^Fingers crossed

a reverse isekai is when you walk into a parked truck and it disappears

This got a good laugh from me, thanks

Yaois your Yuri

I did not refresh the thread whilst writing this. Seriously, folks, you could have all done something productive with your time, like checking your smoke detectors or something.

To my credit I did go outside, stretch, breath in some fresh air. Multitasked a bit. I didn't want to get into arguing about the subject and gave some light responses because going further would be bad for my health.

Now that you mention it Mr Jones, I want to see the FREEDOM tag used more. That's a hilarious tag to have lmao

Genuinely all of the tags you're mentioning have at least the potential to be helpful. When there's a lot of stories updating at once, or when I'm trying to find a specific story that I don't remember the title of, more tags are actually better, they help make series more distinctive in my brain. I've found myself more likely to enjoy manga where a protagonist comes from a fantasy setting to Japan than the reverse, so tags recognizing the difference helps me find what I like! How... awful? I guess?

Yeah I think more tags on Dynasty would genuinely be helpful. I love websites that use 20+ tags on something, and all the little nuances of tagging, how I can combine tags together to get very specific things, black list tags and combinations to remove specific things and so fourth. I love more tags, tagging is a genuinely fun element. I often argue that Dynasty needs a pubic hair tag because I'd love to able to easily find works with pubic hair.

The purpose of tags is not to make etymological or historical sense. Reverse isekai gives me information about the work that Fantasy by itself doesn't. I don't see what's so terrible about that.

I do find it fun that in hindsight I can call Marvel's Thor 1 a reverse-isekai now lmao

Since isekai typically is about a character from our Earth engaging with a world that they are out of context in, such as Alice going to Wonderland. With reverse isekai Thor is going from Asgard to Earth, and a lot of the movie's story focuses on how he's an out of context element that engages with our world in a unique way due to being from another realm. Regardless of whatever pop culture origins isekai as a term started as it's evolved into a very broad term and genre used to describe many different series and scenarios.

This makes even less sense. Thor is not from another world in the sense of Isekai. He is an alien from another planet in the same universe. That is not isekai.

Do people who dont even seem to understand what an isekai story actually is really make the best judges of whether a "reverse isekai" tag makes sense...?

The purpose of tags is not to make etymological or historical sense. Reverse isekai gives me information about the work that Fantasy by itself doesn't. I don't see what's so terrible about that.

I do find it fun that in hindsight I can call Marvel's Thor 1 a reverse-isekai now lmao

Since isekai typically is about a character from our Earth engaging with a world that they are out of context in, such as Alice going to Wonderland. With reverse isekai Thor is going from Asgard to Earth, and a lot of the movie's story focuses on how he's an out of context element that engages with our world in a unique way due to being from another realm. Regardless of whatever pop culture origins isekai as a term started as it's evolved into a very broad term and genre used to describe many different series and scenarios.

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.

^That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing your perspective. I think while my perspective and view on the series is a bit different I do think it's good to read other views, and it provides me with more to think about as I continue my watch of the adaption.

Such a shame the black haired girl's design is so... meh...

To each their own, I like the design

Geeeeeez you can tell the gap is being closed, it’s just like, come on! Just say the words! You’re so close!

I really hope this sticks the landing, I really dig the dynamic.

But they're already saying "I hate you", is there something else they're supposed to say?

@Any_ILL:

Thanks for the information, I guess I got confused somewhere about her status. It sucks that her girls are dead though. :(

Characters coming to our world from another is a standard trope in most supernatural stories

what

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.

Does this really require a tag, let alone one this absurd? Characters coming to our world from another is a standard trope in most supernatural stories. This is not relevant to Isekai. That's like calling homosexuality "reverse heterosexuality". It makes no sense.

I see the tag and go, oh a fantasy or similar character coming to our modern day world, and it tells me what the story is about. Sure the wording is a bit silly but it tells me what the story about just fine, and it's a fun tag imo

Also I mean hey we have even more niche / unique tags than this, such as "depressing ass fuck" lmao

The characters profiles state that they were 17 at the start of the story;

And it's explicitly said that they're now 3rd years in chapter 41.

People have goldfish memory or what?

Chapter 41 was 2 years ago, I barely remember a lot of things that happened 1 year ago lmao

Hell with this year alone I'm reminded of the Tintin meme I recently saw, It's been one hell of a year, Captain It's Only June. Which I feel in my soul and my bones.

Shared sex dream? That's fun.

Also I love the artistic way sex is drawn in this, it feels very passionate and emotionally expressive

^JJK did end, so that's definitely possible

Yeah I stopped reading Chainsaw awhile ago as well, and I agree with it being excessive in how mean spirited it is. I hate so many of the character deaths in the series and the way death is typically handled, including in part 1 the death of the canonical lesbian character and her girls. With that said I'm about 95% certain the series hasn't ended yet, since I'd probably hear something about it on social media with how I'm plugged in to the general anime/manga sphere.

Always love a prince and princess Yuri dynamic

Zani will probably put Rover in a full body cast by the end of the night, but it'll be worth it

I'm really loving this ship

Trying to top and failing while looking cute is a power move in it's own way lol

The power of an adorable smile

I keep seeing the name "Lord of the Mysteries" pop up and I've been curious about it, and now upon seeing this cute Yuri art for the series I'm even more curious, even if I assume the actual series probably doesn't have any Yuri