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    Seen many of thes debates before

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    5. Deliriousious on

      It’s VRMMORPG.

      Since it all takes place on Earth, in VR simulations, it is 100% not an Isekai.

      Isekai involves characters being transported physically or spiritually to another world that isn’t their own. Since everyone is still on earth both physically and spiritually, it’s not an Isekai.

      Sure it has some similarities to it, but fundamentally, it isn’t.

      If SAO is an Isekai, than so is Shangri-la Frontier and Bofuri… their not Isekai, their people playing VR games.

    7. Desxon on

      Since they finished the “we’re stuck inside the headset” thing, they’re no longer an isekai in my book

    14. CilginKral on

      I think Aincrad and Alicization must be considered as isekai but other arcs like Alfheim or GGO are just games that felt real.

      Technically in Aincrad and Alicization:

      You can’t go back to the real world(or I mean previous one)

      If you die you die.

      Almost everything feels real.

      You can sense that world normally.(See,Touch,Taste)

      So I think these are the reasons it is considered as “another world” and this is just the meaning of isekai.

    15. RenariPryderi on

      SAO isn’t technically an isekai, but it *does* follow a lot of the major common elements of most isekai.

    16. Samuawesome on

      I think the main problem is that if you compare an actual isekai to SAO as a whole, it’s why you really can’t consider it one.

      Sure, SAO does have some elements similar to the ones you may find in an isekai. Sure, if you looked at Aincrad or Alicization in a vacuum, maybe you could argue they’re isekai. However, SAO is still an entire series spanning across 96 episodes and several movies, not just the Aincrad and Alicization arcs.

      The overall theme of SAO is showing how the lines between VR/tech and the real world are being blurred. So, the real world is just as important as the virtual worlds each arc visits because you need to see how they’re impacting each other. For instance, Mother’s Rosario deals with how the healthcare field is impacted by the Medicuboid, Phantom Bullet deals with trauma and mental illness, etc.

      99% of the isekai I’ve watched or read don’t really care much for the real world once the protagonist gets transported to them.

    20. Tuyet2BDead on

      I don’t believe SAO at least started off as an isekai, SAO distinctly a game later as natural story progression it bacame an isekai thru alicization. NPCs are a true thing and do not move there was that guide by the rock that just stood there for a mission until Asuna walked up to it. The world of SAO is not living.

      Overlord and Log Horizon became living while Digimon are actually alive and sentient and allows them to isekai back to the real world. SAO is compared to Spy Kids 3D for a reason, they are games. Cased Closed Murder on Baker Street is a game.

      Just because you can die in a game does not merit it anything. otherwise Yugioh is a better isekai for the actual Canon shadow realm, Dark realm, all other dimensions when the survival multi isekai occured in GX.

    22. Oppai-ai on

      isekai is a concept. As long as the character got transferred into a different world(except traveling in the past) it’s an isekai.

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