Editing Isekai (section)

==So, are there any actually good Isekai?==

<div style=font-size:xx-large>{{Blam|No.}}</div>

<small>Well, actually "no, but actually kinda yes", but since that question is such an obvious setup for a joke...</small>

More seriously, Isekai, like any genre, is subject to Sturgeon's Law: 90% of any genre is crap. That percentage can go up if we're talking about works that are focused more on filling out a checklist than telling an interesting story, and the market pressures on Isekai results in a lot of checklists that authors feel they need to fill their works with. That being said, there are works that at least try to bring some actual originality to the genre, and some that are fairly good. [[Skub|Lists of the two can be wildly different]] so we won't list them here, mainly because we're not [[TV Tropes]], and because we have an [[approved anime]] page for that kind of shit.

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BUT...

Before they get turned to Anime, a lot of Isekai start as light novels, the Japanese sorta-equivalent to Western Juvenile/YA fiction. Think back to how many "Teenager fights against Dystopic Government through mandated Survival Games" books came out after the Hunger Games. Isekai is literally the Japanese equivalent of the phenomenon, and they get away with it because, well, you're consuming content for kids, even the edgier/subversive isekais. Their cut-and-paste nature is also a cynical byproduct of current anime production, too. Just like how MCU movies are the same shit, different hero money-printers, the majority of anime produced today are actually quite short, running for a single [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cour cour] (10-12 episodes, often with a 13th added to the Blu-Ray) and usually lucky to last one whole season (24 episodes). At best, they'll get to maybe the third volume/book of the series. And merely by the fact that they're TV adaptations of a novel series, they often leave out potentially important details or subtlety. They're literally filler shows, like mid-season replacements in American TV, and so cookie cutter stories and design makes sense: they're mostly made to fill timeslots during the off-season, keep viewer interest, and generate merchandise while the studio works on the ''real moneymakers''.

If you're into Isekai, it's probably because of its light-heartedness and fantasy-fulfillment, being basically fantasy slice-of-life that's meant to fill you with fluffy feelings. This is pretty much what makes /tg/ cringe, since a lot of the main characters are OP mary sues who will never struggle in their quest for Noblebright (or in some cases, plunging the world to Grimdark).

But ultimately if you are watching/reading one that can be considered "crappy" but you are enjoying it then what's the problem? It's not like you should actually care about what /tg/ (or anyone for that matter) thinks about how you enjoy your hobby, as long as you don't try to hard sell it to people to the point of annoyance or get [[Butthurt|shriekingly angry]] when someone points out what they see as problems with it. Go ahead and enjoy; just being at /tg/ or this wiki to begin with shows you never cared really much if something was [[Horus_Heresy|badly]] [[H.P._Lovecraft|written]],  [[Warhammer:_Age_of_Sigmar|awfully]] [[World_of_Darkness|designed]], [[Warhammer_40,000|grim]][[Xeelee_Sequence|derpy]], [[Dungeons_%26_Dragons|mainstream]], [[Warhammer_Fantasy_Battle|generic]] or [[Flames_of_War|lacking]] a [[Team_Yankee|soul]] to begin with.