Isekai variety

[HelloHound]

We all know and love truck-kun but I feel like the variety of deaths that cause an isekai are pretty humdrum: car accident, stabbing by some insane jerk, tripping and falling down stairs, and terminally ill patient finally passing are some that immediately spring to my mind and I'm just wondering where's the pizazz? What's the most unique or unusual way you've ever read someone get transported into another world?

 

[Notadate]

You just listed them all.

But masturbation was one

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Opened a book and sucked him in.
Went through a wardrobe.

 

[Tempokai]

You forgot the "fallen asleep while consuming media", heart attack, getting hit by lightning in the most common.

The most unusual way I've read was something like this:

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Opened a book and sucked him in.
Went through a wardrobe.

You mean the magic tree house or shield hero and Narnia?


My favorite is the one where the MC falls down a set of stairs, is shot, and then after all that, gets killed by his toaster.

 

[Rhaps]

Oddly enough, death by old age is actually very rare in isekai.

 

[Zinless]

Dying from overwork at a black company, I've seen this in two different villainess novels.

 

[Octopal]

Suck to computer
Electrocuted
Answering shady website
By eating
Suck to book
Sleeping
Overwork

 

[LunaSoltaer]

Swallow a red pill.

Bonus points if you simultaneously swallow a blue one.

 

[ItsmeXD]

being hit by a storm

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Coming out of the Convenience Store, There Was a Wondrous World

No death, no car crash, no summoning, just nothing; straight up sent to Isekai.

It's surprisingly rarer than it should be.

 

[ManwX]

meteor strike. I just had to do it.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Something involving a scam caller could be fun.

 

[Theirl]

We all know and love truck-kun but I feel like the variety of deaths that cause an isekai are pretty humdrum: car accident, stabbing by some insane jerk, tripping and falling down stairs, and terminally ill patient finally passing are some that immediately spring to my mind and I'm just wondering where's the pizazz? What's the most unique or unusual way you've ever read someone get transported into another world?

death by gas leak....

 

[LuoirM]

Two of my story
1. Trips on unwiped semen, fell head first onto her own apartment floor and dies
2. Gas leak, the whole apartment combust into flame

Wow it's very common for me to use apartments I just realized

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Chasing a loli and being led into another world, there was such a story

 

[Theirl]

electrocuted while taking a shower XD

 

[greyblob]

Oddly enough, death by old age is actually very rare in isekai.

not odd since most isekais are about a horny teenager

 

[Succubiome]

I feel like in older Isekai like Fushigi Yuugi, The Wizard of Oz, and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe it was less... codified, how one crossed over?

These days it feels like it's mostly variations on ways to die... maybe to imply it's a permanent thing unlike the older isekai, where people usually returned to the "normal" world sometimes?

Extremely hot take: maybe escapism has become way more hardcore, that the thing to daydream about is leaving the world and never coming back, rather than visiting another world for a while and coming back and then visiting the other world again.

 

[Zinless]

Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food from Another World

An Izakaya that sometimes opens its doors for otherworldly citizens. No explanation or anything, just... happens... I guess?