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Jun 7, 2019 6:06 PM

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When people get bored of the isekai genre ofc.
I kinda wish they didn't grab the worse ones to make into a anime...
Jun 7, 2019 6:10 PM

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Probably never since people love to escape reality. I really liked the idea of SAO and isekais when I first started watching anime. Isekai pretty meh genre for me now. Actually I think it'll die down when we get a real FullDive VR and people can go isekai IRL
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Jun 7, 2019 6:14 PM

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Uncle MAL, when will this thing stop existing? C-Cuz I don't liiiiike it and, and I want it gooooone.
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Jun 7, 2019 6:35 PM
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You're over thinking this. Just don't watch isekai. It's that simple.
Jun 7, 2019 6:42 PM

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it'll die out When people will stop Watching, it's that simple
someone out there enjoys them otherwise they wouldn't still be making it.
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Jun 7, 2019 7:43 PM
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you can make a lot of merch from an isekai series
gots to sell the waifus
Jun 7, 2019 7:46 PM

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When it will stop generating money. You think anime producers make anime for artistic purposes? No. They just wanna make money and isekai genre is cash grab. I mean most of the weeb hate real world anyways and are waiting for truck kun to hit them. I doubt it is gonna die in next 10 years
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Jun 7, 2019 8:16 PM

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You know theres always the option of just not watching them. Clearly they're still popular enough to keep getting produced and a few people constantly complaining about how they're all shit won't change that anytime soon.

It'll only die when some other type of premise becomes popular enough to take it's place,and no sooner than that.
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I can't predict exactly when, but I think soon. Some of the plot synopsis's I've seen for isekai light novels is so ridiculous, you can tell the writers are running out of ideas.
I hope that before the isekai wave ends, we'll get an isekai anime that's a combination of Dark Souls and Berserk.
Jun 8, 2019 1:41 AM

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Ventus_S said:
Orryx said:
Never, the possibilities of Isekai anime are basically endless. Add to that their popularity and you're looking at a very long living genre.


I find it ironic.
Endless possibility, yet 95% of unimaginative/ copy paste medieval RPG isekai setting.
Are those authors REALLY that unimaginative?

I find isekai genre something of many untalented/ unimaginative authors use it as a shortcut/ cheat to get famous without being deserving enough.


I mean why put in effort when you know making a "loser otaku gets transported to fantasy world with big tiddy waifus" story will make them monies. And unfortunately the fans eat that shit up like there's no tomorrow so don't see it changing any time soon.
Jun 8, 2019 2:24 AM

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Isekai as a genre won't completely die out or end, the trend will. All this stuff goes into a cycle or period of popularity, and until another trend becomes popular and lucrative, there's no way telling when.
Jun 8, 2019 5:20 AM

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The isekai will never die out the current isekai trends wont last long. And it's easy to avoid certain anime.
Jun 8, 2019 5:22 AM

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Never, hopefully. I like isekai and don't mind watching them from time to time, but more importantly, watching people writhe in anger and resentment at their mere existence is my drug.


Jun 8, 2019 5:58 AM

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Never. The amount of those genre might decrease but it will never die.
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Jun 8, 2019 6:03 AM

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u have to consider too why harem genre is still alive.

at least it's not going to happen soon. not in the 10 years or 100 years. it's a strong genre and one of the most popular. people love it and I love it too.
Jun 8, 2019 6:18 AM
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It took 3 billion years for the garbage zombie fad to end in more common media. I have watched just one isekai up to this point but I'm certainly not going to complain about it, we could have a lot worse popular genres than that.
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Jun 8, 2019 11:13 AM
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Ok.. ok... I’ll appreciate my isekai, Because Y’all going psycho bitch on me.
Jun 8, 2019 1:03 PM

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Imreallybored1 said:
When do you think isekai will be dead, When will they stop producing isekai anime.
Next season we have four ISEKAI!



Hopefully never. Its been around for at least 25 plus years. I enjoyed El Hazard, The Familiar of Zero, Inuyasha, Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Now and Then Here and There, Escaflowne, Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar and even some of these newer ones like Konosuba and Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World




Four isekai is a waste of animation, and a waste of time... well.. even one isekai is a waste of time.



If you don't like a show then don't watch it. The animators are not going to make more of your favorite genre just because they stop making a genre you don't like. I'm not gay so I don't watch Yaoi anime. I am not into sports so I don't watch sports anime. I am not into fighting animals so I don't watch Pokemon, Michael Vick probably would if he was going to watch anime. I am not going to wish those types of anime would die off nor am I going to make a thread bitching about anime I don't watch.
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when its no longer profitable then it will die out
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ezikialrage said:
Imreallybored1 said:
When do you think isekai will be dead, When will they stop producing isekai anime.
Next season we have four ISEKAI!



Hopefully never. Its been around for at least 25 plus years. I enjoyed El Hazard, The Familiar of Zero, Inuyasha, Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Now and Then Here and There, Escaflowne, Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar and even some of these newer ones like Konosuba and Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World




Four isekai is a waste of animation, and a waste of time... well.. even one isekai is a waste of time.



If you don't like a show then don't watch it. The animators are not going to make more of your favorite genre just because they stop making a genre you don't like. I'm not gay so I don't watch Yaoi anime. I am not into sports so I don't watch sports anime. I am not into fighting animals so I don't watch Pokemon, Michael Vick probably would if he was going to watch anime. I am not going to wish those types of anime would die off nor am I going to make a thread bitching about anime I don't watch.

Bro, I never said I watch it.
Why do you think I force myself to watch it?
Jun 9, 2019 4:29 AM

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Imreallybored1 said:
ezikialrage said:


Hopefully never. Its been around for at least 25 plus years. I enjoyed El Hazard, The Familiar of Zero, Inuyasha, Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Now and Then Here and There, Escaflowne, Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar and even some of these newer ones like Konosuba and Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World






If you don't like a show then don't watch it. The animators are not going to make more of your favorite genre just because they stop making a genre you don't like. I'm not gay so I don't watch Yaoi anime. I am not into sports so I don't watch sports anime. I am not into fighting animals so I don't watch Pokemon, Michael Vick probably would if he was going to watch anime. I am not going to wish those types of anime would die off nor am I going to make a thread bitching about anime I don't watch.

Bro, I never said I watch it.
Why do you think I force myself to watch it?


FOr someone who claims to not watch it you sure do piss, bitch and moan about a genre you don't watch. If anime makers decided to today to stop making isekai anime they are not going to make more of your favorite anime genres. I simply just don't watch genres I don't like. Not piss bitch and moan about them.
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Jun 9, 2019 4:31 AM
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I'm allergic to Isekai after watching SAO.
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Jun 9, 2019 4:41 AM
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It might be Isekai will be just shonen anime, the first time it's just so good, and then it's just overkill. Isekai will just go downhill slowly. But shonen anime just raise up again thanks to BNHA, which makes shonen anime great again. We will see what anime will save Isekai. Because I'm sick of it, and I'm not watching isekai anime ever again besides for sequel/prequel, the one that I ever watch and just want to continue.
Jun 9, 2019 5:34 AM

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wow 4 isekai sounds like fun hope all main chars will be overpowered and see lots boobs
Jun 9, 2019 5:39 AM

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hopefully ASAP, I would say 2-3 years MAX
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PantsuSenseiUwU said:
Probably never since people love to escape reality. I really liked the idea of SAO and isekais when I first started watching anime. Isekai pretty meh genre for me now. Actually I think it'll die down when we get a real FullDive VR and people can go isekai IRL


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Jun 9, 2019 5:45 AM

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I hope they do and anime realizes that multimedia projects are more profitable. Therefore Isekai will die once the Japs repeat what they did for Revue Starlight.

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Jun 9, 2019 6:48 PM
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Theres a lot of room for different and interesting spins on the genre yet before it dies out, it also seems to be ridiculously popular right now.

I mean heck I'm watching 3 Isekais right now and I'm a massive Re:Zero and Konosuba fan boy
Jun 9, 2019 8:50 PM
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Just don't watch them???

Honestly, if people can do something new or just something good with them, then I don't really care.
Like, I did like the cafe/restaurant in another world type of isekai anime that were coming out. I mean, I like food anime in general, but I thought the combination of isekai was kinda nice.
I do wish isekai could do more though. I feel like a lot of isekai still stay really grounded in a pretty Japanese mentality-- which isn't a surprise for obvious reasons. Still, I'd be interested in something that REALLY felt like another world, and not just people from another world coming into a Japanese restaurant, pretty much. You know? It's stuff like that which limits the genre. Take a look at the sci fi genre. They've turned a lot of things around when it comes to other worlds. They've crafted amazing worlds with all this interesting architecture, natural landmarks, and so on. But with isekai it's usually just Japan 2.0 or RPG land. I think I'd like to stick around and see the isekai genre delve into that type of world creation. Eventually someone's gonna do it if they keep churning them out.

Other than that, there really isn't anything wrong with the isekai genre. They want a new setting. There's only so much of Japan to see, so I feel like creators are trying to break away from the usual.
Now that I think about it, I've definitely gotta say, the United States has soooo many different setting possibilities. It's no wonder creators here don't seem to have any trouble with that. Like, how many shows have you seen take place in Utah? Welp, there you go. New location. You have fifty to choose from and some neighboring countries you can hit up too. Japan doesn't have that much room to explore locations, so it makes sense that they would like trying the isekai genre.

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Jun 9, 2019 9:16 PM

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Not in 5 years for sure, but sometimes ,time is infinite ,there'll be time when people hate isekai and love yaoi .
Jun 9, 2019 10:20 PM

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Imreallybored1 said:
Even if you are stuck in a game. It’s not another world. Your still on your bed with a virtual headset on.

Escapism has reached a point where we would rather sit at home watching an anime character sit at home playing a game where they pretend to be outside
Jun 9, 2019 10:26 PM

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Well isekai is an evolving genre of endless creativity . I don`t think it will end soon .



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Jun 9, 2019 10:31 PM

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It was actually losing in novelupdates, getting buried by the korean and chinese novels, but I doubt that they will die out, a lot of isekai manga adaptation are hot and popular (source: r/manga) and has a lot of potential to get an anime, example today the hottest chapter in mangadex is 'Being Able to Edit Skills in Another World I Gained OP Waifus.'

also in this link: https://mangadex.org/genre/41
you'll notice that Isekai genre is thriving and it even inspired some chinese and korean comics, but also it's getting out of hand
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It's not genre that should die out, it's their MCs who aren't Yoko Nakajima.
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Probably about 5 years earlier than threads like this
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Jun 10, 2019 5:15 AM
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Hopefully next year. I'm really tired of these stupid isekai.
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When Isekai still gives you things like Youjo Senki and Honzuki (that we'll get in anime this autumn), and that among older stuff you have stuff like now and then here and there, mondaiji, Escaflown, 12 kingdom, and so on, it's better not die out. Harem and Ecchi genres puts a shit ton more of bad stuff every season and has been doing so for decades. There's far more of those on the market and most of these are pretty bad.

4 in a season with so many new titles is literally nothing.


Also, it's not a genre, it's a setting.

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I'm allergic to Isekai after watching SAO.

That's weird, considering SAO is not an isekai-ten'i but classified as a game--ten'i at best.
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Orryx said:
Never, the possibilities of Isekai anime are basically endless. Add to that their popularity and you're looking at a very long living genre.

Yea I wholeheartedly agree, isekai will outlive us all.
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All people care about isekai and here am I waiting for the battle lesbian anime boom.

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Zefyris said:


Theoderic said:
I'm allergic to Isekai after watching SAO.

That's weird, considering SAO is not an isekai-ten'i but classified as a game--ten'i at best.


I'm not familiar with such fine classifications and distinctions. Generally, SAO is classified as Isekai- yes?
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Sorry to say that, but the isekai genre is immune, even if it dies it's still getting reborn.



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When it is no longer profitable.

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Aidoru-Ojisan said:
I hope they do and anime realizes that multimedia projects are more profitable. Therefore Isekai will die once the Japs repeat what they did for Revue Starlight.


Franchises like SAO and .hack are already multi-media projects.
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Theoderic said:
Zefyris said:



That's weird, considering SAO is not an isekai-ten'i but classified as a game--ten'i at best.


I'm not familiar with such fine classifications and distinctions. Generally, SAO is classified as Isekai- yes?

clearly "-no". There is no movement of someone from one world to another, this is a transfer in a game. "isekai" literally means "another world", and isekai ten'i means "transfer in another world". A video game stored on computers on earth is in no way a valid variation of this.
This is defined as a "game ten'i" story setting, IE, a transfer into a game.
Some stories like Log Horizon like to play with the uncertainty of which setting it is (just like some stories like to play with the "is this a post apocalyptic earth or is it another world" kind of doubt for most of the story, for example), but that doesn't make one the other and vice versa.
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Just like people, trends die when they are killed

The isekai trend will die out as soon as an equally annoying trend takes it's place. People use to love battle shonen, hell the period considered a "crash" was full of moeblob high school anime, littered with best girls. Those were salty times
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Zefyris said:
Theoderic said:


I'm not familiar with such fine classifications and distinctions. Generally, SAO is classified as Isekai- yes?

clearly "-no". There is no movement of someone from one world to another, this is a transfer in a game. "isekai" literally means "another world", and isekai ten'i means "transfer in another world". A video game stored on computers on earth is in no way a valid variation of this.
This is defined as a "game ten'i" story setting, IE, a transfer into a game.
Some stories like Log Horizon like to play with the uncertainty of which setting it is (just like some stories like to play with the "is this a post apocalyptic earth or is it another world" kind of doubt for most of the story, for example), but that doesn't make one the other and vice versa.


I was not aware that any such classifications existed. There exists these distinctions, however they are generally abused. If I say SAO is Isekai, no one would shout at me.

Just have a look at these lists for top Isekai:

https://www.myanimeshoponline.com/top-20-isekai-animes/

https://animemotivation.com/isekai-anime/

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-isekai-anime/anna-lindwasser

All of them Include SAO, proving my point that such distinctions are abused and that takes us back to my original point.
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Theoderic said:
Zefyris said:

clearly "-no". There is no movement of someone from one world to another, this is a transfer in a game. "isekai" literally means "another world", and isekai ten'i means "transfer in another world". A video game stored on computers on earth is in no way a valid variation of this.
This is defined as a "game ten'i" story setting, IE, a transfer into a game.
Some stories like Log Horizon like to play with the uncertainty of which setting it is (just like some stories like to play with the "is this a post apocalyptic earth or is it another world" kind of doubt for most of the story, for example), but that doesn't make one the other and vice versa.


I was not aware that any such classifications existed. There exists these distinctions, however they are generally abused. If I say SAO is Isekai, no one would shout at me.

Just have a look at these lists for top Isekai:

https://www.myanimeshoponline.com/top-20-isekai-animes/

https://animemotivation.com/isekai-anime/

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-isekai-anime/anna-lindwasser

All of them Include SAO, proving my point that such distinctions are abused and that takes us back to my original point.

Back to your original point indeed,
You said you don't like Isekai because you don't like SAO. Like I pointed out, SAO is not an isekai. Like you pointed out, there is (and there's always peoples like that no matter the subject) plenty of peoples out there that are wrongly classifying SAO as an Isekai.
should you really take in account those peoples when deciding if you like isekai or not? Personally I like to decide by myself if I like something or not, and since SAO is not an Isekai, you can only decide if you like isekai or not by watching some first right? Or are you going to let those ignorant peoples decide for you? Well; your call :3.
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Zefyris said:
Theoderic said:


I was not aware that any such classifications existed. There exists these distinctions, however they are generally abused. If I say SAO is Isekai, no one would shout at me.

Just have a look at these lists for top Isekai:

https://www.myanimeshoponline.com/top-20-isekai-animes/

https://animemotivation.com/isekai-anime/

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-isekai-anime/anna-lindwasser

All of them Include SAO, proving my point that such distinctions are abused and that takes us back to my original point.

Back to your original point indeed,
You said you don't like Isekai because you don't like SAO. Like I pointed out, SAO is not an isekai. Like you pointed out, there is (and there's always peoples like that no matter the subject) plenty of peoples out there that are wrongly classifying SAO as an Isekai.
should you really take in account those peoples when deciding if you like isekai or not? Personally I like to decide by myself if I like something or not, and since SAO is not an Isekai, you can only decide if you like isekai or not by watching some first right? Or are you going to let those ignorant peoples decide for you? Well; your call :3.
No one is wrongly classifying, we don't use the terms isekai-ten'i and game--ten'i in the West or whatever is related to it. Only isekai
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Esquirtit said:
Zefyris said:

Back to your original point indeed,
You said you don't like Isekai because you don't like SAO. Like I pointed out, SAO is not an isekai. Like you pointed out, there is (and there's always peoples like that no matter the subject) plenty of peoples out there that are wrongly classifying SAO as an Isekai.
should you really take in account those peoples when deciding if you like isekai or not? Personally I like to decide by myself if I like something or not, and since SAO is not an Isekai, you can only decide if you like isekai or not by watching some first right? Or are you going to let those ignorant peoples decide for you? Well; your call :3.
No one is wrongly classifying, we don't use the terms isekai-ten'i and game--ten'i in the West or whatever is related to it. Only isekai
isekai means another world. Wher eis your another world in SAO? the game world? That's not another world. ten'i or not, that's a game.
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