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Looper2
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These kind of shows always make me want to abandon everything else, and start playing Dragon Quest games.
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MFrontier
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Looks like standard Isekai, but could be cute fun.
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L'Imperatore
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The animation looks....meager, to say the least.
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XSp
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This specific type of isekai really took over, right?
I mean, it's of course been on a strong rise over the past few years, but this season it feels like almost half of all titles are isekai OPs, or fantasy OPs, or something similar. I think I'm watching 10+ of them already.... 
Can't remember of any other anime trend/genre that got this oversaturated. Well, of course, it's also because the number of titles coming out in a single season seems to be ever increasing too.. |
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Blanchimont
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Could be intentional, the art in the manga adaptation is very barebones... |
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You must not have been a fan long enough to remember the moe boom which emerged in the mid-to-late 2000s, then. Proportionately-speaking, that trend was about as ubiquitous as the current isekai trend is, though its broader applicability spread it out across wider variety of genres. |
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Shay Guy
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DamianSalazar
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Summer's looking pretty dry. There's Bleach and JJK, two shows I have no interest in watching, several light novel adaptations, and Zom 100, which I'm interested to see how everything pans out.
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Xavon
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This is a cute story. The world building elements and reason for dungeon diving is very unique and fun. And the MC is not as overpowered as the name implies.
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XSp
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xD Funny you say that, I almost made a mention about the Moe boom in my comment... but it just wasn't as consistent and specific like this isekai trend, as you say. I was very much a fan during the moe days... xD I'm from the Nico Nico Douga Kumikyoku generation. xD But I didn't mention it partly because there just weren't this many titles being released every season, but also because the underlying themes were more diverse. Moe was more about the artstyle which still broadly exists to this day, but even back then you still had a bit more variety with the setting, general backstory, characters, etc. I guess the main genre of moe would be everyday life school comedy perhaps? Lucky Star, Haruhi and K-ON being the main representatives, perhaps? Just that other than that, it's hard to identify much about it, right? To this day, despite being a huge fan during the trend, and having all sorts of discussions around the theme, I still find it hard to classify one anime as moe versus some other classification. An artstyle that is cuter than animes from the 90s, which I'm also a fan of, is the most I can come up with. Generally with themes that are tamer and more... wholesome perhaps? Even so, during the moe boom I quite remember still having a mix of shoujo anime or artstyle, mecha, styles more reminiscent to 90s anime, and a good mix all around. You could even say that there was no moe boom, it was more like a moe panic. I think the whole thing got blown out of proportion because of a vocal crowd that hated moe style anime, particular fans of 90s and earlier animes, that had a very selective view because they could only mention classic titles such as Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, or the main shonen animes like DBZ, Full Metal, One Piece, Naruto and whatnot to complain about Haruhi, Lucky Star and K-ON. It wasn't as bad as complainers were putting it, it's just that there was a huge selective bias operating there. At the same time, the moe style had legions of fans who would not stop talking about it, so the two sides clashed and the thing became a panic/war taken out of proportions. There is a good exercise to understand what I'm talking about for anyone who is interested in this... pick any year between 2000 and 2010 or whatever period you think the moe boom happened, go into Wikipedia and search for that year "in anime". It gives you a non comprehensive but overall complete list of titles that were airing. You'll see how most of it wasn't moe. Chances are, in general terms, the range of themes and styles were more varied than even today, despite 10x or more titles being released every season. |
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Cryten
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I think that was because Moe became incorporated as standard styling in anime. Where as Isekai is a specific set of tropes. It will be clear when the isekai trend ends. But Moe has been part of anime since before the boom (Air being an example, arguably Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon as well) and has been a major way of designing characters since KyoAni codified the soft designed cute look. After all it just means making appealing anime girls of the cute and sexy variety, or sometimes just plain super cute depending on how broad your definition is.
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Slim Reaper
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Yeah I 100% believe it's the overused tropes that contribute to the general dislike, and ironically, overwhelming success of the genre. The majority of isekai seem to pull from the same RPG-lite/high-fantasy hat, with only minor differences in execution. Some offer more worldbuilding and geopolitical awareness while others focus more on a combat system and how over-powered their protagonist can become. On the rare occasion you might get a good balance of the two, but the overall ideas tend to be the same. Person wakes up in a new world and proceeds to preform a constant series of incredible feats. That's the hook and people eat it up every time.
Oddly enough, isekai was more creative in the 90's than it is now. You had great shows like Escaflowne, Dual! PTA, Inuyasha, El Hazard, Now and Then, Here and There. Sort of the same hook, but a greater variety of settings and themes. Not sure when and why it was all relegated to the RPG fantasy stuff, but I do hope we'll get back to that creative point some day. |
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Rob49152
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I've been reading the manga for a while and I didn't even recognize this as the same story that's how average the animation is. It wasn't until the slime turned into a bag of beansprouts and made me think 'Oh.. it's like that manga I've was reading... wait a minute...'
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