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!

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

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

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          7 months ago

          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.

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      7 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.

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      7 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.