this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026

928 points (99.5% liked)

People Twitter

whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

10,401 readers

6,531 active

297 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

Mark NSFW content.
No doxxing people.
Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
No international politcs
Be excellent to each other.
Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major celebrity, figure or any politician. You can replace the addres of .x.com to xcancel.com in the address. https://web.archive.org/save is an option. Archive.is is no longer recommended because they remove/alter content.
If a tweet (or similar) makes a statement of fact, either mark it as "satire" in the body or provide the original source link backing up the statement (see rule 6)

founded 3 years ago

moderators

SendMeYourTaTas@sh.itjust.works

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works

Fucking idiots (thelemmy.club)

submitted 7 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

157 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (29 children)

There's a big trend in recent isekai to just outright kill the character at the beginning. So, you're either reincarnated into another world or your soul is snatched upon death and body recreated in the other world as an explanation for why the character isn't spending their whole time just trying to get back, but I do think that would be an interesting angle to explore.

parent

hideshow 29 child comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 7 months ago* (25 children)

I can only think of two Isekais where the whole plot is the main character trying to get home, and the anime fans are gonna hate which two things those are.

A Kid in King Arthur's Court and Farscape.

3 if Quantum Leap could be counted as an isekai.

parent

hideshow 25 child comments

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

Quantum leap is an Isekai. Getting home is a mainstay of the "Summoned Hero" genre of isekai.

Anime examples include:

The Rising of the Shield Hero

My Status as the Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's

My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One In This Other World Stands A Chance Against Me!

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

Non anime example: Black Knight

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago*

I wasn't sure because the only reason I even say A Kid in King Arthur's court counts even though he just goes back in time is because he goes so far back in time, nothing he knew about the world he knows really applies making him effectively in another world. Sam never goes back too far, but, then again, wasn't he also from the far future? 🤔

Also: Black Knight is basically A Kid in King Arthur's Court which I just lump together. lol

parent

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 7 months ago

Spider-Man Unlimited 1999

parent

[–] Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Quantum leap is an Isekai

Is a cursed thing to hear and it's absolutely true.

parent

[–] StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Since we're talking that era, Sliders was a great show early on and it's a tragedy nobody knows it.

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Fucking love that show... its a shame he missed his home world because his mother just had the gate fixed but also I don't actually think it was the correct one

parent

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

I liked it, but then it got weird

parent

[–] degen@midwest.social 1 point 7 months ago

Sliders, quantum leap, and early edition are the trifecta

parent

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

The Wizard of Oz, which Futurama is parodying, definitely counts! Yes, Dorothy wants to help the randos she meets, but the whole reason she's going to the Emerald City in the first place is to try to get home to live in poverty with her dirt-farming, teetotaling aunt and uncle.

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

Futurama, too. But without the "wanting to go home" aspect.

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Interestingly, when Fry is actually presented with a way to get home via a forward-traveling time machine and a universe that resets, he never brings up getting off at 1999 and it's never mentioned in any way.

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Because the future is where he belonged. The nibblers would just find another way to bring him to the future.

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

He had already fulfilled his destiny of defeating the brain spawn three seasons prior. Although judging by this scene he wasn't in too much of a hurry to go back in time:

parent

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

There is also Those who hunt elves.

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago

That one was always hilarious. I've never actually finished it though, always stalling after the first few episodes.

parent

[+] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

[deleted]

parent

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

Inuyasha.

parent

hideshow 7 child comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The plot does not revolve around anyone trying to get home in that, tho. Kagome gets to go home whenever she wants, and does frequently.

parent

hideshow 6 child comments

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

Eh, she has to get the gem pieces to stop the destruction of the past so she can stay home and often struggles to return to the present and stay there for any amount of time.
She even at the end stays in the past, missing it as her found home.

Its very isekai adjacent.

parent

hideshow 5 child comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

No, no. It's an isekai for sure, it just isn't one that revolves around the protagonist trying to get home. The "getting home" plot line is the thing I haven't seen much and could only think of those two examples off the top of my head.

Plenty of isekai where the main character doesn't care to go home or can't go home (usually because they died and the other world is some kind of reincarnation or afterlife). Such as with Inuyasha, Futurama, and nearly all those animes with the super long titles about being overpowered in another world.

Heck, the ending of the orginal Fullmetal Alchemist turned it into an isekai when Edward ends up in the real world's WW2 era Germany.

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

Jesus that first ending of fullmetal alchemist where someone thought they weren't being obvious enough with the fascist metaphor...

I guess its not a good escape fantasy if you are reminded of the place you are trying to escape from all the time.

But I have 2 more off the top of my head and you won't like either.
Sword Art Online
Digimon Adventures
Technically both about children trying to get home after disaster. It seems to be the only group that tries to go home.

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I haven't seen Sword Art Online, but isn't that one sorta kinda like .Hack//Sign? Like they're trapped in VR?

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

Yup trapped in VR except its using peoples real bodies instead of character models with their real world fitness (at first, coma people ain't doing all that) and die in game die for real.
So like as close to a full isekai but reversible if they beat the game (100 level MMO), which the protagonist doesnt want to do but everyone else does because he is so edgy until he finds love and can have it in the "real world"

But its like 10,000 people get isekaid mentally at the same time. Second season is about going back in to get someone that didnt manage to come back the first time either.

There is a really really fantastic abridged series on YouTube by Something Witty Entertainment if you like crass but wholesome humor. Fixed a lot of the character flaws and terrible writing.

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago

Hmm... That sounds a lot more interesting than just being trapped in a VR headset. I might just start watching it now.

parent

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago

Calling Farscape an isekai took me out.

And I mean... you're not wrong.

parent

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

Fabiniku is more along these lines. With the additional twist of the protag's boon being his best friend getting dragged in with him to help him out, so there's some exploration of why one or both would want to go back home.

...and genderbending.

parent

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah it would be cool to be really overt about it, have the character be perfectly able to go home but they're just like "nah, fuck that place" lol. I'm sure it exists somewhere but I don't think I've seen it before.

parent

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

It makes more sense when the isekai is the character getting transported away and immediately placed in mortal danger over and over like Wizard of Oz. Dorothy has a choice of a provincial life where she might grow up and a world where flying monkeys attack her every chance they get and she's never not on the run the entire story.

If I were isekai'd I would probably be extremely curious about whether I had a connection to my old world. But I wouldn't necessarily leap to go the first chance I got.

parent