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[–] 7 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I hate Isekai. I just don't get it.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    You don't get why people would fantasize about getting to leave their old shitty life behind and start a new one in a cooler place with cooler friends or a new body or magic powers? I'm not a huge fan either but the appeal is pretty straightforward.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Isekai is just the fantasy version of sci-fi. It presents that, "what if?" question but (usually) with cat girls, swords, and magic.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Yeah, it's the what if totally ungrounded outside of reality that bothers me, because if anything is possible, then there are literally no stakes. The writer can deus ex anything

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Right, this is why a lot of them suck. There are good ones though, depending on what you like of course.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Can I have some recommendations pls.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I'm honestly not a huge fan of the genre myself, but in general I find "I don't want to be a badass I just want to be a carefree adventurer " slice-of-life type ones the best.

    Fun with a dumb premise: Campfire Cooking. The protagonist is in magical world and his super power is that he can buy groceries from his home world "online" and have them magically shipped to the new world.

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