What's the difference between a classic fantasy world and an isekai fantasy world?
What's the difference between a classic fantasy world and an isekai fantasy world?
RPG video game mechanics.
No
Technically, nothing.
The entire point of an isekai is that it focuses on a protagonist that gets transported there from the "real world". And several plot points become tied to that premise.
Also, a lot of the time the fantasy world they're dragged into can have less depth, since it becomes a means for the transported protagonist to fill or a role. It's more about the fact that they're in a different world, rather than fleshing out the world itself. Of course, there are isekai with good worldbuilding, but it seems like authors use isekai as an excuse to have shallow depth.
In a proper isekai, the MC must have some feature that makes him (or her I guess) uniquely overpowered and unnecessarily cool and popular by the standards of the fantasy world.
I don't see how classic fantasy can compete tbqh
In theory, endless exposition explaining to the MC how everything works in that world and then the MC giving long speeches about how every little thing is different from what he's used to vs. being born in that world an already knowing how things are.
But in reality that doesn't stop jap authors from endless exposition in classical fantasy because they can't write for shit.
MC is a native of the world. No fish out of water stupidity for half a cour. Why is this so hard to understand.
There shouldn't be any difference. It's all about the MC and the writing.
That's a property of the narrative, not the world.
who cares?