The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words
www.theguardian.com
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included

It’s official. You’re not an otaku nerd anymore if you say Isekai but someone with an extensive vocabulary. Don’t let anyone tell you anything else!

    •  Dudewitbow   ( @Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ) English
      4•3 months ago

      isekai itself isnt any magical new subgenre, it just that the number skyrockete past 2010 so they more or les made it a big thing. it itself is related to portal fantasy in a western sense.

      examples of western portal fantasies include titles like the chronicles of Narnia, Wizard of Oz, and Harry Potter and such.

    •  ramble81   ( @ramble81@lemm.ee ) English
      2•3 months ago

      I think it’s a two fold thing: one a reflection on shitty living/working conditions where the salary-man/office lady needs an escape from life and this lets them relate, and two it helps ground a person in the reference of the new world by feeling they could be there too.