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What would you do if you were on an underground train, when suddenly the train shook, you passed through a portal, and the next thing you knew your carriage was lying in an unknown new world? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: apparently this is a very common form of Japanese storytelling called an isekai. There are 8 billion people in this world, no idea can be original. And sometimes you miss out on things many other people know. I'm clearly one of today's lucky 10000.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

before Isekai, it was called getting Narnia'd. Last book happens with a similar situation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought they died on that train, and because they died they were brought to the end times/ revelations? It's been a long long time since I read all the Narnia books though. I just remember lines of creatures coming before Totally Not Jesus and being judged as stars fell from the skies?

...or is that what's happening in an isekai, and I've just not realized it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

There's lots of flavor of Isekai as it literally just translates to Another World, but a running gag that has been meme'd ad nauseum is for a protagonist to be hit by a truck and die that they've named the truck.

Sometimes you put on a vr helmet. sometimes you save an old lady from Truck-kun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This. Of course isekai is a thing, but it's not like the concept is exclusive to Japanese culture

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The important difference is that if it's an Isekai you get a harem and your story is less interesting than wet paper mache. If it's a Narnia then you get Sunday school dressed up as fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You're really not into this type of fiction, I get it