Title. I don’t follow the anime communities anymore so take it with a grain of salt.

And I swear every popular one is either trying to become viral due a meme or being the same “I’m a loser yet I fell inside my toilet and discovered a new world full of breedable elfs” type… Hell, I bet that’s the actual title of the show.

Also they ALL LOOK THE SAME character art style wise, you know the same pretty clean “digital” style made popular probably by No Game No Life 10 years ago. Yes, I’m sure there’s a hidden 💎 there, it’s always like that but I’m not talking about that 0.5 percent.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 months ago

    being the same “I’m a loser yet I fell inside my toilet and discovered a new world full of breedable elfs” type

    Isekai?

    Isekai (Japanese: 異世界 transl. ‘different world’, ‘another world’, or ‘other world’) is a subgenre of portal fantasy. It includes novels, light novels, films, manga, anime, and video games that revolve around a displaced person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world such as a fantasy world, game world, or parallel universe with or without the possibility of returning to their original world. Isekai is one of the most popular genres of anime, and isekai stories share many common tropes – for example, a powerful protagonist who is able to beat most people in the other world by fighting. This plot device typically allows the audience to learn about the new world at the same pace as the protagonist over the course of their quest or lifetime.[1] If the main characters are transported to a game-like world, the genre can overlap with LitRPG.

    The concept of isekai started in Japanese folktales, such as Urashima Tarō. However, the first modern isekai works were Haruka Takachiho’s novel Warrior from Another World and Yoshiyuki Tomino’s television series Aura Battler Dunbine.

    I mean, I reckon “breedable” would be an adult sub-genre…