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Old 03-09-2021, 06:15 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Okay, that looks like your John Carter of Mars/Spellsinger/Narnia kind of thing? I had not heard of it being a separate sub-genre before.
Isekai? The first isekai I see touted is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but it's really just a Japanese anime/manga/light novel thing. All those books, movies, comics, etc technically count and it's fine to include them I guess but isekai as a genre and not just a trope is really really defined by how it functions in Japanese pop culture.
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