• Mac@mander.xyz
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      29 days ago

      Okay I keep seeing this everywhere.
      What does this mean and what is the reference?

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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        28 days ago

        Isekai is a genre where someone is taken out of their regular life and thrown into a new one.

        Typically, it’s going to be a more chaotic world, with different structures, like a fantasy novel type of setting, or sci-fi, or “wild west”, or even standard time travel.

        There’s tropes involved, but that’s that gist.

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            Isekai - 异世界 - 异 (different, strange) 世界 (world).

            Akin to portal fantasy in the english world.