Hey, can you recommend some non-generic isekais?

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Rezero

Devil is a parttimer

the campfire cooking one

Reincarnated as a sword

Log horizon, shangri-la frontier, no game no life, re:zero.

You can find tons of them on MAL, Isekai is a tag, there are pages upon pages of them.

"So im a spider so what" its actually pretty good and different from the typical isekai style.

Mushoku Tensei, Re Zero and Konosuba are 3 I always recommend.

All 3 are extremely well done and for different reasons

Digimon adventure. Thats pretty much the only good one :>

The most non generic Isekai I can think of are Ascendance of a Bookworm and Zenshu

Ascendance of a Bookworm is unlike any other Isekai out there. It's a very slow and deliberate story of a book loving woman reincarnated as a little girl in a world before the invention of the printing press and thus without readily available books. Her goal in life is to introduce this to the world. But in order to do so she needs to navigate the strict social, political and technological minefield that is this extremely fleshed out world. I can highly recommend. It has 3 seasons so far and it looks like we've only just finished the prologue of a very long story, so this'll be a long haul

Zenshu is new, but follows an older Isekai structure from before Sword Art Online popularized what we think of generic Isekai nowadays. More akin to Escaflowne or Spirited Away. A talented anime creator ends up in the world of her favorite mid 2000's anime movie (which flopped at the box office because it was derided as miserable torture porn by critics) Unlike most Isekai protagonists, she actually knows more about the world than it's inhabitants. And she uses her knowledge of the plot and characters as well as her powers as an animator to change the course of the story with the goal to find a way home. It's also a love letter to classic anime. In my interpretation it has some interesting meta stuff to say about endings, good, bad and bittersweet as well as fan fiction and the concept of "the death of the author". It's an anime original and very clearly a passion project for MAPPA

Furthermore I can recommend Konosuba and Mushoku Teinsei. Both follow the generic tropes of modern Isekai, but do something with this in order to make them stand out as excellent pieces of media. Konosuba is more of a comedy parody of modern Isekai and pulls this off excellently. Mushoku Teinsei on the other hand is more serious. It takes all the tropes of Isekai slop and actually presents them in a realistic and believable way in a world that's so fleshed out it's only rivaled by Ascendance of a Bookworm

The Weakest Tamer sets out on a Journey to pick up trash

Ascendence of a Bookworm

Grimgar

The Great Cleric. Guy puts himself through so much hellish training that at one point he gets called Dr. Masochist. Ultimately he ends up with the nickname, St. Weirdo

Drifters

you should watch the really classic isekai, those that pre-date Sword Art Online.

things like now and then, here and there, magical knight rayearth, inuyasha, fushigi yuugi.

Non-generic? Kamikatsu and Uncle from Another World. Both shows are considered satires of the isekai genre.The first one could be a bit extreme though if you plan to watch with family/kids.

Grimgar. The MCs are powerless and everything is hard. Lots of tears and anguish. Lots of hard decisions and painful wake-up calls. No plot armor.

Try
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy and The Saga of Tanya the Evil

Saga of Tanya the Evil is my favorite atypical isekai

im a spider so what

Negima, but manga only and you'd have to start with volume 19.

I know that's a lot of conditional qualifiers but it really does do "power ups via training arc and not ass pulls" well