Is Shadowbringers an Isekai?

[TaleraRistain]

I don't recall getting hit by a truck.

I was thinking the same thing "Wait, did I miss Truck-kun?"

To the OP, I think it could qualify because isekai can involve parallel worlds and doesn't always involve someone being fully reborn or inhabiting a person there, though those isekai are a bit rarer. But I read one recently called "As You Wish, Prince" where an author was pulled fully physically into her own work and we were pulled over to the First in a similar manner.

[Axxion]

I don't recall getting hit by a truck.

https://imgur.com/a/PMcjNbC

there you go and sound on

[Momo_Kozuki]

I don't recall getting hit by a truck.

You actually were. The Exarch channeled his summoning power in form of invisible truck, sending Scion members to the First left and right. Finally, he understood truck-kun could not do anything to bring WoL to his world, and decided go with the portal method instead.

[Fhaerron]

No.


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[weebtext]

Yes.

[dapperfaffer]

Isekai in the pure sense of a rebirth in a different world as a whole new person with special abilities, no. I don't even think you could call it an isekai since we are pulled from the source from a summoning ritual, but I suppose you could under that same pretext.

[Illmaeran]

I was having a debate about this with a friend, and we couldn't come to an agreement.
I don't think it's a true Isekai, but it is borderline or at least possesses Isekai elements.

What do you all think?

I would say yes, it is. It's got the hallmarks of the genre: an overpowered protagonist, said protagonist gets transported to a different/alternate world involuntarily, said protagonist handily destroys some of the most powerful non-Gods in existence, etc.

Go into a Chronicles of Narnia fan forum and tell them it's an isekai. Then duck and cover.

That's horrible, yet so incredibly morbidly tempting that I won't be able to get it out of my head.

[Dikatis]

Strictly speaking, "isekai" only means "another world". So being transported to another world not like your own is by definition one.

As for whether it conforms to the typical tropes of the most common modern isekai series, I guess? Person from another world is transported to another one to save it from its ongoing crisis and proceeds to make it better along the way. This isn't an inherently bad thing. It's just that the isekai genre has become so saturated with cookie-cutter plots and trashy tropes that the credibility of the trope has sort of been dragged through the mud.

[Lubu_Mykono]

The whole game is an isekai mate.