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Exploring Isekai: Mapping Worlds through Anime, Manga, and Light Novels

By William B. Ashbaugh (Editor), Mark Gallagher (Editor), Shintaro Mizushima (Editor), Yiman Wang (Editor)
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$115.00
By William B. Ashbaugh (Editor), Mark Gallagher (Editor), Shintaro Mizushima (Editor), Yiman Wang (Editor)
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Exploring Isekai offers the first comprehensive study of isekai in anime, manga and light novels in which characters from the “real world” are transported, summoned, reincarnated or trapped in fantastical realms.

Challenging the misconception that isekai is mere escapism, the volume brings together an international group of contributors to consider how the genre reflects contemporary anxieties, desires and social structures through game-like world-building, moral frameworks and recurring und...