What's up with the isekai genre? Are there any good isekais out there? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn't read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it's kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just "guilty pleasures"? The only one I've been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.

Edit: got a lot of recs, thanks everyone :)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Some isekai manga/manwha I enjoy:

Yakuza Reincarnation
Villain Are Destined To Die
Beware The Villainess.
Fate/Type: Redline (to the past rather than fantasy world)
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
In The Land Of Leadale
A Witch's Printing Office
I Was Reborn and Became a High Elf, but I Got Tired of My Slow Life after 120 Years

For some of these I have to wonder if they really just wanted a fantasy manga, but had to make it isekai as a hook by the publisher or something.

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