i started playing persona 5 for the first time now that it's on pc. i'm playing with english text and japanese voices. in the game you get an app on your phone that lets you go to other worlds. in the japanese, this is called the「異世界ナビ」. when the game came out in 2017, they elected to translate this as "metaverse navigator", which is rather unfortunate in 2022. for the unfamiliar, 異世界 means "other world" or "another world" in japanese. "otherworld navigator" would be a perfectly sensible alternate translation.
this does, however, open up the possibility of referring to all metaverse bullshit as "isekai," which i will be doing from now on.
