I'm not up to speed on Japanese cultural or anime concepts, but I thought the idea around Isekai was that you are transported into the game/story world. So, wouldn't that force you to play Human by definition?
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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It's your spirit that is transported to another world, not your physical body. There are a lot of stories where the character is reincarnated as a different species and even some where the mc is reincarnated as an object like a vending machine.
They are starting to get recursive too, where character from a fantasy world gets isekai'd to a different fantasy world with a magic system similar enough their magic knowledge gives them a huge edge, or their original world OP starting skill that they had severe social limitations on using doesn't in the new world.
I guess I sorta lump all the reincarnated and such all together and since ancestry has a fair effect on abilities I figured I would do it. I totally might be using the phrase wrong.