Sword Art Online (light novel)
| I'm sure SAO is an isekai novel but some people don't agree with my opinion. What do you think about it? I'm sorry if this post is similar to any other posts but I must ask this question. |
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| Honestly, trying to think of SAO as anything but an isekai story is really splitting hairs on what makes something an isekai. On a physical level no they may not technically be in another world, but their entire mental state is to the point where they live full lives. This includes bodily needs such as sleeping and eating. For all intents and purposes, SAO is an isekai, plain and simple. |
| Just because its a game doesn't make it less qualified as another world. |
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| Aincrad and Alicization, yes to a certain extent. The rest no. |
| There is a WN/LN/manga called "New Gate" and it perfectly demonstrates that SAO isn't an isekai and here is why: "New Gate" starts off with the protagonist being trapped in a Aincrad-like VRMMORPG Death Game with very similar circumstances to SAO, e.g. everything in the game is mostly the same as it was when it was still operating normally except for two things: 1. If you die in the game you'll supposedly also die in reality and 2. The log-out button is gone. Sounds like the same setting as SAO? Because it's pretty much the same. Now the prologue is about the end of that, where the protagonist faces the final boss solo and wins. Suddenly everyone who still remains alive in the Death Game at that point becomes able to log-out again and after waiting until everyone but him logged out, the protagonist is about to log-out too when suddenly... he gets transported to the game world for real, as in the game world becomes reality (though he gets transported 500 years into the future of that world). So what happened here? He got transported from a SAO-like Death Game into... a REAL isekai. Under the logic of people who think that SAO is an isekai, he would have gone from "one isekai to another" which is completely absurd, because the two cases are so severely different that they can't compare. In the Death Game the NPCs were still NPCs with no conciousness or anything of the like, all controlled by mechanical AI. But in the new world the protagonist gets sent to the former NPCs are REAL PEOPLE. So there you have it. In other words: SAO is not an isekai. Period. |
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| Its more like a show that used a lot of Isekai Tropes before Isekai blew up but Isn't really an Isekai. |
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Grey-Zone said: There is a WN/LN/manga called "New Gate" and it perfectly demonstrates that SAO isn't an isekai and here is why: "New Gate" starts off with the protagonist being trapped in a Aincrad-like VRMMORPG Death Game with very similar circumstances to SAO, e.g. everything in the game is mostly the same as it was when it was still operating normally except for two things: 1. If you die in the game you'll supposedly also die in reality and 2. The log-out button is gone. Sounds like the same setting as SAO? Because it's pretty much the same. Now the prologue is about the end of that, where the protagonist faces the final boss solo and wins. Suddenly everyone who still remains alive in the Death Game at that point becomes able to log-out again and after waiting until everyone but him logged out, the protagonist is about to log-out too when suddenly... he gets transported to the game world for real, as in the game world becomes reality (though he gets transported 500 years into the future of that world). So what happened here? He got transported from a SAO-like Death Game into... a REAL isekai. Under the logic of people who think that SAO is an isekai, he would have gone from "one isekai to another" which is completely absurd, because the two cases are so severely different that they can't compare. In the Death Game the NPCs were still NPCs with no conciousness or anything of the like, all controlled by mechanical AI. But in the new world the protagonist gets sent to the former NPCs are REAL PEOPLE. So there you have it. In other words: SAO is not an isekai. Period. What you say is very interesting and reasonable. II've never heard of “New Gate” before. Thanks for this information, it’s a good source. |
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