http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-07-08/light-novel-contest-overwhelmed-with-alternate-world-entries/.103996
>Of the 46 winning stories listed on the "Net Novel Prize" contest's website, 14 have "alternate world" directly in the title. Some examples are
>The Unparalleled Saint Salaryman and the Road to Surviving in an Alternate World
>Alternate World Station Café
>Alternate World Brothel Manager
>Item Collector in an Alternate World
>This Alternate World's Magical Language Looks Just Like Japanese
>Doing My Best to Pet Fluffy Things in an Alternate World.
>The Chronicle of the Male Virgin Who Travels to the Alternate World Chiirem [cheat + harem] and Gains Healing Magic.
> "Alternate World Station Café"
> "Alternate World Brothel Manager"
Wow these authors are not even trying anymore, wish I knew moon language.
What's your opinion on isekai stories, /a/?
>>143899195
Isn't that the contest that barred isekai entries? I think those entries are deliberately made and submitted out of spite.
迷宮レストラン ダンジョン最深部でお待ちしております
>異世界でも鍵屋さん
>Locksmith-san in alternate world
>Harem party members
Seriously?
>>143899195
>Doing My Best to Pet Fluffy Things in an Alternate World.
This sounds comfy.
>>143899317
Hundreds rejected but some of the isekai entries passed.
>>143899195
Sounds like the flood of OreImo clones a few years back.
Although, 14 out of 46 isn't exactly "overwhelmed".
>>143899317
Nah, the article says it's a different contest.
>>143899195
I think somewhere, a reviewer is reading this and going:
> "Shoot me. This is hell."
>>143899614
More than 1/4 is pretty overwhelming actually.
escaping into another reality is safer than facing or writing about this one
>>143899799
Reviewers are used to trends.
>>143899487
would read
>>143899450
I actually like the idea of a modern locksmith having to do dungeoneering. But my god did this just kill that interest in the same breath.
>>143899195
What is it with Japan and excessively long titles? What's next?
>A Story All About How My Life Got Flipped, Turned Upside Down, I'd Like to Take a Minute, Just Sit Right There, I'll Tell You How I Became the Prince of an Alternate World.
>>143899195
>Alternate World Brothel Manager
Would read.
This is the winner
>In fact, the 1st place Grand Prix prize, which included publication of the story and 1,000,000 yen (about $9925.80 USD), was won by a story about traveling to an alternate world titled, "The Chronicle of the Male Virgin Who Travels to the Alternate World Chiirem [cheat + harem] and Gains Healing Magic."
http://ncode.syosetu.com/n7362cy/
My little school battle harem from an alternate world that is actually an RPG can't have a name this long when?
>>143899948
When you have 14 isekai stories, who is going to bother to read a synopsis of each? That's why you give the synopsis in the title.
>>143899989
When reading the titles I thought that sounded like the most awful one.
Not all isekai stories are bad, there must be some isekai stories with good plot like konosuba.
>>143900116
Settings don't matter in comedies
>>143899989
>Chiirem
Long-titles with made-up words in them are now a thing.
>>143900076
It can't be worse than this piece of shit
I just thought a reversal with someone from a fantasy world having to adapt to our world would be a nice twist, but then remembered Hataraku is already a thing
>>143899989
>Alternate world
>Harem shit
>1st place
I'm not surprised, just disappointed.
10/10 isekai LN/anime
Prove me wrong
>>143899195
>The Unparalleled Saint Salaryman
love it
>>143900241
I would rather there should have been more of that right now. The real world presented in a better package is better escapism.
>>143900324
Subaru is shit and him getting BTFO doesn't change that
>>143900241
Why not both?
pic related
>>143900324
Emilia is literally the worst girl of RE:Zero
>Doing My Best to Pet Fluffy Things in an Alternate World.
That actually sounds great. Anime adaption when?
>>143900180
what the fuck this looks awful
>>143900180
Someone killed Japan's ability to design characters long ago. Now all that's left are these cosplay, chuuni, rejects.
>>143900374
I just realized isekai stories have been popular in Japan since forever.
>>143900368
He's miles better than most of isekai MC
>>143900386
t. Remfag
Fuck you
>>143900449
does kamachi count as a person who could design characters?
>>143900374
This series really wasn't that bad.
>>143900473
only 1 YYH arc is Isekai, and it's the last one. Anyone who read until that point was already hooked to begin with.
>>143900412
If you liked that, you might like Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. Give it a read.
>>143899799
Greentext is already a quotation, newfag.
>>143900536
He isn't. It's just that the situations he's in are actually entertaining. He pretty much single handedly ruined the second arc for me
>>143899195
TO CAPITALISM!
>>143900473
Isekai series have been popular everywhere since forever. Parallel worlds are not a new invention in the slightest.
>>143900567
>>143900656
Yeah but there are tons of 80's or 90's isekai anime but I can't remember any.
>>143900473
You could have picked an example in which the depiction of the isekai isn't upstaged by shounen fighting tournament.
>>143900577
I'll give it a shot then.
>>143900536
I'm not a Remfag, I am just objective
>>143900542
>kamachi
He gets a pass because he's a goddam monster
>>143900676
Fuushigi Yuugi, Escaflowne, etc.
When will Japan realize that they don't need Isekai MC to create good RPG story like DanMachi
>>143899195
Is there a story that involvecellphone, deuce ex, and boy fall in love with a girl?
>>143900775
>don't need Isekai MC to create good RPG story
Yeah, I think we all agr-
>like DanMachi
HAHAHA you lost me.
>>143900754
he really is
>>143900775
Because they can't self-insert
>>143900804
No idea but here's the one with the cellphone
>Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomoni
>>143900560
It was pretty damn bad.
>>143900775
RPG worlds are even worse. For fuck sakes try doing a setting that isn't so obviously copy pasted from the videogames you play.
>>143900804
I think someone photoshopped phones on all the characters' hands in Toradora
>>143900913
Yeah, but just copy-paste it from D&D and /a/'ll eat that right up.
>>143900865
Oh shit I fucked up, I wanted to say that is not the same self-inserting in a RPG story than an Isekai
>>143900944
>>>143900913
>Yeah, but just copy-paste it from D&D and /a/'ll eat that right up.
>>143900956
>copy-paste it from D&D
Yea if only. Most don't really do that.
I guess Overlord is the closest that I know.
>>143900944
At least D&D settings are not literal games. RPG stories have characters with fucking stats
>>143900804
Yes.MirAiNikki
>>143899614
14 with it "in the title".
My first and most favorite isekai anime
>isekai story with fuckin awesome character and mecha design, also with actual good story.
Why they can't make something like this anymore?
>>143901023
Have you not watched/read anything made before 2005, or what? There are tons of literal TTRPG session-logs that got published and were then reworked into manga/LNs/anime due to popularity.
>>143901133
Forgot the memorable OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtFYF4LtvNQ
>actually good Iseikai
>>143901142
Lodoss War being the most obvious.
>>143900116
MDJ is a great one, but that's more because the setting allows for all kinds of interesting shit from various mythologies and cultures, and actually has a solid cast of likeable characters.
>>143899195
You know I wouldn't have a problem with these if the MC was somewhat enjoyable but they can never get that part right
>>143901213
But this was awful.
>>143901190
>>143900656
This, I grew up reading kids and teen books on that shit.
>>143901247
get a better taste
>>143901229
Mondaiji was fun for like a couple of episodes until the plot kicked in.
NGNL done wrong
>>143901213
Tried reading this again and it's actually not that good. Not sure why I used to like it so much. Dorothy still best though.
Can SAO be categorized as isekai anime?
>>143901142
I was talking about narou isekai
>>143901400
more like isekai shit
>>143901400
It's the videogame isekai. Read the thread, there's plenty of those
>>143900347
Mizukami already did it far better than anyone else could.
>>143901439
>isekai shit
That would be konosuba and rezero. In before fedora tippers bawwwwwww
How about, "I was Reincarnated Into an Alternate World but it Uses First Edition Rules and I Cannot Choose Which Type of Polearm to Use"?
>>143901439
Hate it as much as you can but the fact it's the evangelion of 2010s era can't be changed.
The younger generation will acknowledged SAO as the pioneer of isekai stories.
>>143901400
Nope, since they are still in the actual game.Now look at all the retards disagree
>>143899195
>Alternate World Brothel Manager
I'd play it
>>143901554
>evangelion of 2010s era
become meguca
>>143901554
>The younger generation will acknowledged SAO as the pioneer of isekai stories.
And in doing so they'll prove how little they know.
Re:Zero is the best isekai story from modern times prove me wrong
>>143899195
Alternate world stories got old 2 decades ago and they are worse now
>>143901554
GLOPPING
>>143899195
>This Alternate World's Magical Language Looks Just Like Japanese
I kind of wish this won, it looks kind of funny.
>>143901603
>He, who was an authentic Vending Machine maniac, died from a traffic accident while protecting a vending machine
>He, who had expected that his life was finished, woke up in a lake shore surrounded by abundant nature.
>He didn’t understand what had happened to himself― he only knew that he had become a vending machine.
Sorry but that one goes to- I Reincarnated Into a Vending Machine.
>>143899283
>salad cake
>>143899450
I would read this
>>143899611
Wait...are you talking about that contest that actually banned isekai?
It's a shame because there are many ways to make the Earth human transported to alternate world interesting.
Yet for some reason their alternate world is always the shittiest most generic MMO-style fantasy setting imaginable.
Why no sci-fi alternate world? Why no alien planet? Why always RPG mechanics? Why do none of them ever try to leave the alternate world?
It's like they're limiting themselves on top of limitations.
>>143901334
>NGNL
>not trash
>>143901829
Shitty RPG settings are easy to settle into for both the reader and the writer because you're already familiar with everything that goes on.
Something like an alien world would require imagination since you'd have to come up with most of it yourself.
>>143901829
"I am the last member of the EG.9TeNtAcLeSuRpRiSe fanclub. This is my story."
>>143901861
At least NGNL understands that "OP characters that cannot lose by law" and "serious story" can't go together
Iseikai can be good, there's a lot of options with the setting/plot/story/characters/etc.
But adding the harem element makes it shit pretty much every time and it's not because all harems are bad but because if you have to put someone in an alternate world and then give them a harem it shows you are a terrible uncreative writer and there's almost no chance your story is decent.
>>143901829
In case you seriously can't figure it out - they are only making isekai stories in the first place because they want to make these generic MMO-style NEET isekai stories. It's not that "parallel worlds" as a general concept is hip right now, it's that these specific kind of isekai stories are hip.
>>143899195
>Of the 46 winning stories
>The Unparalleled Saint Salaryman
Woah, nice.
You know, I'm kinda surprised that no one's really tried to do a work based on the opposite, something like a regular knight transferring to our world, seems like a pretty obvious route considering Japan has a bit of a penchant of subverting present tropes and genres. Not in the sense of demon kings and heroes and whatnot like in Hataraku, but just a normal dude drafted into the regular army, transferred into our world while near-death on the battlefield or something.
I'm pretty sure you can get a bit of a mileage out of that, if the author chooses to tackle a serious theme or an introspective look of our modern society from an outsider or medieval perspective, for better or for worse.
>>143901829
>Why no sci-fi alternate world? Why no alien planet?
John Carter anime when?
>>143902022
That would require japanese writers to do something unique. I'm quite sure this is impossible.
>>143901990
So they're making stories that are purely about a shitty neet suddenly being an amazing person because he's in a different world?
And ruining the idea of alternate world setting while doing so?
>>143900638
No he really is, I find the idea of a protagonist that is deconstructed and revealed to be pride and all his actions and speeches were nothing more than to raise himself higher.
>>143901937
>But adding the harem element makes it shit pretty much every time
I beg to differ, it will be shit with twintails/ponytail tsundere girl #182357 and short haired kuudere girl #130375 but it can be good with enjoyable harem members like Jibril from NGNL.
>>143902022
I don't know about Japan, but that's less common in general because the fantasy setting is just more attractive to most people than a modern day setting.
>>143902023
Exactly. It's not really a new idea, when you think about it, isn't Harry Potter also kinda the same thing? Regular loser kid gets transported to a secret magical world where he's hot shit?
>>143902022
What is Kuromukuro
>>143902062
>hey, guys, this amateur RPG story I read online is bad, nips can't write!
This is even dumber than judging a culture by the content of their cartoons for manchildren.
Hey, I have an idea! Let's have a trap become an isekai mc!
>>143902135
A perfect example.
>>143902165
The only nip writers that matter are the ones that write anime/manga/web novels/etc.
>Salaryman transported to the distant future
>Is saved by a cute tomboy space pirate in a body suit
>She has a cute trap engineer and a wisecracking battle droid that was discarded by the military because it had a sense of humor.
>Ship is a run down hunk of junk as its revealed the space pirate is terrible at the piracy part.
>Was formerly a slave freighter converted into an "international waters" brothel ship converted into a shitty pirate ship retaining some of the more exotic additions from the brothel stage.
Can I win contest now?
>>143902135
Last time I checked, modern society doesn't have ancient building-sized mechas running around beating back an oni incursion.
I thought a key feature of isekai was an MC form our world ending up in a parallel fantasy world. So you're telling me even a story that doesn't have characters that arrived into the fantasy world are isekai as well?
Because that is half of all fiction ever. I mean I get why they'd ban stories with MCs reincarnating into alternate worlds, but why ban alternate worlds altogether? That's much too vast a category.
>>143902022
>>143902414
He mentioned Hataraku, anon.
>>143902279
If the nip can ban isekai, why can't we ban fucking zombies?
Actually, I'll just combine both. It's an isekai story where the MC is an ancient, poweful lich who has finally burned out all life on his native world, turning every single creature on it into undead minions and a font of power.
He sacrifices millions of them to open a portal to another world, ours.
From our point of view, what starts out as a regular zombie invasion turns into an even greater nightmare when the Lich starts bringing Zombie giants, Zombie Dragons and Zombie mages into our world along with the hordes of humanoid and beast zombies he starts with.
Can our modern weaponry stand against his planet-encompassing might?
Overlord in reverse, kinda.
>>143899450
>party defeats final boss
>fuck its locked AGAIN?
>this lock... I've never seen it before
>you say that everytime
>but you see, my lockpicking skills in the other world are much more advanced than this world silly locks
>>143902511
Literally every Invasion Movie ever. Aliens come and get rekted. So will anything else. America is strong after all. They will find a way.
![[WhyNot] Thermae Romae - 03 [8F9EB3AC].mkv_snapshot_07.22_[2012.01.20_22.46.26].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dWstNLq.jpg "[WhyNot] Thermae Romae - 03 [8F9EB3AC].mkv_snapshot_07.22_[2012.01.20_22.46.26].jpg")
>>143902022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
Isekai? In my 1950's Christian Teen Novels? It's more likely than you think!
>>143899450
fuck i had this idea like 10 years ago
>>143899948
>Got in One Little Fight and My Mom Got Scared, She Said "You're Moving With Your Auntie and Uncle in Another World"!?
Easy, just have the real mc be the native of the Fantasy world and the partner be part of the group that is summoned. And the partner is this kind of guy. Instant good story. Make it like Heavy Object with the brothers/partners only except in a more realistic scenario. Instant success and more fresh.
>>143902611
While Thermae is pretty fucking rad, it's not exactly a "parallel" world now isn't it? It's more about time traveling shenanigans.
>>143902664
>make the real mc be the native
Everytime with /a/
>>143899195
>Brothel Manage
>Salaryman
Can I have both of those?
>>143902664
More series need bros like Heivia and Quenser and them
>>143902694
The main thing is to make the japanese look amazing in the other world.
Nearly every isekai has some reference to japanese culture or japanese morals when they talk about the world they get into.
Either they want to remake japanese food in that world, or they act too formal, or they don't rape enough people, or they don't like slavery, etc.
Its ironic since japanese work life is worse than slavery.
>>143902852
>Nearly every isekai
[citation needed]
>>143902840
Its fucking kamachi
he writes bro characters
thats what he does
What japan really needs is more writers that are like kamachi and have more masculine characters who act more american.
>>143902705
No reincarnation, no transported mc. The guy is his own person within the world that he lives in. His partner is this kind of guy. Top tier character, he was the only smart one, fucking bro all the way. (I hated tortured souls, Ayumi is nothing more than a piece of shit) >>143902664
>>143901400
I say yes but only for the first season.
>light novels
found the problem
>>143902915
Its a generalization my citation is every novel ever
Series that I know offhand that did this just for food:
Death March
Kuma kuma kuma bear kuma
Slave Harem
>>143899450
the smug frog does not approve
>>143900347
>The Unparalleled Saint Salaryman
Is that this?
http://tseirptranslations.com/invincible-saint-salaryman-toc
>>143899195
>>The Chronicle of the Male Virgin Who Travels to the Alternate World Chiirem [cheat + harem] and Gains Healing Magic
I didn't know a person could be this shameless and self-indulgent.
>>143901554
>evangelion of 2010s
What was eva the pioneer for?
Whiny bitch protagonists?
>>143899948
>>143902660
Chapter 1:
In West Akihabara, born and raised, with the meido is where I spent most of my days. Sweatin' all max, even though the room's cool, while eating my rice stuffed in an omu.
>>143903015
So you must know Japanese, I assume? Or are we just comparing to other translated novels from translators who all look for similar shit because that's what people want and therefore it looks like there's a surplus of them when really translators just don't translate the other kinds of stories.
>>143902948
What we really need is more autists like Kawakami that put in an absurd level of effort to flesh out their worlds/characters.
>>143903015
Death March is bullshit. I don't give a single fuck about people saying it is comfy, that added nothing to the story medium and that quality was shit. This is better at this point.
>>143899799
I have a friend who works in a book store. He says nothing will ever be as bad as having to stock dozens of new twilight knock-offs every single week for years.
Every possible permutation of girl X special guy you could imagine has been done and redone dozens of times. And it keeps selling. Because women.
>>143902664
>make it like Heavy Object
>instant success
>>143900180
you know what's terrifying? Is that Arifureta isn't even a BAD LN by japanese standards. It's a shit Isekai wish fulfillment shitpile with a nonsensical plot and unbelievable characters, but it's much better than trash like Danmachi.
>>143903192
If a LN was bad, you wouldn't hear about it. That's the point dumbass. If you're hearing about a LN. That means it's good to the overall population.
>>143903137
I loved the series and even I got tired of it.
>>143903192
People are just mad that he didn't stay with Yue and the lava submarine. Everything else was pretty awesome mang
>>143903185
Other than the bromance, everything was shit. That is why you only include the only good part, bromance.
>>143899989
That sounds absolutely horrible. I bet it's nothing but smutt and power fantasy and more smutt.
>>143903192
>Arifureta is better than Danmachi
Oh you
>>143901223
Lodoss War is interesting, cause the characters are the actual characters the creators played in there custom D&D campaign
That's dedication to backstory
>>143903185
It would have been a success if only it wasn't used as some tool to troll the fans of Index, which had 20k sales averaged over four seasons.
>>143900560
Oh look Naraku got a power-up, time to upgrade my sword, oh look he got another one.
>>143903232
of readers who are japanese highschoolers who mostly buy it based on the artwork of the girls on the cover
>>143903261
Wouldn't it be funny if the whole point of the title was a farce to get you to think that was the case, but it was actually good?
>>143903269
Sword Oratoria is pretty damn good in comparison to mostly anything though.
>>143903292
different time and demographic
>>143902852
>The main thing is to make the japanese look amazing in the other world.
Isn't that more making modern western values look amazing?
>>143900944
Only if it's a parody like Retarded Dragon Girls
>>143903269
much better. its not even comparable. Danmachi was written by a half illiterate middle schooler. Arifureta was written by a moderately literate high schooler.
>>143903261
That's a fairly terrible comparison when anime/LN/manga in general have smut and power fantasy. It's likely to have it, but it's not just that. Or else it wouldn't be top.
I declare "Choose your Own Adventure" to be the next Japanese fad in storytelling
>>143901400
It's what started this trend.
>>143903341
>of readers who are japanese highschoolers who mostly buy it based on the artwork of the girls on the cover
And? It doesn't matter who the reader is if it's able to spread to every other person's awareness.
>>143899450
Really interested in this one.
>>143902511
That's actually a decent idea anon.
>>143903363
That's what VNs already are, and have been since forever.
But they won't be the next big thing because they require actual effort to make. At least compared to shitting out a LN about a virgin loser otaku who dies and is reborn in another world and the desire to not waste his life again and the basic knowledge acquired by living for twenty years already makes him so amazing every female he encounters instantly impales herself on his cock.
There is such a thing as good D&D settings..
I am still waiting for the final chapters of Dungeon Meshi
>>143903384
This image is shopped right? In any case, the industry is always growing and advancing anyways. More anime is being produced. More people have access to watch it now. The industry is never going to die off unless people just suddenly stopped watching anime or something which as we know it is impossible for the next century.
>>143903444
Locksmith's solution to master locks..
WE DRILL IT!
>>143903336
It was pretty decent, if not a bit melodramatic, up until the first lolbarrier.
>>143903447
Truth be told this fad has grown far beyond Japan litrpg is all over amazon. most are completely mediocre but there are a few decent novels
>>143903482
They actually get more complex than that since you know. Magic.
>>143903343
As long as it looks like the japanese are responsible for it its a pass really.
Thats what I noticed.
>>143903353
Its pretty much the fantasies I had when I was 14 in story form but better. Thats why I like anime, it reminds me of all the fantasies I had when I was 14.
>>143903395
Look we both know where you're going so just ask yourself if either of us really cares.
I know I did.
>>143903450
Besides Overlord?
https://isekailunatic.wordpress.com/tsuki-ga-michibiku-isekai-douchuu/
isn't really DnD but it has a lot of races, a pocket dimension, a cooking spider, and a bitch goddess.
MC is OP as fuck but he mostly wants to run a business and he's only 'fought' three times in the series which was mostly him screaming like a bitch and not dying
>>143903463
Kumeta works have tons of references, I'd be willing to bet that madoka is referenced at least 20 times in sayonara zetsubou sensei, and the original gundam is referenced at least five times.
>>143899195
>Alternate World Station Café
>Alternate World Brothel Manager
>The Chronicle of the Male Virgin Who Travels to the Alternate World Chiirem [cheat + harem] and Gains Healing Magic.
Would read actually, especially Salaryman and Brothel
>>143903463
By decline I think they mean quality as more series appealing to the LCD are produced. Carbon copies of what is currently selling and having a pre-established audience are the only way anything gets greenlit now without a big name attached.
>>143903132
Kawakami level autism is a little too much, not all series need to be thick enough to be viable armor
>>143903336
It was a nice change of pace from this enemy's stronger than me, time to train, oh look a new even stronger enemy.
>>143903549
>madoka is referenced at least 20 times in sayonara zetsubou sensei
That would be difficult, considering the SZS anime ended before Madoka existed and the manga ended like a year after Madoka aired.
>>143903603
>anime
>>143903574
How old is that image? The FMP slice is way too large now!
>>143903532
I hope something like this happened:
>why don't we just blow up the lock?
>you fool, these locks will destroy the contents if we do that!
>by the way I need payment in advance
>cue him doing locksmithing for the royal castle
>wait a second, is this really your house?
>>143903592
Having the same enemy just come back repeatedly is actually a step back from having stronger enemies show up repeatedly, I'd say. At least there's some sense of fucking progress with multiple enemies, as opposed to "oh, no, he got away again!"
>>143900913
This, Isekai is one thing but when it goes vidya then the negative will pile on the positives
>>143903582
A drop of Kawakami is all thats needed to make most series decent.
>>143903611
Yes, there was an SZS anime in addition to the manga. Or did you not finish reading my post?
>>143903532
magic drills
no seriously professional locksmiths rarely pick actual locks
its faster and easier just to break the lock and replace it
>>143903651
Yeah because the author was writing a more shounen version of Ranma, which constantly had the same characters fighting each other with different tactics. The fun was just sucked out which is why people complain, and no one cares about Rinne because its basically Ranma with more comedy.
>>143903691
Don't fuck with me anon this is breaking my worldview
>>143903574
Quality is a funny thing really. It only really matters in anime. In manga and LNs, you never talk about "quality". You just talk about how stupid the developments were which is the point of creating so many similar stories. They develop differently, while keeping to the same theme that the audience wants to see. A majority of people enjoy this, but there are those who will keep wondering why there's so many similar shows and call them copies. It's just not for them, but they shout the loudest so it's kind of annoying.
I'd like to tell Japan to knock it off, but eh. Let them do what they want.
>>143903592
This is the same author that made Ranma 1/2. She knew how to make fights entertaining without resorting to powerlevel garbage, she got real fucking lazy with Inuyasha.
Best Isekai. Prove me wrongPro-tip: You can't
If people like isekais so much why not make a story with a literal shitton of worlds.
Make the mc a soldier or a member of an organization of soldiers that travel through different worlds solving their problems.
Across every world he befriends different people who join the orgainzation and his quest.
>>143903798
I don't know it, so it must not be the best. SAO is even better than this because of that.
>picking underrated stories and saying they're the best
>>143903192
Arifureta became too edgy that it's shit. The only isekai I approved is I Reincarnated Into a Vending Machine
>>143903813
>If people like isekais so much why not make a story with a literal shitton of worlds.
There was that Hero BBS one. And I don't even read LNs/WNs, just manga, so I'm sure there are plenty more I don't know about.
>>143903525
I actually started writing my own. It's about an early 30s man who has a normal and perfect life on Earth. Good job, wife he loves, a young child and another on the way, friends, loving parents. One day he's summoned to another world and instantly beaten and made into a slave. He spends years this way learning to feel nothing but contempt and hatred for his new home which has a history thrice as long as ours but has never progressed because of the reliance of basic elemental manipulation magic and rampant slavery.
He eventually frees himself by murdering a rich mage master and impersonates him, learning about magic and more. Accumulating wealth and power with basic modern world inventions, a greater mastery of magic from modern understanding of physics, and ruthless ambition, he gains control of the kingdom he's in, and eventually forms an empire and founds a religion.
The point of the religion is sacrifice, which he uses to fuel a powerful ritual that match the power of the gods that transported him originally, and does send him home, but destroys the world at the same time. As he returns, the gods who transported him thank him for destroying the failed world they'd sent him to.
His magic sends him back home exactly when he was first taken, his body rejuvenated to be the same age. But the atrocities he committed have irredeemably change him, destroying his once perfect life and leaving him with an ever growing hatred of Earth, and a realization that he retained his mastery of magic.
I'm concerned it's an overall too depressing story and the MC is too evil, but those I've sent it too enjoyed it, so whatever.
>>143903844
Eh...
Excuse me?
>>143903813
There are stories like that. They don't work like the regular isekai because of the different worlds in one universe. Regular isekai focus on one world.
>>143903765
Except these days all LNs have to be based on a successful WN and increasingly you're not seeing upcoming managaka who won a newcomer award getting his original work serialized but adaptations of those LNs that are only published to advertise the upcoming anime.
>>143903813
>If people like isekais so much why not make a story with a literal shitton of worlds.
>Make the mc a soldier or a member of an organization of soldiers that travel through different worlds solving their problems.
>Across every world he befriends different people who join the orgainzation and his quest.
Stargate TV series?
>>143903344
Did that mobage ever get republished like they said it was gonna be?
>>143903844
>those eyes
Anime when?
>>143903844
>I Reincarnated Into a Vending Machine
What the fuck?
>>143901559
Technically in the last 5 or so books hes been in another world. Technically.
>>143903914
>increasingly you're not seeing upcoming managaka who won a newcomer award getting his original work serialized
I'm going to need to see some actual evidence of this as a widespread thing (and no, "I feel like I see less of it" is not real evidence), because it seems really fucking unlikely to me considering how many mangaka and magazines there are and how many different tastes they cater to.
>>143903844
The eyes ruin it. Could actually be pretty entertaining if the protagonist was replaced with an actual vending machine that everyone treated as the Hero. Would be a nice parody of the genre.
The less genitals you have the higher the chance of you being a good isekai MC.
>>143903914
>all LNs
You know that's not true because you couldn't pull a number if you wanted. Nice generalization though.
>not seeing upcoming mangaka who won a newcomer award
Maybe not you. Just tunnel vision on your part. You should look out for them more if you wanted to make that kind of comparison.
>>143903844
>Vending machine
Smt strange journey in a nutshell
>>143903940
Seriously, and here i thought the comic books based on minecraft let's players that we have in mexico were stupid...
A guy is reincarnated into a vending machine? Really?
>>143903914
>I don't read LNs or manga: the post
>>143903966
Technically you could say it was never about being games in the first place when you realize what AIs are.
>>143903844
>I Reincarnated Into a Vending Machine
reminds me of a certain JAV
>>143904055
>comic books based on minecraft let's players
What the fuck? I didn't know this was a thing, but it honestly sounds a lot dumber than isekai.
>>143899989
>chiirem
please kill me
>>143904055
To be fair, we all know the comic industry in the west is worse. Marvel and DC do some crazy shit but no one really cares about those in comparison to Japanese culture.
>>143903844
This seems like a gimmick novel that would be interesting for a volume or two but ultimately becomes boring.
>>143904099
Look up wigetta (or is is wiigeta?) or rubius virtual hero, and feel the terror invade you...
>>143903926
>Stargate style anime
Fuck I would watch that so hard.
>>143904002
>could be pretty entertaining
>hasn't even read it yet
Applaud you anon. Besides eyes are a key component of anime.
I think y'all are forgetting Sturgeon's law.
The vast majority of all entertainment media is garbage. And if a fad exists it's all the more likely to support the trend.
>>143903844
So randomly slapping a cute girl on the cover will make literally anything sell, huh?
Could I... Could I sell my own feces at 10$ a pop if I put it in a bag with a cute girl draw on it?
>>143901829
Because these authors are amateurs and doesn't know how to build a world so they resort to MMO style fantasy setting.
>>143904194
This has always been true in every part of the world, anon. Where have you been? It's like you don't understand advertisement.
>>143904194
No, but you could sell it at a million dollars a pop if you shoved it in a can, refused to confirm whether it was poop, and called it art.
Can't we just have a fantasy world where it's not MMO shit? Like Chaika.
>>143904187
Me on the right
>>143904187
The point of Sturgeon's law is that a vast majority of people don't remember it either. Why do you think people are so stupid?
>>143904194
Gotta hand it to the cute girl...
She must have a back of fucking titanium to be able to haul A FUCKING VENDING MACHINE like a backpack.
We notice it only because this genre happens to be written atrociously bad.
Remember when urban fantasies were the norm, circa 2008?
Remember when SoL harems where the norm even earlier?
>>143903975
>>143904020
Yes I'm exaggerating, but you have to admit the industry has changed. The shift to single/two cour series for one thing. No one is willing to let an audience grow overtime. This isn't unique to anime, but broadcast television in general.
>>143904232
Literally tons, just look for it. It's generally the anime/LN you're not watching/reading.
>>143904260
She's freakishly strong even for her setting, yeah.
>>143904194
If you told them it was a cute girls shit they would.
>>143904288
>make claim about the manga industry
>get called out for bullshit and challenged for evidence
>b-but you have to admit the anime industry has changed!
So you have no evidence and were making things up to shitpost, got it.
>>143904170
You're right anon, clearly this Isekai series is nothing like the thousands of others.
>>143899195
>What's your opinion on isekai stories, /a/?
the greatest thing to come out of japanour world a shit
isekai is usually shit i want time travel to be the new trend
>>143904288
There's that piece of shit image every fucking time
>>143904288
Backpedaling so hard must make you tired anon.
>>143904342
Great that you agree with me.We both know there is no other series with a vending machine as the protagonist except in amateur work.
>>143904288
Kill yourself.
>>143904412
What's this shit with using multiple quotations?
>>143904283
Everybody also ignores the fact that there's a giant robot show every season. Usually Gundam, but we've also had Valverape, Aldnoah, and Aquarion.
I think that trend is just as bad as isekai, but mechafags will tell you otherwise.
