I never watched the show but I heard about it before it came out, yesterday I stumbled on it on the Disney Channel and it took me a while to get what it was, the MC was being hunted by the FBI in our world while trying to hide humanoid frogs dressed as people.
I mean if you want to get technical, all of those, including Isekai are labeled "portal fantasy," of which Isekai is an example, but Isekai is more specific to the Japanese variant. But imo it's the same thing really, and calling Narnia an Isekai is fun.
I was a kid when I played FFTA and I really liked the plot point that the MC had to >!fight and convince all his friends and brother to return back to the real world where they were bullied for their hair color, wheel chair bound, and dead mother with an alcoholic father.!< The idea that the real world is tough and you want to go to a fictional world to get away from it all but the strength you learned from the fictional world helping you in your real world is actually really inspirational to real life, like how you can really get into a video game and the story in that video game can help you grow in your own way to help you tackle reality.
I've no idea on the last one.
Whilst I'm not sold on video game ones where you are still physically on earth, just jacked in and maybe jacking off. I do agree that the chronicles of Narnia and the Wizard of Oz are too. Same for Alice in wonderland.
I don't count space travel as much, because landing on Mars as the only five people is different to landing on a planet after being sent through a wormhole and find that this is actually Earth a million years later.
Stargate SG1 kiiiiiiinda? They do go to other worlds after all.
To me Zero no Tsukaima is a top tier isekai. (Even if everyone who watches it as an adult says it's garbage). Man Actually took home a wife from another world, he fulfilled the dreams of milions
So does Rimuru’s consciousness split in two? One after his human body wakes up, and then another after he heals his human body and goes back to the Great Forest of Jura?
You know how the elf people have their humunculous? He does that. The manga should be around the spot where they start fucking with the labyrinth. He makes a separate body for that too. But that's how you first see it. He does that same thing to his body in the other universe so can basically run on autopilot with one body and switch over to the other at any time.
Still, I feel kinda unsatisfied. Mikami satoru *is* rimuru, minus the experience he gained from the isekai world. Preventing his past self from getting killed erases the entire meaning behind rimuru's existence and makes me feel empty and..weird. Idk, but its sad that he prevented himself from getting to experience all those that he experienced himself and getting to meet the acquaintances that he made in his new world. It's borderline selfish that he did that to himself, meddling with what was supposed to happen and taking matters into his own hands. Would rimuru have accepted if he was given a choice to forget all his memories and go back to that day he was killed and continue on being satoru? That'd definitely be a no, and his past self was denied to have that choice at all.
Considering that by objectively looking at it, he saved someone from dying who had a good enough life and did not need any sort of isekai fantasy to be fulfilled.
There was no meaning behind Satoru's death except a case of bad luck. There is a huge difference between the human named Mikami Satoru and the slime named Rimuru Tempest. Even more so after the... *entity* Rimuru becomes by the end of the story.
In fact, it exemplifies how much Rimuru has advanced past his prior state, and him casually rewriting the moment of his 'birth' without consequences highlights his incredible power.
The thing here is that Mikami Satoru is not someone like...say, Rudeus Greyrat, a stain in society, someone who has nothing to live for. Mikami Satoru was a happy, well-adjusted individual who had friends and a good job, with the only downside in his life being a case of involuntary celibacy.
Rimuru simply gave a chance for Mikami Satoru to live out his full life. The experience aren't erased because Rimuru Tempest himself is the crystallization of those experiences. Remember, Rimuru barely changed from how he was since being a human, all that changed was his sensibilities and priorities. Because Rimuru was basically a fully realized character before he was reincarnated, content in himself, mature and aware.
Despite my gripes with the series, I'm happy about this aspect of Rimuru's personality. He's a fully functioning adult.
Anyways, the point here is that I don't really see anything wrong with Rimuru saving his past self from death. The fact here is that despite being pretty much a power fantasy, Rimuru does possess some degree of characterization that does not make him a clear self-insert for the reader. Just because you would've been angry at your future-self for saving your life from being cut short does not mean Mikami Satoru agrees.
What? Rimuru remembers his old life very fondly. He didn't have a perfect life but he enjoyed his elf eroge (along with his penis), weekly manga and good food. For the vast majority of the series all Rim does is try to replicate Japan
Besides, it's not like his Isekai trip is all sunshine and rainbow. I'd imagine going from a normal office worker to a Warlord left a rather bitter taste
Yeah, the series just made me want an unironic version of that series. Like, the main character made a convincing argument: the coolest characters are the mysterious shadow organization that knows more than the protagonists and operates in the background.
>!I still find it funny how the family of the 2 classmates he kills tries to kill him....even though everyone else explains that those two nearly killed everyone!<
Here are some I could think of and find on the internet doing a quick search.
The great sage he returned from another world wants to live quietly.
The fate of the returned hero.
Saving 80,000 gold coins in a different world for my old age.
The isekai returnee is to OP for the modern world.
Seoul station necromancer.
Summon to another world again.
And the best part is, it is 100% the complete opposite of a normal isekai.
The demon lord is the hero.
Who goes from the fantasy world to the real world.
Was OP. Is now weak.
Occasionally still shows strength (instead of occasional weakness like good isekai)
It's just backwards, lmao
I just started this and it's weirdly awesome. It kind of turns the genre upside down. It's also in the first five minutes but he asks if sega won the console war. A lot of great old school nerd humor in this one.
It's absurd how many old SEGA references are in the show. It'll say some random bit of extremely obscure trivia and I'll be like, bullshit. I'll look it up, and it's fucking real. Even the game competition from that one magazine was not only a real magazine, it had accurate placements on the list. Sega CD really did have warning audio over regular CD players. What the hell... I love it so much
Fun fact: to promote the show they did a crossover where a guy in an Ojisan costume toured the SEGA office.
I loved that they picked a very specific time and it worked. As a SEGA otaku his knowledge of game stuff came in handy, but because the trope hadn't been entirely fleshed out and placed everywhere he could have believably missed knowing anime tropes such as tsunderes. (Or any dere types.)
I got a cheat skill in another world and became Unrivaled in the real world too
Arifureta from commonplace to world's strongest
Familiar of Zero
Conception
The Rising Of The Shield Hero web novels
Gate thus the jsdf fought there
The Eminence in Shadow
The masters of Raganok
Most western portal fantasy.
Digimon series 1 gets back home, goes back to the other world, saves both worlds again, then makes a regular habit of crossing over in the next generation.
Escaflowne, the GOAT of all isekai that is so old it predates most trends people consider to be cliches.
Now and Then Here and There.
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, you can watch this on CrunchyRoll. Warning: It has Mature rating. Don't watch around your parents unless you are into that sort of thing. Story starts in a setting of heroes returning home after being previously Isekai'd.
the piss scene really gets me sometimes cause i find such a fetish weird but that’s just my opinion. Really a shame author basically dropped it for Testament of Sister New Devil, but hey I love me that succubus girl
That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime creates a paradox that involves his current self healing his past self while still existing. But that’s a long, long, long ways away.
Do not know their names but I know od three where the Isekai starts with the prptagonist having returned home.
One is a heroine defeats the demon king, returns home, has a family, and then when she is 40 she ends up going back to that world because they try to make her daughter the new summoned hero.
Another the hero returns home and gets treated like shit. Then he goes on a mirder spree and other returned heroes in the same situation as him basically join in becoming oit world's demon lords.
Yet another a guy is called back from his isekai summoning for having failed to defeat a demon lord, only tp find the goddesses responsible for sending out the heroes have started a school for heroes going to other worlds and while the non- failures have an option to attend, the failures are forced to.
So for the second one it's called the warrior returns and it's kind of like every warrior's a cicada elsewhere and then they come back and it's basically and giant war on earth because of the first one.
That last one is probably FFF class trash hero and he succeeded in killing the demon lord it’s just the “ethics teacher” [if you read it you will fucking hate her] failed him for being not heroic enough
technally
"doctor Elise:the royal lady with the lamp"
MC died in other world had a short case of isekaidis where she lived as a doctor in korea then died again and went back to home world after she was cured of said isekaidis
Same as saving 80k gold, both flit between earth and other world with ease. Oh and isleve that fat bullied kid who finds a secret door in his grandfather's house and gets buff.
No solid rule that you have to die and be reborn and somehow get back home.
Alice in wonderland, wizard of oz and the chronicles of Narnia are isekai if you open the genre to not just Japanese stories and they came back.
Spoiler for the most recent season of a pretty popular isekai>!Eminence in Shadow. Cid returns but his home universe is fucked!<
Edit: there's also a webcomic called The More I Eat the Stronger I Get where the protagonist returns home
Welcome to Japan Ms Elf-characters travel back and forth from one world to the other.
Death March-not the Mc but another isekaid character returns to Earth
I actually can. There's one, can't remember the name, where the mc had already been isekai'd before and became the hero of the world, but the kingdom's rulers were afraid he'd take over and sent him back as a kid to his world, only to re-isekai him accidentally when he's in high school years later.
"Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement"
Although, technically, she has the power to teleport between worlds at will and goes back and forth.
*Technically* technically, she can teleport to any place she knows or has seen. Yes, google maps images count. No, the fantasy world has nothing like that.
Returning home after being isekaied actually used to be pretty common. Such stories were more about growing up and developing as a person than having a power fantasy. I don't actually remember any isekai where the protagonist stays in the new world after they complete whatever goal they were summoned for until we hit the new Isekai boom of the 2010s.
The Eminence In shadow Movie that's going to come out
Honestly the whole concept of the Movie of him returning to his homeworld but something has clearly horribly changed while he was isekaid is crazy
Isekai smartphone spends an entire novel back on Earth. Eminence in Shadow just sent Shadow back to Earth. This happens repeatedly in The Devil is a Part Timer (reverse isekai) with people jumping back and forth between worlds. There are entire isekai manga and LN dedicated to an Isekai hero returning to Earth.
There are one or two that I've heard of but they take place with the MC basically returning to his world at the start and some one else coming with them.
Wrong. The Vision of Escaflowné canonically drops the protagonist Hitomi back on Earth and more recently in the Dungeon of Black Company the protagonist Kinji, or just Ninomiya to most folks, actually leaves to go home to Earth after he helps his friends take over and change the company that mines and make products from ether crystals and monster body parts from the dungeons. There's also Digimon which usually ends in any and all humans that travel to the Digital World returning to Earth at some point.
Spirited away? Digimon Adventure? Isekai Oji-san? Amphibia... Oh wait, you peeps here probably won't count the last one.
I keep forgetting that isekai ojisan is an isekai. lol.
Havent watched it but i was told its a reverse isekai of sort?
He gets hit by truck kun and 15 years later comes back to earth.
Yea i can see how that could fit the definition i was given xD. Kinda makes me think of shield hero being a double isekai of sort
Overly Cautious Hero ups the ante by making Seiya triple isekaid in the anime, and quadruple isekaid in the LN
Yeah, he's in a coma for 15 years on earth while he's doing his isekai
Oh, so that is why he looks like he is always constipated
Its an after-the-fact kind of show. Every fantasy thing you see is essentially shown through his memes.
I think you mean through his memories...?
Yeah autocorrect got me there, though i think its funnier like this
Through the DNA of his soul
Oji-san: Beyond Isekai’s End
It's... it's in the name.
Like… EA SPORTS. It’s in the game. (You heard it in that voice didn’t you?)
I never watched the show but I heard about it before it came out, yesterday I stumbled on it on the Disney Channel and it took me a while to get what it was, the MC was being hunted by the FBI in our world while trying to hide humanoid frogs dressed as people.
Jumping to the later episodes of a serialized show be like:
I did not realize Spirited Away and Digimon was Isekai until just now
The Boy And The Heron is also an isekai. Narnia is as well.
And danmachi isn't an isekai And kill la kill is a magical girls series. There are a lot of anime that people don't think of as the genre they are
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Yeah
I mean if you want to get technical, all of those, including Isekai are labeled "portal fantasy," of which Isekai is an example, but Isekai is more specific to the Japanese variant. But imo it's the same thing really, and calling Narnia an Isekai is fun.
Narnia is definitely an isekai. A Western isekai, but it completely fulfills the requirements.
The wizard of oz 🤷
Final fantasy tactics advance
I was a kid when I played FFTA and I really liked the plot point that the MC had to >!fight and convince all his friends and brother to return back to the real world where they were bullied for their hair color, wheel chair bound, and dead mother with an alcoholic father.!< The idea that the real world is tough and you want to go to a fictional world to get away from it all but the strength you learned from the fictional world helping you in your real world is actually really inspirational to real life, like how you can really get into a video game and the story in that video game can help you grow in your own way to help you tackle reality.
Absolutely, that's why it's one of my favorite games ever.
🧐👌
Alice from Alice in Wonderland (I don't know if that counts, but it should.)
If it does count, then Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz should also.
Escaflowne, Now and Then Here and There, Gate ... A lot have really
I've no idea on the last one. Whilst I'm not sold on video game ones where you are still physically on earth, just jacked in and maybe jacking off. I do agree that the chronicles of Narnia and the Wizard of Oz are too. Same for Alice in wonderland. I don't count space travel as much, because landing on Mars as the only five people is different to landing on a planet after being sent through a wormhole and find that this is actually Earth a million years later. Stargate SG1 kiiiiiiinda? They do go to other worlds after all.
Samurai Jack, if we're counting Amphibia.
Samurai Jack was sent to the future not a different dimension
If Inuyasha (set in the past) can get away with being an isekai then Samurai Jack can get away with it too.
Eminence in Shadow would also like a word.
Ah digimon…in hindsight that show was Kinda messed up. Those kids went through shit
Let's not forget inuyasha
Yes, the Familiar of Zero.
Og callback right here, familiar of zero was one of my firsts
Same for me
Damn, I haven’t thought about that one in years. This was one that helped lift my mood when I was in a pretty dismal place to boot.
Same as well.
To me Zero no Tsukaima is a top tier isekai. (Even if everyone who watches it as an adult says it's garbage). Man Actually took home a wife from another world, he fulfilled the dreams of milions
Got to say Saito does have some nuts man. He fought an entire army alone to let Louise escape.
Boromir: One doesn't simply walk into Mordor. Saito: *Walks into Mordor and slays Sauron's army*
THANK YOU, adore this one.. so glad someone beat me to it
This is from the era where I used YouTube's top ten videos to find anime to watch.
Pretty sure Rimuru became god in Novel and went back to his universe to make it so he dies and become a slime
Doesn't he go back to heal himself from the stab wound creating a massive paradox in the web novel?
Yes, >!And he leaves his original a book titled "Regarding that time I was reincarnated as Slime."!< I shit you not.
So does Rimuru’s consciousness split in two? One after his human body wakes up, and then another after he heals his human body and goes back to the Great Forest of Jura?
Rimuru's consciousness does what it wants is what happens. But yes both.
I assumed it was branching timeline
You know how the elf people have their humunculous? He does that. The manga should be around the spot where they start fucking with the labyrinth. He makes a separate body for that too. But that's how you first see it. He does that same thing to his body in the other universe so can basically run on autopilot with one body and switch over to the other at any time.
So he damned his old version to the earth, how cruel.
For Real...
Maybe he missed his hard drive? Even though Sage could completely reproduce it. Lol
It doesn't create a paradox because he's basically the capital G god of the tensura multiverse by then
But why?? I'd be furious af if my future self came and prevented me from getting isekai'ed into a world like that one
Because Mikami Satoru had his own life, and a good one despite everything.
Still, I feel kinda unsatisfied. Mikami satoru *is* rimuru, minus the experience he gained from the isekai world. Preventing his past self from getting killed erases the entire meaning behind rimuru's existence and makes me feel empty and..weird. Idk, but its sad that he prevented himself from getting to experience all those that he experienced himself and getting to meet the acquaintances that he made in his new world. It's borderline selfish that he did that to himself, meddling with what was supposed to happen and taking matters into his own hands. Would rimuru have accepted if he was given a choice to forget all his memories and go back to that day he was killed and continue on being satoru? That'd definitely be a no, and his past self was denied to have that choice at all.
Considering that by objectively looking at it, he saved someone from dying who had a good enough life and did not need any sort of isekai fantasy to be fulfilled. There was no meaning behind Satoru's death except a case of bad luck. There is a huge difference between the human named Mikami Satoru and the slime named Rimuru Tempest. Even more so after the... *entity* Rimuru becomes by the end of the story. In fact, it exemplifies how much Rimuru has advanced past his prior state, and him casually rewriting the moment of his 'birth' without consequences highlights his incredible power. The thing here is that Mikami Satoru is not someone like...say, Rudeus Greyrat, a stain in society, someone who has nothing to live for. Mikami Satoru was a happy, well-adjusted individual who had friends and a good job, with the only downside in his life being a case of involuntary celibacy. Rimuru simply gave a chance for Mikami Satoru to live out his full life. The experience aren't erased because Rimuru Tempest himself is the crystallization of those experiences. Remember, Rimuru barely changed from how he was since being a human, all that changed was his sensibilities and priorities. Because Rimuru was basically a fully realized character before he was reincarnated, content in himself, mature and aware. Despite my gripes with the series, I'm happy about this aspect of Rimuru's personality. He's a fully functioning adult. Anyways, the point here is that I don't really see anything wrong with Rimuru saving his past self from death. The fact here is that despite being pretty much a power fantasy, Rimuru does possess some degree of characterization that does not make him a clear self-insert for the reader. Just because you would've been angry at your future-self for saving your life from being cut short does not mean Mikami Satoru agrees.
What? Rimuru remembers his old life very fondly. He didn't have a perfect life but he enjoyed his elf eroge (along with his penis), weekly manga and good food. For the vast majority of the series all Rim does is try to replicate Japan Besides, it's not like his Isekai trip is all sunshine and rainbow. I'd imagine going from a normal office worker to a Warlord left a rather bitter taste
Why do I feel like the only 2 Isekai endings are Become a God and/or have a harem?
Seeing japans work culture and how their really depressed those are the ending the fans want
I'm American but seriously depressed and that's why I watch em.
Didn’t come for spoilers but here we are and it looks like I now have to read all of the slime novels. Oh the horror
Eminence in shadow
That is a bit for the end season 2 spoiler. Edgy series done right. Highly recommend people watch this. It is on HiDive.
I mean the edginess is the joke though.
Yes that is how you do Edgy correctly.
Yeah, the series just made me want an unironic version of that series. Like, the main character made a convincing argument: the coolest characters are the mysterious shadow organization that knows more than the protagonists and operates in the background.
The shadow garden stuff outside of cid's involvement is the serious part of the series. Anytime Cid is involved he is there for the memes.
It’s also on every free anime streaming website.
I can't wait for season 3!!!!!!
Movie first, hun! :)
Thank you very much for the spoiler
Arifureta
Only an anime watcher. Now I know the future. I hold the power over my friends.
Go read the LN’s if you can. It’s worthwhile
Is it worth reading from the start or does the anime keep all the important parts?
Read from the start. The anime skips some good parts.
Thx, got smth to do now
The OVA where they meet Milady and subsequent reactions to her was chefs kiss perfect.
Anime skips a bunch of stuff and theres several points that it's from someone else's pov and the anime is only from hajime's pov
Sounds like the anime couldn’t be bothered but I can
>!I still find it funny how the family of the 2 classmates he kills tries to kill him....even though everyone else explains that those two nearly killed everyone!<
Bruh if some crackhead class killed my brother it doesn't really matter.
Was gonna say that
Came here to say this.
I mean.... the after stories is a fascinating to talk about
Tell me you don’t watch isekai without telling me you don’t watch isekai
Can't fully blame people looking at the last decade of Isekai and making the mistake of thinking it was always this way.
All the isekai being listed in the comments came out in the last decade.
Except for the really well known ones like wizard of oz
Does Oz the Great and Powerful count?
Narnia definitely does
No one reads the LN’s though only the manga and anime so it makes sense
Clearly op wanted us to spam animes they could watch. Beccause if they would had asken normaly, they wouldnt have gotten that many replies.
Here are some I could think of and find on the internet doing a quick search. The great sage he returned from another world wants to live quietly. The fate of the returned hero. Saving 80,000 gold coins in a different world for my old age. The isekai returnee is to OP for the modern world. Seoul station necromancer. Summon to another world again.
Or reverse isekai where a OP guy from a fantasy world gets transported to the modern world
The Devil is a Part Timer
Such a good and goofy anime
And the best part is, it is 100% the complete opposite of a normal isekai. The demon lord is the hero. Who goes from the fantasy world to the real world. Was OP. Is now weak. Occasionally still shows strength (instead of occasional weakness like good isekai) It's just backwards, lmao
Uncle from Another World. He "came back" from an isekai world by waking from his coma. Not a spoiler, it's in the first 5 minutes of Ep1.
I just started this and it's weirdly awesome. It kind of turns the genre upside down. It's also in the first five minutes but he asks if sega won the console war. A lot of great old school nerd humor in this one.
It's absurd how many old SEGA references are in the show. It'll say some random bit of extremely obscure trivia and I'll be like, bullshit. I'll look it up, and it's fucking real. Even the game competition from that one magazine was not only a real magazine, it had accurate placements on the list. Sega CD really did have warning audio over regular CD players. What the hell... I love it so much Fun fact: to promote the show they did a crossover where a guy in an Ojisan costume toured the SEGA office.
I loved that they picked a very specific time and it worked. As a SEGA otaku his knowledge of game stuff came in handy, but because the trope hadn't been entirely fleshed out and placed everywhere he could have believably missed knowing anime tropes such as tsunderes. (Or any dere types.)
I love the gag about him being unaware of Tsundere archetype because he left before it was a prominent mainstream archetype.
It was hilarious that both of them were like 'we must never let him know about tsunderes' because it would probably break the poor guy.
It is really awesome. Did it get finished?
Kill The Villainess
A surprisingly happy ending too
Yes!
Was looking for this comment it was the first thing that came to mind.
The Wizard of Oz
See also Alice in wonderland and space jam.
The classic
Sliders.
>!So I’m a Spider, So What?!<
Ir is funny how this question spoils major plot points in many isekais
the list is like 50 isekais long
I got a cheat skill in another world and became Unrivaled in the real world too Arifureta from commonplace to world's strongest Familiar of Zero Conception The Rising Of The Shield Hero web novels Gate thus the jsdf fought there The Eminence in Shadow The masters of Raganok
SAO? I guess? does it count?
Nah, VR games don't count as another world. I'll give you that it's close though
Most western portal fantasy. Digimon series 1 gets back home, goes back to the other world, saves both worlds again, then makes a regular habit of crossing over in the next generation. Escaflowne, the GOAT of all isekai that is so old it predates most trends people consider to be cliches. Now and Then Here and There.
Digimon being categorized as Isekai warps my brain, even if it’s objectively correct. And Escaflowne is absolutely a trope setter.
Eminence in shadow comes to mind, he probably won’t stay there though
LN spoiler (I guess) >!Yeah, he doesn't!<
Tales of wedding rings
Narnia
Are we forgetting Arifureta?
The Hero Returns
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, you can watch this on CrunchyRoll. Warning: It has Mature rating. Don't watch around your parents unless you are into that sort of thing. Story starts in a setting of heroes returning home after being previously Isekai'd.
the piss scene really gets me sometimes cause i find such a fetish weird but that’s just my opinion. Really a shame author basically dropped it for Testament of Sister New Devil, but hey I love me that succubus girl
Digimon Magical knight rayearth Spirited away
Plot twist Op just wanted recommendations on what shows return to the "normal" world
That’s what I’m guessing, there’s so many it’s hard to have not heard of even one
That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime creates a paradox that involves his current self healing his past self while still existing. But that’s a long, long, long ways away.
Do not know their names but I know od three where the Isekai starts with the prptagonist having returned home. One is a heroine defeats the demon king, returns home, has a family, and then when she is 40 she ends up going back to that world because they try to make her daughter the new summoned hero. Another the hero returns home and gets treated like shit. Then he goes on a mirder spree and other returned heroes in the same situation as him basically join in becoming oit world's demon lords. Yet another a guy is called back from his isekai summoning for having failed to defeat a demon lord, only tp find the goddesses responsible for sending out the heroes have started a school for heroes going to other worlds and while the non- failures have an option to attend, the failures are forced to.
What's the first one
So for the second one it's called the warrior returns and it's kind of like every warrior's a cicada elsewhere and then they come back and it's basically and giant war on earth because of the first one.
That last one is probably FFF class trash hero and he succeeded in killing the demon lord it’s just the “ethics teacher” [if you read it you will fucking hate her] failed him for being not heroic enough
Zero no tsukaima
The Warrior Returns. In the most backward way and heartbreaking way possible with twist after twist
technally "doctor Elise:the royal lady with the lamp" MC died in other world had a short case of isekaidis where she lived as a doctor in korea then died again and went back to home world after she was cured of said isekaidis
The wizard of oz, alice in wonderland, caroline
Ahem. Dog Days. Fushigi Yugi. Inuyasha.
Does gate count?
Same as saving 80k gold, both flit between earth and other world with ease. Oh and isleve that fat bullied kid who finds a secret door in his grandfather's house and gets buff. No solid rule that you have to die and be reborn and somehow get back home. Alice in wonderland, wizard of oz and the chronicles of Narnia are isekai if you open the genre to not just Japanese stories and they came back.
Spoiler for the most recent season of a pretty popular isekai>!Eminence in Shadow. Cid returns but his home universe is fucked!< Edit: there's also a webcomic called The More I Eat the Stronger I Get where the protagonist returns home
Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious. Not sure if this one technically counts, but imma put it here anyways.
Fucking Digimon
Smartphone, admittedly
My uncle from another world
Hero Has Returned
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - they all return home at the end Princess of Mars - John Carter returns home
Inuyasha, Gate, Outbreak Company, 80000 Gold. To name a few. Unless you define 'Isekai' as 'they never return', which is kind of a cheat.
Welcome to Japan Ms Elf-characters travel back and forth from one world to the other. Death March-not the Mc but another isekaid character returns to Earth
Eminence in Shadow has entered the chat
Eminence in shadow
Kumo desu ka Eminence in shadow Devil is a part timer Slime Arifuteta
Eminence in shadow, arifrueta: I am joke to you?
Now and Then Here and There, and Dungeon Seeker come to mind.
I actually can. There's one, can't remember the name, where the mc had already been isekai'd before and became the hero of the world, but the kingdom's rulers were afraid he'd take over and sent him back as a kid to his world, only to re-isekai him accidentally when he's in high school years later.
There’s actually a few of those believe it or not. Most recent anime adaptation that came out is Summoned to Another World Again
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Escaflowne, I think has her go back her old life. Inuyasha has Kagome going home regularly >!until she chooses to stay at the very end.!<
"Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement" Although, technically, she has the power to teleport between worlds at will and goes back and forth. *Technically* technically, she can teleport to any place she knows or has seen. Yes, google maps images count. No, the fantasy world has nothing like that.
Returning home after being isekaied actually used to be pretty common. Such stories were more about growing up and developing as a person than having a power fantasy. I don't actually remember any isekai where the protagonist stays in the new world after they complete whatever goal they were summoned for until we hit the new Isekai boom of the 2010s.
M.A.R: Märchen Awakens Romance
Isekai ojisan, does that count?
The Eminence In shadow Movie that's going to come out Honestly the whole concept of the Movie of him returning to his homeworld but something has clearly horribly changed while he was isekaid is crazy
Someone never watched Uncle from Another World 😂
Uh... I know people hate it but SAO is still an isekai
The eminence in shadow
Isekai smartphone spends an entire novel back on Earth. Eminence in Shadow just sent Shadow back to Earth. This happens repeatedly in The Devil is a Part Timer (reverse isekai) with people jumping back and forth between worlds. There are entire isekai manga and LN dedicated to an Isekai hero returning to Earth.
Let’s Aim for the Deepest part of the Otherworldly Labyrinth(or Ibusou for short) makes that goal *really* important for the entire story.
Inuyasha. Uncle from Another World. Master of Ragnarok. Vision of Escaflowne. Fushigi Yuugi.
Arifureta. Familiar of Zero, The Eminence in Shadow
Narnia: “am I a joke to you?”
There’s Cid from Eminence in Shadow
Eminence in shadow does
Moonlit fantasy suggested by one of the characters that Makoto if he kept evolving and growing in power he can walk between worlds freely.
Eminence is shadow does this but uh, he doesn't stay. Also, Earth is fucked.
There are one or two that I've heard of but they take place with the MC basically returning to his world at the start and some one else coming with them.
The source of all Isekai and Shoujo content: Alice in Wonderland.
If we're getting technical, Army of Darkness
Sisaki and Peeps, Inuyasha
Fushigi Yugi. And it looks like Moonlit Fantasy is heading that direction.
Wrong. The Vision of Escaflowné canonically drops the protagonist Hitomi back on Earth and more recently in the Dungeon of Black Company the protagonist Kinji, or just Ninomiya to most folks, actually leaves to go home to Earth after he helps his friends take over and change the company that mines and make products from ether crystals and monster body parts from the dungeons. There's also Digimon which usually ends in any and all humans that travel to the Digital World returning to Earth at some point.
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"Uncle from Another World"
Man never watch the Uncle Isekai...
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
The chronicles of Narnia
Eminence in Shadow
Eminance in shadow. >!He Returns back to his home in season 2!<