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The Wizard of Oz is an isekai (lemmy.world)
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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Alice in Wonderland too.

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    • [–] 23 points 2 months ago

    Tornado-kun, no! I'm not ready to go to Oz yet! 🌪️

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    [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It is the isekai

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'd say that is Dante's Divina Commedia.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I'd argue that Inferno describes a world that exist under our own, but it is still part of it, geographically and systemically, as all the souls of the damned eventually reach the underworld, while an Isekai story always (or most of the time, I should say) describe the other world as a parallel dimension, disconnected from our own and accessible only through supernatural or technological means, while Dante just have to walk through the gate.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    The Wizard himself is also a vtuber.

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Never heard of isekai before, but seems right.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I prefer to think of it the other way around and isekai stories are Ozzies.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Almost. She returns in the end. Usually isekais don't care about the previous world at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And when you look at the subsequent books in the series, Dorothy’s arrival in Oz always follows some kind of deeply traumatic event.

    My poisoned headcanon for this says that Dorothy is a deeply traumatized kid who regularly disassociates into fantasy as a coping mechanism, which would put the Land of Oz series more in the territory of psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator than isekai.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What does Lemmy think of the theory that The Wizard of Oz was written as an allegory for the gold/silver currency standard and that "Oz" is named after the abbreviation for "ounce"?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz#Monetary_policy

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Seems like a stretch and making connections that were never intended. Naming things gold and silver and emerald are bound to be interpreted any number of ways since those words have such timeless meanings.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Had to look up the word. Figures there's a word for it.

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