| The Magic Treehouse was pretty huge, ngl |
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The Magic Treehouse was pretty huge, ngl
| @Timeline_man I hope kids today still read those books fr |
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| The modern isekai genre is largely inspired by sao in terms of anime. Most isekai love using game terminology with harems, and a boarderline cheat mc. Ironically enough SAO does a few things different that I prefer - MC is actually loyal to his wife - MC actually does not have a grudge against reality to never return from fantasy world. - Actually has a real job he plans to pursue |
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| I kind of hate to be "that guy" (but not really), but to open up the battle wounds on the age-old, neverending debate, Inuyasha really isn't an isekai anymore than, say, Steins;Gate is. It's a time travel story taking Kagome to the same exact location in the past as her family's shrine property, with even some of the same landmarks (Goshinboku) still there. And MAL's tags are incorrect at least by omission frequently enough to not want to defer to them as a final authority, but I think at least in this case they got it right in not including the isekai theme tag on Inuyasha's page in the database for that reason. But I get in that a lot of people assuming it was one or thinking about it in such terms still could have influenced the isekai subgenre at a time when entries into it were more sparse and it was considered relatively new territory (at least for anime). I always hear Escaflowne mentioned in the same breath and while I personally haven't seen it myself, that was released even earlier, coming out in 1996, so could be seen as more of the progenitor of late 20th century isekai which took us into the wave of 21st century isekai. That and maybe its even slightly earlier released cousin, Fushigi Yugi, which came out in 1995. Even though the substance and actual mechanisms at play concerning what happens in Inuyasha is different, I do think it shares some thematic overlap with what I know of those and other earlier isekai though which is a marked contrast from the post-2012/Sword Art Online wave of isekai we've seen many of the past 12 years or so. Just having a female protagonist is already a radical enough deviation. And then there's the fact that the female protagonist typically wanted to go home, or at least, wasn't using the new world they stumbled into as an escape from a life they considered bleak and depressing back home. I personally wonder what that says about the changing culture and how it's influenced art on this topic. Whether someone is reincarnated from birth as a newborn baby, transported/teleported in their exact same body in one piece to the new universe, or their consciousness takes over another already older living person in the new universe (I saw this variant at least in Isekai Yakkyoku), it's almost taken as a given in these modern isekai that home and life on Earth isn't a place worth going back to. It's not just about the novelty of an exotic place and exciting adventure, but more like liberation from a dreary imprisonment. |
| It bit mix of series in my opinion. We won't talk about the old ones because modern isekai concept format as we know right now was not really found on these series. Isekai concept was also never really popular back then. In short, back then before SAO, there is no fixed formula as we found in modern isekai in those old isekai. That why they're felt so unique now if we watched it again through modern lens. I tried to strech few of them :
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| "What do you think the pioneer of the Isekai genre is?" Digimon. |
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| I imagine SAO is one of the first ones, and probably the most influential of the early 2010s in any case. |
| The Familiar of Zero and The Vision of Escaflowne are the First Popular Isekai.. Spirited Away is One of the First Major Films With Isekai concept.. Others I think are The Twelve Kingdoms, Magic Knight Rayearth and Tsubasa Chronicle by clamp |
| Don't know about older isekai but Zero no Tsukaima was the pioneer of modern isekai, there's an article about how it all started Also Inuyasha is time travel, not isekai |
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| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 Novel) |
| Aura Battler Dunbine is the first anime isekai. |
| El Hazard needs a mention, it was quite formative in pointing towards latter day trends. |
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The Magic Treehouse was pretty huge, ngl
| @Timeline_man oh my god i never thought of how magic treehouse is technically an isekai. wow. |
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| @Kenzolo-folk A lot of classic literature are just "technically isekai". Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, for examples. Isekai is the most literal use of the "new world" part of the Hero's Journey. |
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The Magic Treehouse was pretty huge, ngl
| @Timeline_man I was going to say that's not isekai, until I remembered it has a few volumes set in fictional lands like Camelot. |
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