Can DST Be Considered Isekai Genre?

[Just-guy]

Don't Starve does fall on the isekai genre but more on the western take on it, unlike other isekais were the protagonist is given a second chance in life to redeem a bad life and become succesful, I've seen that western ones revolve more about the protagonist being sent to a different world and it's their goal to find a way back home as they have things to resolve in their own life or simply that they miss their normal life.

[AnnaAinoa]

On 6/30/2023 at 3:43 PM, Cassielu said:

Although they both involve interdimensional travel, the main attraction of Isekai's story is often the traveler's acquisition of a new social identity and interaction with another society, so don't starve lore does not count as the usual Isekai story.

On 6/30/2023 at 6:12 PM, Francis2000 said:

In a broad sense, yes. You have been transported from World A to World B for some reason.

In a narrow sense— according to the rules of Japanese animation, no. You're a loser with zero achievements in World A (usually a regular human society), suddenly, due to some accident, you die (say a car accident). But you find out that you wake up in world B (or become someone in world B) and find out that the people in this world say that you are the savior and the world needs you to save or something. No matter what, you have become a great being admired here.

 

Isekai is just a word that means "another world" so obviously, there are going to include many different types of stories. The Isekai stories that start from dying in the orignial world is called isekai tensei-kei (reincarnation).  When they become a hero by using their life experiences from their original world it can be called cheat-kei.  (Fun fact: these cheaty, harlem-ey isekai stories are often lumped together and called narou-kei because they were popularized from Shousetsuka ni Narou, an wattpad/ao3 like website. This genre is often looked down because it began as amature work).

Word meanings change though so idk how non-Japanese people define it. I prefer DS lore to any generic anime stuff personally

[Cheggf]

5 hours ago, AnnaAinoa said:

Isekai is just a word that means "another world" so obviously, there are going to include many different types of stories. The Isekai stories that start from dying in the orignial world is called isekai tensei-kei (reincarnation).  When they become a hero by using their life experiences from their original world it can be called cheat-kei.  (Fun fact: these cheaty, harlem-ey isekai stories are often lumped together and called narou-kei because they were popularized from Shousetsuka ni Narou, an wattpad/ao3 like website. This genre is often looked down because it began as amature work).

Word meanings change though so idk how non-Japanese people define it. I prefer DS lore to any generic anime stuff personally

This guy is saying more Japanese words than everyone else so I believe him.