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I didn't watch the video, but I'm going on what I know about isekai stories.
It is really weird how isekai stories tend to not have female MCs, considering one of the most tried and tested forms of story is "girl finds secret door/hole or whatever to magic land and experiences all the magic things."
I don't really see how this premise is gender-specific, but this particular version of it seems to be something that's more directly inspired by Alice in Wonderland, which seems to be a different lineage of isekai than the one that's currently prominent in animu.
The video does mention Magic Knight Rayearth as a vague predecessor that didn't really kick off the isekai genre as it's currently recognized, and groups it in with those earlier shows, e.g. Inuyasha and others.
I'd argue it's actually more similar to the modern-day isekai genre. Heck, Fuu (one of the three main characters) literally remarks that the fantasy world they're transported to is similar to that of an RPG, and similarity to a typical (J)RPG fantasy world is one of the hallmarks of recent isekai, according to that video's claims (to the point where recent series that are simply about JRPG-style worlds get painted with a similar brush).
The piece that M.K.Rayearth is "missing" is a male audience-insert protagonist.
In fact, I have, or at least used to have if I can't find it anymore, what is basically a VR Troopers light novel titled "Captive in the Virtual World". The term for this appears to be "chapter book", but I can't see any substantial distinction between the chapter book and light novel formats, aside from country of origin and perhaps content (and target audience). (Said book was one of four different VR Troopers chapter books.)
I know the show was cut together from like three different tokusatsu shows, so whatever effects it may have had in the west would be very different from the impacts of its sources in Japan. But the confluence of these elements is probably just a coincidence in this case, considering that it's unlikely this western show would have had much impact on a trend amongst Japanese authors, especially given that the media trends usually flow from Japan to the west when it comes to these sorts of things.
I think it's not so much having similarities as playing them up. Based on that video, being as blatant as possible in regards to how gamers are the target audience is a huge theme in the recent trend.
I love that this exists as a YuYuYu spinoff. This image just exudes contrast with the parent media.
I think the target audience is actually people who used to play games or would like to, but no longer have the time or want to put in effort. For example, Infinite Dendrogram is about the protagonist playing a video game.
That's obvious escapism. I think it does tend to feel like it "means" less. For example, I enjoyed Seisen Cerberus a lot because it was never more than just a fantasy series (being based on a mobile card game and not an LN helped) and it took the setting seriously and that allowed for a fun economic theory based plot to accompany the more fantastical elements without feeling out of place.
I should have also probably watched GRANBLUE FANTASY, but I feel that ship has sailed for me, maybe.
And why has the Granblue Fantasy ship "sailed" already for you?
Anyway I popped in an old audiocassette of 101 Strings and I suddenly realized that some anime soundtrack music stylistically takes after these older easy-listening types of songs.
Subtle, BEATLESS, subtle.
* In Another World With My TI-89
* In Another World With My Steam Account
* In Another World With My Keytar
* In Another World With My Luxury Yacht
* In Another World With My Solar Photovoltaic Panels
* In Another World With My Anime DVD Collection
* In Another World With Their Jetpacks, Hoverboards, and Teleporters
* In Another World Teaching The Locals About The P Versus NP Problem
* In Another World With My Campaign For Elected Office
* In Another World With My Big Fat Greek Wedding
* In Another World With Yet Another World In Tow
I'd watch it.
C.mon man, there is no H.
It would be a very bad idea to try and catch up.
I feel like now I have to do it.
Even the JoJo reference was a little too YuYuYu (well, NoWaYu).
Matoi was clearly inspired by Symphogear, but it was different enough. Similarly NoWaYu's team had what was essentially the Symphogear team's weapons, but the set-up was different.
In fact between Matoi and Yuma, Clarus' status as "Tsubasa knockoff" becomes really obvious (especially when you consider her backstory).
(Somehow, the imitation YuYuYu show is Battle Girl High School)
Magical Girl Raising Project is still great.
One of my biggest regrets is that they didn't explore how Princess Quake was prooooooobably a little too obsessed with children more before she died.
I feel like between me and Naas we've covered every magical girl show that aired this year that isn't PreCure.