What I love and hate about the Isekai/portal fantasy genre. *RANT*

Representing_Tromba

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Berserk moment
*cries*
But other than that, I don't see this as a problem,
The isekai you are watching is either solely focused on fan service,

Or,

It is using fan service as a clickbait.

In both of these situations, I don't have any problems with women not having personalities, mainly because many isekais are targeted towards boys, so it is optimal to spend more time writing action rather than developing some drama.
I just see a cool title so I check it out. Then I realize what it is and try to push through it so I can decide whether I like it or not.
 

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And god bless Oda for having a proper end prepared in case he died.

I hate studios who task other authors to try and continue the dead guy's work. Always end up shit.
Or as bad, they get another author to co-write while the author in question is declining, and while they get close, its just "blander" then the original author is.
 

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I think isekai is a really cool genre, it just gets dragged down by the copycat, self insert stories.
Like a really good isekai manga is Time Stop Brave, an isekai manga that has the normal European medieval era and Japanese protagonist, but while the protagonist is a less violent person, he is also pervy, using his time stop powers(which he has from a game controller) to do Pervy stuff like when he does stuff while time is stopped and people say”Wow, you did that in an instant“ he time stops and nipple pinches them, disagreeing, saying it took weeks or even months. Also, the main really cool factor, he has to get involved into problems because he’s timed when time isn’t stopped, and he needs a ‘stage clear’ to reset his timer, however, he doesn’t even know how to get clear the stage, so he usually does insignificant side quests trying to clear the main quest.
He enters a different ‘game’ and also asks question about why he was summoned here, and why everything is so much like a game
 

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The thing with Isekai MCs having no connections to their old world is just that. They were cellar-dwelling weebs whose only contact to the other gender (not including family) was when buying cup noodles...

Those are more often than not as delusional as their readers
 

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The Isekai genre struggles not because of some fundamental problem with the concept of Isekai, but the reasons why it is popular. When an author writes a story through Isekai, then even their death will not detract from their impact (see Zero no Tsukaima). However, when an author decides first that they will write an Isekai and simply ticks off boxes on a checklist of tropes (see Isekai wa Smartphone), then it will become clear to the audience that all they are reading is a hollow imitation. Unfortunately, the latter is far too common.
 

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Great potential, wasted content.
A lot of times I believe is that the author has a smidge of idea and just use isekai as a background because their idea will not float in any time period but also, they want their MC to be a proxy of them.

They don't want to flesh out their world, they just want to put it in a location and start showing off what their MC is.

As for the harems, slavery, cults and nobles, it is just the standard pieces like the items in Minecraft creative mode.

Which is fine until they start to shit in the kiddy pool that they refuse to get out to a larger pool and continue to waddle in it and call it Slice Of Life.
 

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The Isekai genre continues to grow in both the anime community and the literary community. However, I have a few complaints that many of you share but for some reason are still used all the time. I do have some complaints though that very few people seem to talk about. Now, I don't want to sound like a hypocrite because I am currently writing an Isekai but I do my best to avoid all of the things that I will be complaining about.

Most Isekai always seems to stick to a strangely harem-like setup with around 2 to 5 love interests that have different personalities. Some of them joined the party out of admiration for the protagonist; others were forced into the party by way of slavery, debt, order from some authority, or they want to keep an eye on another character in the party. All the cookie-cutter tropes just get on my nerves. there's no depth to most of the characters and the select few shows that do have good character depth usually don't get a conclusion.

This is my other big problem with it. They only on occasions get conclusions. The story doesn't end properly because the writer either got bored, died, or was unable to continue publishing/making the show due to something outside their control. Though there are a few outliers with this, they were either really short or the writer was actually able to push through and get them out into the medium.

Anyways, what are your thoughts on this?
Mushouku tensei exists*
Well they made isekai for some quick bucks rather than gaining popularity(anime studios).
 

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Mushouku tensei exists*
Well they made isekai for some quick bucks rather than gaining popularity(anime studios).
Mushouku Tensei is one of the few series that I can say does not suck due to these tropes. The characters and world are really fleshed out and the book series is completed. Nothing seems like a trope even when it is.
 
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