Isekai?

PachiDD said:
Just curious, would you consider Angel beats an isekai?

yamai_natsugami said:
isekai: another world. it takes place in another world, separate from the origin world. angel beats is an isekai by dictionary definition.

FlyingBacon365 said:

True but it don’t feel like one 😭

PachiDD said:
Just curious, would you consider Angel beats an isekai?

Refined_Otaku_ said:

there were already a good amount before that like Digimon, The Familiar of Zero: Knight of the Twin Moons, etc...

FlyingBacon365 said:

True but it don’t feel like one 😭

PachiDD said:
Just curious, would you consider Angel beats an isekai?

PachiDD said:
Just curious, would you consider Angel beats an isekai?

Detective_Lupin said:

that's because it released before there were solidified isekai tropes from shows like SAO

Detective_Lupin said:

that's because it released before there were solidified isekai tropes from shows like SAO

PachiDD said:
Just curious, would you consider Angel beats an isekai?

PachiDD said:
Just curious, would you consider Angel beats an isekai?

yamai_natsugami said:
isekai: another world. it takes place in another world, separate from the origin world. angel beats is an isekai by dictionary definition.

Triggerfish124 said:
Its an isekai, just not your stereotypical fantasy harem isekai. Yet at the same time you are supposed to move on to the afterlife... so ig its more like a stage to death? Limbo? imma just continue to call it an isekai.

RequiemLo64 said:

You’d be wrong but, you cant force someone not to do something, so you do you dude

Triggerfish124 said:

Good thing idc what your opinion is on what I think of anime

RequiemLo64 said:

Yet you replied? Sound like you do care bud, best part? everyone else can see that you care cause you can’t delete quotes, better luck next time, go touch grass

Triggerfish124 said:

You seriously have nothing better to do than try to start fights, apparently. Your first comment to me was completely unnecessary. Whether I care about your opinion or not is a different matter than it annoys me when individuals like you comment on every single person's opinion that doesn't align with yours. I do wish I hadn't responded because extra drama like this is not worth the trouble. Wasn't mature of me, but I don't claim to be mature. Instead of touching grass, I'll be going to bed. Good night sir.

Khalnayak2002 said:
Ahhhh no.

Because the world is same but in Afterlife

Mucan said:

the afterlife is another world otherwise what would be the point of having an afterlife

RequiemLo64 said:

Isekai needs to meet these three criteria
-reincarnation
-transference
-summoning
Time travel, portals to a different world, or anything that doesn’t involve characters dying and going to a nee world, being summoned to a nee world or being transported to a new world, ITS NOT A ISEKAI!!!!!!!!!!!, angel beats takes place in the afterlife so it doesn’t meet the criteria

momentie said:

Where did you get those criteria?😅

The genre starts for anime all the way back in the 80's when a young lad drives his motorbike to another world (Dunbine)

Magic Knight ReyEarth of the 90's has the characters simply moved by a flash of light.

Narnia they just step through a wardrobe, Wizard of Oz it's a tornado/dream.

And define 'Plane' as aversed to 'World' - Generally people use world rather losely, not as a technical term.

Not here to be rude or anything but would love to know where you sourced tour critiera from😅

RequiemLo64 said:
See the pattern?

Alexioos95 said:


Isekai is a subgenre of fantasy , but Isekai itself also have many subgenres. (Naroukei , Saibakukei , sekaikei...)
The criterias you listed are just cliches from a Naroukei story.
It doesn't mean that if a story doesn't have those , they are not part of the Isekai genre.

RequiemLo64 said:

I actually have a lot of better things i can be doing but what i do on my days off is really none fo your concern bud, you got pressed, i just replied like I'm doing now, if that annoys you, you must really hate the freedom of speech, freedom of backlash, and freedom of opinion on the regular right & next time think before you act, no use wasting a wish someone else could use right about now let when you wake up go touch grass, goodnight

RequiemLo64 said:
Well someone did his homework (sarcasm)

Triggerfish124 said:

You do realize we would never have had this argument if you hadn't commented on my post undermining my answer, right? I didn't send a comment on yours saying you're wrong. I could've sent you an essay on how although isekai do generally include death and summoning, not all 3 are required to make it an isekai. Some examples of popular isekai that do this are Overlord, which is an isekai but not once has it answered how he got there, No Game No Life, where the god of the world literally grabbed the main characters from a game and dragged them to his world, Mushoku Tensei, where the main character died but was reborn as a baby, Tanya the Evil, who died and was reborn as a baby, Tensei Shitara Slime, who was reborn as a slime in a fantasy world, My Next Life as a Villainess: All routes Lead to Doom, where she is reborn into a world that follows the rules of a romance game, and Konosuba, where the mc died and the gods - or specifically, goddess - let him reincarnate into another world. I'm not sure what you mean by transference but in some cases of this the only thing the main characters brought with them is their soul. Isekai Ojisan is a currently airing anime where the main character literally calls his trip to another world an isekai, and he didn't die, was just in a coma until apparently he defeated the demon king and came back. Most of these are given the isekai tag, so unless you disagree with the tag as a whole, then your entire opinion of what makes an isekai an isekai is different than what anime considers to be an isekai. There is nothing wrong with that, but at the same time it doesn't seem right to me for you to comment on several people's comments on why they're wrong. In either way, I don't base my opinions on things just on what anime tags things. The otome game one apparently isn't listed as one, but I still consider it one, because my definition of an isekai is where the main character is transported to another world and has no logical means of getting back.

But I digress. You're painting me out to he someone who hates freedom of speech. Am I not allowed to state my opinion? Idk what you mean by backlash, this is between you and me. Maybe you're the one going through backlash, since you replied to so many different people, but I'm only arguing with you so I don't see backlash of the majority on my part. If you truly didn't want an argument, you could have worded yourself quite differently. For example, "I disagree with you but I'm glad you see the possibility that it really isn't an isekai." Instead every single message of yours has been rude, so you're obviously not against fighting over something trivial. I won't say I haven't been rude either, but let's just come to a mutual understanding mate. I read your first message as passive aggressive and I didn't like how you specifically called me out for being wrong when I included the information that would make people not consider it an isekai, my comment if anything was as non aggressive as it could've been. If you think Angel Beats isn't an isekai, that's fine. All that matters with anime is whether you like it or not and even then people shouldn't tell you you're wrong for disliking it.