Why is Japs so obessed with Isekai?

Why is Japs so obessed with Isekai?

that image has nothing to do with isekai though

Then where did she go?

checkmate

all trucks lead to isekai, user!

Because it's fantasy + fish out of water, meaning it's easy to get invested in.

It's a scientifically proven fact that all japanese end up in an cRPG when they die.

I thought westerns were much more obsessed with Isekai.

Forgot image teehee~

>he doesn't want to leave the currently socially imploding west to adventure in a fantasy land filled with cute catbois and elf girls.

i am also obsessed with isekai now

what if you get isekai'd in a world you were isekai'd to? liek some fucking cart hit you

Her mangled body is probably wrapped around the wheels. Her insides are smeared on the street

Back to reality and there goes gravity

>Socially imploding west

You know Japan has a problem where people are literally not breeding and people aren't dying so the economy is becoming disasterously overburdened now that people are both too old to work, too many old people to take care of and people are becoming socially inept and reclusive and withdrawing from life and society.

Just because you masturbate to men in wigs doesn't mean Japan isn't socially imploding.

at this point, can't hurt to try

DATABASE DATABASE

I wonder what Raimi thinks of animu.

>Why is Japs so obessed with Isekai?
Because they hate their life and would rather have any other existence than the one they have... like (you).

Read Alice in Wonderland and then hang yourself.

Untrue, she doesn't respond.

The west is just as obsessed

When was the last time there was a western isekai? Black Knight?

Literally Westworld

is this the live action wolfenstein 3d?

Nah, Army of Darkness is good.

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>Why is Japs so obessed with Isekai?
Because instead of living mundane lives, the MC (self-insert) goes to an exciting world where they gain love interests, and have control over their own destiny. It's essentially escapism at a national scale.

Japanese government gave up on NEET rehabilitation so now they are funding Isekai to get them to kill themselves.

Harry Potter half-counts. The Magicians fully counts.

Have you seen the popularity rankings on all these manga sites? Isekai series are always at the top. Even the manga raw sites specialize in providing isekai series first and foremost, because that's what western readers want.

It's fucking happening with Jumanji
The sequel is going to be an MMO

It's escapist fiction about literally escaping this shitty reality.
The question you should be asking is why isn't the rest of the world obsessed with isekai enough to make better stuff about it than Japan?

After 75 years of glorifying productivity and duty to company and family honor over individual fulfilment Japanese find themselves in a hellish nightmare where the only option is to work themselves to death.

You'd want to escape too.

As opposed to the kind of freedom in, lets say, Germany?

Germany has way less work hours because they care about efficiency and actual productivity over "muh work ethic" and "muh honor". Their average work week is no greater than 30 hours and annually on average they work no more than 1400 hours.

Immigration fixes that though

Just once I'd like to see a character get hit by a truck and the truck is completely wrecked.

And the truck gets isekai'd to a world of robots?

A better question is, why is Japan obsessed with death by truck?

Why are all isekaies own cheat skills?

Why do OPs suck ass at grammar? The world may never fucking know. Now shut up and enjoy isekai.

Because the rights are cheap and easy to get and they're popular enough so you have a "follow the leader" syndrome.

As for the stories themselves? Because they're written by lazy hacks who think they can cheat their way out of a beginning to their self-insert fan fiction.

To add onto what this annon already said, even with working less hours Germany one of the most productive countries in the world.

Because it's not a really good fantasy without a cheat skill. Why would you want to be taken to another world with magic and demons only to pop out as a generic nobody. What a terrible fate.

Germany has less work hours because they have a strong tradition of workers' rights and organized labor. Japan's unions largely follow management's whims.

Because how else is a poor writer going to make a compelling character? Surely not actually growing as a character, that's too hard.

Productivity is always inversely proportional to hours worked.

The better question is why is Japan so obsessed with trucks? Does Japan really have that many truck-related accidents?

The protagonist is going to be educated. Some if not a lot of it will not be very useful, but he is going to have the knowledge advantage, especially with social studies and literature. What this implies is that the protagonist is much more aware of how people behave, and can recall a certain time period of a place he studied about similar to where he is to get a better grasp of his current situation, and maybe know more about it than the average person. He's probably fucked if the scenario is sci-fi, though.
In other words cheat skills aren't necessarily essential to most isekai settings.

If you accept immigrants from other civilizations, it kills your culture and causes massive social unrest. This is happening now in Europe and America, both which only recently started accepting large amounts of non-Western immigrants.
Japan is in trouble because they are a separate civilization with a culture that is distinct from other asian nations. They know they have nowhere else that is "Japanese" to draw immigrants from.

No point in warping the MC into an alternate world if he is going to just be mundane. Eventually the story will give him a cheat.

implying they are terrorist for religion

If you make the character interesting, relatable, and impactful, then you can have a quality isekai with a mundane protagonist. There's nothing wrong with having a cheat power as long as it helps with the quality of the story, I'm just saying that it's possible depending on the protagonist and the setting. A goody-two-shoes diplomat-type protagonist in Grimdarkland is likely going to need a power, and from there you can do all sorts of things, such as see how he can be corrupted by it, or how he tries to be creative with it.
Kazuma from Konosuba is a mundane protagonist even though he technically has a cheat, and he is considered a good isekai protagonist because he isn't a bland self-insert.

Escapism

>I don't know what I'm talking about
I love it when people talk about the purity of culture on an image board for Japanese cartoons.