The fact that Adventure Time was on the air for 8 years and at no point did Nintendo hand the creators a large sack of money and say, "Please make a Mario thing for us" will forever anger me.

There was so much awesome put into design and conception of the super mario bros. movie, and it didn't even need the branding: but it wouldn't have made it to the screen without the branding.

Many aspects of it have stuck in my memory, though. The boots, the devolution ray, the aesthetic of the dinosaur city

I had no idea there was another Mario Bros. movie coming out, though. Doubt it'll top the first one, it was just so bizarre

They already act a bit like minions; they just aren't stupid

The trouble is: I honestly can't decide if making them minions would be better or worse than the continuously shrill voices they've used for the last 20 years.

hope everyone's ready for Toads to look, act & sound like the Minions forever...

I mean, considering Illumination is making the new Mario movie, Super Mario Bros. 1993 won't be the worst Mario movie anymore

"Sir, your pizza's here." "Not now!"

Actually, yeah. I think I need to watch it again. Great movie.

It's a fun movie with amazing sets. As long as you don't try to connect it to anything else Mario, it's fine.

Damn, I haven't thought about the Super Mario Bros. feature film in forever. Need to watch it again, soon; I can only imagine it gets better with time.

Re:Zero is a fantastic series.

Yeah it's not a bad concept, it's just that lately the term is associated with "I, a Loser Everyman, Woke Up In a Generic Fantasy Setting Where I'm Super Special So Now Girls Orbit Me"

So too is the old Super Mario Bros movie

I went and looked up the term "isekai"... that's not actually as bad as I thought it was going to be.

I'm not sure, but the cartoon segments of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show are.

Wait. A. Minute. Is Blaster Master an isekai?

*Dragon Slave*

I used to use a pic like that as my avatar for years, but that... is a secret.

Is Flatland an isekai?

@Xellos Every time I see you post, I picture Xellos' infuriating smug grin and finger waggling with the "sore wa hi*mi*tsu*desu <3"

The Last Starfighter is also one of those

Astronaut gets shot through a wornhole and ends up on a living starship full of escaped alien prisoners.

I realized a few months ago that Farscape is a sci-fi-based Isekai.

The Thor movies and Enchanted, as well.

@xellos We get to many of those in Hollywood movies.

Re:Creators!

There is also Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, where people regularly get summoned to a fantasy world, then eventually sent back with their accumulated powers (and the main character smuggles the demon lord's daugher by his request, which is a no-no)

We need more inverse isekais, like The Devil is a Part-Timer

I feel like Tron is pushing it but I can't actually come up with an argument to that effect

To Arazyr- I don't see why it wouldn't be.

Just like how TRON and Captain N are early examples of "getting transported into a video game"

That would explain why it's so common for isekai settings to be blatantly RPG-inspired.

Would the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon count as isekai? 8^)

I am in the exceedingly unpleasant position of knowing what you're talking about

So I'll just say I can consume the series without endorsing the real-life lie that false rape accusations are common and successful.

I would go on to talk about that, but alas, that would spoil significant future story details about the accuser.

Shield Hero dared to have a male character falsely accused of rape, right?

At least now people will stop shitting on slice-of-life shows....

listen just because it has shield in its name does not mean you need to ally with it

oh good lord

In fact, the Shield Hero series does not portray slavery as a good thing nor keep the initial slave characters down for the count.

If you're referring to The Rising of the Shield Hero, the backlash from some Western fans is misaimed, IMO.

I wish I was more surprised that "slavery apologetics" is a thing. Still disgusted.

But surely we all know the best isekai is Captain N.

This morning I saw one of my friends express disbelief at having an opportunity to say "yet another slavery apologist isekai"

Although recently they explicably acquire a harem by purchasing them as slaves, which makes it that much worse

I think what people hate is the modern trend of isekai taking place in generic-ass fantasy settings with bland, oft-overpowered male protagonists that inexplicably acquire a harem.

Does Kingdom Hearts count? On the one hand it's a serial world hopping adventure, on the other hand all the worlds are contained within the same overworld that the characters have always been in, just unaware of.