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

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Cross-posted from "What's up with the isekai genre? Are there any good isekais out there?" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

To mention one not already said.

ShangriLaFrontier

Isekais are so overdone, that even parodies are overdone. SLF doesn't take itself seriously but also doesn't make fun of the genre. Instead it's like it wants to go "okay, but being OP in a VR world is hella fun", and shows the characters enjoying being OP and fighting equally OP enemies. I especially enjoy the banter between the closest friends as the heckle each other. My only complaint would be, protagonist friends are also OP in their own ways but we never see them win over protagonist on screen, just implied during conversation.