"Pulp" and "isekai" in the same post? I feel like I've been summoned.
Many years ago, I read an essay that noted that the most critically acclaimed poets and writers of the early 1600s are largely forgotten, except perhaps for English Lit graduates. But whose name is curiously
Isekai is a wish-fulfilment genre targeting one specific desire: "What if you were plopped into a world where YOU mattered?"
Every Isekai story is predicated on this assumption. A boy dissatisfied with his life gets dumped into a world with special powers and a quest; he becomes
