Don Quijote but instead of being about a guy who reads so many knight books he fully believes he is inside a knight book, it is about a random teen who watches so many Isekai animes to the point that one day a bus hits him or something and he wakes up thinking he has fully switched worlds and thinks he is the MC of an Isekai so he starts questing and pretending to “save the kingdom” but in reality he just goes around annoying people, but still thinks he is gonna become the savior of the new world he has spawned in by using every Isekai stereotype ever.
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Transmigration but it’s someone dying of old age and waking up in a series they loved when they were younger. But now the problem is trying to remember what was actual plot, what they have forgotten, and what was the obscene amount of fanfiction they consumed over the years.
Was it fanon or canon? And who the fuck is this guy? Wait, he’s someone important that died in the second arc? What the hell is this arc from? They don’t remember that, fuck man.
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me when I remember that one depressing plot in one of the 292873828282 isekai anime I’ve watched.
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i love isekai fanfiction that gets really meta with it’s themes and stuff, like i want the protagonist who got transported into their favorite place to feel guilty about knowing so much about these people and their lives without their knowledge or even consent. i want them to struggle with the concept of either lying to these people or telling them a truth that might shatter their reality. how would you respond to this person who you’ve become close with telling you that not only do they know intimate moments about you, but they know about these moments because you are just a form of entertainment or escapism to them in another world? it would be so fucking creepy and violating and terrifying!!!
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Monster Mentor, Teacher in another World
My Crunchyroll watchlist has been full of isekai anime, usually of over worked salery guys (seriously, there’s a lot of that right now). And I just… Like, want an isekai, that’s about someone with my job? Of course, a para educator would be a little too specific, so you could simplify it to just a teacher, and the idea would still be the same.
[[MORE]]You have a teacher (I’m going to use female pronouns, because this is my isekai idea and it just makes sense to me), who we spend like the first half of the first episode getting to know. We learn that she spends a lot of her time giving her students everything she has, going above and beyond because in some cases, she’s the only one who will, but it leaves her drained and at the end of the day. We get to see her talk to other teachers, some who do care like she does, some that care but leave everything behind once classes are over, and others that don’t care at all.
More importantly, during the first half, we get to see a variety of kids in her class. Actual kids, that are unique. Kids with ADHD that have trouble focusing. A student with Autism that has trouble regulating their emotions and gets overstimulated, needing help to calm down. The kids that rarely have parents at home and just need the reliable adult to support them. The parentified big sister that needs an adult to remind them that they’re a kid and deserve to be a kid. The kid that’s barely holding on, and has confided in her as their trusted lifeline adult.
We get to see her connection with these kids, the care that goes into her work every day to make sure all her students needs are met. That, even though she’s tired, its okay because her students are okay.
And then, heading home late one night…
Truck Kun comes for her.
She wakes up as a mage in a fantasy world. At first it feels like a break. Take a breath, everything will be okay. Except. Well… This student has a game coming up soon, and she promised she would go watch him play because his parents never come. And this student asked her to come watch her music concert. And her autism student never did well with substitute teachers, and her lifeline student would be looking for her in the morning for check in, and these students always had a hard day if they didn’t eat breakfast in her classroom, and, and, and…
So she gets to work trying to figure out how to get home. Only, there aren’t really any books available to the public about inter dimensional travel, so she gets the easiest job to get in a fantasy world: quests at the adventurers guild.
First quest, deal with a goblin camp.
Simple, but our teacher-chan doesn’t see monsters when she arrives. She sees people in need of guidance. Rather than attack, she talks with them, gains their trust, and offers to help them learn to coexist. She teaches them how to use their skills gained from living in the wild in ways that they can be hired to help humans. Finding rare materials in places only they know where to look, using their small size to scout, their simple crafting refined to be fitting for apprenticeships. She does what she does best, and teaches.
All the while, we see parallels to her human students. Maybe even short conversations that are near beat for beat of one’s we saw with her human students back home.
Then, after a week with the goblins, she thinks they’re ready to start reaching out to the human city she just came from. She goes poking around town, looking for opportunities for her monster students to integrate into society. Only, she hasn’t really learned the rules of this world. She comes back, to find that when she didn’t come back, the guild had sent a party to take care of the goblins. And the adventurers of this world don’t hesitate to attack monsters.
She arrives to a massacre. Her goblin students screaming, crying as they wonder why the humans that Teacher promised would be kind if they didn’t attack, would cut them down anyway. She hears them screaming, calling out to her. “Teacher! Teacher, save us! What do we do? Why would they do this?!” All the while, she sees her human students amongst the carnage. She finally snaps, jumping in to defend her students with her life.
Along with her original goal of returning home, she now has a new goal: protect and teach her monster students to thrive in a world that wants to beat them down.
What follows is a rollercoaster of laughs and drama, with each passing episode having Teacher-chan gaining new students of various races (orc, beastfolk, maybe even demons), while also teaching them skills to make their own functioning society. We get moments where she thinks about her students back home, hoping they’ll be okay, as she’s still looking for a way home. Flashbacks to those students having similar issues as the ones the monster students face. Struggling with a concept they’re learning, difficulties in interpersonal relationships, neurodivergency needs and accommodations. More encounters with humans, each getting more dangerous than the last, with cut aways to a rumor among humans that a ‘demon lord'has risen and taken control of the monsters to amass an army.
If we want to get really dark, we could also occasionally see how the human students are doing. They have a revolving door of substitutes that don’t care enough to stay more than they need to get paid. The kids that reach out to other teachers either get apologizes because the other teachers are too busy with their own students, or get ignored by teachers that can’t be bothered once their time is up. We see the kid whose parents are never around look for Teacher-chan at his game, only to loose confidence as she still doesn’t show. We see her student with autism struggle through the day as teachers that don’t understand her do all the wrong things, and she ends up spending less time in the classroom and more time with administration that doesn’t have enough time to help her reintegrate fully. The ADHD kids get jittery and twitchy, unable to focus with the different routine and without Teacher-chans regular soothing influence. The girl who’s spending more time parenting her siblings than being a kid is slowly being crushed by the weight of her responsibilities at home and school without the teacher that reminds her to breath and smile and laugh, because that’s what kids are supposed to do. And then the lifeline, the kid barely holding on, as they get worse and worse, depression, anxiety, trying to reach out to another, only to get the brush off, and wonder if it’s even worth trusting someone if they’ll just disappear too. Her students, who she taught enough coping skills to that normally they can survive for a few days, in some cases a few weeks, without her, but the stress of not knowing what happened and if she’ll ever be back weighing on them as they loose all the structure she helped them build.
I can see the end of the first season being a climactic discussion needing to be made. Teacher-chan has found a summoning spell that she can do in reverse, to send her home. Only problem is, it requires a very specific set of celestial bodies in just the right place, and her next chance won’t be for another hundred years. If she misses this chance, she won’t get a chance to go home this way again, and she’ll have to start her search for a way home over.
Her monster students (more of a full army), though they would hate to see her go, agree to help her cast the spell. They have plans to build their own city now, far from humans, where they’ll live in peace with each other, helping one another thrive. Only, the humans that think she’s a demon lord? Well, they heard she’s about to cast some ritual, and assume it’s something evil and nefarious. So they gather their own army and attack in the middle of the ritual.
Now, Teacher-chan has a choice to make. Does she stay and protect her monster students? Or does she go home and make sure her human students are alright? If she misses this chance, who knows when she’ll go home. If she leaves now, it’s certain that many of her monster students will die.
Anyway, I just wanna see something more like this, instead of another 'dude who sits at desk now in fantasy world’.
If you have any ideas or thoughts, please share! I’d love to hear it.
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isekai horror anime that jumps between protag and the loved ones/ life they left behind in their old world. loved ones in grief, the aftermath at their old work place with one less worker, an empty group-chat.
anyone know if something like this is already out there?
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The Beginning After the End, trailer e data di uscita per la seconda stagione in arrivo su Crunchyroll
Arthur Leywin torna il 1° aprile 2026
Continue reading The Beginning After the End, trailer e data di uscita per la seconda stagione in arrivo su Crunchyroll
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Meanwhile, in the Michaela/Riliane role swap au.
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types of isekais
portal isekais: there is a fixed gateway between the two worlds
device isekais: there is a device that allows one to create or staight up teleport to the second world
summoning isekais: someone from another world summons the protagonist to theirs
reincarnation isekais: the protagonist dies and reincarnates into another world
dream isekais: the world has ephemeral and nonsensical rules of physics
videogame isekais: the world functions with game mechanics
reverse isekais: the unfamiliar world visits ours
hopping isekais: visiting multiple worlds
group isekais: multiple people bring their usually complicated dynamics to a place unfamiliar
time travel isekais: the other world is the same world but at a different point in time
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Another style test! Still don’t have a name for this story yet, but I’ve got a few options
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Been watching this new isekai anime that’s coming out now called HellMode and I actually started really getting into it! No needless sexualization of any female characters (which is a relief because most of the main cast is, like, five), and the plot seems to have an actual theme to it! The main character was a reclusive shut-in gamer who came to the fantasy world seeking a hardcore challenge, only to find that his greatest challenge is living a subsistence life as a serf! His whole story is about learning that human connection, specifically to his new, loving family, is the most important thing in the world, and that maybe getting all the best items and dominating the world isn’t as important! He isn’t even some OP protag who effortlessly wins every fight; his childhood bestie beats his ass (and the ass of fully grown adults) on the regular!
So I checked out the manga, and…
It’s.
Not that.
Main character leaves his family behind and thinks about them maybe once every 50 chapters. Goes on a journey with his new party to grind up a ton of levels and EXP and tons of OP items. Becomes the strongest guy ever in the world, even strong enough to kick the legendary destined hero’s ass in a fight. Multiple gorgeous, grown-ass women in skimpy outfits fawning over this literal twelve-year-old.
I haven’t been this disappointed in an anime since season 2 of The Promised Neverland.
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The Tyrant wants to live good
(Story by Ramguel | Art by KAKON | Released 2023)
It’s a webtoon about the empire Uvera and the imperial family of Millanair. The family has been borrowing the power from the spirit of light for centuries with every child inheriting the spirits power, except for the daughter Dorothea. Because she wasn’t born with the ability to control the spirit her father basically abandoned her and favoured her brother the crown prince. Fuelled by jealousy and hatred she kills her family to take over the throne, however in the end she gets sentenced to death for the horrible crimes she has committed. Of course she gets reincarnated and this is where the story begins. She tries to live a righteous life instead of focusing on the mistreatment by her father.
I finished reading this Webtoon today and I’m so happy about the ending.
I love the way the relationship between Dorothea and the Emperor was portrayed, especially the chapters that were from her father’s perspective. However, especially the beginning was a little too angsty for my liking, but considering the story of her past life it was absolutely necessary how tragic it was portrayed.
I had a hard time getting used to Ethan, i swear this man was the most unpredictable thing in the whole story, the whole time i was just waiting for him to do something evil lmao
⚜️Finally some panels from the story⚜️
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Terrible of me to say this but I feel like a woman in a male dominated field every time I go anywhere near r/Isekai
Like I KNOW I *know* it’s *reddit* but sometimes I wanna find lesser known isekai and if I occasionally find a few gems in the trash but holy FUCK if I see one more post calling a harem isekai a good isekai or goonerbait or exceedingly questionable morals I’m going to nuke that fuckinn place
“No Game No Life is really good!” No, fuck you, you cannot tell me that this shit is fine, this author isn’t even TRYING TO DISGUISE *THAT*
“Uhhh actually our heroes are *saving* the slaves from an otherwise awful life by buying them as slaves—“ and what if I killed you, huh? Would it be like saying I saved you from living? I mean you sure are wasting the breath you’re using with your shitty ass opinions. Fuck you.
“Female MCs? Yeah, there’s Nacht from Reincarnated as my Gag Character—“ BITCH HER GENDERSWAP DOESN’T MATTER IN THE FUCKING SLIGHTEST YOU COULD TAKE AWAY THE GENDERSWAP ASPECT AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WOULD CHANGE!! AND NOT TO MENTION THE ABSOLUTE RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF GENDERSWAPS THAT DECIDE THAY JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE ALSO A GIRL ITS OKAY TO INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCH OTHER GIRLS. FUCK YOU ILL KILL YOU.
“Don’t like Harems? What about I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 900 Years and Maxed Put My Level—“ JUST BECAUSE ITS A FEMALE MC DOESN’T MEAN IT’S NOT A HAREM! CALL THEM FAMILY ALL YOU WANT BUT JUST FUCKING LOOK AT THAT! THATS A HAREM!! WITH THE SAME CARDBOARD CHARACTERS AND EVERYTHING!!!
FUCK!
