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RareAcumen posted:Gonna invoke the dreaded 'y-word' here Escaflowne, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles. There might be more, but drawing blanks right now.
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RareAcumen posted:Gonna invoke the dreaded 'y-word' here Escaflowne is one of the best animes ever made. Girl goes to the planet of magical giant robots. "Now and then, here and there", very good but takes itself a bit to seriously. Boy goes to steampunk nazi-germany. There is Rayearth and at least one other very big Shojo series. There is also a old series with as many readaptions in alternate timelines as Tenchi Muyo. Kinda funny, but also mostly generic fantasy harem stuff. Though the MCs teacher is also isekaied and ends up in a very wholesome love story. But, I forgot the name.
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Jul 12, 2023 18:54
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RareAcumen posted:Gonna invoke the dreaded 'y-word' here Twelve Kingdoms comes to mind.
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Jul 12, 2023 19:03
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VictualSquid posted:There is also a old series with as many readaptions in alternate timelines as Tenchi Muyo. Kinda funny, but also mostly generic fantasy harem stuff. Though the MCs teacher is also isekaied and ends up in a very wholesome love story. But, I forgot the name. El Hazard, maybe?
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Fenrisulfr posted:El Hazard, maybe? Right, that was it.
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RareAcumen posted:Gonna invoke the dreaded 'y-word' here Slayers isn't an isekai at all, as far as I remember. It's just a standard fantasy story where all the characters are from the fantasy world. Fushigi Yuugi is another classic isekai anime though.
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A lot of the Clamp series
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Speaking of not-actually-isekai stories though, today I'm going to talk about the webtoon Dear Nemesis. Basically it's one of those time travel stories where the character goes back in time to when they were a child and uses their knowledge of the future to change their life, which imo occupies the same genre as novel reincarnation isekais because of how they play out with knowing the "plot" ahead of time. Plot: The wicked countess finally achieves victory over her hated nemesis the duke, assassinating him with a poisoned glass of wine, which leaves no one left to stand in her way. But as she shares a celebratory drink with her co-conspirator, she blacks out and wakes up 20 years ago as a 10 year old girl. On the day her twin brother died in an accident, which cleared a path for her to take the title of count for herself. But as she's agonizing over whether to save her brother this time or to let him die again to serve her ambitions, fate is taken out of her hands when the young duke shows up out of nowhere, saves her brother, and requests a contract engagement from her, in exchange for helping her take the title of countess some other way. What I find most interesting about this one is that while usually these stories are about people who die tragically and use this knowledge to try to improve their future, in this case the girl has no idea why she went back in time, only that it happened right after her victory. So from her point of view, the old future was the good one, and she has no reason to change her wicked ways except now she's back to square one and has to figure out how to get it to happen again despite the changes that have already been made. Speaking of which, it's hardly a spoiler after that summary, but the duke also went back in time, and is trying to change things so she doesn't become a villainess this time. Also, well, she may not have been particularly aware of what was actually happening in the future, so instead of just using her knowledge of the future to cheat, she's more often held back by her misconceptions and biases that prevent her from seeing things objectively. Also there's some fun bickering between her and her fiance who she hates but has to pretend she fell in love with at first sight.
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 B-Rank Adventurer with a Bad Guy Face is still very early, but kinda cute. (2 chapters, will apparently start being weekly in later july, per the scanlators.) Guy realizes he's a miniboss(Or atleast some generic mook?), goes 'gently caress that' and takes up adventuring instead. Then stumbles over the protag of the game as an orphan, way before the game starts. A shame there are so few chapters out, I'm curious where it's heading. 
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i read the wn for a bit but it very quickly started to give off rather menacing usagi drop vibes.
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VictualSquid posted:Escaflowne is one of the best animes ever made. Girl goes to the planet of magical giant robots. Clarste posted:Slayers isn't an isekai at all, as far as I remember. It's just a standard fantasy story where all the characters are from the fantasy world. Fushigi Yuugi is another classic isekai anime though. Right I completely blocked out Escaflowne beyond that people love it. Interesting to learn that Slayers was just a straight up fantasy though. Since so many isekai tend to have that kind of setting I must've thrown that one in the mix too in my head at some point.
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There's an old joke (?) that Slayers is a tabletop rpg party, but the setting is real in-universe and there are no stats or levels or anything
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mycot posted:There's an old joke (?) that Slayers is a tabletop rpg party, but the setting is real in-universe and there are no stats or levels or anything The joke I've heard is that Lodoss War is the grand elic RPG adventure you build in your head and Slayers is how it plays out in actuality.
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with slayers, it's a bit uneven because one player made a completely optimized character and the rest went for rp builds.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:with slayers, it's a bit uneven because one player made a completely optimized character and the rest went for rp builds. Lina is the joke wizard who only casts fireball made manifest.
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Megumin is a highly evolved form of Lina
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RareAcumen posted:Gonna invoke the dreaded 'y-word' here Escaflowne, 12 Kingdoms, Fushigi Yuugi, El Hazard, there's a ton of old isekai even in anime. A lot of people ignored them though, because they were largely a shoujo thing. Slayers was NOT an isekai, though. Ish. Until Slayers Light Magic, where Lina got isekai'd into another world, anyway.
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Guyver posted:Lina is the joke wizard who only casts fireball made manifest. Nah she's the one who maxed out damage output at the expense of massive collateral damage making the reward moot.
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Everyone really going to talk old isekai and not mention Aura Battler Dunbine or God Mazinger?
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doomrider7 posted:The joke I've heard is that Lodoss War is the grand elic RPG adventure you build in your head and Slayers is how it plays out in actuality. Lodoss War was actual RPG sessions, only everyone involved were professional writers and knew that the "recap" would be published in a magazine to help sell the idea of role playing games.
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Clarste posted:Speaking of not-actually-isekai stories though, today I'm going to talk about the webtoon Dear Nemesis. Thanks for this. It's an interesting spin on the genre. Read the first 2 chapters and have a feeling her previous lover groomed her to be countess and then poisoned her during the victory celebration. Hopefully it's more nuanced than that but either way the premise is enough to keep me interested for now.
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7c Nickel posted:Lodoss War was actual RPG sessions, only everyone involved were professional writers and knew that the "recap" would be published in a magazine to help sell the idea of role playing games. I knew it was an actual RPG session, I didn't know they were already writers though. Interesting.
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Red River is about a teen girl going back to ancient Egypt. There’s also a kid’s cartoon that I remember watching—google says Spider Riders?—that’s pretty much isekai
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thetoughestbean posted:Red River is about a teen girl going back to ancient Egypt. Anatolia is the focus. Though there are some shenanigans in Egypt.
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Rubix Squid posted:Anatolia is the focus. Though there are some shenanigans in Egypt. That’s right. Not sure where I got the Egypt idea from
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thetoughestbean posted:That’s right. Not sure where I got the Egypt idea from Crest of the Royal Family which is about a girl being transported to Egypt. Edit: It's been running since 1976 and has not yet ended. doomrider7 fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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thetoughestbean posted:That’s right. Not sure where I got the Egypt idea from That would probably be Ramses's fault. Egypt does become a pretty big deal in the story if I recall correctly.
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Swilo posted:Twelve Kingdoms comes to mind. I always mention this, but anyone who hasn't watched it really needs to do so. It just sucks you in and is genuinely interesting in a way most stories don't pull off. Another isekai that comes to mind (but that I haven't actually watched) is Fushigi Yuugi. Older isekai almost always had female protagonists (I actually wonder exactly why this is). Edit: Also someone mentioned Now and Then Here and There. I thought this was amazing as a teenager, but I feel like I probably wouldn't like it quite as much now (like that other poster mentioned, it takes itself very seriously). Edit2: Mentioning this here just because I can't think of any place better, but I was just looking at some Youtube clip of the part in 12 Kingdoms where Shoukei's family is executed, and someone in the comments has written multiple paragraphs about how, actually, the king wasn't wrong to execute starving children for stealing bread, and that maybe he had no choice but to execute 300,000 people in the last year. Probably one of the most deranged comments I've seen on that website, and that's really saying something. Literally justifying executing starving children, jesus christ Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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Now and then, was my first anime that dealt with serious issues
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Now and then was relentless with absolutely relentless with how bleak the story and setting was and how the MC being a typical shonen protag in mindset was just not jelling with such a harsh environment but god dammit he was too stubborn and stupid to stop trying. Having only recently gotten cable it was incredibly jarring compared to the anime aired on saturday mornings on Fox Kids or Kids WB. Hilariously I also remember that Escaflowne got the Fox censorship treatment and I don't think the edited series was completely aired either.
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With Escaflowne they tried the classic "editing because we know better" to try and make Vaan the protagonist instead of Hitomi and there was some editing for content they also deemed unsuitable for Saturday mornings (mostly relationship stuff). It's a shame because Escaflowne is a good show and it wasn't until recently it got a dub that wasn't the butchered Fox version.
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Ytlaya posted:Another isekai that comes to mind (but that I haven't actually watched) is Fushigi Yuugi. Older isekai almost always had female protagonists (I actually wonder exactly why this is). I thought this said that isekai series almost always had older protagonists, which sounded interesting. There’s one I can’t remember the name of but the main character’s mother was a former isekai hero, and is being called back to duty, despite the trauma and all.
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Antitonic posted:I thought this said that isekai series almost always had older protagonists, which sounded interesting. There’s one I can’t remember the name of but the main character’s mother was a former isekai hero, and is being called back to duty, despite the trauma and all. https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/the-fabled-warrior/list?title_no=3179
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That’s the one! Only had like two or three chapters last I saw, so interested in checking it out further now.
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It's been on a hiatus for a while, but a new group's picked up The Mochi I Drew is Tasty Today Too, so I figured I'd mention it.quote:Tougo is a high school student who loves drawing more than anything. One day, he woke up in a deep forest filled with vegetations he had never seen before... It's not all in color, these are just the first two pages and they set up the story well enough.  
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Trying to remember an isekai where the MC is reborn as a side character son of the gardener and spends his time just chilling making friends with the noble daughter and getting her to be nicer. It was quite nice.
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doomrider7 posted:Trying to remember an isekai where the MC is reborn as a side character son of the gardener and spends his time just chilling making friends with the noble daughter and getting her to be nicer. It was quite nice.
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Nihilarian posted:https://mangadex.org/title/e279d973-e1dd-4cfc-b643-fda857b6f4a0/otome-game-no-mob-desura-naindaga Thanks much.👍
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