Kadokawa cites excessive reliance on the isekai genre as one of the major causes of the decline in profitability in its domestic publishing business   - AUTOMATON WEST
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In its new mid-term management plan Kadokawa addresses recent financial losses driven by the company's "bias towards proven genres."
  • Unboxious@ani.socialEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Isekai allows amateur writers on Narou (the webnovel site most of these isekai originate from) to completely avoid worldbuilding or any need for original thought. So it ends up being a convenient thing to write, but for whatever reason people watch this slop. They adapted dozens of them into anime last year; hopefully we’ll be seeing that scale back in the future.