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We really need to hammer down a definition of "Isekai" for the conversation to go on. How it works is going to be pretty arbitrary. Personally I lump Isekai and Planetary Romance together because I disapprove of dividing things by nationality and saying "Only X country can create X genre." It...

Ha, yeah even that story's pretty recent as Isekai goes though. The oldest Japanese Isekai I'm aware of is Urashima Tarō and it dates to the 8th century at the latest. The anime version was made in 1918.

Western Planetary Romance (Aka Isekai before the Japanese term became popular) were more often a sci-fi setting than fantasy. Buck Rogers in the 24th century f'rex, where Rogers was put into suspended animation by a mysterious gas in a cave in and woke up five centuries later. Sherlock Holmes...