When will this fad end?

when will this fad end?

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tomorrow

When the world stops being such a shitty place that people would prefer getting run over by a truck to be reborn in a different existence than keep living in it.

When the next trend starts

hopefully never

once another fad overshadows this one
then we'll complain about that fad

This. Also when people stop mindlessly consuming them. If you want something to stop you just stop giving them money for it but considering how little taste most people have they will just continue buying them. There are a decent number of good isekai shows but holy shit are most just unwatchable garbage.

Elves, goblins, and daemons will continue to appear in cartoons because they are widely known characters and do not require copyright fees. Their identities don't need to be explained every single time, and they won't be sued for defamation even if they rape or kill.

About the same amount of time high school battle harem got dethroned by isekai.
What even is the next fad anyway

A lot of isekai acts as a crutch for bad fantasy writers.
The main character knows nothing and starts from zero, so their behaviour is predictable and easy to write, and the most basic overused fantasy tropes are explored as if something new and interesting.
Konosuba is guilty of this, even if I think it's a good anime.

With the isekai made by genuinely good fantasy writers, it can often be called into question whether it actually needed to be an isekai.

Re Zero has zero reason to be an isekai, it could have easily started with someone dying and realising they have a "Return by Death" power.

Shield Hero and Slime both rely on being an isekai for plot reasons, incorporating the isekai trope heavily into their worldbuilding and being unable to explain the starting situation of the protagonist otherwise.

When will horror stop existing? When will comedy end? When will action end? When will shounen end? Isekai has transcended a simple trend and is now a major, permanent, trope of fiction.

When the chinks spam the market with their wuxia

Isekai and any genre that revolves around escapism or painting a world so much cooler than ours will continue to flourish as long as society remains a vapid hellscape where only the top of the top live like kings while the vast majority of people are wage slaves living pay check to pay check and more an more men every year are considered too ugly for 99% of women to have a normal stable happy ltr with that doesn't dissolve into divorce rape, cheating, and dead bedroom.
Are you really surprised that shits tons of men dream about getting a cheat power in a brand new uncorrupted unpolluted world where a hot elf/ demihuman girl falls in love with them and doesn't have a double/triple digit body count or a face plastered in fakeup?
Most men don't want much; a good girl who isn't an easy whore or a landwhale, and a stable job that covers most the costs of living and also allows for saving for the future without being left broke. Isekai will get bigger and bigger or some other similar escapist trope like that hunter genre shit in manwha will take hold over the next 10 years

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meds

obligatory meds post, I get it, but what I wrote is true. Society fucking sucks if your not rich, good looking, or land a nice stable job that lets you save and live it up a little. Isekai is literally a hero's journey power fantasy trip on steroids. Most men identify with it and we're the main market for this shit.
Likewise girls like to consume material where the main plain jane girl is getting pursued by multiple 9/10 + gigachads with perfect body and face and often with money and status. Not to mention that material is often stuffed full of unbearable amounts of drama like rape, cheating, ntr, and other mental illness. Women thrive on that shit to spice their boring wagie lives up.

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If you mean なろう系(anime and/or manga based on light novels by amateur writers on "becoming a novel writer"), the future is grim for them. People have been ridiculing the genre constantly for a decade and the sales has been declining.

When you stop being angry about them. I'm not holding by breath.

This
Hoping it transitions to actual fantasy and that the actual fantasy becomes less YA

>Re Zero has zero reason to be an isekai
Yeah, no. The anime skips a bit about it, but its pretty important that Subaru was isekai'd.
Did you think it was just coincidence that Subaru, the witches, and all the archbishops share names with Earth stars that don't exist in Re:Zero? The sin thing and random shit like the race namex "oni" and fruit names are also a tip that things are a bit fucky.

>revolves around escapism or painting a world so much cooler than ours
There's no isekai that revolves around escapism unless it explicitly addresses the topic of escapism itself. It also isn't "escapist inducing" because a work of fiction is not inherently able to make someone escape from reality more than any "cultured" fiction.
On the contrary, you could argue that the more immersive (a trait widely accepted as "good") a work of fiction is, the more a person in question might be inclined to spend more time on reading it and even spend time re-reading it, while if something is badly written, not only would any readers not re-read it, but might even end up dropping it part-way through.

The truth of the matter is, escapism is entirely a consumer-side trait, and I find the attempt to blame the authors or works of fiction themselves, or using them as proof of such traits for that, as baffling.
In case of isekai, it's the motives for reading it that are misplaced. The isekai aspect is falsely used as proof that it's all just "running away from reality", but in actuality it's simply an audience that got tired of urban fantasy, battle shounen with moralfag underdog MCs and school stories, and wanted a change of pace. And so ENTER isekai where you have your "relatable" nip MC who does not suffer from all the shit that annoyed the audience in the early 2010s and has room for a lot of variety, which isekai actually have, but of course the ""critics"" only point at the 0.001% of the story and setting that isekai share with one another and use that as "proof" that all isekai are supposedly one and the same.

>People have been ridiculing the genre constantly for a decade and the sales has been declining
Incorrect. The sales are just not being publicized because oricon which the the primary source for all manga/LN sales figures only track physical sales. Digital sales are becoming more popular as time goes and those sales are unfortunately not trackable yet, so as sales go more and more from physical to digital it gives the false impression that they are on decline. The only thing on actual decline are Blu-Ray-Disc sales, but that happens to all of them in general, not to isekai anime adaptations in particular.