Is sci-fi isekai the next big thing for the isekai genre?
Is sci-fi isekai the next big thing for the isekai genre?
Tyler Johnson
Robert Campbell
I don't think you can have a pure sci-fi isekai except by kidnapping the protagonist.
If he magically wakes up in a sci-fi world, you have the *magical' waking up to account for in your sci-fi. Otherwise it's a plot-hole.
Science fantasy though? Why not. I don't think it'll ever be mainstream like DQ isekai is, but I sure wouldn't oppose it.
Julian Robinson
On second thought, there might be a variety of means to have sci-fi isekai.
Put your start-setting into the near future. The protagonist is a test pilot on a relativistic flight research project.
He blasts away at some 90% of C or whatever and does a merry cruise or two around the galaxy and comes back many, many years in the future.
In the meantime, Earth has been dismantled, humanity has moved to a Dyson Sphere and for some reason everybody's wearing monocles.
Tyler Rodriguez
PSO would actually make a great setting for an isekai, wouldn't it?
>science magic exists
>many fictional races exist
>evil exists
>a lot of mystery and corrupting forces exist
>amazing aesthetic
Parker James
Trends coast on theme, not premise.
If we're going to have scifi it's not via isekai.
Colton Bennett
Samuel Wood
>ching chong frontline
Kill yourself, redditor.
Carson Lopez
Or have a ftl ship lost and have the MC and maybe a large crew or colonists sent to another universe. The tech level of the other location they arrive in could be anywhere from another fantasy world to a much less advanced but still interstellar civilization.
Joshua Foster
A good chunk of sci-fi lit already has some sort of clueless way our of his depth protagonist that acts as a proxy for the reader, no need to shit things up further with elevenoid power fantasy.
Isaac Sullivan
No it's too hard to write for average Narou retard. They will copy generic jRPGs forever.