It sounds here that you are complaining that isekai even exists.
Somewhat, yes.
There's something perversely wrong about isekai as a genre. I think it belies a loss of both imagination and optimism, that we can't merely have a setting, that it must be contextualized in relation to our world.
I hate it in the same way that I hate how Battlestar Galactica ended in the present. It's like they took "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and then felt obliged to say "no, really, see?".
And sure, isekai, lots of it is same tropes over and over again. I agree with you there. But that doesn't mean it has no right to exist if people like it and want it.
It just has to not be the only thing around. And it isn't just by your own post.
Look, isekai is just a trend just like how moe was a trend and it seemed like everything was moe but eventually anime and manga moved on.
Somewhat, yes.
There's something perversely wrong about isekai as a genre. I think it belies a loss of both imagination and optimism, that we can't merely have a setting, that it must be contextualized in relation to our world.
I hate it in the same way that I hate how Battlestar Galactica ended in the present. It's like they took "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and then felt obliged to say "no, really, see?".
Thats your problem then more then isekai.
And sure, isekai, lots of it is same tropes over and over again. I agree with you there. But that doesn't mean it has no right to exist if people like it and want it.
It just has to not be the only thing around. And it isn't just by your own post.
Look, isekai is just a trend just like how moe was a trend and it seemed like everything was moe but eventually anime and manga moved on.