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Fixing isekais (hexbear.net)
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[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Thats definitely a debatable point. Most especially the shitty isekai stop caring about the mc coming from another world and just focus on how OP they are. 90% of these stories would not change significantly if the character was just "born different"

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

I mean it's really not a word means itself

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

See: SAO: Alicization where the MC has their memory wiped and lives their entire life inside the "other world" as a normal person inside of it and it's a twist in a later part of the story that he's actually from another world. Nobody would debate this isn't an Isekai despite it not being one canonically until halfway through the season.

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah and in that case its a pivotal plot point. My point is most isekai at this point are just c tier fantasy with truck kun slapped at the front. The trope is often used more for marketing than narrative.

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