Forum - View topicThe Mike Toole Show - Old School Isekai
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Stories about characters being transported to another world have always been one of my favorite subgenres in fantasy fiction ever since growing up as a kid watching The Wizard of Oz. I know a lot of people complain about the gimmicky aspect off modern isekai shows, but that's part of the appeal of isekai anime to me is seeing the different ways each title plays with the genre tropes in fun ways and why I love the Slime show so much. |
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Beltane70
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I, personally, would consider 1983's Super Dimension Century Orguss to be an isekai series as well. Granted, it could be argued that it's considered a time travel show, the world that the main character is transported is a future Earth made up of several parallel Earths together.
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enurtsol
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I wanna know how Dungeons & Dragons [should] ended
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andyos
ANN Associate Editor
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Here you go - the actual (never animated) script by series writer Michael Reaves that could have either ended the series or theoretically taken the series in a new direction - https://web.archive.org/web/20110720142026/http://www.michaelreaves.com/pdf/requiem_sec.pdf There's some contextual info, and debunking of a fan myth, here - https://www.cbr.com/dungeons-dragons-tv-show-end-with-death/ |
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jenthehen
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The 1939 movie version of Wizard of Oz could be argued that it's "just a dream" rather than Isekai, but in the books, Oz is definitely real as far as I remember.
People mentioned Alice in Wonderland. Gulliver's Travels is kind of Isekai (or just unexplored parts of our world ... still a lot of the same tropes, though). |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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The Chronicles of Narnia would be another early Western "isekai" title.
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nDroae
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Yeah, I recall bringing up the Narnia books in an isekai discussion once. It's virtually a dead horse to say "I wish anime would stray from the popular formula" in any way, but I liked the use of Narnia's fast time to tell that world's entire story from beginning to end. NGNL sort of did that spoiler[via reincarnation]. I always say anime under-utilizes its ability to tell epic stories spanning generations. Jojo shouldn't be such a rare example.
In terms of resemblance to the current standard mold, I think Mark Twain came closest the earliest animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5095666#5095666 |
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Alan45
Village Elder
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Other old school isekai from the US would include The Incomplete Enchanter (1940) by L.Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt and Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961) by Poul Anderson.
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enurtsol
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Thanks, I've actually already read it. But it's not official until it gets finalized on screen! |
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