Characters coming to our world from another is a standard trope in most supernatural stories
wha
Also yeah I don't think the majority of stuff tagged with Supernatural on here has characters coming over from another world? Usually they just co-exist with humans, that's how pretty much all of our vampire stories are.
Do I have to mention the obvious examples? For Shounen anime you got Bleach. For sci-fi you got basically half of every single TV show having this plot in at least a couple of episodes. Lots of JRPGs love to have characters or invaders from another world as plot points (the other usual one is "ancient civilisation which may or may not have come from space").
Coming from another/parallel/time slipped world or dimension is a very common trope in fiction. Before the dreaded isekai garbage started to be overused, the concept of a protagonist going to another world was also common and didn't need its own stupid tag anyway. Isekai does appeal to a more specific Japanese fantasy of some generic boring male self-insert jumping to another world to get a harem or become super important and amazing, because power fantasy. Isekai is to other world exploration what fast food is to a 5 star meal.
In that light, I am disgusted by the idea of making a concept as simple as characters visiting from another world be associated with this term.
I thought you meant works on this website and reasons to use the tag or not here specifically. Also you generalize and hate isekai way more than I do, because there's a lot of isekai that I read and watch that aren't self insert male power fantasies and harems. There's various female led, Yuri, and even some male led isekais, that I genuinely have so much love for. Same with reverse isekai. So I'm not going to fight with someone that genuinely hates isekai and thinks they're disgusting garbage. It's simply not worth my time, especially when isekai is a very broad and general term that covers even Mario going from Earth to the Mushroom Kingdom at the end of the day. Reverse isekai is used for this type of series in general, if you hate the term isekai and this tag so much and want it to be removed I guess you should discuss it with the mods. We have very different views here but I wish you well and a pleasant day regardless.
