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SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dws@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i don’t know what “isekai trash” means lmao

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  • e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “isekai” is “another world”.

    The protagonist ends up leaving our world and is transported/reincarnated in another – usually JRPG-like medieval fantasy themed – early in the show. The stereotypical mechanism is that the protagonist gets run over by a truck… Usually they end up in some sort of power fantasy story taking advantage of either their knowledge/technology from our world or special skills they got via the reincarnation or whatever.

    There’s, uh, a lot of them… of varying quality.

    Some popular examples are Konosuba, Re-Zero, and Mushoku Tensei. Which shows qualify as trash is, of course, a matter of taste. 🙃️

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    • dws@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i see! thank you :) i have heard from more than one person now that these are hit or miss, so i will have to be careful!

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        i have heard from more than one person now that these are hit or miss

        When they hit, they hit like a truck.

        ~I’ll~ ~see~ ~myself~ ~out.~

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Subgenre of fantasy, where the protag goes to another world. Extremely popular, and extremely diverse, so this leads to a lot of less-than-inspired authors writing isekai. It’s really fun, though, at least in my opinion. [Disclaimer: I watch a lot of isekai.]

    The Log Horizon series I recommended is IMO really good; a bunch of players of a game are trapped inside the game they were playing, and trying to come back to Earth. Other popular isekai series are:

    • Overlord — it’s a single person reincarnated into the game. As the undead that used to be his player. It’s a mix of kingdom building and slowly watching someone’s morals fading away, as the habit makes the monk
    • Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken* (aka That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime, aka TenSura; abbreviated names are common) — also “kingdom building” like the above, but there’s no game. Just some guy reincarnated as a slime. Mostly uplifting
    • My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (aka HameFura, aka Bakarina) — the protagonist got reincarnated as the villainess of a game series she loved, and is trying to avoid the bad ending. Except she isn’t very smart.
    • Re:Zero — the protag goes buy food late night, and suddenly another world, and he doesn’t know why. He has a weird “gimmick” though, he can return from death. The traumas pile up.
    • Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! (aka KonoSuba) — slapstick comedy. Protag kicks the bucket, and as he’s getting reincarnated the goddess can’t stop mocking him. He forces her to go to the other world with him. They build a dysfunctional adventurer party: he’s mediocre, she’s dumb, and they got a masochist and a mage who only knows a single wide-area spell in the party. [Note: not recommended as an introductory series for isekai, given it relies a lot on poking fun at common tropes of the subgenre.]
    • Ascendance of a Bookworm — protag is a bookworm, dies crushed by books, and reincarnates in a world where books are extremely expensive and she’s dirty poor and has poor health, but she’s still obsessed with books at the expense of everything else.
    • Saihate no Paladin (aka The Faraway Paladin) — protag dies as a shut-in, and gets abandoned when reincarnated as a baby. A ghost, a skeleton and a mummy raise him. Solid adventure, and rather good worldbuilding.

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    • dws@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      some of those sounds so fun!! thank you for the info!

      ive watched the first season of re:zero, and a few episodes in the 2nd, but am having a hard time continuing because it all seems so… neverending. its really really good, and i love the characters, but to have the story be replayed, or issues resurface, so many times is draining!

      i think another issue i didn’t know i would have is the titles! for example:

      Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! (aka KonoSuba)

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      Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! ← This part

      the real title?

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      • Unboxious@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Regarding titles, a lot of anime end up with really long official titles because they originate from a Japanese web-novel site where due to the design of the site people have to distinguish their works by the title alone.

        I love Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! but that’s a bit of a mouthful so I (along with everyone else) just call it KonoSuba.

        Incidentally, this is probably related to the reason SailorFuzz suggested avoiding anime with long titles. Anime that originated from that site on average have more amateurish writing since it’s a site for self-publishing. I wouldn’t go so far as to discount everything there though; there have certainly been some good stories that originated from that site. In addition to KonoSuba I also really liked The Apothecary Diaries, Log Horizon, and Re:Zero for example. There are also plenty of great anime with longer titles that don’t originate from that site, such as Kaguya-sama: Love is War or Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

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      • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!” is the real title. “KonoSuba” is a really common fan nickname. I’ll reformat the list to be a bit more clearer.

        About Re:Zero, the story being replayed is part of its gimmick. Like trial and error.

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