The Rise And Fall Of Isekai Anime | Retrospective

[@QuickGG]

Pokemon vs digimon video WHEN?

[@vithepiltoverenforcer8778]

More like Pokemon vs Digimon: Smash or Pass.

[@blackrosefoxy3836]

After no one understands Zoro

[@gambleralex5083]

Ayo QuickGG

[@SirRowlandp]

@@vithepiltoverenforcer8778 as a tournament

[@forkittens]

anime was a mistake

[@nunyabusiness9307]

Isekai still has a 50/50 shot of being genuinely good and a 50/50 shot of being terrible. Oh yeah, and remember how Nux used to say that there would never be an Isekai with a female protagonist? “I’m a villainess, so I’m taming the final boss.” They actually did it Nuxanor!!!

[@achmodinivswe9500]

“I’m a spider so what” “my next life as a villainess” “didn’t I say to make my abilities average in the next life” “bofuri” “ascendence of a bookworm” “kuma kuma kuma bear” “I’ve been killing slimes for 300 years and maxed out my level” “in the land of leadale” “otherside picnic” all isekai with female MCs and there is more. I didn’t include any gender bender isekai

[@HopelessDjinn]

InuYasha is an Isekai.

[@nunyabusiness9307]

@@achmodinivswe9500 love that 😂

[@saikikusuo6094]

@@achmodinivswe9500 bofuri is not an isekai it has no elements from it also she has no harem people just like her

[@achmodinivswe9500]

@@saikikusuo6094 I realized that after posting the comment and did not feel like changing it. And isekai doesn’t need harem

[@deviantgazer4626]

Isekai is honestly to me, just like any other anime. You can have good ones, and you could have bad ones. And trust me, I know there have been some REALLY bad ones. But I believe the good ones can sometimes make up for it

[@theshimario253]

yeah but prob with isekai is that most isekai dont even need to be isekai. They can just be their own story that takes place in the fantasy world that the main character got sent to.

[@Kuroganemk2]

It's less overused then the usual high school setting lol

[@TheAbyssro]

dont forget the ones so bad they are good

[@Kuroganemk2]

@@TheAbyssro Or having MC be a 15-18 year old teen, wish they did some isekai with people that are actually older, even when they reincarnate most of them act as teens.

[@luiginumbers6268]

I like the isekai genre because of how vast the quality is. Slime isekai is one of the better ones, and the cell phone one exists. However, I love isekai because they are perfect to watch while drunk, as the story makes no fucking sense anyways

[@danielknapp159]

Thank you for the recommendations. You introduced me to the uncle from another world and log horizon with two separate videos today. I do hope for a more in depth recommendation, maybe I missed it.

[@artoria4085]

isekai never fell in my heart

[@Bismarckian]

Yep

[@RainOn2SunnyDay]

only got sent to another world

[@wardenm]

FUN FACT: The first isekai was in the early 80's! Truck Kun came to Earth from another world known as Cybertron. His name, was Optimus Prime. XD

[@lobsterbisque333]

Isekai is the dream of so many people. I love them and they are usually just fun and entertaining, in addition to the ones who break the genre for the better

[@orca5428]

If you want a nice, easygoing, fresh take on isekai, I highly recommend My Next Life as a Villainess. Summary: Girl is transported into the world of her favorite VN, but she plays the antagonist who is destined to die at the end of the story and does everything she can to avoid the bad ending. It sounds silly, but it’s super wholesome and inverts the harem formula, and the characters are all super lovable and interesting with their own motivations and backstories.

[@synapse0]

It doesn't invert the harem formula at all, it's played straight. But her dumb antics are great.

[@martymohawk8360]

Great anime. MC is one of the best female leads I've seen in a while. She's cute and funny, but can also be strong as hell. And while madly and adorably in love with the Demon Lord, she's very independent (something that her lover finds both attractive and troublesome, as she's not a naturally very obedient partner 😉) and in my opinion is a way better depiction of a strong, independent female than the reverse-incels Western media seems to think are what strong women are.

[@ryip1]

The only issue is... this is also very overdone in the otome isekai subgenre. Whether it's a game/novel or just convenient time travel, the protagonist is aware she will die and is aware of the events leading up to it and tries to keep it from happening. Meanwhile, she ends up happening to get the guy (a big chunk has a main male lead rather than a harem). They've only recently started adapting otome isekai into anime with the most recent one I can think of being Tearmoon Empire story. Much like isekai as a whole, there are some good ones (using politics in her favor to convince the nobles to side with her), there are the dumb but funny ones (protagonist just wants to survive and her every actions are misunderstood as being wise), and there are ultimately the dumb and boring ones (the protagonist is loving her boytoy of the week).

[@ArnnFrost]

.Hack sitting there lamenting being completely forgotten xD

[@pamelotms5867]

To give a recommendation for mushoku Tensei for anyone that isn't convinced of its quality- In the 2 seasons that are out the best moment in my opinion isn't a big fight its just two peapol sitting down and talking, having a heart to heart. And it HITS HARD!

[@jeromefournier9667]

nice video, but 0 talk about the villainess isekai model, like seriously there is an entire (pretty much exactly as oversaturated) reborn as a vilainess trope going on. Some are pretty fun. Hell there's also the "reborn as an otome npc" one where the guy gets a harem of otome game villain and main characters and he has to deal with all their stories filled with the really weird male harem character and tropes. Campfire cooking in another world, no harem, just overpowered pets that stay around for the MC cooking (not even like female pets or monster girls, they are just straight up monsters) Ascendance of a bookworm is my favorite, but you have to be into slow development and world building, becauser it's really slow going and I love it!

[@SymmbolZS]

"DUNGEON BLACK COMPANY" is a hidden gem of an isekai

[@within_the_sky2356]

Thinking about "isakai" that don't involve actually going to another world reminds me of how in a vast majority of isakai the part about going to another world matters so little it sometimes doesn't factor in past the first episode, it could be replaced with amnesia or living a sheltered life or just some reason to be unaware of the world and it'd have the exact same effect on the story Ironically unlike the ones it inspired, SAO being an isakai continuously factors in, their goals are: to beat the game and escape, to free Asuna from the virtual world, to stop a murderer that can somehow kill people irl by killing them in VR. Now I'm not a fan of the plot but I gotta admit some thought was actually put into it

[@TGPDrunknHick]

I think this is much like a chinese web novel in that the isekai is a reason for a 'loser' to basically get motivation to actually change their life and have a total personality flip because it's actually someone else taking over a just dead body.

[@abebrown9580]

Three types of isekai: Reincarnation- reborn as a baby in a fantasy world Transmigration/portal fantasy- you go to a fantasy world in your own body Possesion/Implantation- your personality/mind is implanted into someone else's body, taking over their consciousness or taking over their body after the original owner dies

[@within_the_sky2356]

@@TGPDrunknHick Someone else taking over a dead body sounds actually really cool. I could imagine other characters getting suspicious or conflicted because they think/know they're an imposter Like what would you do if someone you cared about was suddenly a different person but you also care about that new person? That'd be some juicy inner conflict tbh And then there's the perspective of the imposter, how'd they deal with the guilt of lying to everyone. Maybe they have a few of the original person's memories just to make them feel even worse about deceiving the people that care about the original person Lmk if you remember the name of the web novel

[@within_the_sky2356]

@@abebrown9580 I see 1 and 2 a lot, I feel like 3 is the most justified in actually being an isakai since I imagine it's harder to ignore the setup (I haven't seen a many that fall into the 3rd category so maybe I'm super wrong), whereas with 1 and 2 it's really easy for the setup to matter so little it could be written out with little to no change

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@within_the_sky2356 er the problem is basically if you look up Xianxia novels there are thousands of them with the same plot point and basically no one notices the difference. they just try to treat them the same as before with poor results.

[@monty80085]

Can't wait to watch your trilogy on the genius of Mushoku Tensei!

[@niks5643]

Mushoku Tensei actually was pretty heartfelt. It's about him growing from being a shut in and taking his second chance to be the well-adjusted person he wants to be, pushing past his flaws to be a decent person, failing in certain fun ways. Do that, and I'm gonna watch Uncle from Another World.

[@McGayveR80]

9:.21 In Grimgar, there are subtle moments that hints they are isekai'ed. Like, at one scene, character a talks to char b, and says like, i want to play video games. But the at that scene also shows us, someone make them forget their previous world, and " i want to play video games" sentence came out reflexively. and Both Char a and Char b wonders what is video games. So yes technically it is isekai.

[@aniflowers1998]

To be fair, I heard the sword one is really good! It's defenitely on my to watch list, simply becouse the person who recomented it to me said the father-daughter like relationship between the sentient swod and it's wielder is wholesome

[@AWanderingSwordsman]

It is good. Nothing revolutionary, but quite enjoyable and Fran is adorable and the actual main character. Sword dad is just kind of along to support his adoptive daughter.

[@battlesheep2552]

I like how Fran has the voice of that girl from Non Non Byori (I think it's called)

[@AlexHeisEngholm]

It’s okay but the dub is dopy, I’m not picky with dubs but this one is a miss.

[@TK-nn8jd]

The Adventures of SwordDad and MurderKitten definitely deserves more recognition than it's getting.

[@chrislyngar9081]

I think my first was Magic Knight Rayerth. There were a couple of western novels that were isekai, Echoes of the Fourth Magic, and Magic Kingdom for Sale, and Woods Out Back.

[@devilravenninja9597]

Slime is about management, politics, Family and nationbuilding. What is there not to love? Plus, the anime hasn't even scratched the surface of its incredible worldbuilding yet either. Also Rimuru is adorable

[@PCVP4729]

Yeah Nux undersold it by naming tropes that literally does not happen in the show. I facepalm every time this happens when someone talks about Slime. Just praise it without naming false criticisms ffs.

[@kieranbradley5356]

I can't believe you didn't even mention Bofuri. Maple is such a cheerful and funny character. I also like that the other members of The Maple Tree guild get OP too but in their own unique way.

[@SmileyTom666]

It's in the bg at the start. It's also not really an isekai...

[@rankoprose]

Of course there are isekai before 1999, but they weren't called isekai either at the time. Most were Shojou. Like, Fushigi Yuugi and The Vision of Escaflowne. The goals back then were to get back home where now the isekai is a sort of heaven for the MC and it is a shift in attitude for everyone involved.

[@SpacePirateLord]

You forgot Magic Knight Rayearth.

[@ravendethshadow]

Was just gonna mention escaflowne. But yeah, can't go into the history of the "isekai genre" without at least mentioning the 3 above. Btw, I've only read rayearth, how was the anime? I really enjoyed the manga (though it was one of my first manga).

[@SpacePirateLord]

@Herja Y'know, I only ever read the manga and played the Sega Saturn game. I dunno how good the anime is. It was so much harder to find anime on VHS back then. Perhaps I should rectify that; I think there's a Blu-Ray release.

[@maxspecs]

Inuyasha was isekai, yeah?

[@matthewhass1384]

Okay, but... How not to summon a Demon Lord actually slaps tho. It had all those tropes, but just had fun with it. Sure, it was muted cuz of so many others that came before but it's one you can still enjoy once you start to focus less on the tropes themselves. Also, I wouldn't say this is the fall of Isekai yet. I mean, Ascendance of a Bookworm and Mushoku Tensei were made this generation. And Mushoku Tensei could be considered the godfather of Isekai Manga where SAO is considered the godfather of Isekai Anime.

[@WitheringRose13]

Knights and magic wasn’t as bare bones as you said. Pretty much, this coder who loves building mechs dies, and in the new world the magic system is just like coding, and he builds the mechs that he always loved making. It’s still pretty basic, but it’s for some meat on it

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

I heard about that a long time ago but not the name of the show I remember thinking "That's a good way of justifying why your protagonist is OP

[@dragmire3D]

The anime was alright, the first couple episodes were condensed a bit too much in my opinion. My favorite part of the manga is seeing Ernesti lose his mind with the mechs.

[@PyryKorh]

Yeah, I'd say it's a mecha anime first and an isekai second. It even got into Super Robot Wars.

[@maxspecs]

The anime is really a poor and truncated version of the story, if you enjoyed the anime, please check out the manga.

[@twichee247]

I’ll be honest here. I was talking and teaching my kids while this was playing in the background. While I do enjoy your content Nux, my kids were first. They wanted to learn, so I taught. Keep it up boss, doin great!!! 🤙

[@troyboi7662]

One of the isekai’s that went through the cracks was Pharmacy in another World. A doctor died of overworking himself and exhaustion and then went into another world with all of his knowledge and ended being over powered because of that knowledge and saved a lot of people that way.

[@derolixblazer8989]

I think what mushoku tensei does great which other isekai anime fail is that the characters are just very deep and you can sympathize with all of them and feel for them and their situation

[@AidanS99]

It had the incredible realization that in order for growth to happen there has to be a starting point. Most shows are afraid of starting low cause it could scare off viewers, but it makes the journey all the more satisfying!

[@thefrostedwolf1478]

I love how in most isekai anime, you are meant to self insert into the op protagonist, but with rudy. You're disgusted by him in the beginning and never want to see yourself as him.

[@derolixblazer8989]

@@thefrostedwolf1478 even as the series progresses and things get better for him, the stuff he goes through is also stuff I wouldn’t want to go through

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

Re:Zero the first 13 episodes was the world an the MC himself beating self value into him

[@SIR.scufington]

I love how know it it's a 50/50 shot either "here comes kirito #47 and he's overpowered" Or you get bangers like "want to watch the spider try and murder a dragon"??

[@SC-yl3fv]

A pretty nice isekai anime that's more laid back with a few emotional/a bit dark moments (been a while since I've seen it) is Ascendance of a Bookworm, featuring a girl who loved reading back in her old world. Since she was reincarnated into medieval times where books are primarily for the upper class, she makes it her goal to make and/or obtain books, one way or another.

[@bondrewedthesoverignofdawn1477]

Oh man your new video series are giving such a 2017 nostalgia. Keep up the good work

[@jaydenclarke2216]

It would be pretty cool if they made an isekai or a fantasy show where the main protagonist is a regular guy who travels the world and train to become the best or whatever, whilst main villain or rival was the one who was isekaid to this world instead. It would be an interesting scenario of hard work vs talent.

[@cosmosarts8709]

This video got me thinking. Samurai Jack is basically an isekai in of itself. It follows a bunch of the formula, with a few exceptions. But because it tackles these tropes differently to modern interpretations, and ignoring the fact that it is a western cartoon and not an anime, it stands out when compared to each other. Like how Jack is an extremely skilled protagonist, but he had to earn his skills, and even learns new ones while he is on his journey. Just an interesting thought.

[@advid01]

You should check out an old fav of mine “Those who hunt Elves”. It’s an isekai from 1996 where a tank and it’s crew are summoned to another world. Actually pretty good.

[@madbwoy84]

my first isekai was Vision of Escaflowne, but the last ones I saw were earlier this past year for good fun and laughs. Black Summoner, Skeleton Warrior, and the Labyrinth Harem.

[@ChakraWarrior2012]

This was a pretty good deep dive into the Isekai style of anime, but I'm surprised you didn't bring up how most of these other worlds randomly have game mechanics (often with a UI too)

[@HedgehogY2K]

I guess you could say Aang was isekai'd to next century so Nickelodeon's got some inadvertent experience with that.

[@levisallade1976]

Highly recommend checking out Ascendance of a Bookworm. It's not a wild power trip battle anime. It's just about a girl who likes books having to deal with the medieval world where there books are extremely rare and valuable. Super cute and wholesome. 10/10

[@Bloodrunks]

All these isekai anime. Yet Nux didn't even mention the Isekai light novel he himself is in ," That time I got Isekaied with my Truck!!!" which also gave birth to Truck-chan

[@psychronia]

It's because Isekai as a format is such an easy springboard for newbie writers. Except many forget to write the actual story and don't consider why they're ticking certain tropes. ...that being say, I love, *love* otome isekai anime.

[@corwyntalia]

Have you had a look at older series out there on the theme? The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) 26 episode sword & magic giant robots, main protag is female. And Magic Knight Rayearth (1997) Three girls from earth get sent to another world. swords & magic & magic giant robots. Both based on mana/novels a few years preceding the anime release of course.

[@philosopherkingzant2037]

Average Abilities is much better as an LN than an anime. It's 90% fun SOL adventures, 10% entropy, extinction, and continuous civilization resetting. Those sudden dark shifts can strike readers with a little bit of haunting dread. 1 of the last dark moments I've read that stands out in memory is when Mile, the protagonist, gets dragged halfway to a portal to basically h3ll where there are no nanomachines which is the source of her over power. She'd finally have what she wished for, being average, but surrounded by the original, too powerful, forms of monsters she got comfortable squishing like bugs

[@squidhgf9997]

There's going to another world, reborn in another world, having your mind transported, being trapped in a game, being IN the game, being IN the game as an existing character (usually a villian), being taken out of another world, being in your third world after saving the second, being transported into the world that you are dreaming about while your body is in a coma (this is an actual one, though I don't fully understand the coma-dream thing, it just has good art and characters), probably many more, and I'm not even talking about the "tower" trope, where towers show up around the world, and hunters come out, pretty sure that's a Korean thing...

[@SuperGourmetguy]

"Im a spider so what" is pretty good, it does break some of the tropes, although gimmicky

[@xxrav3nclawx]

Happy to see your back

[@RocRolDis]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Both literally classics. Both mermaid stories.

[@DameOfDiamonds]

Isn't alive in wonderland an Isekai? And also peter pan?

[@alexandersen1372]

here is an old isekai: Now and then, Here and there A recommendation for a good isekai during the muddled/gimick era: Executioner and her way of life. The point of that one is that you DON"T follow the isekaied character instead that one is a secondary character.

[@jhsrt985]

I think we all love these bc the follow the classic hero story, regular person+mundane life+unusual brand new event+call to asctiok/ new world ect ect..now he comes home from the mystic world with the "dragon" slain now hes a hero back in his old world changed forever

[@Pharaohxp]

I love isekai but its so many stories where either the story isn't written well, the main character is reincarnated onto something ridiculous. I've seen others reincarnated into a sword, a virus, and more. Somethings work like Rimuru and Kumoko but sometimes they push it way to far.

[@AWanderingSwordsman]

The sword one is good though. So is the spider one. I'd say the track record for reincarnated into not a human is pretty good.

[@abebrown9580]

I've some weird stuff like one where MC is reincarnated as a little girl's teddy bear and another one as a loli's panties

[@PadanGedowitch]

I wait for the isekai: "I died and got reincarnated as an entire harem"

[@MiniMidas375]

"- this isn't a Digimon video." Nux, we need a Digimon video.

[@carlosfeder106]

Wake up Jimbo, Nux just dropped a new video

[@rowanwallace6721]

Your comment came out an hour before the Video... Explain!!!

[@bubbasgotback431]

It’s important to understand that Mushoku Tensei MADE a lot of the common isekai tropes, and it does those tropes exceptionally well.

[@skave2710]

Funnily enough, my first Isekai was Alice in wonderland (the disney movie) and then Vision of escaflowne, and both of them doesn't follow the main Isekai trope. Now, I think that most Isekai are "I want to do a fantasy setting, but I have no imagination about how to introduce it" and it's the new "My main character amnesiac and is family have been killed by orc" kind of start. I don't dislike it (as I like fantasy), but most of the time, the story being an Isekai is a bad start. Since you've said your gonna react to FFF-class trash hero, I would say the more you're bored of the classique Isekai tropes, the funnier it get, and I have found the novel to be even funnier than the manga (as it more detailed about why he does certain thing, and the manga is a bit tamer)

[@Morgothazreal]

it is good to hear you're enjoying anime/manga again Nux

[@beds3458]

The Isekai did not fall cause my favorite Isekai novel mushouko tensei got animated and I'm excited for season 2....

[@chabri2000]

You did not mention the isekai where they guy goes to another world with his mum, and his mum is the op one

[@xenophacilus5895]

A good Isekai franchise I recommend is "Welcome to demon school Iruma kun"... it's not fantasy, he's just in the demon realm as a Highschooler after his parents sold him to the demon principle of the school

[@edudmodnar4661]

It is wholesome and Fun!!!

[@dracosmith7781]

Iruma is a cinnamon roll and a bro

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

@@dracosmith7781 fav EP is when he goes into the Toybox an his Dub VA becomes Toddler

[@immortalgod275]

That time I got reincarnated as a slime is the most enjoyable Isekai anime(imo) 😂

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

19:21 is based on the lightnovel that kickstarted iseka, so it is from a time where people was origenal The main character is kicked out by his familie, not because they are terrible people, but because he is. The only truly good thing he did with his first life was to sacrefy it so someone else could live. He wants to be a better person now that he has a free start

[@jhsrt985]

I live how you start this with Digimon, they literally fall into the digital world like meteors from the sky in the intro

[@dohtje5029]

Btw the Sword Isekai is kinda better than it should be, no harem crap, likable killer kitten MC and way better animation than it deserves.

[@thomasffrench3639]

I would check out some of the classic isekai like Aura Battler Dunbine, Now and Then Here and Now, or Inuyasha. I always hear about how they are still different from the genre. Anime before 2000 has a lot of gems.

[@AWanderingSwordsman]

Can't forget twelve kingdoms (the best of the pre SAO isekai) or escaflowne.

[@thomasffrench3639]

@@AWanderingSwordsman I actually haven’t seen any of those.

[@intensehumanbox9662]

Uncle dio is the isekai youtuber self insert I didn't think id see

[@rawkth5996]

Nux that background music hits hard mate.

[@donsandsii4642]

Thank you Lord Nuxanor. Your knowledge is useful to those of us new in the anime worlds

[@jimothyworldbuilding3664]

Drifters was amazing and I wish there were more interesting ones like it.

[@hqTheToaster]

Here is another idea: You get Semi-Isekai'd into realigning every Isekai prospect into Semi-Isekai prospect and your Precepts repair the omniworld, making you the God of Semi-Isekai and putting the God before you out of a job with the help of a Lawyer.

[@OriginCat]

11:28 don't know what you are talking about. How not to summon a demon lord was top tier.

[@g1Chikumo]

Handyman is surprisingly wholesome. A short form gag show that packs multiple episodes per episode. And he's not by any means op and he struggles with just how weak he is, but gets to enjoy feeling appreciated for the first time for his highly specialised skillset. And ends up being pivotal to his team without getting any stronger himself.. helping his demented mage companion remember his chants for example.

[@forkittens]

the real part of that show is the world. stuff like why the mage cant remember, is why i like that story.

[@harrisongillbert3809]

You should try Eminence in the Shadow, it's the mix between cliche tropes with origional takes that makes it a really fun read.

[@Kakachi07]

best part of that series is the MC Stealing a Piano in broad Daylight in the middle of a crowded place, just to add some music flair for when he finds the character he's looking for

[@harrisongillbert3809]

@@Kakachi07 Ikr, it's silly shennigans like that which really makes the whole thing stand out compared to the rest of the generic isekais.

[@Kakachi07]

@@harrisongillbert3809 of course if you haven't read the novels, Watching the anime itself isn't enough to fully apprechhiate the series, you gotta play the mobile game and watch the KageJitsu series to learn more about his girls cause the main series does almost none of that. I know more about Shadow Garden from the Mobile game than the anime XD

[@ardantop132na6]

On the topic of Isekai, I wanna recommend this manga or light novel/web novel titled "Nihonkoku Shoukan". If you know what GATE is, the initial premise is similar but the difference is instead of portal to the Isekai world, the whole nation of Japan got teleported into the Isekai world, losing their contact with earth. And second, this fiction doesn't have any harem and while there's main protagonist (who were a diplomat), they're not the main focus as it's usually the war, politics and especially technological superiority were the big plots in this novel/manga as they were many civilization with different technology level.

[@saitama33]

10/10 video as always

[@carrietay7704]

The handyman one is surprisingly fun to watch as is the campfire cooking one. Just 1 quick note though - Ningen Fushin no Boukensha-tachi ga Sekai wo Sukuu you desu is fantasy and not isekai. Let's also give truck-kun his due recognition in causing tons of isekai transmigrations. 🤣 I'd love your take on sports anime too!

[@AlexHeisEngholm]

I agree, but at first I thought the KZbinr Lock-picking Lawyer had been knocked off in Handyman. However, I still think a little more science, policy and explaining in these job-isekai like Dr. Stone would be a great improvement to these.

[@jeromefournier9667]

yeah the campfire cooking one is nice, no harem at least lol, just a bunch of cool pets :P you barely even get to hear about the guy with the harem.

[@RainyLS]

Now for some reason, I wanna see an isekai reverse isekai. Mr. Main Character gets transported to a new world with his memory wiped and nothing but an unexplained desire to go back to his home world. When he gets there, he's just confused cause magic doesn't exist and he apparently has a family he forgot about.

[@ujiltromm7358]

In a symmetrical way, there's Trinity Wonders. A portal experiment on a cyberpunk-ish Earth fails, and a pair of sworn enemy martial artists from a Murim world get isekai'd to earth, alongside a magician girl from a fantasy world who was fighting a dragon with her sisters has she got isekai'd. Follows their stories on a Earth that has a very thin ambient chi/mana concentration, putting "some" restrictions on those protagonists. And hey, no harem!

[@Sir_BadAss]

Just do it man, all your content ideas you keep throwing out, JUST DO IT! 😆 I'm here for it mate 100%😁👍

[@iceman4169]

Great 👍🏻 video nice 👍🏻 hype!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dabskiiboii74]

I'm loving the theme in the background it sounds like the track they used for Kirby's level in super smash bros 64 (sorry I don't play the Kirby games so I don't know the song name😂)

[@ironwario9184]

Both mushoku tensei and fff-class trashero are two of my favorites ever

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

Korea an China has a lot of series that give what we want when where curious of what if

[@TheOilDrinker]

Reading shit isekai is what keeps me sane. I just love learning all the world's and magic systems. It's like someone who rewatches their favorite movie 100 times but if they made one change to it and butterfly effect took over

[@Pioxys]

What’s funny about Sword Art Online is that *the first half was actually hype.* Me playing Phantasy Star Online, I love the concept of nerve gear to go into a video game world. Everyone said it was fire… *THEN THE ARC CONCLUDED.* The second half of season 1 didn’t hit as hard as the first, and the villain being a super creep didn’t help either. Sadly that’s where I dropped Sword Arts too, but I heard Gun Gale and others after were cool too. Just you couldn’t say that or even say you like the first half of season 1, unless you want to be bombarded with hate comments lol.

[@nobalkain624]

My first was Magic Knight Rayearth, yes I am what you would consider "Old" since I am in my Mid 40's. I have always loved the idea of being transported to another world and seeing what effect that might have. I watch any Isekai I can find these days. Trash or not I love them all.

[@AnonymousHamster]

Honestly, I love isekai and thematically isekai anime like Dan Machi. They just make me feel happy. That said, I'm not blind- 90% of them are trash, but fun trash 😅I watch nearly all of them with a smile on my face

[@Champeonic]

Nux wished he was trapped in Inter-species reviewer😏😂

[@AlexHeisEngholm]

I sometimes think the isekai-story is real role-playing concept where the GM just goes all out. Pathfinder and (sigh)dnd are kinda isekai games when you think about it. I apply knowledge of my current state of mind into the game every time.

[@whatwhat98]

I think Gate is rather good. It's the imperial war and conquest era vs modern day military. The empire believes it's the best but then gets bitch slapped with modern day Japan military and weapons.

[@avatwad1st262]

Have you tried Isekai truck-san not sure if it's the right title but it is about the 1 who's job is to kill the protags to transport them to the other world.

[@lobsterbisque333]

Isekais are a microcosm of anime and entertainment in general I guess. It has certain conventions that some all-stars break to make a name for themself

[@Luckless7127]

I would like to have seen Nux's thoughts on black company

[@PuszekSE_Ch]

Mushoku Tensei has only aired feed recently, but it keeps the Isekai tropes cause... it was written back in early ~2010s when those were getting defined. plus MCs original life is often mentioned and greatly affects him in the new one, mostly on psychological level instead of typical mention once and forever forget ----- Regarding FFF class hero it has decent follow up, since the goddes is angry at him, failing his 'training' (MC is a piece of thrash) and forces him to redo his path. he's trying to cheat the grading system (ie. one of the marks is popularity, so he goes about brainwashing important people to skew the public opinion)

[@jeremyhearne]

Okay so, I've had this idea rattling around inside my head where I took inspiration from isekai anime with some bits from adventure time among other types of movies and shows. It starts off with the main character being a cop with a military background of a small arms repairmen (he did repair more than just your standard infantry weapons like a vehicle or two there along with some artillery). He did see some combat due to the world he is in has had tensions along with battles here n there but that is besides the point, the main thing is that the world he is in is on the brink of nuclear war. This is over heard on the radio until boom, a blinding bright light envelops all around him as he was on a night patrol. The night sky becomes like day for a moment. Then the rumbling starts. After the shockwave catches up to him in his car he gets flown into the air, then in that moment he is transported into the far distant future by an eleven queen who used a spell to transport him into the future. Hell he ain't the only one either, there were others but he is the first that has what he has. Which is his squad car, a shotgun, a pistol and whatever ammo he had at the time. I want to turn this idea into a comic but sadly haven't found someone or a group of people to work on the idea fully. I would gladly like to write it but doing it by myself is straining, after this video I am not sure if I should do the idea

[@templatename2143]

So i'm a spider so what got to be my favorite isekai just for the fact of the constant struggle of the main character sure they're overpowered but it's still a constant struggle of survival not knowing if they'll make it the next day making all their accomplishments feel really earned and not just because they were made overpowered and used their insane abilities to kill all their enemies

[@jenniferwelch2424]

rise and fall of " I hate this thing, I will kill all of this thing, oh no I am one of this thing." My gosh was it everywhere for while

[@hqTheToaster]

What if you were "Isekai'd" into a game with the following condition: 1) If your health falls below a third of max, you could faint and lose a "chance" (life); if you get caught after, you are cut-off from half of the world. But 2) If your health falls below 0 and you have no Phoenix Down nor Shroud Down, you die and get a game over. Oh, and 3) you are predestined to be part of a team that does actions "Marche Style" (Due to a bad deed or something; maybe you were Meme Semimayor and impersonated a Meme Mayor idk. Doesn't matter.). I'd like to hear from you your conclusion. Also, nice channel and show. Kudos and salutations.

[@prod.a.b.i.l1930]

I honestly love Isekai shows that don't have the MC fighting the demon king and instead just trying to do something unique. Rebuilding a Kingdom, Farming In Another World, Killing The Hero, Cooking in Another World or just trying to live a regular life even thou they are extremely over powered. Yeah Harems can be an annoying part of the Isekai troupe, especially if there are to many girls, but when you find that one isekai that has a good Harem, it feels like you've struck gold. Shows like Realist Hero, Tsukimichi Moonlight Fantasy, How Not To Summon a Demon Lord have really good harems that actually make you like the girls. All in all, the Isekai genre will never die, it will only multiply.

[@NotherNormie]

Thank you Nux

[@DaiGato420]

I think it interesting how you can tell when isekai change when back then the whole goal of isekai was going back home, isekai now a days doesn’t do that

[@zetsumeinaito]

Anyone old enough to remember the 80's and 90's US cartoons were full of isekai? D&D, Captain N: The Game Master, Super Mario Bros, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Gargoyles, Samurai Jack, Spiderman Unlimited, Futurama.

[@heathbennettbmazda]

What stood out to me most about this video was that shield hero is more popular than slime

[@hassanshaikh3451]

The Isekai genre to Japan is like the superhero genre to the U.S., both being weirdly specific genres that are popular as hell in their respective countries. Both started out with pretty damn good entries which boosted the genre to set up for later oversaturated garbage, and now both genres are factories for garbage like She Hulk and In Another World With My Smartphone. Is it just me noticing how crazy similar these genres are? There are even meta Isekai (don't really have any good examples) and meta superhero (The Boys). Well there are still some good things coming out of both genres, just sad to see that initial success of rather specific genres seems to result in factory production of trash and now less and less people want to dive in these piles of trash to look for the diamonds hidden in it.

[@thomasffrench3639]

I would say Mecha or Tokusastu as superheroes of Japan, not isekai. Isekai did not have the cultural impact like those genres and styles. I would compare it more to slasher craze of the 80s.

[@almalayuwiyyah2512]

@@thomasffrench3639 isekai definetly has replacing mecha since like 2010s. last time we have good mecha is gurren lagann or code geass. then nothing in 2010s. 2010s is when isekai blew up and it not slowing down either

[@courtney9936]

Make all the analysis videos u can think of, Nux!