Will isekai become the best genre?

Will isekai become the best genre?

  • It's unlikely.

    Votes: 37 43.0%
  • We are already at that point.

    Votes: 16 18.6%
  • Still too early to predict this.

    Votes: 5 5.8%
  • I don't care.

    Votes: 8 9.3%
  • I don't think it matters.

    Votes: 20 23.3%

  • Total voters
    86
  • Poll closed .
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Transmigration or Regression or Possession under the right care and braincells put into it will outclass most isekai genre anime, and I hate all of them mention above.
Basically Isekai is to Fantasy as AI 'Art' is to Painting. AI will never fix those hands and feet.
 
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the aspect people get attached to the most from it is the wish fulfillment of being immediately godlike in a new world. We're already seeing other genres popping up in popularity, right now there's a boom of romcoms where MC gets effectively married to some rich/popular girl after getting in debt for no reason other then they had a secret crush on them.
Isekai is an easy to write excuse for why a MC gets transported to a new world and is a blank slate but its gotten to the point where its so overused you can pretty easily tell the difference in quality from the start
 
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Hearing and seeing the term isekai which has been popular for many years in manga and anime industry somehow reminds me of comic sans ms. Both have a miserable journey as they're getting a lot of negative receptions over years due to overused reasons. A strange juxtaposition indeed.

Becoming the best, I don't believe so. I suppose it's easier to predict whether or not isekai genre can thrive if only it weren't overused until today. I daresay this since the overusing (or to be more precise bloated not-so-different plotlines) issue generates the impression enough to divert readers as well as watchers attention away from analyzing the potential of isekai in competition against other genres.
 
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I’ve been seeing people talk about the death of isekai or whatever for over 5 years, and it hasn’t happened yet so who knows.
 
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Objective answer: YES. Proof is on sales.

Subjective answer: HELL NO. I am tired of it.
 

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