Is Mushoku Tensei The Most Influential Isekai? (History of Isekai)
1,329In my previous video on Mushoku Tensei (which has been blocked by Molebeat on copyright grounds and is currently being contested), I brought up the fact that Mushoku Tensei was very influential, but also that I'd found it somewhat generic at first. This led to many comments stating things like that Mushoku Tensei's source material had popularized many aspects of modern isekai stories which I found somewhat questionable, and thus ended up deep-diving the history!
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Midway into editing this video, I found the Anime News Network article I showed on-screen which goes into more depth about the culture of Naroo: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-03-19/mushoku-tensei-is-not-the-pioneer-of-isekai-web-novels-but/.170429
0:00 - Part One: Isekai & truck deaths in the 90s
4:15 - Part Two: Isekai & trapped in MMOs in the 2000s
6:42 - Part Three: Isekai post-SAO in the early 2010s
9:26 - Part Four: Mushoku Tensei hits the scene--what's the effect?
12:21 - Part Five: Truck-kun takes off!
14:18 - Part Six: Isekai gets dark in the late 2010s
15:55 - Part Seven: PEAK ISEKAI
16:50 - Part Eight: Isekai reincarnations in the 2020s
19:13 - Part Nine: Is Mushoku Tensei Generic, or Influential?
21:16 - Part Ten: The Most Influential Isekai Stories
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