Message from @IroncladLandship
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it died in the first season
While there have been good gaming isekais, almost all of them have gone really hardcore in one more niche aspect of the genre
For the Many Not the Jew - J. Corbyn
None have really tackled 'vanilla' isekai since SAO
So it has no real competition
you forget the original isekai Hack/sign
I said since
Not ever
which is... just as bad
While I like .hack, I found sign to be too slow and irritating to get far into
all of its kinda trash though but thats more of its time period and its source
nothing ever happens in .hack
CON is now 190
The Kite arc (infection-quarantine games and the manga/novels following the same arc) were good, as was the _manga_ Legend of the Twilight (_not_ the anime)
Everything else is a bit trash, yeah
All of the good isekai anime have focused on a smaller, extreme aspect
Grimgar went very dark and deep into the reality of death and losing people
Konosuba went parody and examined the quirks of arbitrary systems and bad party members
Re: Zero analyzed the responsibility of entering a real alternative world and the reality of a save-point mechanic
Overlord studies sociopathic behavior, power-fantasy, villain players, social and hierarchical expectations and so on
Agreed.
SAO covers kind of _all_ of them down the sort of archetypal 'im in a video game and if you die, yoi die for real' route
However, it does it _badly_
don't forget log horizon
It basically drops it in favor of power fantasy after episode, like
5 or 6
SAO is the worst
I have not watched log horizon
its like more of a traditional mmorpg
Ah
its fairly good actually
there is zero payoff
if a bit slow at times
>watching isekai anime <:thunk:462282216467333140>
overpowered main character is also butchered with SAO
Yeah
I think the premise is what fundamentally draws people to SAO
The _premise_ is the _one thing_ that SAO nailed
see why i don't get is
why bother making it isekai\
like why not taking the setting as-is