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Isekai is fascinating to me because they're almost always terrible even though they have such an open premise, and they go through the craziest fads.

The industrious-person-gets-the-chance-to-own-the-products-of-their-own-labor-and-actually-have-friends subgenre us pretty big right now, though I think it was pioneered by Ascendence or a Bookworm, which is actually pretty good.

Sadly no anti slavery Isekai yet, but the on from last summer where the protagonist kills isekai'd people was fun.

Mao forcing the urban intelligentsia to go live in the countryside and help out farmers was an isekai.

I've had this idea for ages about someone who goes back to like 1000 AD and tries to introduce germ theory, disinfecting surfaces and medical devices with alcohol, etc. The conflict comes from them having to overcome medieval institutions being resistant to change, starting with them naively writing a treatise on what is currently considered medical common sense but getting rebuked for apparently not knowing what they're talking about.

Naturally, the main character wears a cute version of a plague doctor outfit.

When are they gonna have an isekai where a Japanese foreign exchange student visits the US and dies from school shooter-kun

Here's an idea: isekai series where the mc gets transported to a magical realm sans capitalism, years later is "rescued" or has to leave it with no hope of return, then finds themselves completely unable to lead a normal life back in our world and vows to make it livable (maybe through some kinda revolution?) Id read/watch tf out of that