There’s escapism, there’s escapism catering to young people, and then there is isekai.
Stories have always offered a kind of voyeuristic freedom for people to indulge in from the narrow confines of the one life they have and one world they have to live it in. Even the fantasy epics of Tolkien or Martin are escapist in the sense of offering readers the ch…
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