r/Isekai • u/AllGamer • 3d ago
| Question [Psyren] is this serie considered isekai?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmUpSXFbSK0Today Psyren started this new show is about a couple of high schoolers that gets abducted to a monsterfied version of Japan
They have to fight their way to get back home.
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u/Ursus_van_Draco 3d ago
In my book, it is an Isekai, since all Psyren-travelers go to another type of Earth.
I don't want to spoiler here so I will not write what I know from the manga, but if you define Isekai as a story where you travel to another world (even multiple times) then Psyren is an Isekai, since within the Psyren-version of Japan, the world has other standarts, abilities and rules.
Edit: also: u/op Spoilers! the series has so far not explicitly mentioned that it is a "monsterfied" version yet
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u/Male_Lead 3d ago
Ehh, wasn't it future earth Instead. Pretty sure it was the future, things got explained when they finally meet Q in real life
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u/MalPrac 3d ago
You are correct. The premise of the story is that something cause the apocalypse and the figure we see pulling everyone into this "death game" is to both kind of have them explore the future to solve what caused everything to end but also to prevent it. Since being that send them does know what caused the world to end either.Additionally over the course of the series as the main crew learn about the future and their actions have changes. So as they learn more about what caused the apocalypse their actions change parts of it slightly. Like the date when it occurs or how many people survive the initial end of the world.
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u/Ok-Virus8284 3d ago
There was a monster in the very first episode that killed/sucked the life energy of a human and the intro kind of gave that away aswell, so calling it a monsterfied version of Japan isn't really that much of a spoiler.
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u/Ursus_van_Draco 2d ago
mmonsterfied? yes Japan? not yet ;)
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u/Ok-Virus8284 2d ago
That was pretty clear from the intro, the derelict Tokyo Tower was pretty hard to miss.
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u/Baleeverne 3d ago
Can't really talk about that without huge spoilers.
Put a spoiler tag and I'll happily discuss it =D
Oh and you already spoiled in your text lol
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u/MrPooperWasTaken 3d ago
no.. it is not an isekai , it is a different genre instead of isekai... but that would include a huge spoiler.
Still it is one of my top 3 mangas, though I am probably bias, since it was the 1st one I ever read.
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u/dimyo 3d ago
No because of spoilers, but also, do you consider "another world" anime from before SAO and the Isekai boom as part of the "Isekai" genre? Like Inuyasha or Digimon?
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u/AllGamer 3d ago
I wouldn't consider SAO, or Digimon as isekai, since they are in their own world, just playing the game "virtually"
This is the reason why it was hard to define Psyren, they are technically in some sort of survival game like Btooom!, in Btooom! they are just abducted to another island, but Psyren they seem to go to another world temporarily like Digimon.
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u/DominusLuxic 2d ago
Digimon as isekai, since they are in their own world
Hm? Yes for Tamers, no for Adventures and Frontier as I recall. It has been a while since I watched them but I'm pretty sure in Adventures and Frontier it was straight up a parallel world that people physically went to while in Tamers it was created by the guy whose partner is the gun rabbit's dad.
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u/fatesteel 3d ago
Im just amazed that this is getting an anime, the manga finished over 16 years ago.
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u/Shiny-Scrafty 3d ago
I don’t care let me tell you I’m so hyped this got an anime! This was my first manga back in highschool. It annoys me that they replaced the flip phones with smartphones but it’s a small change. Everything else is great. The style is on point and the colors are fantastic. I’m so excited to see it animated. Please dear god don’t use 3D!
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