Forum - View topicINTEREST: New Manga Imagines Expert Pharmacist Reborn into Fantasy World
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AksaraKishou
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I wanna see a "Reborn as Donald Trump". Would be a fun read.
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Spike Terra
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Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not an isekai protagonist
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Karasu-Lacryma
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Huh. Wonder if a trend involving isekai protagonists based off various professions is incoming. Willing to bet money that one about a struggling mangaka reborn is coming out soon.
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Top Gun
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Gonna have to go with "what" here.
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harminia
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I feel like I've seen that before, though I wouldn't be able to remember what the series was called or anything. |
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switchgear1131
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Are things really shitty in Japan right now that this time of escapism has become so popular? I realize most of this is just attempts at creators, editors, anime production teams attempting to cash in on the coat tails of the SAOs, Re:zeros and Konosubas out there, but it is starting to get ridiculous. When will the bubble burst?
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maximilianjenus
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until someone comes up wiht something new; I was just reading isekai usagi drop and the worse thing about it s that it is good.
[EDIT] I hope this becomes a thing, I like this way of presenting new, non licensed japanese works. |
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Joe Mello
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<like> |
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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I'm glad you like it! Here are a couple of our other manga spotlights from Interest: New Manga Explores Dietary Habits of a NEET: animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-03-03/new-manga-explores-dietary-habits-of-a-neet/.112804 Your Forgotten Goldfish is Back for Vengeance in Shibuya Kingyo Manga: http://4NN.cx/.112561 70-Year-Old Mother Gives Birth in Newly Published Manga: http://4NN.cx/.112099 Girls Baseball Web Manga Hits It Out of the Park: http://4NN.cx/.111641 Web Manga Discusses Problem of Parent–Child Relations in Japan: http://4NN.cx/.111113 Manga Anthology Showcases the World of Canned Meat: http://4NN.cx/.110403 |
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leafy sea dragon
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Isekai? That's what they're called? I noticed they became so common as to become a genre in its own right, but how long has that name been around?
Well, if Quantum Leap gets remade, that could certainly happen. |
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Ashen Phoenix
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Okay, you just won the Internet, my friend lmao This sounds like it could be an interesting twist. |
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Mr Sinister
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Yup. Things must be really shitty cause they are making things that you don't like. |
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leafy sea dragon
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The point of the statement is that escapist fantasy becomes more popular when people get weary of the real world. Escapism becomes a sort of wish fulfillment, playing on people's desires to go to another world without the troubles and worries they face in life. It's not specific to isekai or anything in Japan, for that matter. J.R.R. Tolkien and the Disney Animated Canon found their ground during the Great Depression. Superhero films and geek chic reached their peak during the Great Recession. And in general, science fiction, fantasy, and video games caught on first among nerds and geeks, the social groups who grew up traditionally picked on, and remained in their realm for decades before they were deemed acceptable for the mainstream to consume. (One can argue that video games, due to their computer-based nature, had to appeal to computer nerds first by nature, but video games were considered geeky and dorky long after they became user-friendly enough for anyone to play them.) I would say that anime, which appeals to the hikikomori, the herbivores, the NEETs, and other groups of societally marginalized and frustrated people, has been playing to escapism for a long time. The isekai genre is simply the latest to catch on and the one that's the most obviously escapist in nature. |
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Kadmos1
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They could reinforce the immigration policies of being coming to the "isekai" lands illegally. |
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