Well they tried that with arguably the most well known fantasy world in existence, D&D, and it flopped because too many people need their worlds spoon fed to them.
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Turns out it did, financially.
Relative to its budget it was considered sort of a box office failure, from what I’ve heard. Maybe I’m mistaken. It was probably my favorite movie of the past few years for what it’s worth, wasn’t trying to bash it.
Checks out
https://movieweb.com/dungeons-and-dragons-sequel-unlikely/
200M box office on a 150M investment, means a net loss after marketing and distribution costs
I want to se a story when the mc gets isekaid as a baby. But because they have a baby brain and body they are extreamy limited in movment and agency. So the mc has to spend 1 year in whats esentially a straigth jaket shiting themselves. And this leaves them a little unginged
Then when they are a kid they have a kid brain so they are undergoing neural prunning and forgetting things. So in order to not forget the mc starts neyrotically anallyising, ordering and recording their previous memories with various degrees of succes. They either developed an ordered mental framework or end up a compleat paranoid mess. Or something in between.
The “reborn as babies” thing is a plot twist in that spider isekai, and it makes some of the cast pretty weird. It’s a decent show but I don’t know if I’d recommend it.
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The element is mostly just used as a plot twist, though. It swaps back and forth between two perspectives which are later revealed to have a ~14 year time gap. Everybody in the show was reincarnated as a baby, but the MC reincarnated as a baby magic spider meaning she was basically fully functional from day 1.
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the spider girl ends up a bit wierd due to being a spider. But she should be the most normal one since she had agency from the beggining. There is another girl that was an egg for a decade and was somewhat concious of it. She should be absolutley fucked up.
Yeah that’s what I mean by it mostly just ending up as a plot twist and not being explored fully. It’s too bad, really, but it’s still one of the better isekai’s for not just being “generic anime boy in dragon quest land with X special item/skill/mom”.
They have to search for their lost finger painting pictures to retrieve their memories
The main character is mofe relatable if they can reference pop culture etc
I liked the approach of Tearmoon Empire a lot. Instead of typical isekai, the main character from the same universe time travels to her past right after she dies by guillotine. Everything she does is to avoid dying again, her personality at its core doesn’t change. Would reccomend it on the next anime season.
why does everything have to be relatable to this miserable prison planet existance
Western consumers need media to cater to their terminal Aphantasia, I guess. Feels like some weird postmodern Hayes Code thing major studios want.
Looking at the US media landscape today, you’d think imagining fantasy worlds without connecting it to Earth was illegal. Same with the horde of recent graduate YA authors who seem to care more about book sales than writing. You just instantly get this uncanny valley feeling where it’s clear the writer’s never trained their sense of abstract thought (and assumes you don’t have it either). Plus, the fact that these authors have any sense at all of what today’s media “tropes” are completely fucks them over, as they insecurely try to dodge them, unconsciously add them anyway, and only end up with more generic stories (at least they’re Marketable!). They’ll only remind you of everything you’ve already seen, or know. You’ll forget one as soon as you read another. Unironically feels harmful to a growing kid’s creativity.
In conclusion, I think adult audiences who scrunch their noses and say “That was weird” should be bullied more. They use it like a genre label, so young artists get spooked and avoid it.