The Isekai phenomenon
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Peak abridged idea: make one “anime” entirely out of scenes from different generic isekai
MC gets isekai’d in episode 1 and immediately loses his glasses.
From that point onward he’s basically blind, which is perfect because now we have an excuse for why:
his face changes every 30 seconds
his elf companion keeps changing hair colour
the guild receptionist is a completely different woman every episode, but they all say "welcome to the adventurer's guild!"
the blonde pos noble is a different pretentious prick everytime
the magic system changes from skills to mana to blessings to some other bs, but he can't tell because he can't read the system UI without his glasses
the entire art style and studio changes mid-scene
Give him some stupid passive skill like Everchanging Countenance so every generic black-haired socially-awkward but secretly super competent isekai MC can canonically be the same guy.
Then just keep it going, cut to a different anime every minute.
He gets isekai’d again halfway through.
Then reincarnated.
Then summoned.
Then somehow gets sent back to Earth for 4 minutes, gets hit by Truck-kun AGAIN, and lands in what is clearly the exact same fantasy world except everyone insists it’s a different one.
He joins the Hero’s Party.
Gets banished.
Joins another Hero’s Party.
Gets banished again (or cucked)
Just keep the bs rolling nonstop
Every big bad is obviously from a different anime but he assumes it’s the same Demon King because, again, he cannot freaking see.
Meanwhile his only actual goal for the entire series is finding his glasses.
But everyone misunderstands and thinks “The Spectacles” are some ancient divine artifact capable of defeating the Demon King, so now there's gonna be wars, cults, academies, tournaments, S-rank promotions and royal engagements happening over one guy’s missing prescription lenses.
The important part is to play most of it completely straight, like dead ass.
I think you could legitimately stitch together 40 completely unrelated anime and the plot would still somehow make sense because they are all the same formula:
Truck-kun -> medieval fantasy Europe -> status screen -> useless skill is secretly broken -> guild registration -> E-rank -> saves random girl -> beastgirl/elf joins -> slavery somehow -> cooks Japanese food -> everyone loses their minds -> smug noble underestimates him -> one-shot -> “I’m not that strong” -> magic academy -> harem expands -> demon lord is hot -> gets a mansion -> becomes S-rank -> invents soy sauce/mayonnaise -> saves kingdom -> refuses throne -> I just want a slow life.
Although the order of these pieces could be different, I think the above covers about 90% of Isekai. So you just take one piece from one anime, another piece from another anime, and I think you could assemble a Frankenstein's monster of Isekai. It'll work because the pieces will all be there.
Honestly the most fantastic situation is the fantasy animes that are not even Isekai, but if I showed you eps 2-12 you would think they are, you could even cut them in here and no one would notice a thing.
Final episode:
After he puts on his glasses, reveal his true form to be kirito, the poster child of generic black haired MCs or something other bs like that.
Anyway there's no shortage of material for this idea, hell the industry is making more material for this as we speak, and will continue to do so for another 3 decades atleast imo.
I would make this myself but I have neither the skills or the time, and honestly I'm shocked no one has already made it. Anyway this idea is here for the taking, I'd love to see someone actually execute something in this vein. The final product could be something like dbza or hua I imagine. Somehow a very artistic critique of the genre too. I suppose this post just turned into a commentary on Isekai as a genre.
Thoughts? Is my tired brain exaggerating or can you guys see the vision too?
P.S. no hate to Isekai, I've just watched wayyy too many of them and 80% of my brain has leaked out of my ears, the other 20% is unaccounted for, so they all melt together in my head. Like atleast a good 30% of my mal is Isekai.