This Isekai is not for the faint of heart, as it deals with dark and harsh themes.
- Japanese title: Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku
- First release Japan: October 1999
- First release Germany: October 2003
- Episodes: 13
What is it about? The ordinary kendo student Shu tries to protect the strange girl Lala-Ru from a heavily armed mecha unit. In an attempt to save her, the two are transported through a portal to a desolate, drying desert world.
The world is terrorized by the gigantic flying fortress Hellywood, ruled by a mad dictator, King Hamdo. Hamdo wants to capture LaLa-Ru at all costs because she possesses a magical amulet that can generate water. And in this drying world, water is the most valuable resource. Meanwhile, Shu is captured by the dictator and trained as a child soldier.
Why is this an Isekai? In this series, the Isekai scenario is staged as a brutal anti-war drama. The parallel world is not an adventurous playground with a fantasy setting but a dystopian nightmare full of resource scarcity and survival struggle. So there is no overpowering protagonist; on the contrary, the protagonist is stripped of all freedoms.
There are many other series that didn’t fit into this list, such as The Vision of Escaflowne or Monster Rancher. Which Isekai comes to your mind that you only realized years later was actually from the genre? Feel free to write it in the comments.
By the way, when Inu Yasha first aired on RTL 2, the ending was never shown. It was only addressed many episodes later. Where you can now catch up on the big finale, you can read in the following article on MeinMMO: 20 years after Inuyasha on RTL 2, Crunchyroll finally offers the ending for Germany as well
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