Nothing in the current popular anime/manga lists that I'm reading is jumping out to me as portal—lots and lots of alternate real world and fantasy in the real world, no entering another world. But I'm about 30% ignorant and may be overlooking some obvious examples.
It does occur to me to mention that there are a slew of Japanese indie games which are portal fantasies: Corpse Party, and Yume Nikki and sequels (Yume Nisshi, Yume 2kki, .flow), and Ib—all of which were originally one-man basement projects with viral internet releases (Corpse Party went on to be a published game), which I guess is one way of circumventing a perceived lack of market interest in the genre if one also exists in Japan.
(Forgot the predominant YA context here, so should add: all the games wander somewhere between young adult and adult—mature, grotesque subject matter, but that doesn't necessarily make something non-YA; protagonists have undefined age groups ranging from child to teenage; audiences are probably predominantly 16-26.)
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Date: 2012-10-16 06:02 pm (UTC)It does occur to me to mention that there are a slew of Japanese indie games which are portal fantasies: Corpse Party, and Yume Nikki and sequels (Yume Nisshi, Yume 2kki, .flow), and Ib—all of which were originally one-man basement projects with viral internet releases (Corpse Party went on to be a published game), which I guess is one way of circumventing a perceived lack of market interest in the genre if one also exists in Japan.
(Forgot the predominant YA context here, so should add: all the games wander somewhere between young adult and adult—mature, grotesque subject matter, but that doesn't necessarily make something non-YA; protagonists have undefined age groups ranging from child to teenage; audiences are probably predominantly 16-26.)