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Isekai as a genre thrives on escapism — the fantasy of being reborn into a world where your old limitations don’t apply. But that fantasy often gets diluted by lazy power scaling. Too many ...

Isekai remains popular as a sub-genre of fantasy fiction for a good reason. These stories, in which one or more characters get transported into a new world, offer a blank slate with limitless ...

The Isekai genre has become a major genre in the anime world for good reason. Typically focusing on protagonists who have been transported from their mundane worlds to far more exciting, often ...