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grate deceiver posted:I forgot about the powerful magical being that for some reason looks like a 9yo girl and speaks with an annoying affectation. I think it keeps getting better but tbh if you’re not on board by this point cut your losses
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Lostconfused posted:Look I already played SRW T Honestly, you don't need to go as far as Dunbine for a reason when you've got Masoukishin right there and integrated firmly into the core narrative due to the rights clusterfuck. You could kind of write Masaki in like Z2 off as a series mascot, but when Shu shows up alongside him like in α/gaiden, the og series, or the OG series (  ) the least isekai you're getting is one of the key protags having his climactic last volume showdown back in "the real world" as an integral part of the main plot.
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May 13, 2021 17:55
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Tanya the evil manga is the best version because she's just Blackadder trying and failing to get off the front line Also all the cute animal drawings 
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May 13, 2021 18:01
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Ok now that's a bit not fair, alpha gaiden is explicitly an Isekai where all of the characters get sent to a different world for most of the game. In Alpha 2 you've got Tetsuya going on about how none of that counts anymore, and everyone should just pretend it wasn't a thing. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 18:08 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 18:03
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Is there an isekai about a fantasy hero being reincarnated into modern Japan and having to get a soul crushing office job? I feel like there should be at least 10 of them by now
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grate deceiver posted:Is there an isekai about a fantasy hero being reincarnated into modern Japan and having to get a soul crushing office job? I feel like there should be at least 10 of them by now There's one where Satan gets transported into modern day Japan and has to get a job at McDonald's
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Lostconfused posted:Ok now that's a bit not fair, alpha gaiden is explicitly an Isekai where all of the characters get sent to a different world for most of the game. I'm not even really thinking the bulk of Gaiden, because of that. Just the importance of the underlying DC/Masoukishin plot, and the weird "we can't or won't actually show the isekai because either we don't have the rights anymore or we don't want the other people claiming the rights to get free advertising, but we are sure we can use these popular characters and we're going to make them significant to the overall worldbuilding because that bolsters our own claim" situation.
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May 13, 2021 18:31
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Well, I guess Time Divers are just isekai protagonists anyway.
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where does SRWV and its knotted up ball of at least two isekais going on at any given time fall on this
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May 13, 2021 18:43
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Bro Dad posted:Tanya the evil manga is the best version because she's just Blackadder trying and failing to get off the front line That's pretty much all she does in the show. She hates God because it won't let her just be a useless piece of poo poo and live off the luxuries other people provide for her.
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May 13, 2021 18:59
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Srice posted:Some folks think that because nobody explicitly says "war crimes are bad, you shouldn't do them", that the show thinks it's good when Tanya commits war crimes. Which is doubly crazy because there's literally a character on her side if the war that thinks she's an evil monster. But fascist morons will do what they do
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KomradeX posted:Which is doubly crazy because there's literally a character on her side if the war that thinks she's an evil monster. But fascist morons will do what they do It's literally the title.
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Lostconfused posted:It's literally the title. I know but in the show itself he's like the only character that voices it. In case people didn't realize it and they still don't
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May 13, 2021 22:55
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Tanya the Based
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grate deceiver posted:Is there an isekai about a fantasy hero being reincarnated into modern Japan and having to get a soul crushing office job? I feel like there should be at least 10 of them by now There's that one about the Roman guy getting sent to modern Japan where he is blown away by modern bathhouses.
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Gripweed posted:There's that one about the Roman guy getting sent to modern Japan where he is blown away by modern bathhouses. Thermae Romae, but he uses his weird trip inspirations to design very cool bathhouses. It's kind of the opposite of soul crushing exploitation of wage slavery.
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May 14, 2021 01:10
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There's also the one about the Roman dude going to 50's Japan to get Olympic game ideas.
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net work error posted:There's also the one about the Roman dude going to 50's Japan to get Olympic game ideas. That's an ancient Greek dude, c'mon man. https://youtu.be/Vm-HO1wQzHk
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May 14, 2021 02:07
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Gundam Wing is Isekai because the Earth is another world.
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May 14, 2021 02:49
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When did the term isekai/the concept itself become so popular? I stopped following anime actively around 2004, as in watching stuff as it came out in Japan, and back then I don't think I ever heard the term. Recently I watched some anime and when I was browsing around it kept popping up. Did I just somehow miss it entirely?
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May 14, 2021 04:49
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Rick and Morty is an Isekai
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May 14, 2021 04:55
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what's the word for isekai when the character isn't transported to an alien world but their regular world becomes alien to them? special-kai?
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pairofdimes posted:When did the term isekai/the concept itself become so popular? I stopped following anime actively around 2004, as in watching stuff as it came out in Japan, and back then I don't think I ever heard the term. Recently I watched some anime and when I was browsing around it kept popping up. Did I just somehow miss it entirely? sword art online is probably the start of the modern era but it's been a trope for a long rear end time.
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pairofdimes posted:When did the term isekai/the concept itself become so popular? I stopped following anime actively around 2004, as in watching stuff as it came out in Japan, and back then I don't think I ever heard the term. Recently I watched some anime and when I was browsing around it kept popping up. Did I just somehow miss it entirely?
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May 14, 2021 05:05
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A lot of this poo poo is light novel adaptations, so if you want to track down where it took off you'd have to look there instead of anime.
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May 14, 2021 05:13
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pairofdimes posted:When did the term isekai/the concept itself become so popular? I stopped following anime actively around 2004, as in watching stuff as it came out in Japan, and back then I don't think I ever heard the term. Recently I watched some anime and when I was browsing around it kept popping up. Did I just somehow miss it entirely? Google trends say the term first started showing up in English around 2009, got a big spike in usage in 2012 (which I believe is when the Sword Art Online anime began airing) and has been on a major upswing since 2017 or so, as more and more stuff in the genre has gotten anime adaptations. Anecdotally I first heard the term around when SAO was big. I'm not sure when the term first started being used as a genre in Japanese, though.
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pairofdimes posted:When did the term isekai/the concept itself become so popular? I stopped following anime actively around 2004, as in watching stuff as it came out in Japan, and back then I don't think I ever heard the term. Recently I watched some anime and when I was browsing around it kept popping up. Did I just somehow miss it entirely? the one that kind of created the modern genre is The Familiar of Zero, which is about a witch who wants to summon a powerful magical familiar and instead gets an ordinary Japanese high school boy. don't think it was super popular here, it came out in he late 00s. anyway it had a massive fanfiction community, and people who wrote that started writing original works, and it just spiraled out from there. I think what makes it different from just a regular transported to another world story is the hyper focus on the rules of a setting, and to the point of just being a rpg a lot of the time.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai#Modern_Japanese_mediaquote:.hack (2002 debut) franchises, were some of the first works to present the concept of isekai as a virtual world, with Sword Art Online (2002 web novel debut) following in their footsteps.[21] Another isekai anime series from the 2000s is Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002).[16] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-03-19/mushoku-tensei-is-not-the-pioneer-of-isekai-web-novels-but/.170429 quote:Today's anime landscape is oversaturated with isekai stories based on web novels originally posted on Shōsetsuka ni Narō ("Let's Become Novelists," or Narō for short). Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 05:37 on May 14, 2021 |
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Mirello posted:lol, I know it's cool to be like "this popular thing is trash" but all the anti re:zero stuff is pretty dumb. lol at the one guy who watched four episodes out of order and says its crap. I guess I'd grant that it takes a bit to really get good, but once you're in you're hooked. lol at some dude saying it's a power fantasy, suburu's literal only power is to die and suffer horribly. He might be one of the most cursed guys in anime. the fun of the show is seeing him be in all these hosed up situations and see how he can get out of it. especially season 2 really seemed like he was hosed, but somehow they pulled it out.
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re:zero requires an extended list of caveats to explain why it isn't bad. i do not understand how that makes it good.
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i liked that horny assassin girl in re:zero she was pretty sexy edit: i only watched the first season so if the show got whack afterwards cant speak to that!!
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TenementFunster posted:it's a terrible show for horny losers okay now im interested
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OK that explains why I wasn't familiar with it, the entire genre basically sprang up while I wasn't looking. If I wanted to check out one of them, is the spider one good? I saw a few people mention it in the past few pages.
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also kuma kuma kuma bear for anyone unaware of it e: is good i mean, as people say the spider one is
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So what you're saying is women are responsible for both the isekai genre and the real mecha genre
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Stairmaster posted:So what you're saying is women are responsible for both the isekai genre and the real mecha genre
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Eden’s Fall: Help! I was A Man’s Rib and Have Been Reincarnated as the First Woman!
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I’ve seen all of re:zero and I think it’s a dog water anime for shmucks who will lap up anything with moderate production value and dynamic voice acting with a touch of grimdark because anime is so creatively bankrupt most of the time that anything slightly out of the box is mind blowing to people who only watch anime and Disney channel originals supercub is great oddtaxi is fantastic
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The Voice of Labor posted:what's the word for isekai when the character isn't transported to an alien world but their regular world becomes alien to them? special-kai? Schziophrenia
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Larry Parrish posted:Schziophrenia they live
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