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INTEREST: 'Isekai' Transported Into the Oxford English Dictionary

There are a lot of genres and mediums in the world many of which are very specific, some genres have codified rules to follow like a limerick poems. We have genres like moral plays, sturm and drag, the haiku (a genre of poem), chamberfolk, drumstep, rocksteady and we are perfectly capable of distinguishing between them. We use the word isekai to refer to a specific style of work, popularised in japan on amatuer web novel websites, with its own trademarks seperate from portal fantasy

AsleepBySunset wrote:

There are a lot of genres and mediums in the world many of which are very specific, some genres have codified rules to follow like a limerick poems. We have genres like moral plays, sturm and drag, the haiku (a genre of poem), chamberfolk, drumstep, rocksteady and we are perfectly capable of distinguishing between them. We use the word isekai to refer to a specific style of work, popularised in japan on amatuer web novel websites, with its own trademarks seperate from portal fantasy

As pointed out by the Oxford English Dictionary and The Guardian, English speakers also use the term "isekai" for works that did not originate on amateur web novel websites, as well as for works that share characteristics with portal fantasy. Those qualifiers aren't "codified," in Japanese or in English.

a culture popular among young people, especially in the late 1970s, involving opposition to authority expressed through shocking behaviour, clothes, and hair, and fast, loud music