Will iseaki ever die

misfit of demon academy isnt an isekai at all though

Wait, hold on, Danmachi's an isekai?

Actually, most anime in general is like that.

none of them are, hence it's a bait thread.

Meta-bait.

The POV character is the goddess that’s my point.

>While with actual fantasy settings you would have to actually write characters with ideals and personalities
No you don't, you can always write Goblin Slayer.

Hope not.

Oh ok, understandable.

It will take a couple of decades but eventually it will be replaced by a shittier thing like how isekai replaced mecha.

SAO is literally the bar for that shit, I'm not talking about the most popular shit, just the quantity of SAO clones, stories like No Game no Life actually use the "irl" knowledge in the game in meaningful ways. They are somewhat popular because they do feel different from that SAO formula, BUT most Isekai's use that shit

idk I haven't watched that shit I'm over the age of 16 where that shit excites me, this isn't a general STATEMENT for ALL Isekai, just that most Isekai shit is SAO clones to a certain degree, of course you can find counter-examples everywhere, Isekai isn't all THAT similar, but it's not that unique either.

Mentioned a garbage isekai that doesn't copy SAO doesn't really destroy my argument, like I said I'm not saying you CAN'T write awful generic characters without the "transported into another world", but the ones that do operate under that principle. Also I think GS as those "DnD elements" that makes it relatable in another way

All these comments are just picking random examples of stuff that doesn't apply to my conjecture, and while that's fair, you also need to keep in mind that there are like 15-20 garbage Isekai coming out every year, so I don't think it's weird to find outliers and that even my theory is accurate and works 100% of the time.

The reason why people still watch this garbage is literal "meta bait" trash that feels somewhat different for 5 seconds before you actually start thinking about it. The Goblin Slayer MC doesn't even show his fucking face for the majority of the TV anime and he's so 1 dimensional that's literal another Isekai trash protagonist in an adventure world. The last user I mentioned is actually retarded, because I literally added
>that could even align with beta japanese teenage boys, but wouldn't be immediately understood.

What kind of point are you trying to make with half a statement?

Nothing wrong with enjoying Isekai autistic shit btw

Tldr this guy is retarded and don't know isekai or any shit about narou

My friend. One of the most early isekai stories I read was a 1970s novel written by an American. Isekai has been around forever as a concept.

>When will authors stop making Isekai stories which could perfectly work as just fantasy?

This tends to be a cheap way to introduce the audience to the setting to be honest. Since a person from earth adds some very easy to manipulate aspects.

A.) They share a common morality with the audience. You don't tend to need to think too hard on stuff like their opinion to murder to settle honor or the likes.

B.) It allows the writer to have an easy excuse to have everything explained to the protagonist. Even if everyone in the world knows who the Demon king is, The protagonist himself will need it explained.

C.) For the more competent writers it gives an ability to alter variables based on the different cultural viewpoints or developments from earth. Which can be used to explain how the protagonist is effective in situations most people in the settings isn't. They lived in a different environment that lets them take advantage of what is happening in a way most people in the setting doesn't.

>I'm not saying you CAN'T write awful generic characters without the "transported into another world",
That is literally the exact thing you said.
>While with actual fantasy settings you would have to actually write characters with ideals and personalities

Isekai has been around forever, but if you don't think SAO popularized this whole garbage trend of fantasy-adventure Isekai garbage then idk what to tell you, you probably started watching anime in 2018

Research basedsetu a bit first before pretending to know shit retard

Personally I blame Escaflowne and .hack more.

Yep, you don't know shit at all, not that I expect much from a faggot with bait OP

>isekai
>DanMachi
Yeah... ... ... ... ... ...nah.

OP, protip: try adding something like "Zig Forums, what do you think about..." or adding a plural -S to certain words like "mangas" and "animes". Retards get really pissed here, it's an amazing baito desu ne.

>OP is a dick sucking faggot
Ah, I see.

bofuri is an underrated animu watch it

I don't get it. Why do some isekaifags vehemently refuse to accept that SAO popularised isekai as we know it?
Sure, Spirited Away and Escaflowne existed. But they weren't isekai. They were just fantasy.
Same as Narnia and the like.

'cause Fushigi Yuugi and Rayearth were airing at the same time and there's a difference between fantasy where the other world exists and is a plot point vs. something self-contained.

Just like magic battle school harems, they will. The question is when and what will replace it.

Because it fucking didn’t.

There’s maybe three isekai “booms” you can point to. The first one being the Narou boom, the second one being the “picked up for publication” boom, and the third one being the “adapted to anime” boom.

SAO was only ever kind of responsible for the second one, it really spurred publishers to pick up web novels faster than ever before thanks to its success. But that’s pretty much where it ends, SAO and most modern isekai hardly resemble each other beyond being power fantasies. You might as well say Mahouka is “basically” an SAO copycat at that point.

It didn't. SAO got a break because Kawahara won a contest. He self published and did not post his novels on a platform like syosetsu.