mind if I share a hypothesis I have about the isekai genre? lol just kidding this is MY twitter feed, I don't need your fucking permission
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But I mean, it hasn't always been like that? Hitomi Kanzaki wasn't a NEET. She wasn't an otaku. She was pretty much a bog-standard Bella Swan type character. Sword Art Online seemed to refocus the attention on male gamers specifically.
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Anyway I'm thinking about this in the context of the anime/manga/light novel series I continue to obsess over, MY NEXT LIFE AS A VILLAINESS, and how it kind of reconstructs the classical isekai format and reintroduces femininity into the narrative in a very interesting way
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Like, the series is a kludge of various genres, it's not a "pure" isekai, but that's obviously the genre it most specifically draws from, and the female protagonist is clearly motivated by the trauma of a life ended prematurely and the people she left behind, never to se again
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That is literally the whole point. She died at the age of seventeen and found the experience so traumatizing that she literally dedicates the rest of her life to making sure she never experiences that sense of loss a second time. She's a goofball but she DOES feel that hurt?
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And the narrative specifically doesn't treat her past self as totally disconnected from her world. Like, it is made really clear that when she was died, she was mourned by her loved ones and many of them never completely got over it for the rest of their lives. It's refreshing
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Like it's weird that such a silly and ridiculous series would be the one to unpack these kind of grim realities of the genre conventions but that's kind of why I love it There is something really honest and sincere buried here and it's really such an unusual thing to see
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Does SAO count? Because I always thought that the key growth was that Kirito finally learning to trust others?
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SAO was definitely kind of a transitional work, Kirito definitely felt pain at being trapped in the game world
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Isekai but it's one of the guys who are protesting to reopen businesses, he's totally lost without indoor plumbing and TGI Fridays.
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