>>126127>>126129I find isekai fascinating because of the reoccurring theme of reincarnation. I couldn’t seem to find the cultural roots of this concept at first. The reincarnation in isekai isn’t present in modern Shintoism or Buddhism. Reincarnation in Buddhism is actually not a thing. When you die, in Buddhism you’re actually dead for good. It’s only your karma that lives on, not your soul, yet every time reincarnation is depicted in media, it’s the whole soul that inherits a new body. I poked around this with a chatbot, and it basically said most cultures around the world believed that their children were their ancestors. Weird stuff.