Portal Fantasy in western terms. It's existed since the beginning of "Proper Fantasy Literature"--Tolkien and Lewis' contemporaries usually wrote portal fantasies because it was Tolkien who initially came up with a complete world outside of the contemporary modern world and characters.

Interesting, thanks!

Oh, something that occurs in a lot of fiction the more I think about it.

Yup from Digimon to Chronicles of Narnia

Enchanted is reverse Isikai

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That's the best way to describe it. I guess the follow-up, which I plan to watch for myself soon, is kind of half reverse Isikai and half Isikai.

Its not as good as

Yeah, I know the reception isn't as good as the first. But still, I am almost always willing to give things a shot, just to see what I think or even to learn some lessons to avoid in my writings (since I aspire to be a filmmaker).