Would my story be an isekai if the cast stay on Earth until they venture to another dimension later?

[CrimsonGenius]

They are told of another dimension by their alien mentors but they don’t go there until chapters ahead. They stay on in one city dealing with an arc boss until they they hop to different continents on Earth to deal with two different bosses. Later they will travel to an alternate dimension. That hasn’t happened yet. But maybe in ten chapters. I’m just easing in. I’ll put a note in the summary the chapter they go in.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

How many chapters till transportation, 10? And another question, are they going to return?

 

[KoyukiMegumi]

Hm, that sounds more like normal fantasy to me, but Idk. I'm not an expert on this.

 

[CrimsonGenius]

How many chapters till transportation, 10? And another question, are they going to return?

Yes. They will traveling between dimensions. They will be spending more time on that world dealing with an arc boss or two before returning to relax and take a break before the next threat.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Yes. They will traveling between dimensions. They will be spending more time on that world dealing with an arc boss or two before returning to relax and take a break before the next threat.

That's probably portal fantasy, or something similar, not isekai, maybe sci-fi. Depends on whether your story has primarily magic or technology.

 

[CrimsonGenius]

That's probably portal fantasy, or something similar, not isekai, maybe sci-fi. Depends on whether your story has primarily magic or technology.

Mana Tech.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Mana Tech.

Personally, I would tag it portal fantasy.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Nope.

 

[Sora225]

I think it highly depends on the impact it will have in the story, cause otherwise it will just be "World Hopping"

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Unless they die to travel (though maybe the humiliation/discomfort trigger for "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" counts as Isekai?) or inhabit other bodies I do not THINK it counts but... it is a very nebulous term as a discussion in another thread showed.

 

[Placeholder]

>They are told of another dimension by their alien mentors but they don’t go there until chapters ahead.

May make sense to start in mid-action rather than leading with training.

"A narrative work beginning in medias res (Classical Latin: [ɪn ˈmɛdɪ.aːs ˈreːs], lit. "into the middle of things") opens in the chronological middle of the plot, rather than at the beginning (cf. ab ovo, ab initio).[1] Often, exposition is initially bypassed, instead filled in gradually through dialogue, flashbacks, or description of past events."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res#:~:text=A narrative work,of past events.

 

[PancakesWitch]

I've written like 8 isekai novels so far, that's not isekai.

 

[CrimsonGenius]

Okay, thanks.

 

[Tsuru]

They are told of another dimension by their alien mentors but they don’t go there until chapters ahead. They stay on in one city dealing with an arc boss until they they hop to different continents on Earth to deal with two different bosses. Later they will travel to an alternate dimension. That hasn’t happened yet. But maybe in ten chapters. I’m just easing in. I’ll put a note in the summary the chapter they go in.

Hm, that sounds more like normal fantasy to me, but Idk. I'm not an expert on this.

Urban fantasy.

100% sure.











Isekai is "other world" but for otakus, the difference/slang-usage is more like : MC is byebye of earth to reside into another world by transmigration/reincarnation/summoning/whatever (Arifureta after-stories had MC+group come back to earth, but it doesnt count as its ending/after-stories)

Anyway, The fact MC becomes back to their world = Its simply fantasy "world-hopping" + "urban" (if modernity in their main/other world)

Yes. They will traveling between dimensions. They will be spending more time on that world dealing with an arc boss or two before returning to relax and take a break before the next threat.

Yep double sure, its not isekai.