Isekai variety

[HelloHound]

Drowned to death by blood.

@RepresentingEnvy hehe

 

[Ultimatejellifish]

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?

Being sniped by the sun after rolling some dice is one of the most unique way to get reincarnated that I've read about, even if this level of "what the fck" situation is just bit higher than that one novel in which the Mc get caught by a flying homing magic rock and gets practically kidnapped to another world by horny elves

 

[bulmabriefs144]

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?

MKR, three students meeting at Tokyo Towers then getting beamed to Cephiro.

Inuyasha, falling down a well.

I also liked Slave To Reality and the Cave -> Door link.

Hell, in Tales from the Reaper, my own "isekai" story had a prick who was angry texting in the street, and got in front of the Reaper hoping to get an isekai and "cool cheats" as he put it. Not only gets talked out of it, but it turns out the truck he thought hit him when stuff faded out actually swerved at the last second. What actually happened was that he got electrocuted (expensive coffee falls on his smartphone) and wound up in a coma.

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.

This. Have you noticed they are usually high school students or salarymen? Often losers at their profession?

.Hack//Sign and SAO both had the general mindset that maybe you sorta like the world you left (though I can't see it in the first one, she was abused).

meteor strike. I just had to do it.

You're right. That did have to be done.

I read some isekai where some crazy girl was actively TRYING to kill the main character. To the point where she drove a truck and arranged several other accidents.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Kazuma: Am I a joke to you?

 

[Deleted member 113259]

Did anyone mention death by Tractor yet?

 

[Theirl]

Did anyone mention death by Tractor yet?

isnt that kasuma? or it doesnt count ?

 

[Deleted member 113259]

isnt that kasuma? or it doesnt count ?

Yeah, it's Kazuma. I mentioned it because it's unique, especially after he gets roasted by a Goddess for having no life.

 

[PyrusMG]

Roofied with pixie dust and kidnapped by a male yandere shota.

 

[pyrak]

Death by attempted suicide via police shooting but actually accidentally getting stabbed by your own sword by a fellow student while trying to get isekaied.

If not already mentioned, there's the VR isekia as well.

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.

True, Peter Pan also is in that vein.

 

[expentio]

Not to forget, there's the "the game is about to be shut down" variant.

 

[LinMeili]

maybe you should have specified tensei / rebirth genre

@LinMeili actually made her mc die from covid lol

Thanks for the mention. Yeah, truck-kun is classic, but COVID is sad.

 

[OP1000]

I once read a novel on Scribblehub where the protagonist dies in a unique way called 'I was Reincarnated as a GIRL and received a list of tasks... WTF?' In the first chapter of the novel, the main character of the story had intended to propose to his girlfriend by having a platform built and have that platform be carried by a crane. Unfortunately for him, he died due the platform breaking after it was lifted by the crane while he was still standing on the platform.

 

[Deleted member 113259]

Oh, I remembered a pretty unique isekai. Guy gets reincarnated and is thought to be the protagonist of the story, then the guy he possessed absorbs his soul, effectively killing the guy again.

 

[owotrucked]

Thanks for the mention. Yeah, truck-kun is classic, but COVID is sad.

it's okay, next comedy you can make your MC do a pickle mukbang stream and die from electrolyte imbalance

 

[Placeholder]

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> 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.

A mix of earlier writers following earlier conventions, and a target audience of younger readers. Like, if Oz or Narnia started with vehicular homicide, they'd be different stories. Instead, the protagonists come back from fairyland at the end of each book.

 

[melchi]

This thread is turning into a final destination movie.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

I Was Blowing the Back Out of this Big Titty Goth GF When Suddenly, I Got Sucked Into A World That Exists Between Her Legs!

 

[Missivist]

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?

Chased a rabbit down a hole into another world (Alice in Wonderland)
Passed out while staring up at Mars in the night sky, and woke up there (John Carter of Mars)
Carried away from Kansas by a tornado and landed in Oz (The Wizard of Oz)

These are sort of isekai, aren't they? Albeit without the messy business of actually dying.

 

[Notadate]

I did the classic sucking transpor. The mc gets sucked off into another world

 

[Succubiome]

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> 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.

A mix of earlier writers following earlier conventions, and a target audience of younger readers. Like, if Oz or Narnia started with vehicular homicide, they'd be different stories. Instead, the protagonists come back from fairyland at the end of each book.

Oz starts with a house landing on a witch, which is weirdly close to vehicular homicide, now that I think about it. Only it's happening to someone besides the protagonist as a result of their isekai, and that ends up being a big thing that drives the story forwards? So maybe kinda the opposite, narratively speaking.