For me, I’m torn between Mushoku Tensei (very good worldbuilding) and Uncle From Another World (has the better direction)
Digimon & Inuyasha
uhh… spirited away?
mushoku is up there if we are talking about the modern kind of isekai
I never thought of Spirited Away that way but now that you mention it, it does resemble isekai.
tensei shittara slime datta ken
Visions of Escaflowne was pretty great. It had basically everything, a fantasy world, giant mecha and a Yoko Kanno soundtrack.
Feels weird to say that one of my favorite isekai is a shoujo mech anime, but you’re absolutely right.
Heck, I might even be able to say that two of my favorite isekai are shoujo mech anime depending on how much I like Magic Knight Rayearth once I finally get around to watching or reading that.
Mushoku is probably the best by such a large margin i couldn’t think anyone answering different was serious. Log horizon is probably the only isekai that’s done the modern game junk well.
My biggest problem with Mushoku, and why I feel like I literally cannot recommend it, is because of the weird pedo stuff. It would be fine and easy to forget I guess if the show stayed in fantasy mode, but for whatever reason any time there is something slightly sexual the show writers decide to remind the viewer “erm actually the main character is a 40+ year old man.” That just pulls me right out of the show.
The other parts are cool, but that one thing really stops me from enjoying it more.
Re:Zero, Konosuba, Overworld, and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime are some of the best, alongside SAO which started the modern version of the genre.
Space Jam.
Honest answer, much like typical shonen series I find isekai really boring and hard to watch. If I see “reincarnated” or “another world” in a show’s title it’s pretty much an instant pass from me.
Give me more DanDaDan dubs pls.
I liked Grimgar a lot.
It has unique visuals, but what really sets it apart is the great - what do I even call it - significance through realism? It has a lot of depth and is very different. It has my definite recommendation too.
I wish we had more Grimgar.
Like most I’m already tired of the over the top plot of most fantasy stories, I just want the shenanigans.
I really want Frieren but with a permanent base and more adventurer politics.
I guess there’s Goblin Slayer but IMO their character especially the supporting one isn’t as developed.
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So many isekais have great starts, but fall off execution in the second season. Maybe they run out of ideas, or just had a good concept, but then lacked creativity to keep the plot interesting… So there are a lot of S1’s
Sword Art Online Season 1
Log Horizon Season 1
Level 99 Villainess
Shangri-La Frontier
Rising Of The Shield Hero Season 1
Overlord
Konosuba
I really liked Uncle from another world too, but I wouldn’t list it to that question. I guess because it’s more of a comedy than with a spanning story and depth or development.
Scrolling through the comments to remember some of them,
- Mushoku Tensei - great - the first two seasons have exceptional world building, story telling, contrasting, and developments; not everything is great, but a lot is; for me, last two seasons fell off a bit
- Grimgar - very good - very unique, great world and characters and relationship between them
- Ascendance of a Bookworm - very good
- The Eminence in Shadow - very good - exceptional satire
- The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady - very good until the ending, with exceptional visuals and vibrancy
- Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout - very good - great comedy with a gender bend/swap
/edit: Found two more from my list of good/decent non-harem isekais I replied to some no longer existing lemmy post.
Unrelated to isekai, but I saw from your site that you migrated from Wordpress to Hugo. What method did you use to do that? I have an old wordpress site that I keep running for somebody, but it isn’t actively updated anymore. If I could convert that to static html and host it using something like github pages, that would be awesome. I looked into it once before, but there were a bunch of different plugins and methods, so the inertia of not doing it won out.
too much detail; leading up to the findings that follow
Looking at the git lot, it looks like it was in 2018. I don’t remember, and it’s not documented that thoroughly in the commit messages log. Looks like I had content pages in Joomla, and the blog in Wordpress.
I may have exported the content via a plugin, or separate tool that reads from the database, did exported from the DB myself. I certainly did some mass-fixups via text search and replace. (I can recommend VS Code for that.)
Unfortunately, I had other projects that I migrated, so I can’t remember which one I did what. :)
Now that I know the date, this is the migration blog post
I used content exporters to export the Joomla pages and Wordpress pages and blog posts into markdown content files for hugo.
Unfortunately, it’s not more specific than “content exporter into markdown”. But who knows if those specific ones would still be available today. :)
So I would suggest to use any Markdown exporter that’s available now.
Thanks for the info! I am just going to have to test some things and see how it goes. My wordpress site has quite a number of image galleries, so I’ll probably have to do some experimenting to see how those work.
I kept the images under the urls as they were. They’re probably still under
wp_content:D That way it’s not too hard to migrate.I don’t think I implemented anything for image galleries though.
Being a parody, it subverts most tropes of isekai anime. Its humor is exactly my type too.
Honorable mentions:
Most other isekai anime have the same cookie-cutter plot, making them so predictable and boring. Or they have an interesting premise, but waste it with poor writing and dumb characters.
without it we wouldn’t have many of the isekai animes as we currently do
Truth.
I like Overlord. Its got good worldbuilding but it also doesn’t always take itself too seriously and throws in some comedy every now and then to keep it lively.
I also really liked Knight’s & Magic. There are not enough medieval fantasy / mecha hybrid shows out there, despite anime being the perfect medium for it.
Skeleton in Another World was a fun one once you get past the first episode. The attempted rape scene right in the beginning just shows too much on screen IMO, it would have been better to cut some of it short and show the scenery around more rather than what was actually shown. Very uncomfortable, which I hope is what its supposed to make the viewer feel, but then literally none of the rest of the show is every that intensity. Like it was almost Perfect Blue levels of showing too much for too long.
