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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm not sure what you mean, I don't think I've seen a single isekai protag try to go back to Earth unless you count the "trapped in VR" ones.

I'm always a little disappointed by how quickly the regular world becomes irrelevant in the story. The intrigue is from how a person from a modern nonmagical culture interacts with a medieval magical culture.

But from the isekais I've seen, I'd say you could replace half of them with a person with amnesia and nothing would change.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve seen a single isekai protag try to go back to Earth

    Wizard of Oz, for one. I'm using a Japanese term because English doesn't have a succinct one for that particular genre, but it apples to media anywhere.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I don't think I've seen a single isekai protag try to go back to Earth unless you count the "trapped in VR" ones.

    It used to be the standard:

    • Digimon Adventure (the first series)/Digimon frontier (fourth series)
    • Inu Yasha
    • Monster Rancher

    The only recent example I can think of is Zenshu from last year.

    The intrigue is from how a person from a modern nonmagical culture interacts with a medieval magical culture.

    Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf might be up your alley: a guy finds out his lucid dreams have actually been him getting isekei'd every night for most of his life when he accidentally brings a friend/love interest back with him. She's fascinated by modern Japan so they start going back and forth between the real world and magical world together.

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