Hot take: Harry Potter isn't as blatant as future isekai, like it straddles the line between "isekai" and more general "Chosen One narratives" But it's the world's most popular isekai https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1272191907414913024 …
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And so people read them expecting a sort of proto-Twilight but the lineage for the first few books is much more a sort of mix between Tom Brown's Schooldays and Captain Underpants.
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Which is not to say "they're for kids, they're not supposed to be good" but that they're for younger kids, and based on younger kids books, than most people think.
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Oh, I contextualize it in British children's literature. The whole opening section of Philosopher's Stone is a Roald Dahl novel with capering cartoon grotesques of baddies as 2D 'fatties.' And then she tries to turn that into a c19th bidungsroman
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The Durselys are VERY Dahl-esque. Not quite The Twits but clearly of that mould.
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