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Count Grishnackh said:
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vern said:
Anno and Khara have full rights for Eva and its up to them if they want to make a live action or not, the former has talked about opening up the franchise to other directors but that could be anything from anime spin offs, to Hollywood adaptations, to picking a random tokusatsu guy to make one in japan.
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perhaps rather than making another eva they could look into unmaking the last one

i'd unwatch that
 
Saaivas said:
I didn't read Psyren, but I remember how 13 years ago people were talking about it as THE manga that they wanted to be adapted. Is it actually that good? Because I'm sceptic towards isekai.
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Reread some of it awhile ago and it does hold up in places, others it clearly shows some off the downsides of late 00s shonen series. As for it being an isekai, probably won't be an issue since a) the main twist in volume 1 is the cast aren't being sent back and forth to another world but 10 years into the future so the series is split between fighting in the future and trying to find clues in the present to how said future and b) I'm assuming you asking about isekai your really asking if its anything like the overlay long LN titles filled with poorly implemented JRPG mechanics and tropes that's been plaguing anime for at least a decade and a half now, short answer no. I've said it before but just because there's a dozen or so minor troupes that get packaged with these LN isekai series that there's a handful of series that are isekai by the literal definition, i.e guy gets sent to another world, by aren't considered isekai because they don't have any of the normal calling cards, as well as a handful more series that are strictly fantasy with no japs or gooks squatting over in another world but are called isekai because they do, which is where the meme of native isekai came from.
 
vern said:
I've said it before but just because there's a dozen or so minor troupes that get packaged with these LN isekai series that there's a handful of series that are isekai by the literal definition, i.e guy gets sent to another world, by aren't considered isekai because they don't have any of the normal calling cards
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Alice in Wonderland, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Wizard of Oz, and Narnia are all, by definition, isekai.

We really need a better name for the LN-derived, JRPG-mechanics-inflicted, NEET Harem Slop genre.
 
Sog Dog said:
Alice in Wonderland, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Wizard of Oz, and Narnia are all, by definition, isekai.

We really need a better name for the LN-derived, JRPG-mechanics-inflicted, NEET Harem Slop genre.
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Isekai, like yeah "technically" it's just the japanese world for "another world" but we're not speaking in Japanese so we can use the world for this shit media genre.
 
"Isekai" is just a blanket term for "fantasy escapism with harem building". It is not describing only the content, but the audience: a fan of "Reincarnated as the Princess' Shoes" will not touch Magic Knight Rayearth, despite the later being about three girls teleported to another world to save it.

The jrpg terms were not even present at the beginning; I don't remember Zero no Tsukaima having those.
 
Red Dragon said:
"Isekai" is just a blanket term for "fantasy escapism with harem building". It is not describing only the content, but the audience: a fan of "Reincarnated as the Princess' Shoes" will not touch Magic Knight Rayearth, despite the later being about three girls teleported to another world to save it.

The jrpg terms were not even present at the beginning; I don't remember Zero no Tsukaima having those.
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What about Now And Then Here And There
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Isekai, like yeah "technically" it's just the japanese world for "another world" but we're not speaking in Japanese so we can use the world for this shit media genre.
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is it even an actual japanese genre or is this like "hentai" where, actually, you guys are just sounding retarded
 
Sog Dog said:
Alice in Wonderland, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Wizard of Oz, and Narnia are all, by definition, isekai.

We really need a better name for the LN-derived, JRPG-mechanics-inflicted, NEET Harem Slop genre.
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Isekai is a really broad concept. Digimon is isekai, for example. I usually just specify the shitty ones with "harem isekai slop" as that covers 99% of the bad ones. There are interesting isekai, but they are usually few and far between, and oftentimes don't get enough love since vidya harem isekai wish fulfillment slop #395 sells like hotcakes instead.

Of the modern isekai, there's only a handful that I think are pretty good, but the idea is so heavily overutilized for wish fulfillment garbage that I generally just avoid them as a rule at this point.
 
Sog Dog said:
We really need a better name for the LN-derived, JRPG-mechanics-inflicted, NEET Harem Slop genre.
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Actual Japanese people call this specific type of isekai slop (occasionally including non-isekai stuff that otherwise fits) "narou-kei", meaning "narou-type", which comes from the name of the website Shousetsuka ni Narou (Let's become a novelist) which is where most of these types of stories get their start as amateur fiction before being picked up by a publisher to be edited and printed and then get manga and anime adaptations.
 
Gimmick Account said:
is it even an actual japanese genre or is this like "hentai" where, actually, you guys are just sounding retarded
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Kind of, bookwalker has a tag called 異世界系作品 which I think is just isekai works and covers most of the isekai shit
https://bookwalker.jp/tag/1995/?order=rank
Although there are series where I question its validity since briefly scrolling through the first 20 pages or so I see a few I wouldn't consider isekai such as:
Goblin slayer
OPM
SLF
Naruto
Psyryn
Fariy Tale
Magi
Helck

There's probably a few other databases/online stores that have tags and what not, but that for someone who not only knows jap but can search the Internet with it to find if they have they own version of MAL or mangaupdates
 
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Psyren for me is in that category of manga that was famous during the serialization but there is ZERO staying power through the days alongside the likes of Black Cat and Samurai Deeper Kyo
 
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