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Howl's Moving Castle isn't by Hayao Miyazaki, fwiw. It's a 1986 novel by a British author, Diana Wynne Jones. Studio Ghibli's movie based on it came much later (2004). Anyway, if your intent was the above, then your initial post did a godawful job of conveying it. It reads as saying that all...

The classic English name for the genre is "portal fantasy," and as I noted earlier in the thread, there are some famous novels in the genre. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Alice in Wonderland, etc. Isekai is used as the modern name because it experienced a huge popularity and...

What, you mean like The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? Or The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Peter Pan? Howl's Moving Castle? All of those (and many, many more) are actual book isekais. You're not even judging books by their covers, you're judging them by a...