Yeah, no... if anything isekai's are a subset of the larger trope of "person gets displaced from usual surroundings".
Plenty of bona fide isekai-right-there-in-the-title stories have no truck kun. Some of them find mysterious doors/gates where they shouldn't be, some are summoned through magic ritual, some die in their sleep and are reincarnated, some just look down and look up and there they are looking at elf tiddy.
HALFORUMS MEET UP AT RAZZOO'S WAS AN ISEKAI?!
LIES!!!!
Truck-kun set all those up to confuse you, obviously.
I don't think time travel (even when one way) should count, since you're technically in the same world/universe. Same thing with space travel. Or going to the centre of the earth.
Ahh, I forgot about King Arthur's court. I was thinking... you know... Spain.
Well, that's a religious argument already going on among the fandom. If you travel time, technically you have entered a different multiverse/timeline by virtue of the very action, sooo....
Well surely at this point you don't mean to argue BTTF rules are still valid?
Predestination rules or nothing. (Also The Time Traveler's Wife, Primer, Harry Potter 3, I think? and a few others.)
The futility of the illusion of choice in a predestined timeline kind of goes against the spirit of exploratory license in most Isekai, though...
That should settle the debate, then!
WE GOT 'IM, BOYS...That should settle the debate, then!
Come to think of it, the original marvel comics version (well, the 1st retcon, since i think i recall DoFP actually first implied the future stopped existing) was even crazier the the BttF one, since the changed timeline remained 616, while the future the traveller was from became an alternate reality...
That should settle the debate, then!
I'd argue that travelling forward does count, because you're becoming untethered from all the infinite decision points between your origin and destination that branch. So technically, going forward is even MORE adrift than going backwards, because going back in time you're just going back over a series of already-made decisions, then starting forward again down a different branch.
TIL, we're all in an isekai, since we're constantly moving forward in time...
At no point are we becoming untethered from the continuum and forced into unfamiliar circumstances though. That's kind of central to the concept.
Isn't that just life?
That could easily describe a ship wreck, or even your parents moving you to a new country...
You're no longer talking about time travel. That stipulation was specifically for the context of time travel qualifying for Isekai.
Yes i am, since the person reading this is in the future of the person who wrote the above.
I feel like just knowing the ingredients without knowing any of the details (such as quantities, equipment, safety precautions, etc) is a good way to blow yourself up.
Alas, the Halforums Discord is not Clyde-enabled.
Certain other literature I've read simplifies the recipe down to just "big vat of gasoline poured over styrofoam peanuts, mix and add one or the other until you get the consistency you want." But yeah don't do that, I don't want to be the guy who put the idea in your head that led to the fire that makes you homeless or dead.
Oh don't worry, it wouldn't be your fault, I would be blaming that guy's grandma.
I’m not sure she gets the joke.
More than meets the eye
