Cross-posted from “What’s up with the isekai genre? Are there any good isekais out there?” by @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !manga@ani.social

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.

  • HappyFrogEnglish
    11·
    15 hours ago

    I think the Chronicles of Narnia is probably the best isekai.

    • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      4 humans of “reality” becoming Kings and Queens of a fantasy world after meeting the god of that world? With Judeo-Christian slop words thrown around to sound deeper?

      Definitely an Isekai.

      Alas, its too 'new". Its decades after “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, which not only has kings, queens, fantasy, overpowered main character, science (gatling guns used on fantasy troops)… but also has the “Full Sentence Title” that Isekai are known for.

    • Endmaker@ani.socialEnglish
      6·
      14 hours ago

      I’d say Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is a contender for best isekai if the target demographic is kids.

      • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        English dub of Digimon S1 is seriously a masterpiece, if we are talking about kid-based Isekai.

        Yes. English dub only. Saban changed a lot of dialogue, music and such. Yeah yeah Butterfly (Japanese song) is great. But have you heard ‘Hey Digimon hey Digimon’??