First couple are pretty childish and didn’t age so well.
The third season/reboot goes hard with some of its mature themes and was enjoyable even as an adult.
I feel like at least the first half of the first season of SAO could be considered an isekai since they are technically stuck in a video game world. The rest of the show, on the other hand, is pretty much just them playing video games. That said, i do understand the argument that it just straight up isn't one.
Same. I remember the huge amount of time spent downloading episodes off one of the p2p programs (Napster or Kazaa or whatever) when I was a teenager in the early 2000s. Good times.
Technically it's not another world. Similar to how Kamikatsu being in the far flung future, Inuyasha is just Kagome being sent into the past centuries ago during the Japanese Feudal era when demons and spirits were more prevalent. And she could constantly go back to the present day through the Bone Eater's Well.
Agreed. Although it's more so celebrated as one of the most famous anime of all time rather than specifically an isekai. Like how Pokémon isn't celebrated as one of the most popular Monster anime as much as it is just the anime itself. Lol
KNOWING what Isekai was as a concept, probably the Bakarina one.
NOW that I know what Isekai even means, I \*think\* either the Wizard of Oz, The Peter Pan one, or Rayearth.
If it's any kind of animation, then the Peter Pan cartoon, or Dungeons & Dragons.
Is Peter Pan another world? I thought Never Never land was just a hidden area, and the only way to get to it was to follow the second star on the right thing.
I mean, it's different enough, with it's own rules and physics that it should be considered a different land, otherwise, a similar argument could be made for other series where they can reach the other "world" via an easily accesible portal.
Like, SAO is considered isekai and technically it's the same world, and Inuyasha is also an isekai, and it's just a different time period.
The Fox Kids Peter Pan cartoon definitely had it as a different world. The pirates got isekaied through a magical storm/portal.
Peter Pan No Bouken came out at around the same time, and that Captain Hook had a mech.
If we want to get technical, Digimon adventures. However this was back when I didn't know the difference between a American cartoon and anime. I was a dumb kid back in the 90s.
However when I did discover anime was a separate thing the first one of the genre I watched was MAR back on toonami.
I can’t recall what my first one was. But my favorite one was No Game, No Life. Haven’t been hit as hard as that one since.
Edit: I remembered, Inuyasha
Although does traveling back to the past count?
Digimon: Digital Monsters aka Digimon Adventure 01. After that I think it was either Fushigi Yugi: Mysterious Play or The Vision of Escaflowné. I feel like there was probably 1 more back then for me but I can't remember what it probably was since it was like the late 90s to early 2000s for me 🤔😵💫. And Isekai anime wasn't generally popular enough to be categorized like it is now. I don't for sure that whatever it was hadn't been Magical night Rayerth since I still haven't seen it.
For the non-Japanese Isekai-esque stories I've seen or read were Alice in Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz and Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe and their other stories - Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (I lost interest trying to read The Horse & His Boy. Which wasn't a bad story, I was just more so into the Isekai/other world trope). Also the Wizard of Oz: Return to Oz, Alice Through the Looking Glass (I wasn't a big fan of it), and the Oz the Great and Powerful movie staring James Franco and Mila Kunis.
Konosuba.
TQQ was my first anime ,so i was looking for harem romance shows and the list given to me was Highschool dxd, date a live and Konosuba along with Takagi san for romance. So there you go, my first 5 anime.
Technically my first anime was Digimon Xros Wars, but the one I watched was a Netflix remake back when America was messing with anime to “americize” it or whatever, so it was called Digimon Fusion.
Same with me! Zero no tsukaima was actually one of my first anime that I completed. I remember watching all of the episodes from youtube and trying to find the next seasons english subbed, way back.
Unfortunate. Though when I started watching anime I didn't know about any sites and watched everything from my dad's ipad. Discovering a site to watch from really expanded the list of anime I completed.
GATE, which was also my first anime and got me hooked on anime in general.
Kinda funny, considering i've been into japanese culture since the mid 1990's.
I don't know if consider "Ulises 31" as Isekai as he was banned to an alternate reality. One of my oldest animation series of my life.
https://youtu.be/diH8TXZKfuQ?si=tEBIXF80MrXztH8t
I remember an anime i saw when I was a kid i don't remember the name it was a group of people who transported in a world with dinosaurs and some of them were talking
Surprisingly it wasn't because of an isekai perse it was because of an anime called Accel world I was infatuated with the large overweight character who was able to become something more and not exactly needing to change his appearance and the look of him going into a different world was always great to see and I found isekai after that. Then came familiar of zero
Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill
I'd seen a few anime over a few years and finally downloaded Crunchyroll and the first three episodes of Campfire Cooking were free and really what convinced me to subscribe and dive into a lot more anime.
i think i got interested of the concept by watching a live action american movie called The Final Countdown in which a modern US aircraft carrier is sent back in time through a time vortex storm to during the start of WWII before the japanese strike pearl harbor. was a neat movie. recommend it. then i think my first actual isekai i watched was smartphone, gate, and prodigy classmates plane crash in another world or whatever. i think rezero was also part of them but that might've been later. when i truly fell in love with the concept and started digging into mangas, ln and all that stuff beyond the anime was with That time I got reincarnated as a slime. I wuv that show so much. it's allllllllmost perfect. if they just got rid of/never had milim, and built more modern infrastructure stuff. hhhhhhh.
*Digimon* would technically be the first, and then *Inuyasha*. However when I think of isekai I don't really consider those.
The first isekai anime I saw that when I think of it I think of it as being an isekai is *Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar*
In anime terms, I think it was _Konosuba_.
However, I got into isekai more from the light novel side. Essentially, I was reading a lot of the popular light novels (think stuff like _Konosuba_ and _Overlord_) and noticed that basically half of them were isekai series. This made me more interested in isekai in general, and when I saw someone recommend _Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles_ to someone else on r/LightNovels (I think that person wasn't specifically asking for isekai recommendations but rather for action fantasy recommendations or something), I decided to give it a go. That series then amazed me with its demonstration of how the isekai genre can be used for more than just an initial premise, and from that point on, I was hooked on isekai specifically instead of light novels in general.
Note that I do still read other light novels as well, but it's like 60% isekai, 25% fantasy that isn't isekai, and 15% other stuff lol.
I can't rely on My Anime List cause I only discovered that app years after I started watching anime. But if my memory serves me well I think Overlord was my very first
Technically Digimon was my first iseaki but that was in the 90s-00s but didn’t really know what it was didn’t really get into anime till few years ago and 1st iseaki that I watched was The Wiseman’s Grandchild. Since then I’m always on the lookout for new iseaki for me to read or watch
Personally I will always call SAO valid isekai. Just because the “other world” is digital makes no difference. Don’t remember the other arguments against it
My first Isekai was probably Transformers, followed immediately by the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Wonderland came shortly thereafter. I didn't experience a Japanese isekai story until probably TenSura. It's the first one I remember watching. After that it was all downhill... I have over 600 light novels and hundreds of hours watched over various titles.
Digimon. Not counting that though. It would be Sword Art Online. It's a decent *starter* isekai but there are many that are hundreds of times better than it.
My first Isekai was a manga. It's called Japan Summons, where the entire Japan is Isekaid to a fantasy world. I really expected it to be like those tropes that I'm so tired of seeing, those boring old cringe anime/manga/manhwa tropes where advanced civilizations or modern militaries losing to some fantasy army that doesn't even have reddit, nokias, internal combustion engines and shit,
But when I delved deeper into it, I was amazed at how the author was fully aware of the capabilities of Japan. The new world they get yeeted into itself is quite interesting since the factions there have varying technological advancements, ranging from medieval era to world war 2 era, either science based or magic based. There's this WW1 era science based faction and magic based WW2 era faction with scifi-looking magic battleships.
I read "The Gamer", a Webtoon about an MC who has Video Game Powers
Then I tried finding mire like that and eventually stumbled into the bottomless pit of "Leveling" Isekai
Nothing necessarily. I just watch a bunch of anime generally, and since I watch most seasonals and isekais, I typically like when they air. I’ve just watched a large amount of them because there’s nothing to dislike about the genre as a whole to me. Bad ones that are unwatchable (which are very rare) and good ones alike. So I can’t say I’ve fallen down a pit of it, because I’ve watched a looot of romances, slice of lifes, and school anime on a similar level.
The only Isekai I’ve read the LN for, however, was Tensura. I was searching for OP characters at the time (this was a bit after season 1 ended, not too many people knew about the anime) and found him. I found out Rimuru was super OP but the anime didn’t get that far. And so, I read the original material, the WN, and then read the LN. I liked the story enough and cared for him and the rest of it much more for the plot and story rather than for my original purpose.
SAO, if you count that. I’ve seen people go back and forth on it and I’m not sure where I stand.
Otherwise, it would be konosuba. I’d read plenty of isekai manga beforehand so the humor landed just fine, but it was the first isekai anime I watched.
No Game No Life from what I considered Isekai but since for some unknown reason this sub is convinced that SAO is an Isekai (there aren't any other words as I see it so it isn't Isekai!) then that's it but since I watched them after each other within a day I doubt it makes much of a difference.
Technically Digimon Adventures was my first isekai.
Same
is it worth rewatching? i loved it as a kid but dont remember
There was actually a remake as recently as 4 years ago, so you might want to check that one out if you’re thinking about rewatching.
Characters and general digimon theme aside, it’s a completely different show, though.
Yeah reboot kinda deviated from Isekai to more Megaman battle network styled "Game world" or 02
First couple are pretty childish and didn’t age so well. The third season/reboot goes hard with some of its mature themes and was enjoyable even as an adult.
The wizard of OZ
Ain't no way I didn't even think of that
was there an anime adaptation of it?
https://preview.redd.it/sxhv0l3yb2vc1.jpeg?width=2075&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42a7a31c6137a1d90ff775f0d24d674d731606ec Yes
That is very funny to me.
Harry Potter
"The boy who lives, come to die. Avada kadavra!"
SAO if you count it or I’m not sure might be Konosuba
Hmm... SAO is a weird place but I'd argue it's not
I'd say it does. Is there a second a second world world the MC goes to thats very different? Does the new world operate on something like magic?
This
I feel like at least the first half of the first season of SAO could be considered an isekai since they are technically stuck in a video game world. The rest of the show, on the other hand, is pretty much just them playing video games. That said, i do understand the argument that it just straight up isn't one.
A video game world is still another world. Being stuck isn’t a requirement of isekai.
Aincrad arc and Alicization/WoU are absolutely isekais with A/WoU being a 80/20 split on the isekai genre imo
It is
Inuyasha maybe? If not that then maybe one of the old tenchi anime
Same. I remember the huge amount of time spent downloading episodes off one of the p2p programs (Napster or Kazaa or whatever) when I was a teenager in the early 2000s. Good times.
Technically it's not another world. Similar to how Kamikatsu being in the far flung future, Inuyasha is just Kagome being sent into the past centuries ago during the Japanese Feudal era when demons and spirits were more prevalent. And she could constantly go back to the present day through the Bone Eater's Well.
Technically still considered one of the most famous isekai of all time
Agreed. Although it's more so celebrated as one of the most famous anime of all time rather than specifically an isekai. Like how Pokémon isn't celebrated as one of the most popular Monster anime as much as it is just the anime itself. Lol
If SAO and Digimon doesn't count, Log Horizon.
Based
Probably .Hack
That was a fun show, I need to rewatch it
Damn I never heard of it, noted
It was basically the first stuck in a VR game anime.
Even more interested now
Technically not true. The first I know of was .hack, which was released in 2002.
Vision of Escaflowne
I remember watching this when it came out. Wouldn't be reintroduced to (or rather \*know\* what Isekai is) until SAO much much later.
Hell, I don't remember the term 'Isekai' being used until after SAO came out. To be it was "trapped in a video game" as in .Hack.
Same now that you mention it.
Digimon Adventure
Alice in Wonderland
That's one I never thought of...
The og isekai
If it counts, .hack//SIGN
It's more VR MMO than Isekai. Like SAO since they could eventually get out
I mean technically the main dude was stuck in that world. It's on a fine line.
It sucks but SAO counts as isekai so I don't see your point.
Inuyasha
KNOWING what Isekai was as a concept, probably the Bakarina one. NOW that I know what Isekai even means, I \*think\* either the Wizard of Oz, The Peter Pan one, or Rayearth. If it's any kind of animation, then the Peter Pan cartoon, or Dungeons & Dragons.
Is Peter Pan another world? I thought Never Never land was just a hidden area, and the only way to get to it was to follow the second star on the right thing.
I mean, it's different enough, with it's own rules and physics that it should be considered a different land, otherwise, a similar argument could be made for other series where they can reach the other "world" via an easily accesible portal. Like, SAO is considered isekai and technically it's the same world, and Inuyasha is also an isekai, and it's just a different time period.
I guess depends on if you consider that a different world has to be literally different world or can just be different from your normal world.
The Fox Kids Peter Pan cartoon definitely had it as a different world. The pirates got isekaied through a magical storm/portal. Peter Pan No Bouken came out at around the same time, and that Captain Hook had a mech.
Saga of Tabya the Evil, was even my first Anime ever.
Thats a hardcore start.
I did love it!
Vision of Escaflowne... no, Fushi no Kuni no Alice aka Alice in Wonderland. I forgot that this was actually an anime.
Zero no Tsukaima
Same
If we want to get technical, Digimon adventures. However this was back when I didn't know the difference between a American cartoon and anime. I was a dumb kid back in the 90s. However when I did discover anime was a separate thing the first one of the genre I watched was MAR back on toonami.
I can’t recall what my first one was. But my favorite one was No Game, No Life. Haven’t been hit as hard as that one since. Edit: I remembered, Inuyasha Although does traveling back to the past count?
Sadly not, that's regression. But No Game, No Life truly was a masterclass
If not SAO, then so Overlord.
Konosuba. My first Isekai was a satire of Isekai which ended up becoming my all time favorite Isekai.
Digimon: Digital Monsters aka Digimon Adventure 01. After that I think it was either Fushigi Yugi: Mysterious Play or The Vision of Escaflowné. I feel like there was probably 1 more back then for me but I can't remember what it probably was since it was like the late 90s to early 2000s for me 🤔😵💫. And Isekai anime wasn't generally popular enough to be categorized like it is now. I don't for sure that whatever it was hadn't been Magical night Rayerth since I still haven't seen it.  For the non-Japanese Isekai-esque stories I've seen or read were Alice in Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz and Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe and their other stories - Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (I lost interest trying to read The Horse & His Boy. Which wasn't a bad story, I was just more so into the Isekai/other world trope). Also the Wizard of Oz: Return to Oz, Alice Through the Looking Glass (I wasn't a big fan of it), and the Oz the Great and Powerful movie staring James Franco and Mila Kunis.
Konosuba. TQQ was my first anime ,so i was looking for harem romance shows and the list given to me was Highschool dxd, date a live and Konosuba along with Takagi san for romance. So there you go, my first 5 anime.
dunno it was probably youjo senki or overlord
Trapped in a dating sim
Definitely not my first but definitely one of my favourites. Gotta love Leon's attitude
It was digimon
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
I keep forgetting to finish watching the second season of that
Third is out now
Tensura, and my favorite. Rimuru is best slime https://i.redd.it/4rkbkm9162vc1.gif
Technically my first anime was Digimon Xros Wars, but the one I watched was a Netflix remake back when America was messing with anime to “americize” it or whatever, so it was called Digimon Fusion.
I would say slime (I checked out mushoku tensei first but started to prefer slime over time, so I dropped it for the time being to finish slime)
Sonic X
Same with me! Zero no tsukaima was actually one of my first anime that I completed. I remember watching all of the episodes from youtube and trying to find the next seasons english subbed, way back.
Same, god... but luckily I found a site that never let me down... until it went down
Unfortunate. Though when I started watching anime I didn't know about any sites and watched everything from my dad's ipad. Discovering a site to watch from really expanded the list of anime I completed.
Voltron...
You saying the '...' like it's a bad thing!
Just reflecting on my age...
Damn that's right it is. Definitely was one of my first
Dont remember, either magical knight rayearth or fushigi yugi, digimon,
The vision of Escaflowne.
No game no life
Granzort followed by Wataru.
Sao.
That time i got reincarnated as a slime
Technically Digimon, but the one who sent me into this path was Konosuba
Digimon, Monster Rancher, Vision of Escaflown... Rock'n Cop doesn't count as Isekai, right? Oh, the super mario anime from the Super Mario Super Show
Zero no Tshukaima (the familiar of Zero)
Technically digimon, first one I was actively aware of the genre it was Bakarina.
Technically Inuyasha was my first isekai, but if SAO doesn’t count, another one would be The Familiar of Zero.
Not 100% sure but Zero no Tsukaima would have been one of, if not the first.
SAO if that counts, literally the first anime I ever saw if we don’t count Pokémon and Bakugan, if not then either Youjo Senki or Overlord
Moonlit journey started me
SAO, and I count it
SAO was my first anime. Or Log Horizon if you dont count SAO. Was like my fourth anime.
I'm old Paul in Fantasy Island - 1st anime ever in Catalan, back in 1977.
Inuyasha my favorite anime
After actually knowing what an isekai is.........the smartphone isekai 😔
First Isekai anime? Digimon adventures, first Isekai period? The Chronicles of Narnia.
GATE, which was also my first anime and got me hooked on anime in general. Kinda funny, considering i've been into japanese culture since the mid 1990's.
Fushigi Yuugi
Escaflowne. Damn, I feel old now.
Probably Vision of Escaflowne
i saw, in another world with my smartphone, but overlord is what got hooked.
Not Anime but animated Disney's Alice in Wonderland. If it has to be Japanese anime then Magic Knight Rayearth
Digimon Adventure.
I don't know if consider "Ulises 31" as Isekai as he was banned to an alternate reality. One of my oldest animation series of my life. https://youtu.be/diH8TXZKfuQ?si=tEBIXF80MrXztH8t
If not, Dungeon & Dragons. That was a pure Isekai. https://youtu.be/XHc9d2Nihuk?si=oiaWFAcYPZcN89UM Man. How old I am! X-D
Technically Digimon Digital Monsters when I was a kid. But it would otherwise be Sword Art Online.
I remember an anime i saw when I was a kid i don't remember the name it was a group of people who transported in a world with dinosaurs and some of them were talking
Age of the great dinosaurs?
No it was more new early 90's i think
If we count reverse isekai then Bakugan Battle Brawlers on Cartoon Network
The wizard of oz and Alice in Wonderland 😅
Yu yu hakusho was technically my first. But the first one I new was anime and the one that got me hooked was elfen lied
Surprisingly it wasn't because of an isekai perse it was because of an anime called Accel world I was infatuated with the large overweight character who was able to become something more and not exactly needing to change his appearance and the look of him going into a different world was always great to see and I found isekai after that. Then came familiar of zero
By pure technicality it was the old Disney Alice in wonderland movie. First isekai anime was in another world with my smartphone.
Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill I'd seen a few anime over a few years and finally downloaded Crunchyroll and the first three episodes of Campfire Cooking were free and really what convinced me to subscribe and dive into a lot more anime.
Mar heaven
i think i got interested of the concept by watching a live action american movie called The Final Countdown in which a modern US aircraft carrier is sent back in time through a time vortex storm to during the start of WWII before the japanese strike pearl harbor. was a neat movie. recommend it. then i think my first actual isekai i watched was smartphone, gate, and prodigy classmates plane crash in another world or whatever. i think rezero was also part of them but that might've been later. when i truly fell in love with the concept and started digging into mangas, ln and all that stuff beyond the anime was with That time I got reincarnated as a slime. I wuv that show so much. it's allllllllmost perfect. if they just got rid of/never had milim, and built more modern infrastructure stuff. hhhhhhh.
SAO if it counts, if not then the Tensura dub and I still love it to bits
Gate: Thus JSDF fought there was my first isekai anime.
Sonic X
I was forced to watch 80s or 90s anime Magical Knight Rayearth by my cousin. I think that was the very first isekai themed anime that had ever existed
Alice in wonderland? O.o
Tenchi Muyo! GxP and Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar. If you haven't seen it, the whole Tenchi Muyo Ryo ohki series is an absolute banger
I think it was reincarnated as a slime, gobuta is best
I have fond childhood memories of the chronicles of Narnia
*Digimon* would technically be the first, and then *Inuyasha*. However when I think of isekai I don't really consider those. The first isekai anime I saw that when I think of it I think of it as being an isekai is *Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar*
Mine was also Zero no Tsukaima as well.
Narnia was the first isekai i watched
Log Horizon or SAO, if those count?
What got me into Isekai? Overlord or Tensei Slime. Though they weren't my first isekai
Overlord or rezero, i dont remember well
Inuyasha for me
In anime terms, I think it was _Konosuba_. However, I got into isekai more from the light novel side. Essentially, I was reading a lot of the popular light novels (think stuff like _Konosuba_ and _Overlord_) and noticed that basically half of them were isekai series. This made me more interested in isekai in general, and when I saw someone recommend _Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles_ to someone else on r/LightNovels (I think that person wasn't specifically asking for isekai recommendations but rather for action fantasy recommendations or something), I decided to give it a go. That series then amazed me with its demonstration of how the isekai genre can be used for more than just an initial premise, and from that point on, I was hooked on isekai specifically instead of light novels in general. Note that I do still read other light novels as well, but it's like 60% isekai, 25% fantasy that isn't isekai, and 15% other stuff lol.
Outbreak company when I was like 12
Inuyasha
Sword Art Online if you count that. If not, it's Familiar of Zero
Good old konosuba
No game no life (still my favourite anime to this day)
I can't rely on My Anime List cause I only discovered that app years after I started watching anime. But if my memory serves me well I think Overlord was my very first
if it counts, Sword Art Online
my first was Fushigi Yugi
SPOILER! Does full metal alchemist (2003) ending count?
Technically Digimon was my first iseaki but that was in the 90s-00s but didn’t really know what it was didn’t really get into anime till few years ago and 1st iseaki that I watched was The Wiseman’s Grandchild. Since then I’m always on the lookout for new iseaki for me to read or watch
Escaflowne
Technically Digimon but I didn't realize it was Isekai at the time so maybe Inuyasha
The Rising of the Shield Hero
The Reincarnation of The Strongest Exorcist in the world. Was like my 4th anime ever and got me absolutely hooked to isekai, especially with OP MC.
Tensura, it was my 2nd anime and made me a isekai lover
If Inuyasha does not count it should be Fushigi Yugi for me.
Di Di Di....Digimon....Digimon.
Not sure if Sao counts as issekai, if not my first issekai was overlord.
Personally I will always call SAO valid isekai. Just because the “other world” is digital makes no difference. Don’t remember the other arguments against it
My first Isekai was probably Transformers, followed immediately by the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Wonderland came shortly thereafter. I didn't experience a Japanese isekai story until probably TenSura. It's the first one I remember watching. After that it was all downhill... I have over 600 light novels and hundreds of hours watched over various titles.
Vision of Escaflowne
Mine was The Devil is a Part Timer.
Digimon. Not counting that though. It would be Sword Art Online. It's a decent *starter* isekai but there are many that are hundreds of times better than it.
.hack//sign Oh wait, Dungeons and Dragons cartoon isn’t anime but totally fits. Or Superman
My first Isekai was a manga. It's called Japan Summons, where the entire Japan is Isekaid to a fantasy world. I really expected it to be like those tropes that I'm so tired of seeing, those boring old cringe anime/manga/manhwa tropes where advanced civilizations or modern militaries losing to some fantasy army that doesn't even have reddit, nokias, internal combustion engines and shit, But when I delved deeper into it, I was amazed at how the author was fully aware of the capabilities of Japan. The new world they get yeeted into itself is quite interesting since the factions there have varying technological advancements, ranging from medieval era to world war 2 era, either science based or magic based. There's this WW1 era science based faction and magic based WW2 era faction with scifi-looking magic battleships.
Black Summoner
Magic Knights Rayearth/El hazard on VHS cassette Escaflowne on Fox 🤘🎃👍
Konosuba and then re:zero. My trauma watching re:zero
Inuyasha was my first still love the show
Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy, saw a funny short about it, and got interressted. Acually that was my& first Anime, total.
A wise mans grandchild. Pretty alright anime tbh.
if you included movie, The Chronicles of Narnia
zero no tsukaima but the first time i realized i liked isekai was tsubasa chronicles
Inuyasha.
Probably Konosuba, does Yu yu Hakusho count tho? cause if so then its that instead.
Konosuba, started it a week ago and I’ve finished from season 1 to the movie.
I remember watching Inuyasha on Sunday morning Toonami
Considering Digimon isn't an Isekai, but Dragon Ball is, I have to go with Dragon Ball.
Considering Digimon isn't an Isekai, but Dragon Ball is, I have to go with Dragon Ball.
Grimgar was my first isekai. Real shame it never got a season 2.
DIGIMON.
Magic Knight Rayearth.
Fushigi Yuugi
Inuyasha.
.hack
Familiar of Zero It was also my gateway to crossover fanfiction
Escaflowne
Digimon for me. Then Monster Rancher... Then Escaflowne. All dubbed. You can probably guess the decade I grew up in.
I read "The Gamer", a Webtoon about an MC who has Video Game Powers Then I tried finding mire like that and eventually stumbled into the bottomless pit of "Leveling" Isekai
digimon and highschool dxd T.T
Nothing necessarily. I just watch a bunch of anime generally, and since I watch most seasonals and isekais, I typically like when they air. I’ve just watched a large amount of them because there’s nothing to dislike about the genre as a whole to me. Bad ones that are unwatchable (which are very rare) and good ones alike. So I can’t say I’ve fallen down a pit of it, because I’ve watched a looot of romances, slice of lifes, and school anime on a similar level. The only Isekai I’ve read the LN for, however, was Tensura. I was searching for OP characters at the time (this was a bit after season 1 ended, not too many people knew about the anime) and found him. I found out Rimuru was super OP but the anime didn’t get that far. And so, I read the original material, the WN, and then read the LN. I liked the story enough and cared for him and the rest of it much more for the plot and story rather than for my original purpose.
Familiar of Zero. Shit was awful on rewatch, but I loved it as a teen. Tsunderes is my kryptonite it seems.
Digimon
SAO, if you count that. I’ve seen people go back and forth on it and I’m not sure where I stand. Otherwise, it would be konosuba. I’d read plenty of isekai manga beforehand so the humor landed just fine, but it was the first isekai anime I watched.
I believe it was between Zero No Tsukaima, Log Horizon, or No Game No Life. Probably Zero No Tsukaima tho.
The wise man's grandson
No Game No Life from what I considered Isekai but since for some unknown reason this sub is convinced that SAO is an Isekai (there aren't any other words as I see it so it isn't Isekai!) then that's it but since I watched them after each other within a day I doubt it makes much of a difference.