this is why we read John Brown Isekai
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Worth noting it is noted japanese government policy to pay for anime as propaganda. The japanese government would be a cia cut out. So why anime has such conservative themes makes sense
Has there yet been an isekai where the protagonist learns of institutionalized slavery and then has at minimum a side quest to beat slavers to death with a hammer?
isekai story where the protagonist's "cheat skill" is the fact that they can read and write but nothing else and they spend their life as an unmarried scribe in some lord's court (the lord is dumb as bricks) (the king is worse like imagine if musk was inbred) (the protag is forced to eat massive shit sandwiches with a smile every single episode)
They're eventually accused of being an agent of satan for having knowledge of things they could not know otherwise, and are stoned to death
This is pretty much The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter, where the protagonist is an overworked office worker who accidentally gets summoned to another world. He has no special powers, and actually gets sick from magic because his body isn’t immune to it. The treatment for this is somehow gay sex with his aristocrat lover, which as far as I know is one of the first just straight up gay sex scenes in anime shown on screen. Overtime he accrues political power by basically single handedly auditing the country’s treasury.
"Stuck in a fantasy world with my iPad and I'm level 99" but the protagonist dies from an infection in the third episode because they don't have anti-biotics.
actually, chapters 4 thru 7 of my manga are diarrhea-focused 
Everyone remember if you ever find yourself trapped in a pre-industrial society, only drink beer, cider, ale, etc
This is a misconception, in reality the drinking water is about as safe for you as the cider. Both are riskier than most first worlders are comfortable with
You’re probably right on the second point, but the unboiled drinking water is as safe as the cider/ale? I would expect toxic metals/inorganic compounds, especially in the water near human settlements but I think I would chose that type of poisoning over girardia or dysentery.
Wouldn't boiling my water make it safe as well?
people make a big hay out of untreated water being so dangerous to time-travelers or tourists but like, they're not at much more risk than the people who live there. even surface water can be a good bet with low enough population density and flow but if there's wells? heaps of folks draw their water directly from wells without treatment today, earth is an awfully good filter.
if something really bad is in the water the natives are being killed and then your story is just an epidemic/plague story (which are cool btw, but obviously authors don't want to do those for all historical/fantasy fiction)
When I went to Vietnam, I got traveler's diarrhea from eating foods that locals ate without issue. There's a reason it's called traveler's diarrhea. It turns out that when you go to a place with bacteria that your body isn't used to, you react worse than people who've had a lifetime to acclimate to them.
Well yeah, but the isekaiee here is gonna have that problem regardless of what they eat, drink or where they live. I believe euergetes' point is less "the water is safe for you to drink with no ill effects" and more "the water is no more risky than anything else you'll find"
locals can be used to something that won't kill or impede you much if you're used to it and breastfed from someone who was used to it that will ruin the regularity of someone who does not have compatible gut fauna.
i mean generally these stories last longer than a brief trip so adaption to it should happen and not be present for most the story. we are working with a fairly unserious grain but i think details like slavery existing are more important than if main character has the shits the first 2 weeks
It only tends to be important in that it enables the reader stand-in to own people as property consequence-free, which is what I was getting at with the dysentery example: "realism" has nothing to do with it. It's about wish fulfillment for the sort of person who thinks owning slaves would be really cool.
To be fair, the mechanism that gets the protagonist to the new world presumably acclimates them to that world's bacteria, whether they're reincarnated into a baby born in that world or the God/Goddess gives them a silent patch note that makes sure they don't die of infection within a week
I don't read isekais but I'd still prefer them not to have "Sunset found her squatting" scenes
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