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 {{ruby|異世界|いせかい}}(Isekai) is considered a [[lb:genre]] of Japanese Fantasy, but I choose to consider it a ‘sub-genre’ or ‘theme’. It has gotten incredibly popular in recent years, gaining popularity after the release of [[lb:sao]]((:fn:>While [[lb:sao|SAO]] doesn't count as Isekai itself, it does contain a number of elements that are incredibly common in Isekai. The popularity of [[lb:sao|SAO]] undoubtedly created an audience hungry for similar media. Evidence of this is the fact pre-[[lb:sao|SAO]] Isekai, such as [[lb:Log Horizon]], experienced their own popularity booms after the release of [[lb:sao|SAO]].)) and experiencing an additional boom sometime in 2017-2018((:fn:>This is my own guesstimate off of personal experience. I only really got into Japanese media around 2017. While [[lb:sao|SAO]] no doubt caused Isekai to become mainstream, I feel it wasn't a dominant genre until 2017/2018, becoming inescapable afterwards. I'm guessing this year because it's the year the first season of //Re;Zero// came out, and a year after [[lb:Konosuba]]’s did. Both of these were crazy popular, and remain some of the standout examples of the sub-genre.)). Currently, it stands as one of the most popular representatives of Japanese Fantasy, and has almost eclipsed Japanese Fantasy itself.\\
 The amount of content that falls under the term ‘Isekai’ is so vast that it is difficult to figure out what exactly ‘Isekai’ is. This is why I choose to call it a ‘sub-genre’ or ‘theme’((:fn:>But for the sake of the wiki, I have it classified under ‘genre’ anyway. That and I imagine most people would be confused if it weren't listed as a genre.)).
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 ===== Definition =====
 The defining feature of Isekai is the concept of someone coming from our world and going to another world((:fn:>Perhaps more accurately, it's someone going from one world to another. Some isekai feature protagonists going from one fantasy world to another, which is why this note exists.)), usually a fantasy world of some sorts. This is typically done through reincarnation after the someone dies. For whatever reason, the most common way this someone dies in Isekai stories is by getting hit by a truck((:fn:>I once read someone speculating online that it's because getting hit by a truck is both common and deadly. It's common enough that it's not absurd to suggest someone would die in this fashion (unlike, say, falling into a volcano), and deadly enough that it's likely to kill you instantly. The only thing in Japan that I think would come close is getting run over by a train, but that would imply suicide, which I can imagine is an implication most authors want to avoid.)). This is so common in-fact, that it's become an in-joke among fans of the genre and by casual [[lb:anime]] fans.\\
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     * The truck is, as morbid as it sounds, the most versatile method of dying in a story such as this. Since getting pushed implies something negative about you, and any other death would be unusual. The truck doesn't discriminate, so it doesn't imply anything about you.
   * [[lb:Konosuba]] has an interesting cause of death, but since it's something of a spoiler, I won't say.
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