• Isekai is “normal fantasy setting” but you must explain everything to the MC, which is useful because you had to find a way to explain that shit to the audience anyway.

    • IWantToFuckSpez
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      272 years ago

      Yeah Tolkien should’ve made Lord of the Rings an Isekai because I didn’t understand the fantasy and I want everything in the world of Middle Earth hamfistedly explained to me.

      Isekais are just lazy writing. Even for manga which are often already relying too much on exposition.

      • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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        72 years ago

        Tolkien kinda has something like that in story with the shire being fairly disconnected from the outside world. It still allows for some exposition, but also fits much better into the themes and flow of the story.

    • FunkyMonk
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      92 years ago

      plus the MC’s internal monologue can keep relating outsider fantasy concepts in fun ‘downhome’ kind of ways. Fireball is just like a truck! or something.

    • ZILtoid1991
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      92 years ago

      Isekai is “normal fantasy setting”, but it has RPG babble all over the place, and it’s the favorite game of the MC.

    • @voodooattack@lemmy.worldOP
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      32 years ago

      That is absolutely correct. It allows you to take a lot of the exposition the narrator normally has to do in order to explain things to the reader and integrate it in dialogue/narrative itself, and the protagonist doesn’t have to be a child/amnesiac/etc to ask obvious questions.

    • Johanno
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      22 years ago

      Well in an isekai hentai they explain jack shit why the MC needs to cum in all those women. Just that they are obsessed and he “frees” them.

    • @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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      If a protagonist isn’t affected by what they left behind, the isekai is failing its genre. That’s why Moshuko Tensei (Jobless Reincarnation) is one of the best isekai. Not because the MC is likeable, but because he is haunted by what he left behind and is influenced by the personality he formed in his “home world”