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NEWS: The Water Magician Isekai Novels Get TV Anime in July




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MFrontier



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Well, elf waifu Kaede Hondo is nice...
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Spreadsheet updated. Yep, I'm still doing this.
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I was a lapsed anime fan through the 2010s and it's incredible to me that there's still enough stories out there to keep churning out so many isekai stories every season. This bubble has to burst eventually, right?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:55 am Reply with quote
Nionel wrote:
I was a lapsed anime fan through the 2010s and it's incredible to me that there's still enough stories out there to keep churning out so many isekai stories every season. This bubble has to burst eventually, right?


Not really, at some point we may get less of them but it is probably a permanent genre by this point with atleast a few anime every season.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:42 am Reply with quote
Nionel wrote:
I was a lapsed anime fan through the 2010s and it's incredible to me that there's still enough stories out there to keep churning out so many isekai stories every season. This bubble has to burst eventually, right?


Honestly after reading various Korean webnovels and webtoons, it feels like there is a very large untapped amount of isekai stories. While obviously there are still plenty of poor stories, there are quite a few that simply feel better and more interesting than what I've been seeing coming out of the Japanese market of late.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:30 am Reply with quote
smurky turkey wrote:
Nionel wrote:
I was a lapsed anime fan through the 2010s and it's incredible to me that there's still enough stories out there to keep churning out so many isekai stories every season. This bubble has to burst eventually, right?


Not really, at some point we may get less of them but it is probably a permanent genre by this point with at least a few anime every season.


The bubble won't burst, it will simple fade into the background as another trend takes hold, and everyone will complain about that one. Before Isekai, there was 'Moe", and everyone complained about it too at its height.

On topic through, I like the Water Magician light novels and manga, kinda surprised it is going anime now. Didn't think there was enough material for a full season. Perhaps there is a significant gap between the english light novels and the japanese light novels.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 1:20 pm Reply with quote
TarsTarkas wrote:
On topic through, I like the Water Magician light novels and manga, kinda surprised it is going anime now. Didn't think there was enough material for a full season. Perhaps there is a significant gap between the english light novels and the japanese light novels.


It says in the article there's eleven novels, but even in English, there's already three out, which is what the average anime covers.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:59 pm Reply with quote
Nionel wrote:
I was a lapsed anime fan through the 2010s and it's incredible to me that there's still enough stories out there to keep churning out so many isekai stories every season. This bubble has to burst eventually, right?


For the love of all that's holy, I sure hope so, but as each year goes by, I start to lose faith this blessed event will ever happen.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:27 pm Reply with quote
Nionel wrote:
I was a lapsed anime fan through the 2010s and it's incredible to me that there's still enough stories out there to keep churning out so many isekai stories every season. This bubble has to burst eventually, right?


Isekai as a genre aside, I'll believe the WN anime bubble has burst when the number of yellow entries on my spreadsheet ("anime announced, but not yet aired") starts decreasing from one year to the next.
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The hatred some of you have for isekai really strikes me as being the same as hatred for sports anime, or mecha anime, or BL anime.
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