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Message: [QUOTE="trickybus, post: 79783, member: 239542"] This is the first time I've heard either of those referred to as isekai and I'm curious as to how they fit the description when the endings for both imply the girls were dreaming. Isekai is an anime sub-genre. As such, it's much older than either of those works because the literary source is old Japanese folklore (cira the 1600s) that focuses on people being whisked away to magical realms by magical creatures. And when I say 'whisked away to magical realms" I mean physically taken there. A common ending for those folktales is that when the person returns to their home, they don't recognize it and no one recognizes them because hundreds of years have passed while they were away. Implying that a genre of Japanese media originated in the West is a really weird take. [/QUOTE]

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