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Lord Lady
Trying to think up a list of "good" isekai and this thinking session is getting kinda long
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Lord Lady
thing is I don't watch isekai expecting it to be good
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Lord Lady
actually I think I like isekai more when it's in light novel format
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Lord Lady
obviously there's "The Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime"
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Goldude
The one where the slime becomes OP by chapter 2 and stays human for 80% of the time due to a transforming mask?
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Goldude
Or a different one I'm unaware of?
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Lord Lady
sure that one
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Lord Lady
there's also "My next life as a villainess: all routes lead to doom was pretty good
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Lord Lady
that's where the protag is reincarnated as the villainess character in a dating sim and has to try to avoid dying
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Lord Lady
everyone is into her but she's only kinda interested in the story's original protag, a girl who she "would marry in an instant if she (our protag) were a man"
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Lord Lady
I would have recommended shield hero when I had only watched like 3 episodes of it but
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Lord Lady
gestures
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Lord Lady
y'know
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GayboyBerserker
digimon
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GayboyBerserker
but no seriously, a lot of 90s shojo had a lot "isekai" themes and they tended to be centered around how the usually female protagonist had some flaw in their home world/life that seriously held them back and their adventure in this world was a way to help confront and battle what it was that held them back
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GayboyBerserker
like, it's an upward journey where they better themselves
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GayboyBerserker
compare to modern isekai where it's typically boys that start off with some kind of ridiculous boon and it's like a teasing of "will I not become the worst person ever with all this power I have"
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asuka brain
"I'm in love with the villainess" is pretty cute
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Lord Lady
oh yeah I've been meaning to watch that one tbh
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GayboyBerserker
: oh! escaflowne, I forgot that technically is an isekai
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asuka brain
the twelve kingdoms is another old school isekai
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GayboyBerserker
hell yeah escaflowne
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conjυnх endυra
another vote for 12 kingdoms! the novels are better of course but the anime did a beautiful job
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Lord Lady
oooh looks interesting
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Lord Lady
might actually give 12 kingdoms a watch
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conjυnх endυra
yeah! It's got some really top notch worldbuilding, which is part of the reason I do love the novels because it gets detailed out a lot more, but 45 eps for an anime is like, that perfect sweet spot for length