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It's official. You're not an otaku nerd anymore if you say Isekai but someone with an extensive vocabulary. Don't let anyone tell you anything else!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Okay, so Fantasy or sci fi with a real world protagonist so to say. Interesting that happens enough to make a sub genre lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Japanese and Korean media are wayyy beyond saturated with isekai series. I mean just look at this shit: https://isekai.fandom.com/wiki/Isekai_Series

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shit they made that Suicide Squad Isekai anime

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Written by Tappei Nagatsuki and animated by Wit Studio and OP by Calli Moriope. I'm neither a fan of shounen, nor the Suicide Squad IP but even I believe it's probably going to be good.

[–] astraeus 2 points 11 months ago

Wait hold up, Nagatsuki is working on it? Sheeesh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

isekai itself isnt any magical new subgenre, it just that the number skyrockete past 2010 so they more or les made it a big thing. it itself is related to portal fantasy in a western sense.

examples of western portal fantasies include titles like the chronicles of Narnia, Wizard of Oz, and Harry Potter and such.

[–] astraeus 2 points 11 months ago

You have a whole world of isekai waiting for you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I think it’s a two fold thing: one a reflection on shitty living/working conditions where the salary-man/office lady needs an escape from life and this lets them relate, and two it helps ground a person in the reference of the new world by feeling they could be there too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I noticed they studiously avoided using the phrase "light novel".

I just tried, and they don't have a definition for that phrase.

The best match that the OED came up with was "railway novel" defined as:

railway novel, n. A light novel, typically in a cheap edition, suitable for reading on a railway journey.