I was looking for a well-researched video on the isekai craze. The top results fail to answer the question of “why isekai?” spectacularly. Thanks for going God’s work.

They have Isekai and we have YA dystopian

My theory was always that in the modern world threatened by climate change, general poverty, the general feeling of "we are all doomed" everybody kinda craves escapism and a chance of doing a restart under different conditions...

we're on the T Rash era of anime.

There's a bit more to "Isekai are easy to write" that I'd like to highlight: the most common themes of Isekai also happen to intersect with "most common mistakes that new writers make." Creating compelling characters, backstories, and settings takes a lot more skill than what most new writers have, so they usually just create a self-insert and throw them at the closest established setting. Plotting out an actual story is a lot harder than it looks, so most new writers simply keep giving their protagonist new powers and assume that counts as story progression. The same goes for anything else that the author thinks is cool and worth collecting: titles, wealth, women, etc. (Yes, it's extremely sexist to refer to women as things to collect. I hate the harem genre.) A common motivation for a lot of people to start writing in the first place is as a coping mechanism: they deal with feeling frustrated and/or unfulfilled in their real lives by writing themselves into a story where all their wishes come true. Now, take a look at the formula for modern Isekai: audience surrogate protagonist gets thrown into a stock-fantasy RPG world. He's immediately given godmode cheats that any gamer is his position would want, then spends the rest of the series living out an otaku's dream lifestyle as he collects new superpowers, waifus, and upgrades for his home base.

Mushoku tensei pioneered a lot of the classic isekai tropes, just wanna say it.

Tbh here Rising of the shield hero, So what I'm a spider and Re:Zero and That Time i got reincarnated as a Slime lost my intrigues and i gave up with them. Log Horizon and Chivalry of a failed Knight left me on a cliffhanger with seasons 1 and 3

theres only 2 Isekai animes i like: So i'm a spider so what!? and That time i was turned into a slime.

Sooner or later people will get bored watching only light novel isekai anime adaptations. This is why I prefer to watch mainly Mecha anime now.

I am new to Isekai stuff but I love the idea of putting the characters in a place he/she has struggle, thus creating interesting story and interaction. Doesn't Japanese love to mentally torture characters? 6:21 Phone AND the Japanese Language really help the genre.

Kino's Journey I'll probably preferring that over Alternative ggo due to how a journey across the world on a motorbike that talks and thinks was more interesting than a berserk Pitohui/Kanzaki Elsa and a masochistic M/Asougi Goushi though Karen/LLENN and Fukaziroh were good.

LOL, I think half of what most western anime fans assume are Phoenix Wright references were actually Detective Conan references.

Because the real world sux

Fullmetal Panic, Overlord, Sao, Accel world, Shakugan no Shana, Haruhi Suzimiya, Index, Railgun, Heavy Object, Durarara, Spice and Wolf, How not to summon a demon lord, you never thought There's a girl online, Toradora I've seen a lot here because of my intrigues in romance, isekai, light novels, sci-fi, action, game, adventure genres. Konosuba and In another world with my Smartphone i have not seen.

It was all because of Haruhi Suzumiya...I guess you start good to continue to release trash isekais till the end of Earth. I think there will still be isekais even 20 years from now, and these years will be seen as filled with classics.

Overlord is one of the best isekai