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Hi! I saw a short clip on reels but forgot to save it, and now I can’t remember the name of the anime.

All I remember is:

• The main character is a male high-school student who wears glasses
• He transfers to a new school
• In this school, really strange and inappropriate behavior is treated as completely normal by everyone
• There’s a comedic tone, kind of like an ecchi comedy
• In one scene, after the teacher calls roll, the whole class suddenly stands up and starts undressing like it’s a normal routine. The main character gets really flustered because he’s the only one who thinks it’s weird.

It felt like a fairly recent anime (maybe from the last year or two).
Does anyone know what this might be?

Most of these shows the plot literally would not change in any significant way if it was just a fantasy with an MC that is native to the world in question. The person coming from another world ends up having no significant relevance to the plot or their progress as a character.

As much flak as it gets, one of the things I enjoyed the most about Mushoku Tensei is how it ties the MC and other transferred characters’ past lives into the plot in various ways that actually matter. Re:Zero does a good job of this too, constantly reminding us that this is just a regular dude in insane situations succeeding with the help of foreknowledge, a plan and healthy dose of pure luck from being able to try again repeatedly. (And also how torturous having to do it over and over again can be.)

But, by and large, being isekai’d is just used as a lazy writing plot device to explain things about the world to the main character (and thus the reader/viewer) that would otherwise be basic knowledge to a natural inhabitant. Good writers would be able to find other ways to show how things are different instead of having to explain it explicitly.

Having said that, if anyone has other shows where them being from another world has any actual significance to the plot and character development feel free to share.