

But Fate/Apocrypha is airing this season, and then there is your backlog.

the only show on my watchlist.
oh and that princess shit.

Literally all of them.
At this point in the LN he has 7 fiances.
A horny scientist in the past looked in to his future and told him he would end up with 9 wives. Every girl in the OP except the fairy bitch is a confirmed winner of the mc bowl.

The extreme rate he gets powerful at is amusing

>implying I'm not watching Fate/Apocrphya.
Also it's more fun to watch shows with Sup Forums as they air than work through a backlog that's probably equally shit.

>en.rocketnews24.com/2017/05/22/anime-style-novel-contest-in-japan-bans-alternate-reality-stories-and-teen-protagonists/
>bans teens and isekai
based as FUCK. it's such fucking cancer there's no reason to even read the stories cause you'll waste your time.

you can't read japanese and haven't been into it from the start. it was okay 5 years ago, but now it's pure cancer to the point i stopped even checking web novels or japanese light novels anymore.

Who are you quoting? Why would you only want to watch anime if Sup Forums is watching? Are you one of those ironic weebs?

What color is it then? Looks like light purple to me.

I can understand banning isekais, but why teenaged protagonists? Don't teenagers make up the sheer majority of the fanbase?

It's clearly lavender.

Amazing. Truly amazing.

>Don't teenagers
look at the iconic old light novels like slayers and lots of anime from the 90's. it was a lot of adults in fantasy settings even if they were teens they were like 18+ years old and not middle school children with peter pan syndrome.

now it's common for light novels to go for like 20+ volumes where the character has zero real development and is still a child and doesn't age at all.

>in b4 an influx of new LNs where the MC is a 21-year old university student who does immature things

Are you a girl?

They basically give you the same instant gratification for storytelling that you get from porn for sex.

>And why am I enjoying them all?
You have low standards.

We've had "turned into a sword" and "turned into an onsen", how do you top that?
>"I got reincarnated as another world. Yes, the entire world!"

Read manga.

There are no girls on Sup Forums.

I know this is really really bad, but this kind of story just activates something inside my dna, it just gives me this very familiar feeling like i was always supposed to live in a medieval world

i can't even blame anime for this i read chronicles of narnia when i was 8 and there was no return from that point, so i'll keep watching this shit no matter how awful it can be

It could be worse. I grew up playing Sonic the Hedgehog since I was 4 years old.

I'm just glad I stopped playing after Adventure 2.

Funny, using aijin like that

>(1.
>(2.
The fuck is this shit, user? Use 1) or 2. like a normal person.

>eating shit is better than starving

yeah what the fuck is that format uggh

Depending on the situation it probably is,

Better having low standards and enjoying everything you do than having impossibly high standards and hating all anime while complaining that the industry is dying all day.
At that point I have to wonder why not just get a different hobby.

-Supply to demand: there was rarely any medieval fantasy anime to begin with so the influx scratches an itch.
-Escapism: many people dream of dying and becoming an OPMC with harem, half of them being beastkin, in a fantasy world.
-"I don't I just like this one good one" Konosuba, Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, Kumo desu ga, Tanya the Evil, Kenkyo, Shield Hero they like them for their own specific reasons, the rest is garbage.
-Hope for a good Isekai: Lot of these premises are pretty awesome if you think about it, too bad the shitty writing doesn't make any of them fulfill their potential, they'll wait patiently until it does
-Comfyness: Lot of these series have no drama, just the way a lot of Sup Forumsnons like it, a silly series with silly characters to take the load off.

better?

University students if we're lucky. It's more likely we'll get a string of college dropout NEETs instead.

Oh hey, this is the same impression I got too. After curing blindness I'm convinced there's nithing he can't do, so I wonder if the original LN has any conflict whatsoever later on.

Yes, it becomes a muv luv clone later on and MC has to fight against shit that's immune to magic

Isekai started turning into a seasonal genre when they started overtaking battle harems for the last couple of years.

Asura Cryin' was painfully shitty, so much so that I can't believe it's even on a recommendation list.

Then that world gets taken over by an isekai'd hero who was ran over by a truck.

Would read the fuck out of that if the world started off as a blank slate and it was literally just world building.

A lot of anime is bad, but this particular case of bad anime is at least easy to watch.

>i died and when i woke up i was a used condom but thrown into the trash
the story is about his journey to the trash dump and how long it takes him to get incinerated.

the sequel is
>i was a used condom but now i'm a single cell organism

>Except the fairy bitch

But she is the best girl!

would read

I need more Tenjou Tenge.

>I'm a sadist but after being hit by a truck I awoke as a tower shield!?

I think the only thing I dislike more than the isekai genre is how long & ridiculous LN titles can be.

>tfw the above sentence could qualify for an LN title itself

>ch 1 - let me use my powers to manifest myself as a human on the earth

Dropped.

I'd make it a masochist.

But then where's the conflict? MC wants to do sadistic things, but he's trapped on the defense side until his user discovers the wonders of the shield bash.

never have I came across one that I liked

and you just know that shit is going to happen

>tfw anons don't know about the notChina country that blames the MC for the alien invasion and also wants to steal his mechs
l e l

I would actually read this. Sentient planets are cool as fuck and one acting in its own self interest could be pretty cool so long as he/she doesn't manifest themselves as a human and go on generic adventures.

I could be pretty cool if the civilizations that were present were wrecking their planet and a god places him as the planet solely so it can fight back. Humans vs Treant/Golem armys could be fun reads.

I'm enjoying smartphone Isekai way more than I should be too.

I think its just something specifically about how its so generic and doesn't try anything at all unique that makes it oddly comforting. Like anime junk food. I can just turn my brain off for a bit and enjoy it.

>treants/golems are super retarded and MC can't get them to do what he wants

That's not what he said user. He said its MORE FUN to watch with Sup Forums, not that he ONLY watches with Sup Forums. And hes mostly right if the quality of your backlog isn't that great (hence it being backlogged in the first place).

All of his allies would be incompetent.

>Dragons too proud to do anything but attack whole armys by themselves and die
>Elves garbage at fighting outside of their forests which the humans just burn

MC would probably have to settle for having all the golems dig downwards trying to trigger volcanic eruptions/release gas to poison the atmosphere.

>no mention of Mushoku Tensei, the one that sparked the boom
>only mentions SAO, the series that set up the conditions for the spark
NGNL and Overlord didn't even contribute much to the boom.

.hack was a decade too early, it could've been the king of the isekai. and the based Red Knight would've been acknowledged as the best self-insert and the cute crippled girl would've agreed to bang!