Originally posted by Cerebrum123
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Now, if the complaint is how the isekai genre has become annoyingly dominated by series that are basically "male wish fulfillment" that would be a valid point. Way too many isekai nowadays are just "a guy gets transported to a fantasy world somehow, turns out to have some crazy skill that makes him the best ever, and gets a whole lot of really cute love interests" (more recently, a number skip the "transported to a fantasy world" and just have the entire series take place in an alternate fantasy world, and the main characters gets some crazy skill that then leads to basically the same situation--or have them transport themselves into the future where magic has degraded and therefore they're the best and get all the cute girls). However, that's a different complaint than guys taking over something that was supposedly traditionally female. I don't think it was ever traditionally female, it just wasn't as overrun by the dumb power fantasies we see nowadays.
For context for those who don't follow anime, "isekai" means "another world" in Japanese and is a term for the genre of someone getting warped to an alternate world, often a fantasy one. It's gotten very popular in recent years in anime.
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