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MFrontier
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 Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:19 pm
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Well, elf waifu Kaede Hondo is nice...
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:39 pm
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Nionel
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:13 am
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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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smurky turkey
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:55 am
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| 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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RenimLS
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:42 am
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| 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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TarsTarkas
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:30 am
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| 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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Andrew Cunningham
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 1:20 pm
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| 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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Blood-
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:59 pm
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| 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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Shay Guy
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:27 pm
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| 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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CelticMutt
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:50 pm
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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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InfiniteNothingness
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:45 pm
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I sincerely really appreciate that you do this, and seeing the spreadsheet as it is, is one of the things I anticipate every new season (even if it gets updated asap). I've actually independently gone back to check on it for my own convenience and personal purposes.
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Gisan Otaku
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:28 am
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After this article was posted, I started to read the web novel. It is a little slow going so far, but I expect some condensing for the anime. It is nice to see an isekai MC have to figure everything out for himself (note the loin cloth and spear in the video) rather than get a massive info dump and world cheating skills right up front. The WN has 770 episodes and is on going, so I expect July will get here before I catch up to the end.
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Fluwm
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:14 pm
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I've read some of the light novel, and I can at least say that as far as bog-standard isekais go, this is one of the more tolerable ones. Yes, it adheres to a lot of the usual tropes, but it avoids most of the ickier ones (no harem, no slavery) and the protagonist actually has a bit of personality, which is... rare.
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Cryten
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:12 pm
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So its a tolerable to good source. Question is will it be a tolerable to good adaptation.
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tsog
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:32 pm
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| Quote: | | Tadashi Kubō and Nokito's The Water Magician (Mizuzokusei no Mahōtsukai) light novel series |
This LN actually switched illustrators not once, but twice. Official anime site credits Amano Hana with the original illustrations, as opposed to Nokito or Mebaru.
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