@crunchyroll: Anime Court returns to settle one of the biggest debates: What counts as an isekai?! Check out The Anime Effect podcast wherever you get your podcasts, on Crunchyroll and the Crunchyroll Presents YouTube channel. 🎧🔥
the point of isekai is BEING TRAPPED IN ANOTHER WORLD !!!
2026-11-07 07:13:29
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Liger_Yager :
so with that logic DBZ is an isakai
2026-11-07 14:55:42
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eoudhw :
if the characters go to a different or alternate world, its an isekai. Its as simple as that, people.
2026-11-09 09:23:36
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thatlooklikejrob :
1 of them should have said Tensei is when you die and Isekai is just transported to another world.
2026-11-08 09:32:20
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XIII :
Well let’s talk about digimon
2026-11-08 17:33:07
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🎾𝙶𝚈𝚁𝙾 𝚉𝙴𝙿𝙿𝙴𝙻𝙸🎾 :
Shangri la frontier is NOT an isekai
2026-11-07 06:06:37
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tristan.canada042 :
i still dont think sword art online is an isekai at least in my eyes simply because they are stuck inside a game not in another world i know im gonna get hate for my opinion but thats just how i feel about it
2026-11-08 07:43:20
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xCleverton :
soa and. shangri la isnt isekai, its they are vrmmo or vr 😬
2026-11-07 20:15:41
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MortenMx2 🇧🇻✖️ :
Shangri-La Isn't Isekai, is a MMOVR RPG.
2026-11-07 05:17:04
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Eddie :
Shangrila frontier just isn’t an isekai, he frequently plays other games, sometimes spends time outside, a large chunk of next season isn’t even gonna be in shangri la frontier
2026-11-07 13:51:08
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🇦🇺⚛️joey⚛️🇦🇺 :
isekai is being in a different world where you are trapped sometimes you can go back but that's at the end of the show
2026-11-07 11:42:34
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thatgayjesus :
narnia is more of an isekai than frontier or sao
2026-11-07 15:11:49
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mw01322 :
No one gonna mention Gate? That was def an isekai
2026-11-07 07:43:03
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𝔻𝕖𝕖 🇦🇺 :
I have a question is it an isekai if a character is born in one realm sent to another BUT ends but up in the original as an adult
2026-11-08 00:54:58
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Blake :
only season one for SAO?!?!? alicization he is literally trapped in another world
2026-11-07 18:21:43
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juggalotic :
Sao and Shangri-la aren't isekia. They don't go to another world they just put on a head set and play a video game. The world is on a server on earth.
2026-11-07 19:04:38
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Drakon Black :
isn't dr stone by the meaning of the word a regresion manga
2026-11-07 13:02:43
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Kwondre :
nah slf is an isekai
2026-11-07 14:42:03
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DCRCC987 :
one has to understand isakai is literally another world this means yes being in a game thst you can go back and forth can be an isakai most cases you are permanently trapped there but it also came be a lit rpg or pure game and if you get down to it the author decides
2026-11-07 15:23:35
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jagy__ :
i dont watch isekai but i thought one requirement for this genre is to die and be reborn in another world 🤣
2026-11-08 06:01:36
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tomelwaterz :
So Solo Leveling is an Isekai?
2026-11-07 16:17:37
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klaasified :
Isekai is just "another world". You don't have to be trapped. SLF is isekai cause its main story happens in another world even if we see stuff happening in the real world.
2026-11-08 08:37:59
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Christian montalvo :
it is a one-way Street you're not allowed to come back once you go you don't come back that's why most of them start off with the person dying in their real life
2026-11-07 17:32:03
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Aizm :
Sao and Shangri La aren't Isekai. A video game isekai is Log Horizon where you physically were sent to another real world.
2026-11-07 09:40:23
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