The only good isekai I've seen is SAO Abridged

but that's just cuz i find that level of excessive fanservice funny

Super overpowered main characters beating the fuck out of really shitty people.

have you watched it cwow?

I like how the butler just decapitates a criminal organization in five seconds.

Literally.

i heard claymore was good but i never watched it

Claymore was kinda weird.

Gal Tensei is a somewhat interesting isekai parody manga. It's about some self obsessed high school girls ending up in the RPG world

it leans into isekai tropes to the point of almost mocking them

wait, i did like one other isekai anime

first two seasons yes

but the other world was actually the real world

i hear good things about gintama but i only saw the first episode of it before it was dubbed

it had nothing special aside from hawt lizard sex, so I gave up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9w5JyThFI

nobunaga concerto

nobody liked it except me

lmao

One reason I like Log Horizon is because a ton of people ended up getting moved to the new world.

Not just one or two.

I have too about Gintama, and I got like 5 episodes in but couldn't care about it. I've heard it's just a slow start, but I suspect it appeals to the same type of people as typical Shonen shows do

is homestuck an isekai

Yes, and please don't bring it up ever again.

now here's an interesting question:

why does a concept like Isekai even exist?

i liked how political log horizon was, but i didn't like the MMO elements really

wish fulfillment

why does any genre exist

It's the idea of a group of normal people from our world taking on a brand new world.

the world sucks and people want to be in a different one for 25 minutes

It's just a trend of a genre. Why does a concept like magical girl need to exist?

Reminds me.

Learning how the system works and then figuring out how to break it for their personal gain.

>wish fulfiment
So it's not about telling a compelling story, it's about you, the reader, not the story as told?

Im seeing alot of manga where the main character is some sort of loser.

Konosuba?

Which is also a really great isekai.

although isekai specifically I think is one way to tell a frontier story without having to go back in time

Not having a problem there. But its funny how they manage to use their expereinces as a loser to solve their problems

generally that's the draw of isekai