And when you look at the subsequent books in the series, Dorothy’s arrival in Oz always follows some kind of deeply traumatic event.
My poisoned headcanon for this says that Dorothy is a deeply traumatized kid who regularly disassociates into fantasy as a coping mechanism, which would put the Land of Oz series more in the territory of psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator than isekai.
And when you look at the subsequent books in the series, Dorothy’s arrival in Oz always follows some kind of deeply traumatic event.
My poisoned headcanon for this says that Dorothy is a deeply traumatized kid who regularly disassociates into fantasy as a coping mechanism, which would put the Land of Oz series more in the territory of psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator than isekai.
In the 1985 film Return to Oz, Dorothy is subjected to psychiatric abuse for her “delusions” of Oz.