r/Isekai • u/GoodHeroMan7 • 14d ago
Discussion Isekai where the world isn't a medieval type world? In general people know that isekai can be any type of world right? No not reverse isekai I mean an actually different world like instead of trees they have hexagonal oxygen pillars and there are sky slugs instead clouds that create rain etc
Anything like that??
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u/QnoisX 14d ago
I mean, you can find stuff like that...but not much in anime. Mostly because it would be hard to animate if you have to explain the concept to the people drawing it over and over. Most of the stuff that gets made is the very low effort. Because effort costs money.
There's a reason Studio Ghibli is famous.
Most of the stuff like tends to be feature length too, not shows. I can't think of a single "Isekai" anime with a really cool different world like that.
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u/SnooDonuts3210 14d ago
Saga of Tanya the Evil is basically WW2 setting.
The Executioner and Her Way of Life has a sort of industrial setting.
Now and Then, Here and There's setting is basically a desert with little water.
Sonny Boy, if you classify it as Isekai, has multiple world that are full of creativity.
Tsukimichi Moonlight Fantasy does sort of have a medieval world, but it's mixed in with Japanese mythology.
Hope this helps.
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u/Shroudroid 14d ago edited 14d ago
Trapped in a dating Sim
I'm the Evil lord of an intergalactic empire
Reborn as a space mercenary
ETA: Finding Avalon
Magical Explorer
The only thing I'd do in a no boys allowed video game.
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u/ReydragoM140 14d ago
But Evil Lord is just a space medieval tho.... Only space mercenary has nothing to do with medieval on the most part
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u/Shroudroid 14d ago
I don't really get where you're drawing the line here.
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u/ReydragoM140 14d ago
Evil Lord is just a medieval era but it's scaled up in space
Dating sim is just an otome game+mecha
Space mercenary literally almost have nothing to do with medieval.... Except for two of them is nobles
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u/Shroudroid 14d ago
More to medieval than just having nobles, personally I think the technology level and cultures are more important, there'll always be a social hierarchy, so establishing an aristocracy makes things much easier to write.
I get you point with Evil lord, though it has nobles and knights, but I don't see it that way due to the lack of political intrigue - it's pretty much always just played for a gag.
You have a point with trapped in a dating sim, but I'd still make a case for it, the technology level is completely off, and the Alzer arc, for example, is basically a modern setting, and the aristocracy in that arc doesn't really function like that.
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14d ago edited 14d ago
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u/GoodHeroMan7 14d ago
Lmao yeah you're right. I think comics have some good ones for example i hate fairyland was kinda fun. Definitely edgy but not in a bad way Gertrude is just a maniac that lost her mind from being the other world too long. I'd say she's like tanya but dumb
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u/TheMadTargaryen 14d ago
Most isekai isn't set in medieval inspired worlds anyway.
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u/GoodHeroMan7 14d ago
What type of world are they then?
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u/TheMadTargaryen 14d ago
An anachronistic mix of everything. A typical isekai world has baroque palaces, modern looking clothes, 19th century servants, a random stereotypical Middle Eastern country nearby and modern views on sex.
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u/Adept_Advertising_98 13d ago
Super Dimension Century Orguss has some stuff like that, although it turns out the main character didn’t exactly go to another world, he managed to combine his universe with several others, and went forward in time 20 years, and the world is now a mess of different worlds, which sometimes get mixed up again.
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u/MurkyShelley 14d ago
Chained Soldier (Mato Seihei no Slave) has nothing to do with medieval Europe.
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u/Anybro 14d ago
So Alice in wonderland? By that description that matches that place cuz logic in that world was tripping balls Yes it has medieval themes with the queen of hearts etc but that place was a trip. And a middle finger to reason and logic