To be fair, it's getting pretty difficult to stand out in this genre because there's just so friggin' many of these things now. I bet the people that wrote some of those OG isekai back before we even really had a way to refer to these kinds of things (Escaflowne, for example) never imagined they'd get retroactively dragged into a genre tag that so many people hate.
@Glomoro Those "OG Iseki" have nothing to do with the narou isekai that are web novels that are then acquired to be LN. This is one of those since the manga is an adaptation of a LN, much like the large majority.
@kent12121 Yeah, I just mean like if you go look at those series on sites like this nowadays, we tag them as an isekai because the term still fits. It just tells you that the story involves someone being sent to or being able to travel to another world. We weren't calling them anything like that back then, it was just part of the fantasy or sci-fi elements. Now that specific aspect of those stories has its own widely used term because the Narou stuff exploded like they did, so you might consider them unrelated in certain aspects but the fact remains that they share a key element that is now a genre.
After reading 29 chapters of Hiraheishi wa Kako wo Yumemiru, I hope this become refreshing, because seriously, I don't mind a weak on the beginning OP at the MC but that MC is just so "regular" on a regular way