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Key
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Boonies and Hidden Dungeon are not isekai. They're just straight fantasy. Otherside Picnic is a borderline case for counting, as is Combatants Will Be Dispatched! |
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Blanchimont
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Well, duh, if we remember what the novels draw their inspiration from, what none of the reviews seem to do or at least mention... Otherside Picnic is loosely based on the Russian sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic. Older of you might better remember it from another loosely based adaptation, the 1979 movie Stalker*. It also inspired a popular video game series. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film) (forum cuts url short...) Last edited by Blanchimont on Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:41 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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zrnzle500
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Glancing at the previews, Otherside looks arguable, but I'll have to see for myself. The others don't seem really seem to fit, as in all of those cases, the characters have always lived in the fantasy world they inhabit, at least as far as the descriptions indicate. Most straightforward is Boonies, which I agree with Rebecca is just straight fantasy. The character has always lived in the fantasy world, he's just ended up in the starter area after living in the last boss area. I wouldn't say I was isekai'd if I moved to, say, Ohio, so I don't think Boonies could be considered an isekai. Redo of Healer is just a time travel story set in a fantasy world. Maybe in time travel stories like Inuyasha where they travel to a very different time which also has fantastical elements added that are not present in their own time could it arguably be called isekai (though even in that case I personally lean no), but by all indications, it seems to be the same fantasy world that they have always inhabited, just back 4 years or whatever. It is no more an isekai than Steins;Gate or any other time travel story. Hidden dungeon I'd have to see to be certain, but it seems like the character has always lived in the fantasy world. Unless the titular dungeon is its own separate world, and not, well, a dungeon like you could find in many fantasy anime and games, I'd say it is just a fantasy. All three do share some trends that are also found in modern isekai, but they all seem to lack the defining characteristic of it, namely being transported to or reincarnated in another world. There are cases where it might be difficult to draw the line, but I don't think any of those three are edge cases. Let's not shunt every LN power fantasy into the isekai bucket just because. |
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Princess_Irene
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As Theron said just a bit above, Hidden Dungeon is plain old fantasy. (In two senses if you count "power fantasy.") It uses the game mechanics trope as part of its story, unlike Boonies, which just uses it as a reference, but even the eponymous dungeon is part of the world he grew up in. dm, oh, that's right. I forgot that bit in the book; it's left out of the anime episode. |
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Dark Mac
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You guys doing Cute Executive Officer? It was real good imo.
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ANN_Lynzee
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Quick FYI, Combatants doesn't air until April.
We don't do shorts for preview guide, or hentai. Pretty sure it's both and isn't legally streaming unless CoolMic has it up. |
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dm
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I picked up the novels (and read all four of them) last week because Mike Toole mentioned Roadside Picnic on the ANN trailer-a-thon. In the novels, there's one character who refers to the Otherside as the Zone, which is straight out of Roadside Picnic, and like the stalker in Stalker spoiler[tosses bolts ahead of him to detect "glitches". The Otherside Picnic novels don't pick up on "why bolts?", but Stalker shows the reason (you tie a ribbon through the bolt so you can find them on the ground as you walk past them for re-use).] Last edited by dm on Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:29 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Blanchimont
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It's streaming on HIDIVE, and it's not hentai. Sentai will also stream it; https://www.hidive.com/movies/cute-executive-officer https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/a/news/sentai-recruits-cute-executive-officer-to-lineup |
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ANN_Lynzee
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OH this isn't what I thought it was! I thought we were talking about
anime#23771 |
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Engineering Nerd
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I think I maybe loving the premiere too much for what it is, but “Boonies “ is such a wholesome, charming, sincere and funny fantasy story (surprisingly rare nowadays) that I can’t wait to watch more, in fact, I just purchased the Light Novels from my kindle 30 mins ago, so you can bet this adaptation did its job
By the way, what is official shortcut for the show’s title? I mean something like Oreimo, Mahouka, Kimisen, so what’s for “Boonies”? Last edited by Engineering Nerd on Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:40 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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lossthief
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Should be noted Cute Executive Officer is a 2-minute short, but the entire series was released together as a single 22 minute "episode" so doing a preview of it is kind of pointless.
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maximilianjenus
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oh, but redo of healer ia not the "time travel story that is disguised as isekai" i was talking about btw.
but yeah, i can drop that point and talk about individual series. |
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Princess_Irene
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The review copy of the manga I got from the [English] publisher labels it SukiDun, so that's my guess. |
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harminia
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LasDan (RasuDan) aka Last Dungeon. The website is under that https://lasdan.com/ Surprised no reviewers mentioned the random dodgy cg in otherside picnic. |
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ANN_Lynzee
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I noticed the CG but it looks like it's specifically being used for wide shots in movement. It's not great but the clips were just a few seconds long each time.
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