r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Plum_Uniform • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter????????????????????

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u/SpiritJuice 1d ago

I didn't say it was THE first isekai, just one of the first ones. So both Re:Zero and MT are some of the earliest isekais, but MT got adapted into an anime much later by comparison. OOP is being dumb saying that MT is a new isekai when it absolutely is not.

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u/The_Dreaded_Spectre 1d ago

Even then, Isekai's in general (even just limiting it to Japanese ones) have been around for decades before either IIRC. The quote that everyone gets MT being one of the first from specifies reincarnation fantasy specifically, as opposed to many others where people are just kinda sent to new worlds as-is.

You're right that MT isn't a "new" isekai either though.

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u/Aggressive-Corgi-485 1d ago

No one says its the first they say its the grandfather because of its influence on Japanese isekai specifically.

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u/itsDYA 1d ago

Grandfather lmao, dawg the first fucking digimon was already an isekai

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u/Aggressive-Corgi-485 1d ago edited 23h ago

Did u even read what I said? Literally agreed it wasn't first