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Reg posted...

Isekai makes it much, much worse than it could be.

There are some isekai where the past life matters a lot (like Ascendance of a Bookworm or something similar). Then there are others where it's just a lazy way to info-dump the setting because the character doesn't know anything about the world. The Faraway Paladin is just an especially pointless case of making something an isekai. The guy is raised as from a baby and has to learn about the world just like anyone else anyway. And the people who raise him have out of date information, so when he goes out into the world he has to learn everything the normal way again! Plus he literally never does anything with his knowledge from another world. Nothing would be lost by just making him a regular person from that world.