They’re also not technically dinosaurs due to the heavy amounts of DNA splicing they had to do to make them viable, being more like a designer monster that resembles a dinosaur. There’s a ton of non-dino DNA in them.
Because to make that argument, you have to reduce the definition to the point of uselessness. Jurassic Park isn’t Isekai/Stranger in a Strange Land because the island isn’t a strange, unknown land. It was created by the same people/culture the main characters are from. Isekai needs an independent culture with it’s own history and people.
But then SAO also isn’t an isekai because all it’s inhabitants are just visitors from the real world and was also created by the same people/culture the main characters are from
It is. I tried once to make the argument that Jurassic Park is, too, but I get yelled at.
What’s your argument? I’m all for twisting shit to make stuff isekai but jurassic park is just an island on planet earth with revived dinos.
The dinos are the isekai.
“I woke up as a copy of my 65 million year old self in a land of apes.”
They had no prior memories, they were born there
They’re also not technically dinosaurs due to the heavy amounts of DNA splicing they had to do to make them viable, being more like a designer monster that resembles a dinosaur. There’s a ton of non-dino DNA in them.
Thank you! No one else gets it.
That’s also cyberpunk from the dinos’ standpoint.
a bit of nitpicking
But that would contradict trying to be at least vaguely scientific-like because no memory would have been preserved
Star wars is also isekai
Because to make that argument, you have to reduce the definition to the point of uselessness. Jurassic Park isn’t Isekai/Stranger in a Strange Land because the island isn’t a strange, unknown land. It was created by the same people/culture the main characters are from. Isekai needs an independent culture with it’s own history and people.
But then SAO also isn’t an isekai because all it’s inhabitants are just visitors from the real world and was also created by the same people/culture the main characters are from
You’re right. SAO isn’t isekai. It’s just “Trapped in the game”. Although the Alicization arc is isekai.