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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (27 children)

There's a big trend in recent isekai to just outright kill the character at the beginning. So, you're either reincarnated into another world or your soul is snatched upon death and body recreated in the other world as an explanation for why the character isn't spending their whole time just trying to get back, but I do think that would be an interesting angle to explore.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (24 children)

I can only think of two Isekais where the whole plot is the main character trying to get home, and the anime fans are gonna hate which two things those are.

A Kid in King Arthur's Court and Farscape.

3 if Quantum Leap could be counted as an isekai.

[–] StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Since we're talking that era, Sliders was a great show early on and it's a tragedy nobody knows it.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Fucking love that show... its a shame he missed his home world because his mother just had the gate fixed but also I don't actually think it was the correct one

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