Editing Isekai (section)

==Reverse Isekai==
[[File:Ork isekai.jpg|400px|thumb|left|A more /tg/-related example of reverse isekai.<br>This is John Romero's origin story btw.]]
Occasionally, reverse isekai plots, where supernatural elements from other dimensions have invaded the "real" world, have appeared in /tg/. They mix well with [[Urban Fantasy]] (hell in many cases it basically IS urban fantasy). In [[Masque of the Red Death]], the Red Death's corruption of magic means planar travel only works one way and anything inbound is stuck. [[D20 Modern]]'s default for supernatural entities is that they a dropped onto Earth from another plane, "The Shadow", and can't go home (though their corpses vanish upon death, being "reclaimed" by The Shadow). The [[Adventure Path]] ''Reign of Winter'' has a trip to World War I era Russia where the party fights Mosin-Nagans and machine gun wielding Russian soldiers, tear gas elementals and actual Grigori Rasputin.

One odd feature in Japanese Reverse-Isekais is an emphasis on how Japanese food is so much more awesome than whatever bland, flavorless food the peasants of the fantasy world have to eat (to be fair, modern food in general, if made well, would indeed be better than most medieval fare, especially the stuff serfs ate).  In fact, there actually is '''more than one''' anime about people from a fantasy world visiting a restaurant in modern Japan, just as an excuse to show off food porn with no real plot. In fairness, the modern worldwide food distribution networks that can ship sun-ripened lemons and meat to any point in the world within 24 hours is likely going to compare favorably to all but the highest fantasy fare. Even so, even the lowliest peasant would put ''some'' effort in using what they had to make food taste good; even if they couldn't afford many spices, herbs were still easy enough to get a hold of, and rural cooks knew how to prepare meats to make them taste good, whereas fantasy peasants may as well be eating dry, stringy meat with a side of boiled, unseasoned vegetables and mud for dessert. Apparently none of the authors do 5 fucking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_cuisine minutes] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew Internet] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottage research].