Always has been
White rappers, jynco jeans, manly pastels, adults obsessing over stuffed animal collecting, fad songs in languages most folks don't speak... what's not to believe?
And it turns out the reason Pratt said he isn't doing an italian accent is because he's doing a Brooklyn one instead. We have less than ten words out of him, but the "here" in "Mushroom Kingdom here we come" sounded non-rhotic with the r shifted towards a y sound, characteristically Noo Yawk and not his normal accent.
Also, as expected, Jack Black's Bowser is perfect.
Mario is like proto-Isekai brosis
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I guess that partially explains where the idea for the concept came from.
What I meant (mostly in a joking sense) is that we can blame Mario for the isekai genre.Not sure what idea or concept you're referring to, but "Mario's originally from our world/Brooklyn" dates back to like 1986-ish. It's been the background lore for quite a while. Though I think it hasn't been called out in the games or game manuals, just in the side movies and animation...like, a LOT of the side stuff...
I blame Alice in Wonderland myself.What I meant (mostly in a joking sense) is that we can blame Mario for the isekai genre.
Well, no, of course not. It's also Bob Hoskins--RIP--doing a Brooklyn accent.The only canon that matters is that Mario isn't literally just Chris Pratt doing a Chris Pratt impression.
What I meant (mostly in a joking sense) is that we can blame Mario for the isekai genre.
The formula of modern fantasy Isekai is set by Narnia, which is mindfucking popular in Japan enough to be published as light novel.