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Originally Posted by thundrakkon
People keep saying this series is old and sets up the isekai genre, but it looks like this is from light novels that started at the end of 2012. The isekai genre in anime has been around since the 1980's, if not earlier. It really picked up during the 2000's, and it was in full swing by 2010, with titles such as "Knight's & Magic" (2010), "Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sō Desu yo?" (2011), and "No Game No Life" (2012) all debuting before Mushoku Tensei. Heck, even an original OVA, "Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari" (2009), was made before this.
So while I do agree that the adaptation of this series took a bit longer than a lot of other series, I don't believe that it's that old.
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Isekai itself may have been around since the 80s, yes, but the modern version of the genre didn't start until the late 2000s and early 2010s. Before that it was generally a much different game. The point is, it was there near the start and played a big role in establishing the tropes. It didn't create the tropes or introduce them to the genre, but it was still early on and both its take and its ultimate popularity played a big role in the development of the genre. At the very least, it's a little off to treat it as just another bit that does the exact same thing everything else does when it came around back when there really weren't that many in the "everyone else".