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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9140592" data-attributes="member: 93670">Sometimes, but That's like saying science fiction involves FTL space ships & a handful of tropes from star wars or star trek.   There's only so many times the standard "whoah I'm reincarnated" tropes can get rehashed & keep a reader/viewer's interest once anime started whipping that dead horse into paste.  A lot of the time in modern stuff it's little more than an excuse to start the story with some degree of en media res & leave room to backfill some background experience that might be hard to swing otherwise.   Ascendance of a bookworm overlord & mushoku tensei are in a lot of ways mold breaking in that they use it in new & interesting ways.Having read all of the books I agree with [USER=86653]@overgeeked[/USER] about john carter though. Yes technically by definition they are an isekai story about a regretful confederate soldier(officer?), but they are so much else it does the series a disservice by trying to distil them down to a single genre that didn't really gain traction for about a century.  The trouble with putting the John Carter books in a single specific box is that they were almost rule of cool kitchen sink stories so far back that almost everything* modern seems derived on one or more levels* Multiple comic book characters may as well be crossover spinoffs, airships, the drow & <a href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/John_Carter_of_Mars" target="_blank">so so sooooo much more</a>.  everything looks inspired by it on some level at this point</blockquote>

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