Is Shadowbringers an Isekai?

[Aurora_Sylphy]

Lol. Well, you can have the simple answer or the pedantic answer.

Simple - Yeah, sure. Its another world

or:

Pedantic - Well, what's your definition of another world?

In that case, it would differ from person to person. If we take world to mean a star or planet (as most isekais are not on Earth, but usually some mid-late medieval fantasy token world), then no, cause the first and the rest are not different worlds, just shattered reflections of the source, sub-dimensions if you will in a way. On the other hand, one could consider another world to simply be someplace that is vastly (or in many ways) different from your old world. In this case, yes, while reflections are basically sub-dimensions of Ethryis, so essentially the same planet just different, it's another world, hence you're in an Isekai. Take your pick I guess about how pedantic or specific you want to be cause the word Isekai is simply too generic and open to interpretation as to what you consider another world (be that a star, dimension, alternate universe, whatever). Remember, 異世界 literally just means "another world", combine the word "世界" meaning "world" with kanji for 異なる, which means "to differ; vary". And so it really is up to your interpretation of what "another world" is defined as. If we were to take the character meanings literally, that is in order, different/strangeness (異), society/world (世) and boundary (界), we can term to mean something like "different world/society boundary", in which case, Shadowbringers would comply cause the First is a different location, different place, and a different society and so would seem to match, but really, this is getting too into the weeds of it and so simply take the simple answer cause honestly it's most straightforward. It's a place not like your own, and substantially different from your own, so why not?

[hydralus]

The real question is how have they gotten away with 2 expansion packs about a zombie apocalypse? First light-aspected zombies, and now depression zombies.

[Jagick]

COFFEEEEE, SOOOOODAAAA
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[Theodric]

The real question is how have they gotten away with 2 expansion packs about a zombie apocalypse? First light-aspected zombies, and now depression zombies.

Make it three and give us actual zombies, please.

No, really - straight up undead are woefully lacking in their presence in this game despite being a common staple of the genre. I have a hunch as to why that might be but even so...

[Vahlnir]

Make it three and give us actual zombies, please.

No, really - straight up undead are woefully lacking in their presence in this game despite being a common staple of the genre. I have a hunch as to why that might be but even so...

To be fair, ARR had actual zombies. HW too, at least to some degree. Just not the rotting flesh kind.

[Theodric]

To be fair, ARR had actual zombies. HW too, at least to some degree. Just not the rotting flesh kind.

Oh, I know. I just want more. Maybe it's because I've been replaying Dragon's Dogma recently.

[Pyro2hell3]

I don't recall being followed around by a group of women with a combined intellect below a block of wood. Granted they could have just downed in the rain or something and nobody would have noticed.

but anyways since you can't have an Isekai with some group of bimbos following the mc around shadowbringers can't be an Isekai.or you can but it just takes effort and talent one of the two

[Raoabolic]

The real question is how have they gotten away with 2 expansion packs about a zombie apocalypse? First light-aspected zombies, and now depression zombies.

Still waiting for my eldritch horrors on the moon. I'm sure that expansion will come any day now...
*looks wistfully out the window*
*blue bird flies into the window*
._.

[Ghost_of_Ebina]

Isekai in Japanese simply means "another world." Being hit with a truck and being reborn in another world is called "Tensei-mono" in Japan. "Tensei" referring to reincarnation (mono meaning "genre" / "style" / "type").
The word "Isekai" itself doesn't include any notion of death / rebirth in the Japanese language.

[Kahnom]

Well, at least it was not some throne room surrounding by medieval soldiers, king and princess when we were summoned.