It's either that or it's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
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But look "portal fantasy" and "isekai" aren't the same thing Yeah Narnia and Thomas Covenant and a fuckton of shit are about "person from our world goes to fantasy world" But isekai is specifically about the wish fulfillment, "what makes me a loser on Earth makes me a hero now"
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Like shit if I had to explain to an older American nerd what the Japanese light novel genre "isekai" means in summary I'd just say "Last Starfighter stories"
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That's really, really hairsplitting
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...isn't this pretty considerably predated by A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court? And probably more stories even before that?
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I'd personally sat the Narnia books are closer to the modern isekai genera. Though mostly in basic structure, rather than in what kind of fantasy they're trying to cater to.
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No no no that's my whole point "Isekai" and "portal fantasy" aren't the same thing at all, if anything the former is a subset of the latter, but I don't think an isekai even has to be a portal fantasy, like you can really obviously make one that's a masquerade fantasy
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I mean A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is right there.
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It's not the same thing because the Yankee was a cool successful guy in his own world before the portal
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