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Aloc
04/19/23 6:51:57 AM
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Or adjacent?

The Wizarding world and Hogwarts are still part of earth yes. But its very very different and almost like stepping in fantasy world.

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DKBananaSlamma
04/19/23 6:53:11 AM
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By that logic, you can say every piece of media is an isekai.

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Aloc
04/19/23 6:54:45 AM
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DKBananaSlamma posted...
By that logic, you can say every piece of media is an isekai.
Well no. Isekai needs to he scifi or fantasy specifically.

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yunalenne10
04/19/23 6:58:16 AM
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He doesn't die before being transported there, so no.
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Aloc
04/19/23 6:59:15 AM
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yunalenne10 posted...
He doesn't die before being transported there, so no.
You dont need to die for it to be an isekai. There's also the trend of summonings

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Doom_Art
04/19/23 6:59:21 AM
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Given that the Wizarding World exists within our own world and is integrated with our own society and culture (to a point) I'd say it doesn't qualify as one.

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Ricemills
04/19/23 7:00:01 AM
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Aloc posted...
Well no. Isekai needs to he scifi or fantasy specifically.

Isekai is "another world"

If you think the wizardoms are separated from muggles's world, yeah it can construe as an isekai.

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Aloc
04/19/23 7:00:12 AM
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Doom_Art posted...
Given that the Wizarding World exists within our own world and is integrated with our own society and culture (to a point) I'd say it doesn't qualify as one.
But it is adjacent i think.

Like. It has the isekai feel. Hell SAO and Dot hack are isekai. They take part in the real world.

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Mistere_Man
04/19/23 7:03:18 AM
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Aloc posted...
But it is adjacent i think.

Like. It has the isekai feel. Hell SAO and Dot hack are isekai. They take part in the real world.
In a virtual reality worlds separate from the real world.

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Aloc
04/19/23 7:05:05 AM
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Mistere_Man posted...
In a virtual reality worlds separate from the real world.
Its not digimon lol where the digital monsters can actually invade lol

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Doom_Art
04/19/23 7:07:08 AM
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Aloc posted...
But it is adjacent i think.
Sure but it's not "another world". It's our world, just with a few hidden bits.

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Ricemills
04/19/23 7:08:32 AM
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Aloc posted...
Its not digimon lol where the digital monsters can actually invade lol

There's a lot of isekai where the original world and the other world are connected.
Like in Gate, JSDF are having a war in the other world with tanks and jets supplied from the other side.

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_____Cait
04/19/23 7:12:03 AM
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Why are people obsessed with labelling isekais now?

This isnt a Japanese thing either, this is as old as fiction itself. Didnt Japan start noticing it because of Alice in Wodnerland?

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DKBananaSlamma
04/19/23 7:17:53 AM
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Aloc posted...
You dont need to die for it to be an isekai. There's also the trend of summonings
But dying or getting hit by a bus is literally what defines isekai

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Nukazie
04/19/23 7:19:08 AM
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Aloc posted...
You dont need to die for it to be an isekai. There's also the trend of summonings
is there an isekai where the MC gets summoned to another world but gets killed immediately and returns to the real world

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Holy_Cloud105
04/19/23 7:20:30 AM
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DKBananaSlamma posted...
But dying or getting hit by a bus is literally what defines isekai
No it's not. The most famous isekai and the one that started the trend is Sword Art Online where they got stuck in the game for 2 years. .hack//SIGN also did it where Tsukasa was stuck in the game too and came out roughly around the same time as SAO.

People started doing the dying or getting hit by a bus because they wanted to do it differently from SAO.

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Holy_Cloud105
04/19/23 7:24:18 AM
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Nukazie posted...
is there an isekai where the MC gets summoned to another world but gets killed immediately and returns to the real world
Kind of. There's an 18+ (hentai) manga where the MC gets isekai'd and when he dies in that world he returns back to the real world. In order to go back again he has to almost die again. If he dies in his world then he'll also die in the other world.

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Aloc
04/19/23 7:29:45 AM
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Holy_Cloud105 posted...
Kind of. There's an 18+ (hentai) manga where the MC gets isekai'd and when he dies in that world he returns back to the real world. In order to go back again he has to almost die again. If he dies in his world then he'll also die in the other world.
Parallel paradise.

Basically he's the only man in that world and when he touches a woman they start to make...a lot of liquid.

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Ricemills
04/19/23 7:34:43 AM
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Is Inuyasha Isekai or Time Travel?

Heck, Dragon ball could be an isekai too because on how the time travel works, they're not travelling to their past but to another world with different timeline.

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Holy_Cloud105
04/19/23 7:40:39 AM
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Inuyasha counts yeah. That's not the main premise of Dragonball so it's not an Isekai.

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Kloe_Rinz
04/19/23 7:41:41 AM
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scifi isekai? ive only heard of fntasy isekai

what is a good scifi isekai
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DuneMan
04/19/23 9:26:53 AM
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The core for isekai is in the name 'another world'. Harry Potter isn't isekai as there isn't any form of transmigration from one world to another.

As for sci-fi isekai, I'm vaguely aware of things that sound like they'd fit the bill, but I haven't read them myself. Things like a guy waking up and suddenly piloting some Andromeda-style ship. I think there's another where a guy ends up as a galactic emperor.

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Aloc
04/19/23 10:07:53 AM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...
scifi isekai? ive only heard of fntasy isekai

what is a good scifi isekai
Digimon

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Kimbos_Egg
04/19/23 10:09:02 AM
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no.

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s0nicfan
04/19/23 10:13:59 AM
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It's in that grey area of isekai, sort of like the greed Island Arc of Hunter x Hunter. It does involve a character being whisked away to a world that they are unfamiliar with, filled with magic and other fantastical things that are not part of the mundane world, and the character has to learn the mechanics of the world while also dealing with the fact that they're special in some way. It sounds like a pretty textbook isekai.

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Ricemills
04/19/23 10:58:36 AM
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Star Ocean series is Sci-Fi isekai, ain't it?

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Kimbos_Egg
04/19/23 11:00:51 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
It's in that grey area of isekai, sort of like the greed Island Arc of Hunter x Hunter. It does involve a character being whisked away to a world that they are unfamiliar with, filled with magic and other fantastical things that are not part of the mundane world, and the character has to learn the mechanics of the world while also dealing with the fact that they're special in some way. It sounds like a pretty textbook isekai.

no it isn't.

its not another world. its not an "isekai"

You people really need to look up words meanings before you use them.

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Kim_Seong-a
04/19/23 11:02:11 AM
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The wizarding world is too integrated into the real world for it to really count imo.

Halloweentown is closer to isekai than Harry Potter is iirc >_>

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Poorly
04/19/23 11:05:12 AM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
The wizarding world is too integrated into the real world for it to really count imo.

Halloweentown is closer to isekai than Harry Potter is iirc >_>
7 3/4 separate hogarth from the London world

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s0nicfan
04/19/23 11:40:42 AM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
no it isn't.

its not another world. its not an "isekai"

You people really need to look up words meanings before you use them.

VR isn't "another world" either, but that's like half the genre. Inuyasha is considered one even though kagome can come and go as she pleases and thus isn't "trapped". A genre is more than the literal translation of the word used to describe it. Did you also know that action movies have dialogue and comedies have sad parts?

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Homeless_Waifu
04/19/23 11:42:11 AM
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yunalenne10 posted...
He doesn't die before being transported there, so no.
Or gender swapp

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Kimbos_Egg
04/19/23 11:43:32 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
VR isn't "another world" either, but that's like half the genre. Inuyasha is considered one even though kagome can come and go as she pleases and thus isn't "trapped". A genre is more than the literal translation of the word used to describe it. Did you also know that action movies have dialogue and comedies have sad parts?

" Isekai is a subgenre of fantasy in which a character is suddenly transported from their world into a new or unfamiliar one"

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Poorly
04/19/23 11:44:52 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
VR isn't "another world" either, but that's like half the genre. Inuyasha is considered one even though kagome can come and go as she pleases and thus isn't "trapped". A genre is more than the literal translation of the word used to describe it. Did you also know that action movies have dialogue and comedies have sad parts?
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Homeless_Waifu
04/19/23 11:45:11 AM
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Poorly posted...
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s0nicfan
04/19/23 11:46:18 AM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
" Isekai is a subgenre of fantasy in which a character is suddenly transported from their world into a new or unfamiliar one"

So then you don't count VR, or if the character willingly enters the new location and isn't transported "suddenly", or if they've heard of the other side before so it isn't unfamiliar, or if it's in a sci-fi setting because that isn't fantasy?

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St0rmFury
04/19/23 11:47:55 AM
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Are Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland isekai?

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Prestoff
04/19/23 11:48:48 AM
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It's not an Isekai, but it does have a lot of the Mary Sue tropes in both Isekai Harem's and Harry Potter.

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ElleRagu
04/19/23 11:49:07 AM
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St0rmFury posted...
Are Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland isekai?

yes

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s0nicfan
04/19/23 11:49:36 AM
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St0rmFury posted...
Are Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland isekai?

Sorry. Alice wasn't transported suddenly and since it was a dream it doesn't count. Alice, too, because it just a drug induced trip in a hole, because the Lord of definitions claims they don't literally fit the exact specifications of the literal translation of the word Isekai.

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Kimbos_Egg
04/19/23 11:53:45 AM
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St0rmFury posted...
Are Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland isekai?

wonderland is a dream, oz is a real place on earth in the book, so no.

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St0rmFury
04/19/23 11:55:11 AM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
wonderland is a dream, oz is a real place on earth in the book, so no.
Huh, guess not.

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Mistere_Man
04/19/23 1:53:33 PM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
wonderland is a dream, oz is a real place on earth in the book, so no.
Interesting I didnt know this, so I looked it up and found this map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz#/media/File:Oz-and-surrounding-countrie.jpg

I want to know more about the lands around it now like Land of EV, or Kingdom IX, and land of Gargoyles. They sound interesting.

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A_Good_Boy
04/19/23 1:56:55 PM
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Holy_Cloud105 posted...
Inuyasha counts yeah. That's not the main premise of Dragonball so it's not an Isekai.
Inuyasha isn't an isekai. Kagome isn't traveling to another world, she's just going to the past. If that were the case then Back to the Future would also be an isekai.

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ViewtifulJoe
04/19/23 2:07:56 PM
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No it's wrestling. He has to maintain kayfabe when he's living in the mark world or he'll go to wizards court and get hit 100 pureblood strikes.

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MorganTJ
04/19/23 2:46:22 PM
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Part of the isekai setting is that you're trapped in another world. Harry can go back during holidays, he just hates his muggle family. If you can go back and forth easily, it's not an isekai.

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Ricemills
04/19/23 3:28:48 PM
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MorganTJ posted...
Part of the isekai setting is that you're trapped in another world.

Not a requirement.
Plenty of isekai story has the MC goes back and forth.

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Ratchetrockon
04/19/23 3:36:35 PM
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It portal fantasy

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/9/AAZsuhAAEZeD.jpg

But I am relying on Google for this. It could be misinformation. I never heard of library ladies before

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Kimbos_Egg
04/19/23 5:23:23 PM
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Ratchetrockon posted...
It portal fantasy

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/9/AAZsuhAAEZeD.jpg

But I am relying on Google for this. It could be misinformation. I never heard of library ladies before

there is no difference between harry potters "world" and the muggle "world".

They are one in the same.

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MorganTJ
04/19/23 5:38:43 PM
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Ricemills posted...
Not a requirement.
Plenty of isekai story has the MC goes back and forth.
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