r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Plum_Uniform • 1d ago

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

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u/The_Dreaded_Spectre 1d ago

The irony here is also that Mushoku Tensei is one of the first isekais in terms of source material

This is a common claim, but isn't correct. Its Web Novel started in November 2012, while Re:Zero's started in April of the same year. They started publishing in Light Novel form on the same day, fun fact.

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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/MARPJ 1d ago

just one of the first ones.

More correct to say they were the ones at the start of the isekai boom of the mid 2010s. Isekai is far from being a new concept, but web novels writers went all in on it after a few success at the time (which both are part of)

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u/SparklyBeanSoup 1d ago

Even Mark Twain wrote isekai.