

It seems to me that this genre really spiked in 2017, but we've had Digimon
and Sword Art Online for years before. What really started this boom?


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Which anime really started the explosion of new isekai anime? Why didn't previous entries in the genre succeed in doing this?


According to Gigguk's video [Isekai: The genre that took over modern
anime](https://youtu.be/uFR2nvw19h4), paulnamida's comment is basically
correct - there were isekai shows in the 90s, but they were mainly shoujo-
focused, and the recent boom seems to mainly stem from the boom in light
novels that came after the popularity of Sword Art Online (which was not
itself technically isekai, but it set things up well for them).


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