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I have a raging fanboy mild intellectual interest history as it pertains to the evolution of the present, and given the modern ubiquity of exiled/banished manga, I'm curious about the oldest titles that laid down the tropes we see to this day. Unlike the broader genre of, say, isekai, which has strong historical roots and presence in global literary traditions, the exiled/banished genre seems to be (from my admittedly limited perspective) a spontaneous, indigenous creation of the WN/LN/manga pipeline. Did they evolve independently of the villainess genre? A natural evolution by extending those tropes to more traditional shounen stories?
(Yes, I'm aware that exile is a fundamental part of many mythological tales. Without citation, I'm pretty certain the vast majority of those tales had exile as a direct result of a f***-up by the hero, rather than overt stupidity on the part of the exilers)
So...what are the oldest example of this genre that y'all know of? Non-villainess titles would be better since IMO there's a fundamental difference between villainess tales and exiled/banished stories (open to being proved wrong, of course!), but if they help chart the evolutionary path, lay 'em on.
(Yes, I'm aware that exile is a fundamental part of many mythological tales. Without citation, I'm pretty certain the vast majority of those tales had exile as a direct result of a f***-up by the hero, rather than overt stupidity on the part of the exilers)
So...what are the oldest example of this genre that y'all know of? Non-villainess titles would be better since IMO there's a fundamental difference between villainess tales and exiled/banished stories (open to being proved wrong, of course!), but if they help chart the evolutionary path, lay 'em on.