Do you like Isekai? Hate it? Why? What aspect or aspects do you like or dislike the most? What would you like to see more or less of in Isekai?
What are your feelings on Isekai?
Lincoln Scott
Daniel Murphy
Bumping
Adam Fisher
>Do you like Isekai?
Yes.
>Why?
Why do people enjoy junk food? Because, despite how bad it is for you, it's appetizing. Isekai, and light novels in general, are the same thing. They're not the best literature the world has to offer but sometimes I'm not looking for the best, I just want to see an overpowered protagonist stomp through the world because he can.
>What aspect or aspects do you like or dislike the most?
Japanese MC brings his cuisine to the isekai world and everyone is amazed. I'd like to see an isekai where they do it and everyone just tells the MC his food tastes like shit, just once for a change of pace.
>What would you like to see More or Less of in Isekai?
More fleshed out magic systems based on believable concepts and ideas.
Juan Walker
'Ate isekai, like power fantasies, simple as.
Aiden Lee
I like how the protagonists tend to gather harems.
Connor Morgan
>OL dies and reincarnates
>can now murder people with no problems
some real isekai shit going on here
Wyatt Harris
I really liked Isekai wa Smartphone. It was just so ridiculous and fun, with lots of cute girls. Tfw you will never be a godlike entity in a world where loli polyamory is acceptable
Wyatt Cox
I love Smartphone and I don't care who knows it.
Jordan Miller
Isekai provides an excuse for lazy authors to explain how the world works to the readers.
It's okay when done right but often authors ruin it by giving the MC better knowledge of the world or magic just because it's losely based on a game he played previously.
Brayden Rivera
Angel Morris
What series is the OP pic?
Jordan Ward
Older Isekai like the first Digimon were alright because there was some kind of actual plot to move the story forward. Shit like smartphone or death march are just generic and mostly interchangeable
Josiah Martinez
Meme team?
Eli Cruz
What about more female protagonists?
Nolan Jenkins
Anyone?
Daniel Clark
This thread?
Really?
Daniel Peterson
Cute
Justin Ramirez
Jackson Allen
Read otome isekai if you want female protagonists.
Aiden Gray
Never heard of that.
Parker King
I don't hate the Isekai genre I just wish people would realize that one of it's main appeals is that it's just a slight spin on the Fantasy genre. I want Japan to do more western style fantasy that isn't just some dork getting run over by a truck then being turned into a god with his own personal harem. Japan doing western style fantasy has given us stuff like Berserk and Dark Souls, they need to do it more.
Since we're stuck with the genre though, I want it to shift to more of a "Protagonist has to figure out how to survive in a totally alien world" form of storytelling. That's why Log Horizon (Season 1) was so fascinating. An extremely clever person and his friends use their heads and their special abilities to overcome complex problems. The characters are powerful yeah, but only in certain niches, and often times they're facing problems that can't be overcome with raw power, like the politicking with the NPC factions. Anything that gets away from the tired ass "Hero has a busted power and a harem handed to him, then he faces no challenges ever". That shit is boring. If you're gonna do a power fantasy, at least take it to it's logical conclusion and explore it properly. I'm sick of these protags with beautiful women practically throwing themselves at them, and they never do anything. So instead of a real power fantasy ala Conan the Barbarian it's this weird paradox where you have an overpowered MC surrounded by willing women, and he barely uses either of them.
Jordan Baker
you've got a whole new world of isekai waiting for you
John Carter
>Hey author, can I copy your homework?
Joshua Butler
I love it because it's mostly fun and easy going.
>What aspect or aspects do you like or dislike the most?
The same cliche that migrate from show to show
>What would you like to see more or less of in Isekai?
Less MMORPG isekai, less boring battle grind isekai, less middle ages europe isekai
More otome/vn isekai, more evil MCs, more magic powers in isekai, more pure comedy isekai, more comfy isekai
Nathaniel Wood
Who is this lady?
Logan Martinez
This beautiful lady is the best maid in Overlord
Sebastian Smith
Why is she best?
Benjamin King
By every existing criteria. read the LN.
Nathan Nguyen
What I hate is modern harem isekai that basically just copy and paste the same concept over and over instead of telling an actual adventure story where the characters go on a real quest while trying to complete objectives that will lead them home as they grow along the way.
Being sent to another world should be the impetus for a larger quest and driving force of a larger tale. Not a shit self insert who gets magic win buttons by god for no reason.
Justin Price
Instead of being eventually forced into solving the worlds problems, setting more goals in life for themselves would be nice, like impregnating one of every species or taking the virginity of every princess in the world.
Nathaniel Ross
Isekai is fine as long is dumb shit that doesn take itself seriously like pic related. Im not saying smartphone is a top-tier series though, the problem is that the isekai genre just doesnt work.
Evan Peterson
Being transported to a different world is an old as fuck idea and has worked plenty of times in the past. It's only somewhat recently that it's gotten so lazily terrible.
Adrian White
Damn, i feel old.
Ryan Parker
>MC's element is "darkness"
errytime.
David Thompson
>What I hate is modern harem isekai that basically just copy and paste the same concept over and over
> instead of telling an actual adventure story where the characters go on a real quest while trying to complete objectives that will lead them home as they grow along the way
>basically just copy and paste the same concept over and over
>basically just copy and paste the same concept over and over