ISEKAI - Terrible Writing Advice

[@kevinskinner4986]

One of these days, I'm going to write an Isekai where the truck driver swerves into a lamppost and dies, and is reincarnated into a shipping guild and travels the world delivering supplies and running errands for the overpowered isekai characters.

[@thecrusader2784]

Please do that.

[@dust1733]

Oh my god... yes

[@cyrusmann5443]

truck kun not only kills those crossing the road, but those driving it.

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

have you written it yet? i mean, people have written isekai's about turning into a monster ant, the world is your fuckin' oyster

[@kori612]

its been 5 months get to it, on a real note if you do i will happily help

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

Concept peasant in medieval times gets hit by a carriage and is transport to a fantasy world filled with magic cars and orc gangsters.

[@thesilverskullspider4703]

Perfect!

[@supermansdaddy7019]

There's a YA novel like this, Princess in the Pigpen or something. There's also an episode of Primeval where a knight hunting a time-displaced dinosaur gets dragged to modern England. He immediately thinks he's in Hell.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

I need more reverse isekai stories

[@Bacony_Cakes]

@@supermansdaddy7019 Of course he's in hell. We have Class 144 Pacers.

[@alfonsusariantopangau8883]

Isn't that world you mention basically shadowrun?

[@aydenb.donlon2790]

Here’s another trope for isekai’s : male side characters are nonexistent or are always evil compared to the MC

[@Macrochenia]

Or they have no role beyond being a quest-giver or a useless tool who exists only to make the hero look smarter and more competent by comparison.

[@robinthrush9672]

@@Macrochenia Or serve only as a shop owner to give curiously sage advice and/or free gear.

[@andrewgarrett1356]

The protagonist should at least have a best friend whom he confides in and enjoys being around. You know, someone who's always got his back, and hopefully doesn't get killed off or turn to the dark side at some point in the story.

[@parkchimmin7913]

@@andrewgarrett1356 **Look at Eugeo** (but for real though, even though I don’t like SAO, I felt like Alicization was a slight improvement from previous seasons. I really like Kirito and Eugeo’s friendship)

[@andrewgarrett1356]

@@parkchimmin7913 Me too. Eugeo was a great best friend. Even in death, he had Kirito's back. The two of them were like brothers. We need more of that in storytelling in general. I'm not saying we need a thousand "power of friendship" stories, just more stories where the characters have that strong sense of camaraderie. Also, I wouldn't say I'm a die hard S.A.O. fan, but I don't believe it deserves all of the hate it gets. If you're interested, then I suggest you check out "Sword Art Online Progressive." It's more or less a reboot of Sword Art Online, but this time, it's the story Reiki Kawahara wanted to tell. Instead of jumping ahead in time like the original anime did, Progressive shows Kirito, Asuna, and the original members of the clearing group getting used to their situation and navigating through the first couple of floors. And, the story starts off from Asuna's perspective.

[@TurquoizeGoldscraper]

"I want my power fantasy now! NOW NOW NOW!" Don't be greedy, any good Isekai protagonist needs at least 14 seconds of character development before the power levels start rocketing through the roof.

[@rphb5870]

what about making an isekai where the protagonist is powerful, but that very power is why he is so feared, so everyone attacks him like a monster and are relentlessly hunted by the heroes of the setting, who is individually less powerful then him but who have the power of friendship on their side. All the while the only friends he can get are the ones he kidnap, like in the Borne Identity (1980)?

[@deltaxcd]

@@rphb5870 Sure there are animes like that too :)

[@rphb5870]

@@deltaxcd There was this isekai where the protagonist ends up as a noblemans daugther, except, and this is the twist, she have an identical sister that hates her for being a tomboy. The sister is a prim and proper girly-girl and she cannot stand that someone "wearing her face" is so uncouth

[@kobzelfn9588]

@@rphb5870 what’s it called?

[@rphb5870]

@@kobzelfn9588 I can't remember. But I remember that the protagonist used to be very active who did extreme sports until she got into an accident, which didn't kill her but it left her paralysed, she died ten years after that with all the memories and regrets of her rock climbing, paragliding, biking and black diamond skiing days. She dosn't regain her memories until she is 16, but all of these desires were transferred, which made her into an irredeemable tomboy who kept getting dirty and into trouble. While this of course annoyed her mother and father, more then anything it annoyed her twin, who is much more stereotypical feminine, but also a snob and somewhat of a villainess. I think she was called Mary, with the Protagonist Sue. Mary is in love with one of the kingdom princess, but Sue just think he's a pansy, because he is not that masculine. Then something happens where Sue accidentally rescues the prince and he falls in love with her, which neither twin is crazy about. I believe they try to pretend to be the other after that, which of course can only end in disaster. Sue don't know the first thing about a tea ceremony, because she have never once wanted to try, and Mary have never even touched a horse before, much less ridden one.

[@Apt00]

"It's not an isekai unless it has hentai search terms attached to it!" Big oof.

[@defunctaccount9803]

......loli?

[@GPhipps]

Ah yes, the smartphone tag

[@madao7865]

@@GPhipps I wouldn't be surprised if there was something like a smartphone tag.

[@sharonefee1426]

Well, like everything in the video, you should fo the opposite. Narnia feets this isekai thing, and nothing too mature (at least in the first two books)

[@geraldgrenier8132]

@@madao7865 there is an Isekai literally called " In Another World With My Smartphone" and it's one of them when the protagonist buys a loli slave girl (and her mother)

[@purplehaze2358]

“An Isekai protagonist’s personality is meant to be about as flat as the loli’s chest” This is _the_ most cursed quote I’ve heard from you.

[@FariKomeiji]

the most based*

[@novaterra973]

Cursed, but accurate.

[@thegreatestnameever1415]

You're one to talk bright!

[@dimsthedimwit600]

Most cursed quote I've heard from you yet. -Dr Bright. The most cursed thing the foundation met

[@alexjewett7455]

I think this is officially the worst thing that has ever left his mouth.

[@anthonynorman7545]

I hate that the breast size character role chart was 100% accurate.

[@junkoenoshima2756]

Same it was very accurate

[@kakyoindonut3213]

sometime it's so big, and sometimes it's sooo small

[@yahalomren]

@@kakyoindonut3213 The so small thing is the one that writers need to stick with in my opinion, maybe it's because I'm a girl myself but I just haaaaate the unproportionaly big breast size. I want to get the plot, not hentai level fanservice

[@thankfulguardian9033]

i don’t really care about breast size unless it’s extremely noticably large or overly sexualized, then we have a problem Just please give me normal sized bodies not a bouncy castle

[@yahalomren]

@@thankfulguardian9033 And there are also other parts and the way that the female characters are shown. Can't I relax and start nanatsu no taizai without Meliodas stealing Elizabeth's underpants while she is wearing an extremely short skirt on one of the first episodes? Guess not

[@sdghetufgkjsdfg]

The worst part in almost ALL of these isekais that have been bugging me the most, is that there's literally no reason for them to reincarnate. There previous life have less than 0 relations to what happened after death, they don't even make use of anything of their memories from previous world.

[@johnathanrichardson]

the entire point is so the writer dosnt have to solve the problem of how to introduce the world to the audience. mc dies and reincarnates, everything is brand new for him and we are along for the ride as he discovers this weird world he now finds himself in. compare that with actually having a character start in saaid weird world and how its his normal, writing a beginning for that takes way more effort. personally, i have a story ive been working on for a while and the middle and ending are good, but i just cannot for the life of me figure out how to **start** the thing for the heck of it i tried writing an isekai start annd poof, took me 5 minutes and it works. i however actually respect myself and hate isekai so i certainly wont be using that

[@imagiguard]

I have two story ideas that involve reincarnation, neither of which have the “past life memories” stuff played straight. The first one has the multiple isekai’d characters remember little to nothing about their past life and gradually explore them through magically induced in-person flashbacks. Existential crisis ensues. The second is one where the single isekai’d character has an imaginary friend, and it isn’t readily established that the story is an isekai. Then, that imaginary friend turns out to be a manifestation of the protagonist’s past life memories. Apparently they had an interesting but unfulfilling life, full of many ambitions, and their reincarnation went a different but equally interesting way in the new world. Bonus points for the past life making the reincarnation as an alter ego or persona. Also, more existential crisis ensues. I think I like this specific kind of story…

[@nonamepasserbya6658]

@@imagiguard You are describing Grimgar and Prisma Illya. 2nd one might not be for you though cause loli is a big casual filter

[@gangrenousgandalf2102]

@imagiguard Maybe split the story between existential crisis/having to sweat for every inch of progress in the isekai world. and the cast of his friends and family dealing with the fallout of his sudden death. Maybe he was helping someone through loss, maybe he had a job he loved, or a partner he argued with and never got a chance to make up with.

[@scootermcpeanuts6699]

@@johnathanrichardson The main draw of the whole reincarnation idea (at least for me) is having the protagonist respawn as something other than a human, and them having to struggle with getting used to how their new abilities work. (I’ve been contemplating on starting a parody series about a guy getting reincarnated as a glass of juice and having to figure out how to do literally anything.) unfortunately, more often than not people just opt for the boring option of just having them reincarnate as a human or maybe an elf or something every now and then.

[@caltheuntitled8021]

I never thought about it before, but he’s right: isekai protagonists ARE an invasive species

[@Frendlu]

And if they were well writen, maybe we read something more "unpleasant" but more exciting. Like trying to survive in a different world, without family, without friend, without powers (or few ones), and being just some weirdo from a weird place.

[@CombatSportsNerd]

@@Frendlu You would think more stories would tackle that

[@teddysam9307]

​A pretty good for you one would be something like "Some I'm a spider so what?" it's one of the rare isekai with excellent writing and storytelling with a female protagonist that has a interesting moral compass.

[@Roycesraphim1]

There are few comics that address this

[@teddysam9307]

@Balony Dagger very unfortunate

[@NickNitro]

You actually did isekai you mad man.

[@erob9446]

I would watch his Anime

[@feralhawg867]

Well, it was that or an episode on sex scenes

[@TheManBehindTheSlaughter6669]

strange that I should see you here funny music man.

[@337dux]

You make some good remixes.

[@alphayun7401]

Is it really a requirement for all this to be an isekai? Like does it have to be depraved? And im noticing alot of anime stereotypes i mean isekai has now evolved and now involves anyone who gets transported to a fantasy world, not strictly for anime like some non anime isekai: owl house and amphibia i could even be argued that the wizard of oz is isekai, and i have seen isekais where the characters have personality, and they have to grow and did not get hit by a truck, ie shield hero and re:zero though granted i think it is implied the main character in re:zero did die but the main character in shield hero didnt, also nowadays arnt most of these tropes as outlined in the video parody?

[@annameyl]

Truck-kun is such a cliche that they made a manga about the truck driver and how it's his job to send people to other worlds. Like an other wordly hero delivery service Oh wow, was not expecting such a big reaction to this. But it's called "isekai transporter" if you're interested

[@tryptchthonic]

That's actually hilarious.

[@rikardosilva1754]

There's another were these girls need to kill the protagonist so he can be reincarnated and fight against the demon lord, but the demon lord saves him while the "heroes" try to kill him

[@agnetalykins7564]

@@rikardosilva1754 What's the name? I want to read this.

[@PengyDraws]

@@rikardosilva1754 I need to know the name of this.

[@torinsmith9867]

@@rikardosilva1754 That sounds amazing, do you remember the name?

[@aldar8240]

story concept: Main character gets isekaied, standard concept. But then, he's killed in the fantasy world in a similar way, and ends up back in his original world reincarnated once again. He quickly realizes this is extremely exploitable, and begins using the link between the two worlds to start revolutionizing both of them, with the hope of eventually punching a hole between the two world and finally being able to stop jumping in front of moving vehicles

[@Neiroe]

I actually read one with that back and forth premise, but instead of using that to dramatically change the world, MC wants to stack paper. Quite possibly one of the best money laundering schemes I've seen.

[@zacky2485]

This is genius and I love it :D

[@samsonthe80yearoldhedgehog62]

Seems kinda cruel to completely mess up the ecosystem like that by destroying the wall between two universes. Edit: Also what fantasy world has a truck.

[@aldar8240]

@@samsonthe80yearoldhedgehog62 fantasy world have carriages and horses. the ecosystem will stabilize probably, there's magic involved

[@rgberueda3282]

Honestly, i remember one of these comments of this video having to do something with: "I died on this world, a medival world, a sci-fi world, and etc." and that just sparked an idea in my head making an unrefined anime concept called: "The life and times of... whatever my name was." and in season ??? they found a solution to save those otherworlds and stuff while being reincarnated as an ordinary office worker, but first he has to make them know he(current life gender) cant die.

[@Lapeno456]

“An Isekai protagonist’s personality is meant to be about as flat as the loli’s chest” Fucking golden, im stealing this

[@Daft_Savant]

Pure gold indeed🤣

[@kaiosamatlj4031]

Golden? It looks platinum to me.

[@AllyInReality]

It's not as bad as a reverse harem heroine

[@twaps1322]

I think that "that protagonist" exist in every trash novel that existed not just in isekai. Its not the Isekai genres fault for having a lot of trash author creating novel about isekai.

[@SorowFame]

@@twaps1322 this is “Terrible Writing Advice”, you’re probably meant to give them a personality if you write an Isekai.

[@_JPkun]

"There is nothing more attractive than aging, barely relevant, KZbinrs!" - yes, that's... that's why I'm here, and for terrible advices.

[@quiet_calamity]

Username checks out.

[@marvelousball]

Relevance is temporary. Great writing advice is forever

[@chimaeraarts]

@@marvelousball Terrible Advice can go even furthur beyond.

[@gray9818]

Don't forget the most iconic isekai of the 90s: Space Jam

[@noobmasterruben5167]

Yes the original Isekai cocaine fueled masterpiece

[@theguyfromtsukihime3898]

Ah yes th only isekai i have seen without magic or big tit cardboard cutouts of women just MJ and Bugs bunny playing basketball because why again

[@gray9818]

@@theguyfromtsukihime3898 somebody clearly forgot the loony toon physics and over-sexualized Lola Rabbit.

[@canaisyoung3601]

@emario Cartoon physics is a type of magic. Magic isn't all warlocks and witches, you know. Plus, Jordan didn't get hit by a truck to get there; he fell down a golf hole.

[@notapplicable6985]

@@theguyfromtsukihime3898 I think you're forgetting about lola bunny.

[@popgotchpop9808]

“Accidental s3xual Harassment is funny!” This explains almost all anime’s no joke

[@_Yeeboi_]

Probably why most people dont go to anime to see comedy since its a hit or miss

[@tuojiangoman3228]

Did you find them, Narancia?

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

Pretty much why I both hate & don't understand some of those anime "humours".

[@lightningpenguin8937]

@@_Yeeboi_ I love anime comedies, but those are definitely the worst and probably laziest jokes. Quick laugh, fanservice, and shows that it's bad all in one poorly executed joke.

[@jonathanathor117]

all ecchi anime. Every single one.

[@justhiro6675]

Most isekai characters: "I'm 8267382 years old mentally, but I'm stupid and more ignorant than a ten year old kid"

[@justhiro6675]

@Serenth holeee shit. you're right. no wonder boomers are like kids

[@ballom5191]

@@justhiro6675 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

[@legendarymarston9174]

@ꨓꨕ་ꨚꨝ་ꨆꨈ ꪒꪲꪐꪬ What would happen afterwards?

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

There is even a connection to dementia/ loosing brain power, where patients slowly "go back" in their memories. This is the reason old men (who never acted inappropiate before) in nursery homes start hitting on the 30 year old nurse. Because they think they are 30 too. Or 20. Or 15. As things progress, this can even end up in old, demented people thinking they are kids, often calling their own children mum and dad (maybe also because they obviously will look a little bit like them). My grandma once said she wanted to go home. She was at home. I figured she actually meant the place where she grew up before she married and moved.

[@rooks9430]

Nice exagerrated, factually incorrect, dumb opinion you got there, mate 😂

[@k3nshi704]

You forgot the so called "Demon King"/"Demon Lord" That is brought up at the start of the story and is never mentioned again for the rest of the series

[@yep1486]

or the protags who are demon lads and don't act much as such while always looking like a shonen mc during a new form

[@LegDayLas]

Eh, usually you will see the "demon lords" henchmen, in typical writing fashion before you ever see the main antagonist. Problem is, the way anime works is not good for long format shows, so often a show get's canceled way before the "demon lord" ever get's to actually do something.

[@exocakes4587]

KonoSuba: "You have to beat the Demon Lord!" "But we're in debt." ... "WE'RE RICH!" "Yeah, we're going to hire adventurers to beat the Demon Lord instead." ... "We're in debt again."

[@dazerdmrz]

@@exocakes4587 "let's wait for someone else to defeat the demon lord"

[@joshanimations6405]

​@@LegDayLas You make some good points there. But could you elaborate on why animes are not good for long format shows?

[@Str4ngeDeath]

Don't mind me, I'm just appreciating how his front hair is literally pencils

[@amgism]

Yusei lol

[@Newfiecat]

I DID NOT NOTICE THAT UNTIL JUST NOW! 😮

[@wherethesidewalkends9912]

wat...I just... notice that now. keeps forgetting his illustrations are so often full of pencil motifs lol

[@TealWolf26]

Can't be unseen.

[@huanquocmanh416]

Yusei

[@kikothesamurai]

Isn’t it weird that people who are isekaied don’t worry about their loved ones like family, friends, or spouses? Like what if the protagonist died from overworking because their parents are in the hospital and they can’t pay medical bills? Do they ever miss home at all? Wouldn’t being in a unfamiliar and potentially dangerous world with a slim possibility of being able to go back be terrifying and anxiety inducing?

[@samarthgour3026]

Shhhhhhhhhhh no real world troubles in my power fantasy

[@mysmallnoman]

@@samarthgour3026 tbh, that's like Complaining about shounen protagonists living alone It doesn't need to be realistic

[@faveless]

well isekai protags are made to be blank slates to project to the sad man children audience and those types of people either dont really care about their family and friends or are hated by them

[@mysmallnoman]

@@faveless that's a massive dumb over generelizing lol

[@kyloshourya5023]

​@@mysmallnoman I mean, is he wrong?

[@fireflower6700]

The most stupid part about slavery in sekai is that even after being set free by the MC, the slave want to continue being a slave but serving the MC instead.

[@jokafaire215]

Imagine giving up on your own life just because someone helped you.

[@stevenhiggins3055]

@@jokafaire215 The problem here is that you're assuming the slaves *have* a life. They don't. Most slaves in isekai have no living family or friends and no home to return to, were captured as children and raised and conditioned to be slaves. They literally have no idea how to be independent. Where isekai fails is not the slave choosing the stay with the protagonist, even if set free they would have no money and may have to steal to get by, which would likely result in them being arrested and possibly enslaved again if that's how the world deals with petty criminals, or otherwise find legitimate employment which they can do with the protagonist, making leaving less efficient than staying. Staying with someone who can at least provide for them and possibly pay for their services is the safest and most effective option. No, where isekai fails is that they don't explore the long term effects their enslavement had and *why* they would stay.

[@ScorpionViper1001]

Stockholm Syndrome. Totally romantic, amrite?

[@akiradkcn]

@@stevenhiggins3055 this

[@kannakamui2334]

I think Raphtalia's relationship with Naofumi executes this trope the best, though whatever points in this video Shield Hero doesn't subvert Shield Hero executes well.

[@erica8952]

"an evil spirit could lie to the protagonist about what a fun time they'll have in fantasy land" Basically the plot of Madoka.

[@geralfol117]

"By day it's the real world, but by night it's isekai dreamworld time" Basically the plot of Omori

[@kaiosamatlj4031]

I'm thinking more of Coraline actually...

[@djinn666]

@@geralfol117 Also the start of The Matrix

[@stephensmith7327]

That's kinda Konosuba. Especially the early episodes. I think Kazuma said it best when he realized Adventurer in this world Basically means Temp Worker. Except it's even worse, because there's no mandatory breaks, no health benefits, "insurance? Can I eat it?" You get the idea.

[@solracstormhunter3023]

@@djinn666 Oh my god, the Matrix is a Isekai trilogy?! 0_0

[@jwchampagne1]

Truck-kun is Japan's most prolific at-large serial killer. Prove me wrong.

[@Voldrim359]

Well... Is the most common way to die in Japan by a traffic accident or suicide... Murders do not happen that often and they do not want to use this as part of the narrative for something even bigger (your killer got isekai too so you want to kill him as an example)

[@アンディカ-y5b]

Detective Conan basically causing a murder scene everywhere he go.

[@fiaTheFae]

@LTNetjak genuinely nice to see someone calling out Japan's police corruption here on this anime video! And with a source cited, too? *I do a chef kiss with my mouth*

[@patricklewis9787]

This is the most at-large overused joke

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

You say serial killer, I say hero we didn't know we needed.

[@atlascove1810]

Imagine an isekai via the way of paranoia agent, where a death cult forms around people throwing themselves against trucks and mass hysteria breaks out.

[@seventy_eight]

i would watch that

[@karhu7581]

Serial Experiments Lain starts out this way, sort of.

[@herticate8579]

now that is truly something marvelous. how did you come up with that?

[@ditch_magnet]

Alive: the Final Evolution check it out

[@alabamafreak]

I'd like to see something similar, but more like When they Cry/Madoka Magica where it starts out traditional enough but becomes more dark and disturbing later on.

[@GippyHappy]

He hates Isekai so much he dedicated a full 2 and a half minutes to giving away better ideas for free, absolute mad lad. edit: Okay guys. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm dumb and stupid and don't watch enough things. I'm sorry for my child like wonder at the world. I'll try to not like things in the future.

[@emblemblade9245]

He does that in every video

[@LagMasterSam]

It's because he knows the truth... "Ideas are a dime a dozen because nobody actually sits down and makes new things..." - Jonathan Blow It's obviously an exaggeration, but with all the humans in the world right now, it's pretty crazy how rare it is for someone to sit down and even do a complete attempt at making something. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGS4o5eto6aoadE

[@diersteinjulien6773]

Fact is, I recognized where most of those ideas came from...

[@starstruck8862]

Truck-kun has to make ends meet somehow

[@GippyHappy]

@Max Powers I don’t know if that’s true but I don’t watch enough isekai to disprove it

[@ty_teynium]

"Notice me Semi" has been nominated as a candidate for quote of the Year.

[@ZILtoid1991]

Isekai idea: guy gets hit by a truck, teleports to a fantasy land, then said guy returns to our world to do revenge on the truck and its driver.

[@bificommander]

Guy gets run over by a horse and carriage and ends up in our world.

[@SorowFame]

@@bificommander reverse isekai sounds pretty interesting to be honest.

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

@@bificommander Carriages and cars are portals apparently. Nice idea though. So everytime the protag wants to go back to each world, he just throw himself to the streets

[@bificommander]

@@SorowFame While not by name, it was pretty popular for cheap live-action movies. You could establish your fantasy hero and his world for 15 minutes, then set the rest of the movie in the modern world, which was way cheaper to shoot. But yeah, a parody of specifically isekai trends in reverse would be fun. As a setup: A teenager ridiculed by his peers because his magicial ability is weaker than everyone else's finds himself in our world, where no one but him has any magic. (It may have been done before.)

[@sou8730]

@@SorowFame There's this anime about a Demon Lord being transported to our world and working on McDonald's

[@williamgeorge3111]

My favorite isekai (and the only one i've interacted with) is the one where the protagonist and his friend are dragged through a portal by the antagonist in order to be used as slave labor, due to the fact the the world is largely empty after a mass departure by humans to another world. The ending involves killing an invading god by ramming it with a semitruck. It's called Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

[@wilcowen6284]

I must play it no matter the cost

[@sonadotep8622]

What the fuck 😂

[@b-reviews7181]

Yeah they had us in the first half I’m not gonna lie

[@FedoraKirb]

My favorite Isekai!

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

That's, umm... A surprisingly accurate summary

[@ilikegames828]

You forgot to mention that said girl you bought from slavery is completely fine with everything and has no trace of mental trauma due to abuse from previous owners.

[@radamanthium]

Oh, there are isekais that have this trope, though, they are far from being good.

[@novaterra973]

Sometimes they do, but most don't go farther than using it as an excuse to make slave girl dependent on MC.

[@tothedome566]

even in my shittier plotted first go at it I at least managed to get that right.

[@ilikegames828]

It shouldn't just be something to make them dependent either, realistically they would be terrified of the MC and paranoid of what they would try to do to her.

[@romuloab]

How could she? MC is such a Nice Guy (tm)(r) that she found a new life being owned by him!

[@smjaiteh]

Truck: A serial killer that murders people and sends them to another world Ambulance: *Murders serial killers and sends them to Hell* As always, Hirohiko Araki is on top of things.

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

I mean, Kira kinda got isekai'd if you read the one shot set after part 4.

[@smjaiteh]

@@Gaia_Gaistar Fuck you’re right. Araki really is a visionary.

[@benjamincuevas9627]

Araki also isekai d alot of dogs and a few Jobros.

[@n-extrafries-surprise]

@@Gaia_Gaistar "That Time When I, A Hand Fetishist Serial Killer, Got A Second Chance; But A DeadMan's Question Is, What Now?" If Araki was a light novel writer in current times.

[@louisduarte8763]

It just now dawned on me that The Matrix (the first and best one, anyway) is a reverse Isekai: Neo's born into a "fantasy" world and escapes TO the real one.

[@NoahTheNoah]

The worst part is that when any amount of actual effort is applied to the Isekai genre it magically becomes one of the greatest things ever. Like it doesn’t even take that much and yet they still refuse to try to make a good story.

[@aplaowattanakul7760]

Focus on designing swimsuits for harem number 1 to 30 is more important than the good story.

[@Thepreacher_1]

​@@aplaowattanakul7760no the MOST important thing is too make new 101%evil random stock bad guys for the hero too flex Thier power on obviously but no need too thank me I am here too help amateur writers such as yourselves because I'm amazing

[@TheGalaxyWings]

I just came to the realization that the neverending story is technically isekai and it horrifies me

[@letsworkoutabit1959]

Unfortunately, you forgot about the business aspect, specifically, commercial writing. If you're a new writer, you can't make your story too unique because it will take 1-2 years (best case scenario) before your work gets some traffic and you can earn money. Of course, this is also assuming that you've written a good story. On top of that, also assuming that you're a gifted writer, it takes years to learn how to write really well and consistently. Furthermore, there's also something called life -- school, work, family, friends, etc. Are you willing to spend 5-10 years of your life writing while barely doing anything else without a 100% guarantee that you'll even make it as a professional writer? So yeah, sadly, the quick and safest route to earn money as a writer or manga artist is to write a commercially viable story which is why almost all isekai stories look the same. Passion is great, but we also need to be practical 🤷

[@manzanito3652]

​@@letsworkoutabit1959 Except are they really that commercially viable? Like, there lots of shitty isekais ligh novels and comics. Only the most popular ones get an anime or are hosted in webs like webtoons where they get income if they have enought views. The rest get lost in the sea of trash.

[@nerdslayer1416]

This guy has almost done everything, I wouldn’t be surprised if he started making satirical critiques on porn writing.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

Wait, that isn't what this is? /s

[@dragonm8ster]

still waiting for him to do one on fanfiction

[@canaisyoung3601]

@@dragonm8ster What about ghostwriting?

[@theguyfromtsukihime3898]

If he does he better give a really good critique of the pizza delivery guy setting

[@canaisyoung3601]

He still promised us to tackle the Hero's Journey story template. Then he can do erotic writing (but make sure he gets a special guest who's a woman, because there's this sexual double standard where woman writing erotica, no matter how bad it is, is okay, but a man doing the same thing makes him a creep. At least that's what I learned on "Close Enough").

[@zinkheroofyoutube8004]

He’s trying so hard to sound like he isn’t completely disgusted by this

[@archivist_13]

And failing, tho I can't blame him

[@jonathan0berg]

@@Art-ey7xj I'm more upset by lazy writing than by any kind of moral objection. Anime can be as degenerate as it feels the need to be, and as long as it's all internally consistent I'm not too bothered by it.

[@gunslingergirl2579]

@@jonathan0berg Amen, but it never is. The issue lies in your wording, "need to be". It rarely does, and yet always goes over the top.

[@jonathan0berg]

​@@gunslingergirl2579 I'm not a fan of over the top suggestive content because it usually comes at the expense of quality writing.

[@briandarnell2273]

There aren't many Isekai stories that don't do the whole Harem thing and actually have good worldbuilding. Like Spirited away or Aura Battler Dunbine. Or Futurama.

[@miniraptor3211]

I feel like this was made out anger.

[@alexjewett7455]

Seems about right.

[@yabazyabacoffee]

It feels like he has taken all my frustrations for the genre, and regurgitated them into a comprehensible video

[@ShionKenobi]

I mean, it is infuriating how many isekais are similar to each others, they are not even trying. Isekai wa Smarphone, Master of Ragnarok, Death March, Dungeon only I can Enter, Kenga no Mago, isekai Cheat Magician, Arifureta...they all have MC to get OP in the very first chapters (often the first), easy harems, videogame terminology in a universe who is not a game, is almost as if they are all fanfics of each other. Bad ones, mind you.

[@igornascimm]

I mean, that's literally the format of this channel.

[@miniraptor3211]

@@igornascimm Many of the other ones are just "Don't this advice if you want a good story" but with this one and a few other ones, it feels like if I followed his fake advice, he'll find and strangle me.

[@chocolatechip4350]

“Anime equivalent of junk food” No, junk food at least tastes good

[@drunklad5215]

There a few good ones it's just that the rest of them are ass beyond ass

[@nyalan8385]

Have you tried those weird orange peanuts? I'd rather watch a shitty isekai in it's entirety than eat a bag of those

[@andresyoshioishiharaalcant1550]

@@nyalan8385 weird orange peanuts?

[@Spartan3101200]

@@andresyoshioishiharaalcant1550 Circus Peanuts, It's a marshmallow Candy that just seems to keep going and going even though nobody ever buys it. Tried it once, it was terrible.

[@nichsulol4844]

@@nyalan8385 real life humilation sibling

[@xhagast]

This is advice on writing bad Isekai. Well, horrible as it was it still lacks the final touch: the MC must NEVER have sex nor realize he could have his whole harem. Instead he must be trapped in doubts about which of his girls he really wants.

[@bobobo878]

Two years of terrible writing advice flowed endlessly into subscriber-san with a glopping noise.

[@zachmanf.7479]

He has achieved... Writer's Instinct.

[@floricel_112]

Unfortunately, recently the exact opposite happens: HAREM ENDINGS FOR EVERYONE!

[@poqqery8950]

@@bobobo878 Oh God, why are you bringing up this piece of hellspawn...

[@ameron1766]

HE KNOWS. HE KNOWS TOO MUCH

[@QNiki]

“Save cute girl by buying her out of slavery” nope the amount of times I’ve seen that EXACT plot ride out wow

[@ParcoFolgore777]

Where? I found that part of the video weird because I've never seen that actually happening in an anime. Can you give me examples?

[@MsciwojPL]

Only "The Rising of the Shield Hero" comes to my mind. But that was actually good story. The MC was wrongfully accused of rape, and couldn't find any one to join his party, so he bought a slave girl to fight for him, as he was only able to use shield.

[@robinthrush9672]

@@MsciwojPL Also of note is that he picked the sickest child slave and spent a great deal of time and resources crafting her medicines and giving her whatever she wanted to eat while he picked the low-tier garbage food for himself (due to depression). Also, Death March to a Parallel World has a protag buy a few slave girls to save them from their abusive owner in a society that allows slavery.

[@David-jw1xs]

“Master of Ragnarok and Blesser of Einherjar” has the protagonist buy a slave. Apparently to save her from being bought by someone worse.

[@dudsummon3803]

Yep, and these girls are of course ecstatic that their new owner is such a wonderful man it almost makes their enslavement worth while just to meet him.

[@maroindefinitlyhuman6857]

I heard publishers had to make rules in their competitions to stop the isekai thing. They got tired of how many young Japanese dudes getting themselves killed and suddenly waking up in medieval Europe with super powers.

[@lilplague4857]

That is fucking hilarious

[@fpedrosa2076]

@@lilplague4857 Japanese publishers: "If I read ONE more Isekai I swear..."

[@bacd-nn2lg]

We need more Mecha anime.

[@maroindefinitlyhuman6857]

@@bacd-nn2lg we need more good mecha anime. Ones that will restore the interest in the genre.

[@ธนาเดชศุภนัทนพร]

@@bacd-nn2lg *Yes*

[@oilybat3269]

Isekai protagonist: “well…I’ll take the the young one with the flat che-“ *John Brown charges through a brick wall head first and choke slams the protagonist*

[@ee-ef8qr]

Stonewall like stonewall Jackson

[@iaminsideyourwalls2021]

@@ee-ef8qr American Civil War reference I see?

[@ee-ef8qr]

@@iaminsideyourwalls2021 and an unintentional pun.

[@hajimeokajima]

Look up His Soul is Marching On; Or the John Brown Isekai by TheCabbagePreacher

[@sadscientist9995]

Cultured protag

[@silverjohn6037]

You forgot to mention the Kansas house "got whisked away by a tornado." way of getting to a fantasy world;).

[@curnott6051]

Ah yes, The Wizard of Oz, the first Isekai.

[@creativewritingcorner]

Or the "follow a pocketwatch-wearing rabbit into a tunnel" path to fantasyland.

[@Cyricist001]

@@curnott6051 Wasn't that Alice in Wonderland? Or one of the Irish myths where the MC goes to the fairy realm?

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

That time I got yeeted into a fantasy world.

[@curnott6051]

@@Cyricist001 Nobody counts the manga/ light novels into this.

[@main4325]

"You would think that Japan wouuld pass safe driving regulations given how many young men keep getting killed by trucks" I almost spit my water

[@novaterra973]

They already have one. But accidents, irresponsible drivings, and mechanical failures do happen.

[@kittykat5090]

@@novaterra973 but that often????

[@Diresilence]

It's a conspiracy started by Truck-kun in order to deliver more average protagonist bait characters to save the world from nebulous demon lords. Truck-kun is the ultimate hero, and arch-nemesis to the nebulous evil ones.

[@1tylerq127]

@@Diresilence Well, not so much a conspiracy as a business. More of a trucker side job with assigned archetypal bounties.

[@Diresilence]

@@1tylerq127 "Is that a boring looking, cardboard cut out looking bother fucker? *puts into high gear* Well, generic fantasy video game worlds ain't gonna save themselves."

[@tvremote9394]

"the protagonist could decide to rescue a cute slave girl by buying her!" Oh no, he's seen THAT anime....

[@droideka1890]

*Not a meme*, tell me the name so I can stay away as far as possible from that degenerate shit.

[@CartoonTriper]

The "Shield Hero" one or "the other one"?

[@droideka1890]

@@CartoonTriper Ah, so it’s even shittily titled (for me), nice! This won’t be hard. Honestly WHO THE FUCK THINKS IT’S A GOOD IDEA?! Freeing them it’s one thing BUT BUYING THEM IT’S ANOTHER

[@damienhailey118]

@@droideka1890 Rise of the Shield Hero, which is honestly pretty good other than that mess...

[@gigablast4129]

@@droideka1890 thats not what happens in shield hero the main character gets screwed over in the begining and no one wants to help him and he cant fight due to his class being extremly weak in combat so buys a slave to protect him

[@Foxhood]

You know clichés are so terrible when even TWA calls it stupid or he flexes his actual writing skills by coming up with honestly insanely better and intriguing ideas in literal minutes...

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

He does misunderstand what a historical harem was. He seems to be referring to concubines, but harem is an actual word. It referred to an area for sheltering a group of women where men were prohibited in Persian society.

[@florianhenkel111]

​@@eldritchcupcakes3195Well the Ottomans had harems and they were concubines. So he was right but thanks for giving a the other explanation I didn't know that.

[@justin2308]

I cannot even begin to express how common Isekai is in fanfiction. You go to any fandom, there’s going to be at least one OC story where the OC is transported to a fantasy world and ends up becoming a hero.

[@stevemclovin1566]

Yo! You know my pain! Don't forget "gamer" and or dark mc with harem.

[@qoyote]

Just one, try a hundred. And of course with a lot of series, actually knowing how power-scaling works in advance breaks the story.

[@scramblecore9156]

Omg the trope where video game characters are transported to the real world or the mc getting transported there

[@brandonlyon730]

I admit to have made one myself, but it’s with a pre-established character rather then a OC.

[@joined_shores_art]

Each time I see these and how much attention they get I die inside because the highest I got with a story is 250 reads and I always start feeling horrible

[@Blockio1999]

"But all this lust can't exist in a vacuum. Well, unless it's a science fiction anime" why did that make me laugh so much

[@AlexMercer1110]

Isekai story idea: guy gets hit by a truck and teleports to another world with all his injuries from said incident and proceeds to die instantly

[@kombuchas4684]

10/10 would watch

[@fegeleinherman8587]

*Directed by Christopher Kojima*

[@derrilazkia1002]

Maybe it's a video game world where respawn system exists? But combined with this idea, nothing new really happened

[@xxMpEGxx]

Short Novel with emphasis on SHORT xD

[@Antonio-wh8lh]

@@derrilazkia1002 In this world, rabbits eat you alive and scary creepy hands squeeze your heart when you say the forbidden word.

[@CuriosityCore101]

I have a friend who's really into this (genre? subgenre?) and he's mentioned slavery coming up in like three different stories, always with a justification along the lines of "it's ok! it's not like he actually treats her like a slave!" It's kind of nauseating.

[@TryingIGuess]

Shield hero does it the worst as far as mainstream goes. The slaver explicitly states that business is booming because of the mc. Like, wut? Edit: I should clarify that I think that shield boy is bad for perpetuating the system. I feel like some people didn't get that.

[@Draenith933]

@@TryingIGuess i mean. He literally buyed a slave and keeps coming back to upgrade said slave. Its not like he doesnt know. He doesnt care

[@Momolulu1994]

@@TryingIGuess Yeah but for shield hero the guy is lost and morally grey from the start

[@sebagomez4647]

@@Momolulu1994 yeah in the novel when you can read his inner thoughts you can see how destroyed he was. he wasnt in a good mental state for a long time.

[@TheGreatAgon]

@@TryingIGuess I think people really missed the point of the Shield Hero slave thing, and it's weird for me to point it out because I'm not really a fan of the anime. Naofumi was ostracized by society from the beginning. No one was gonna help him and he was rejected by his fellow heroes, so buying Raphtalia was really his only option to survive his battles. While this may make Naofumi look sympathetic in buying her, he is not really supposed to be seen as a hero doing that. He is doing something wrong and is full of hate against the people of that world. While he may treat Raphtalia nicely, he doesn't really trust her, and he believes if she wasn't his slave, she would betray him like everyone else. I believe the anime didn't want to paint him as a hero or a villain, just as someone having a hard time and doing questionable stuff. It drops the ball in later episodes, but the idea was solid for me. Sorry 4 the wall of text.

[@Spcbl-td9sx]

“That was close! We almost had some narrative tension there for a second”

[@MacroTheMans]

Yes he did say that

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

The MC will also NEVER fall for a love interest that approaches him for selfish reasons: why would ANY guy from an average background suddenly fall in love with a beautiful girl who's been taught social graces and political guile almost since birth? No, he will IMMEDIATLY see through her thanks to the immense social experince he obtained as a nerd! This will either cause her to back off, or change into a sweet and innocent girl, because no woman would EVER hide her true feelings for little things like world-changing levels of money and power! Why, a skilled writer might even have her secretly regret giving up on true love for status, only for this to change over time as a genuine love forms between the two; they may even come to appreciate each-other's better qualities, while also softening each-others flaws, creating a compelling couple with genuine chemistry that the readers will be truly invested in. But then I couldn't really put in a busty elf and a lithe cat girl to crawl all over my self-insert without upsetting the readers, and I'm far too spineless and emotionally immature for THAT.

[@MustacheDLuffy]

Why would a women want to take advantage of our great and noble protagonist?

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

@@MustacheDLuffy We need to show that the protagonist has entered a new social standing by having various noble girls try to use him: that way, we can justify the continued use of literal slavery, as the slave girls are so much -more servile- nicer than girls with free will! Good thing our modern minded protagonist gave up his token resistance to the concept of slavery at the start of the story, 'cause MAN, can you imagine how the protagonist would feel suddenly realizing how many humanitarian values he has given up on to obtain success? We don't need THAT in our smutty power fantasy!

[@MustacheDLuffy]

@@bubbasbigblast8563 slavery isn’t as common in those stories it’s just one story I can think of and shield hero isn’t bad

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

@@MustacheDLuffy Shield Hero, Death March, How Not to Summon a Demon King, Realist Hero (slavery got ended eventually, but in a dumb and ironically unrealistic way, so it still white washes the practice and deserves to be counted,) and a fair number that are basically just porn so they probably shouldn't count (“I, a betrayed S-rank adventurer, will make a harem guild entirely from my beloved slaves;" because if you're going to try and be garbage, then you might as well aspire to be the whole dump.) It was thankfully more of a fad than anything, but good lord was it an aweful one.

[@motivated2473]

@@bubbasbigblast8563 ... How is Shield Hero "basically porn" If you care to explain tho?

[@skyblade7438]

I Got Sent To Another Dimension And Now I Make Videos Giving Terrible Writing Advice While Promoting My Book And Pushing Love Triangles.

[@nathanjora7627]

Title is too short and not clear enough, but I guess it’s a good start.

[@frankwest5388]

Yeah that won’t work. Try this. “Is it wrong to shill out my book by make writing tips videos in this fantasy world, where I have killed and become the grade sage of power?” Now we wait for that money press to go.

[@skyblade7438]

@@frankwest5388 Fuck, of course it had to be a question. Knew I missed something.

[@cyberprime9355]

Or how about "Truck-Kun! Squash me to the land of Isekai!"

[@rocket_sensha4337]

@@frankwest5388 still too vague. It needs to mention the power of the love triangle.

[@nachinachi5085]

Imagine a Isekai protagonist that came into a fantasy world by accident but was carrying a virus that became a plague that wiped out half out the population of the fantasy world. And now he/she is on the race against time to find a cure/antidote/vaccine while trying to avoid certain people from the surviving population who are eager to lynch him/her.

[@Gchildwarrior]

That's a great idea! Write it down!

[@shinygoldenpotion1587]

covid 19

[@Lostouille]

​@@shinygoldenpotion1587so that's why the origin of sarscov was hard to find..the mf just re-isekaied back !

[@PC_Dealer]

black death

[@danyo5786]

@@Gchildwarrior I tried and all I got was "underage sex slave cult"

[@mausmalone]

"There could be a mysterious portal in the basement that the protagonist's parents used to flee the fantasy world because it's like really dangerous there" SIGH *crosses another idea off the when-I-get-around-to-it short story list*

[@dragoniraflameblade]

Don't cross it off! It's a good idea!

[@sofakingimmature]

Ha Ha. The novel I have been working on, along with the subplot, was used in his list of examples. I'm still going and so should you.

[@inklie]

D a n n y P h a n t o m

[@mausmalone]

@@inklie Never seen it

[@Ghalaghor_McAllistor]

@@mausmalone Watch it, Danny Phantom is a good series.

[@egm01egm]

Very important detail: despite the fact the protagonist is surrounded by his adoring harem, sleeps with them in one bed etc he is still virgin and doesn't dare to take a first step.

[@saranes]

What if every isekai protag is just gay. Or the teleportation portal that brought him here left his d at home

[@dango6266]

@@saranes that'd be a great idea actually.

[@robinthrush9672]

@@saranes That's SORT OF the problem with Overlord's protag. He inhabits the body of a lich (skeleton) so is lacking the crucial bone and his emotions get stamped down by his undead nature if he feels too strongly.

[@balazsvarga1823]

Yes, this is always odd. I am sure it is there to keep the rating to teen, or to avoid some obscure Japanese law about lecherous entertainment.

[@autumnox2174]

@@saranes Isn't there a harem anime where the guy is only attracted to hermit crabs? Edit: Found it, Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai

[@just-trying-my-best-everyday]

"Not boning one's sister is like, the lowest of low bars to clear." Apparently no one told Jamie Lannister.

[@LegDayLas]

game of thrones references? you just start watching it or something, most people have suppressed all memory of that shows existence since the final seasons.

[@michaelmiller7465]

@@LegDayLas He's reading the books...

[@michaelmiller7465]

@@LegDayLas He's reading the books...

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

Also nobody told that to the habsburgs

[@aronnemcsik]

@@Bruh-hq1hx or any royal family in Europe...

[@nachinachi5085]

Imagine an Isekai where the people of the fantasy world summons someone who they thought would be an average guy from our world but is actually a serial killer.

[@ashtongiertz8728]

Welp, we're getting just that with the upcoming Suicide Squad Isekai.

[@ditch_magnet]

you mean practically every isekai

[@Real_cinderace]

Sounds like any isekai since any protagonist has some mental problem hidden in their personality like how after they kill someone they don't think how wrong it is even if the law isn't doing anything to them

[@KfcOwner]

I wanna read an isekai where the mc is just an psychopath like he has no remorse for men women and childeren but then like actually goes to hell and the story contimues

[@ditch_magnet]

@@KfcOwner the story continues how

[@Joey245]

"Yes, he's a slave-owning, power hoarding weirdo that lacks social skills and has the same personality as a wooden bucket, but he was nice to me once! Guys are hardly ever nice to pretty girls!" JP going straight for the jugular this time holy shit

[@New3DSLuigi364]

SERIOUSLY; DOES MR. BEAUBIEN REALLY HATE RISING OF THE SHIELD HERO FOR SOME REASON?!!

[@phemelomakwela8057]

@@New3DSLuigi364 Nah shield hero was pretty good, 3rd best isekai anime I've ever watched in my opinion that de-rails from the cliche. (konosuba 2nd and Re:zero first)

[@WEBTEAM1000]

@@phemelomakwela8057 own your trash taste, my guy. There's a billion things awful about Shield Hero, but I enjoyed it regardless.

[@beet158]

@@phemelomakwela8057 I gotta be real, the anime skips over a lot of the real important world and character building in the light novel or even the manga- which is understandable since budget issues and time constraints and all that jazz- so it ends up being a mediocre at best. If you haven't already, try reading the manga or LN.

[@robrockstar9648]

Wow what did he does? He passed the salt

[@hexcodeff6624]

Your Hairstyle is already more distinct than that of 99.9% of isekai/power fantasy protagonists Edit: Guys, I know how Yugi from Yugi-Oh looks like and everyone else probably knows too. You don't have to tell us in the comments, thank you.

[@corryjamieson3909]

Agreed.

[@Nothing-1w3]

Majority of them are just copys of kirito at this point

[@TalesStahl]

his hairstyle makes me believe that he is an ancient egypt Pharaoh that will save the world by winning a Childrens Card game

[@anorexicwater4663]

Yu gi oh

[@hexcodeff6624]

@@anorexicwater4663 Really? I thought it was One Piece

[@vortix5879]

I find the fact that the Genre is so overdone, that most of the ideas at the end already exist extremely funny

[@kn1ght-788]

Genuinely love all of those ideas, but I don’t know what shows they reference, could somebody tell me? (I meant the ideas jp brought up as alternatives .-. (Thanks though))

[@XenoflareBahamut]

@@kn1ght-788 references that I got. Idea 2 sounds like Isekai Nonbiri Nouka. Except he chose to become a farmer instead. Idea 3 kinda sounds like I Got a Cheat Ability in a Different World, and Became Extraordinary Even in the Real World. Except we're still not sure if his grandpa came from that world. Idea 4 sounds like The Devil is a Part Timer. Except he made the portal because he was losing the war. Idea 6 sounds like Hero in White Coat. Except he got transported when he slept in his lab. Idea 8 sounds like The Wrong Way to use Healing Magic. Idea 9 sounds like (Sumireko Usami when she goes to Gensokyo) I put a parenthesis because that's not a title, she came from Touhou project series.

[@nicolasmarazuela1010]

@@kn1ght-788 slave market thing is Shield Hero and the black coat comes from Sword Art Online.

[@SonOfaChipwich]

@@kn1ght-788 the jesus lion wardrobe one is Narnia

[@mitchellzollinger1100]

Was any idea something other than a reference?

[@Dmanbradley]

Man, this put Isekai into perspective. When it was a relatively new genre stories like Re:Zero and Overlord did all the interesting stuff described. Now the market is flooded with the harem/power fantasy brand. This came out last year, but this past summer "Black Summoner" hit virtually all the check marks: * Bland main character with harem built entirely on his OP stats * Buys slave girl to add to harem * Introduces non-blood-related sister character that acts like other members of the harem * Video game mechanics that mysteriously don't play into politics or world-building * No central antagonist for an entire season * Mix-and-match harem girl tropes to make up for none of them having motivations or personalities It's eeriely accurate for how detailed this bad advice is.

[@boptodatop]

Black summoner is so bad that it loops right back around to being a good time Although I'd say the personality ones are a bit less valid 2 months later

[@theonionboi]

black dungeon company is pretty good ngl

[@boptodatop]

@@theonionboi true

[@AidanDaGreat]

it's a shame, really. I don't watch anime but from watching people make fun of bad animes online I can see that the art is just amazing. So much talent going into such an unsustainably business practice.

[@lordzo7758]

Movies : "Fear my loves triangle !" Isekai : "Allow me to introduce my loves octogones"

[@RedAmitie]

Octagon!

[@jgf4224]

Love tesseract*

[@icouldntthinkofaname7773]

Love dodecahedrons

[@RokuroCarisu]

@@icouldntthinkofaname7773 And Ranma 1/2 wasn't even an isekai...

[@Elemessclr]

@@icouldntthinkofaname7773 * love rhombicosidodecahedrons

[@TenshoWasHere]

How to make an isekai WAIFU: -design a ten year old character -call her a 100,000 year old demon lord -profit

[@joshgroban5291]

B, you could also do: -make her inept a combat, not because she's a bad fighter but because you never let her fight unless it's to empower the mc as she loses - horribly big breasts that would normally be encased in armor realistically, but instead they're either cupped by them, or there's no chest plate in the first place - give her lingerie armor and long hair or pony tail but she doesn't wear a helmet

[@AAZ-yu5ss]

@@joshgroban5291 or you can do C -make the girl (who’s a teenager,) have animal features, like cat ears or a tail (also have their be discrimination against these people, which will never be addressed) -have them be a slave, who is happy to have a good slave master (who the “perfectly moral” Mc,) with her blatant Stockholm syndrome never being addressed (nor the Mc’s support of slavery, as he’s always right,) and finally -have them constantly sexualized all the time, no matter the circumstances or age (this applies to all girls, even the one(‘s) that look about 10, or younger) God I feel like a disgusting incel typing this shit.

[@Espartanica]

@@AAZ-yu5ss How DARE you question the morals of 40 year old neckbeards who've never had an actual friendship eith a girl

[@athena1491]

you forgot to add "-sexualization" without that it would just be, a bunch of people treating this immortal demon as an actual 10 year old, which would be an amazing change from, well, creepy behaviour. Like nobody believes them at all, but just plays along, or shows extreme concern for their safety... you know, like actual people would. 'Oh of course youre a powerful adventurer!! my mistake sweetie,' *points at playset,* I think there is an evil villain in that magic tower that needs defeating,' *magical girl transformation and draws their weapon* "DONT WORRY ILL PROTECT YOU CIVILIAN, STAND BACK!" 'WHAT!?! OKAY LITTLE LADY, FIRST OF ALL WHERE DID YOU GET THAT SWORD, THATS WAY TOO DANGEROUS, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?! AND WHAT IN GODS NAME HAPPENED TO YOUR CLOTHES?!' "I'm a 47000 year old demon lord that works on this plane as an adventur-" 'NONO IM NOT PLAYING IMAGINATION LAND MISSY!! GIVE ME THAT SWORD RIGHT NOW, WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU A DECENT SET OF CLOTHING AND SOME FOOD, AND THEN WE ARE GOING RIGHT TO THE GUARD POST TO FIND YOUR PARENTS.... i swear, parents can be so awful these days,' *dragging them by the shirt collar to the nearest tailor* Like, i want an anime to just, point out how fucked up it is, this demon lord just, shocked that anyone would be sexual towards them and goes into a 10 minute monologue about how wrong it is, slapping and hexing the protagonist, and then just, vanishing in a puff of smoke, Or a extremely powerful mage, that was cursed by their former guild member so they could take the top spot, and this immortal being dealing with the fact theyre treated as incompetent and like a child for a few hundred years all while trying to fix it, dealing with those limitations, -weapons, medium to high power magical items, "those are too dangerous for a little girl, here, this wand makes an aura of glittering lights, and this hat can change into any hat, and this ring gives people a tiny zap when you shake hands, do you want any of those?" -home ownership, "I, youre 10... kid, where did you get this money? I promise you wont get in trouble if you tell me" -higher levels of magical education, "I know youre excited to go to magic school sweetie, but you have to go through all the lessons, you cant just skip to the latest additions, there are so many basic you need to learn, just for safety!" and more things that are not available to children -not being allowed outside the city walls, and over time, learning to overcome those limits, having people buy these items for them, it costs a fair bit more but is better than nothing; convincing or paying someone to act as their guardian in order to buy a home, and in return they get to stay and live there; tutors hired by their "rich parents who sent me to their summer home to study in peace"; paying smugglers, or sneaking out of the city to take quests, using a face to accept jobs on their behalf, and accept payment as well; and over time, mastering this web of resources and becoming a guild in of itself, nobody the wiser.

[@nomight273]

@@athena1491 .

[@Bedinsis]

How about a protagonist being whisked off to another world since they didn't read the full terms and conditions for a piece of software and it specified that the provider of the software might do that?

[@thebeltcameback1553]

I think an otome game"s villainess isekai did that...

[@djibril012]

Slave harem did that...

[@brutalnobody5240]

to be fair, does anyone besides people looking to sue/It's involves finances, etc. ever look at those things

[@Bedinsis]

@@brutalnobody5240 Indeed, people seldom do that. Hence why I thought it was an obvious entry point to get the plot rolling.

[@howardbaxter2514]

It would be funny as shit

[@thejonbrownshow8470]

Honestly, a antagonistic government using a harem to "control" a MC (who'd likely woe the girls one by one for sure as character development on both sides) for political reasons sound very interesting. Can't think of anyone using a harem in that context

[@StarryxNight5]

A couple isekais use the trope of the princess seducing the MC, iirc. But I don't remember it actually being fleshed out, nor do I remember one where the princess' treachery isn't revealed in literally the first chapter.

[@pointlessrandom7619]

I remember this concept was breifly mentioned in Shield Hero.

[@foogod4237]

This is actually a fairly big aspect of World's End Harem (not technically an isekai, but similar in some ways), but that anime is, kinda unfortunately, basically "an interesting premise that somebody had to ruin by trying to make it into porn instead"..

[@thejonbrownshow8470]

@@foogod4237 oh dear😅 well tbf, any type of "harem" thing could be turned into porn I'm pretty sure 😂

[@StarboyXL9]

@@foogod4237 how does that ruin it?

[@C6BD]

Birth of the Isekai genre : "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain, published in 1889.

[@RokuroCarisu]

One could argue that that's a time travel story, but it's close enough.

[@johnnoahdeandres9458]

Alice in wonderland probably

[@Javetts]

Birth of the Isekai genre: A Midsummer Night's Dream 1595 ​ @RokuroCarisu except King Arthur never existed, so it's another world.

[@LowestofheDead]

There's also a 1988 book series about a Polish engineer sent to the 1200s and only has a decade to stop Genghis Khan's invasion. .....and he becomes king and gets a harem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Stargard

[@PirvateerKurei]

A Princess of Mars literally had an overpowered Earthman project himself onto Mars, marry a Martian and fight other Martians in proto Isekai fashion

[@brettpgh3312]

This is one of those rare times where being old and out of touch is positively wonderful. I have no idea what any of this is and I'm thrilled.

[@kingturboturtlednoc5722]

You... don't wanna know *pushes Slave loli under carpet*

[@smugfrog1041]

If you want top quality isekai watch Re:zero

[@thisrandomdude2880]

@@smugfrog1041 Nah man, Saga of Tanya the Evil is where it's at.

[@toxicsugarart2103]

God I wish I were you.

[@kibi8311]

@@smugfrog1041 no overlord is better

[@carlrood4457]

I just realized that the 80's cartoon of Dungeons and Dragons was a kid friendly version of ISEKAI. It was a magic amusement park ride instead of a truck, but there you have it.

[@maxwellmcnarrow9732]

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain is kind of an Isekai too when you think about it.

[@Luissv72]

If you wanna go further, Dante's Inferno, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, and other classic tales are definitely technically Isekai

[@ttd0000]

@@Luissv72 Once you decouple the genre from the tropes that have sprung up from this specific light novel boom you realize that "normal person ends up in fantasy world" is one of the oldest ideas in fiction. Even just talking anime, Inuyasha, Escaflowne, and Magic Knights Rayearth are Isekai from before the term was coined.

[@friendlywobbly9903]

futurama best isekai

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Yeah, thus making the genre at least older than the internet.

[@CuteHimbo]

1:58 I rolled a dice to generate my own isekai female character because I hate myself Ended up with a HH Huge immortal tsundere maid... I hate the fact that it probably exists somewhere

[@Eric-py8yy]

You shouldn't be surprised

[@Carewolf]

Make her a succubus in disguise, and I have read that comic.

[@sophialambert2616]

Fairy Tale, Virgo's original form.

[@gangrenousgandalf2102]

Albedo from Overlord

[@Thepreacher_1]

​@@gangrenousgandalf2102at the very least she has a character it's a low bar but people seem too thinks it's really high

[@weebgoose2646]

You forgot something: MC is okay seeing bodyparts get cut off in the most horrific way possible.

[@Ryan.2]

But if a girl starts showing romantic feelings towards him, he is either to dense to notice or to scared to make a move.

[@goldbrella9820]

Honestly I would love an anime that sets up as a perfect typical isekai and then goes against it. MC struggles killing a person and then when he kills he freaks out and realizes he killed someone. He thinks he has incredible power and then gets his ass kicked.

[@lethalshinigami]

@@goldbrella9820 I feel like ReZero kind of started out that way, but I get what you mean.

[@blankmoment2]

@@goldbrella9820 bruh ?

[@QuanTrietLOL]

@@goldbrella9820 Just buy Dark Soul

[@CatOnACell]

this is why "help an isekai protagonist just got born in my world and is already warping the world into it's power fantasy" is going to be made eventually, and will make a lot of money.

[@papasscooperiaworker3649]

Wow, this comment makes me want to start animating lmao

[@ShadowDragon1011]

You could add some horror elements into that story quite easily.

[@silverdededestruction2197]

tsuki ga michibiku sorta does that. The protagonist got summoned into another world because of a promise his parents made but ends up getting discarded by the goddess because she already summoned two better heroes. Those two heroes ended up being absolute shit heads with one of them brainwashing a kingdom and attaining a harem while the other blindly follows the goddess and believes in her plan. The MC literally wants nothing to do other than to beat the shit out of the goddess and the harem hero. The MC has two girls who like him, but they're both equally insane to a degree and are a jovial bunch.

[@thedualitysystem]

Mage and Demon Queen

[@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786]

Okay, bear with me here (seriously, please, benefit of the doubt) since this recommendation is gonna be really offputting to a lot of people on the basis of being a... My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction. But the fanfiction Not The Hero by alarajrogers is a genuinely rather interesting take on exactly this, filled with great dialogue, almost-obscenely-complex headcanon worldbuilding for the sake of establishing the reality being warped, and an immensely likeable, layered interpretation of a character whom in the original show is just a Kids Bop version of Q from Star Trek. Check it out: www.fimfiction.net/story/217108/not-the-hero

[@sxwriter8569]

“Villain lies to hero about the world being fun and like a game.” Wait that happened in Digimon Fusion/Xros Wars. Dark Knightmon tricked Nene’s bro Yu/Ewan into doing that and he kept believing that until his partner got murderered. We definitely need more of that.

[@stuckerfan2563]

Oh yeah i remember that.

[@jooborrego4]

That's totally No Game No Life as well

[@SangerZonvolt]

@@jooborrego4 But no game no life was a reversal of that because the world IS actually pretty fun for Blank.

[@shortheroluka]

A lot of his suggestions do exist in some way, which is pretty neat.

[@maadtee6281]

I bet they got revived right no ways do they stay dead

[@animosital1645]

3:15 Missed the opportunity to say "Thankfully, Isekai protagonists are the easiest protagonists to write, because they aren't written at all!"

[@Neiroe]

I want to be isekaid into a world where this is what he said

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Harem Guts without the sad is surprisingly not that good. Guts needs the sad.

[@notkarma2984]

Story: Sexual tension capable of cutting steel? Isekai guy: Did you say something?

[@caldineescogroft8831]

I fight for My cutie

[@TheNN]

"Also you can't tell me you wouldn't pay good money to see Dr. Stone science around in Fantasy Land." I mean...the man has a good point.

[@boobah5643]

How much sciencing does Dr. Stone do anyway? Lots of engineering, sure, but science? He's not discovering the principles behind how things work, he's constructing stuff that uses principles he already understood before he started.

[@MrRobot-0]

@@boobah5643 senku thing is enciclopedic knologe and being realy inteligent and pragmatic, but he have no way to use the empiracal analisi metod since theres no tech at all, roctor stone is more a rebuilding civilization anime.

[@plantinapot9169]

Ascension of a bookworm, but it’s not SUPER sciencey like dr stone. I’d say it’s medium rare science in comparison

[@pikminman13]

@@boobah5643 dr. stone is about experimentation using the previously acquired knowledge. senku said it took him months to figure out clay pots. he fails frequently, and figures out the right method, hence science, which is the experimentation to figure out what is actually the right method. chrome developed the tungsten heating mechanism by himself based on what he already knew, and both senku and chrome make many mistakes on their way to discovering things. it isnt about obtaining book knowledge, you can understand the theory and still do science.

[@Treviisolion]

Might I recommend both ‘A Hero’s War’ and ‘Release that Witch’ webnovels if you’re interested. The former is an English isekai while the latter a Chinese one, but both have the same concept of an engineer finding themselves in a medieval fantasy world and rapidly industrializing them. They certainly aren’t the only ones that do this (that actually is a small genre in an of itself) but they are both the most well-done and the longest out of any example I’ve found so far.

[@Ieatpaste23]

You forgot that everyone acts japanese and everywhere is Japan.

[@exumbra1399]

And everyone looks white and caucasian.

[@Ieatpaste23]

@@exumbra1399 The blonde and redhead with blue eyes both have japanese names.

[@radamanthium]

To be fair, there are a lot of Isekais that doesn't fell in this trope, fortunately. Thought, they fall in the other trope, where every serious fantasy world is an Medival Euroepan-like world, and we appreciate that authors take the time to investigate about European Medival times, but would be awesome to see more often other fantasy worlds completely unique, there are few that comes to my mind, less than 10 probably.

[@Ieatpaste23]

@@radamanthium They haven't even kind of made it like real medieval europe. The buildings and still of dress aren't medieval, also everyone acts like a modern japanese person.

[@radamanthium]

@@Ieatpaste23 You are generalising every single Isekai/fantasy world, and that's completely false, actually. But ok, think whatever you want.

[@alepenagorbe9135]

"Now, not boning one's sister is like... the lowest of the low bars to clear." Jaime Lannister: wow, RUDE

[@Hank_the_normal_I_guess]

Unfortunately anime studios think it's limbo not jumping bars😢

[@magicalmonoceros2407]

Unironically my favorite part of the genre is something I like to call "leadership porn." Who doesn't love watching a functional town and community being built from scratch?

[@slav7571]

love it when normal ass teens somehow develop the capabilities to build and manage a town/nation from scratch in the span of like a month after their reincarnation. Gotta admit that's a good trope doe cus it actually requiers world building and not just a lazy power fantasy with the world being barely explained.I have no idea why people write isekai novels and dont explain the fantasy world,like shouldn't that be the main goal of the ISEKAI genre? its quite literally in the name.

[@flyerton9958]

A man of good taste. Who knew that charismatic leaders bringing everyone around them to accomplish great things and building a society around themselves would be compelling to read? Or alternatively, how existing society interacts and jostles with this new upstart group and all of his values like no slavery, the worship of capitalism, liberalism, that ideology that caused the Napoleonic wars, because despite society being ordered by Religion and Feudalism, those two systems never counteract the protagonist. Or if they do, they do it in a mind-bogglingly stupid way.

[@brandonlyon730]

@@slav7571 Then people will just complain about endless exposition.

[@Aredel]

Rogal Dorn approves

[@landlockedcroat1554]

rise of the shiesh hero lol

[@JirunoGiovanna]

The fact that almost all of his suggestions about truck-kun alternative have already been done is... Amazingly accurate.

[@blankbla7101]

Suggestions cause I wanna watch/read those

[@JirunoGiovanna]

@@blankbla7101 I'll name some of them. I'll also try to order it as his suggestions: 1.Self studying magic and isekai: (Have seen one exactly like this some time ago but dropped cuz no explaination on the magic used. But there's at least one out there. I just didn't care too add it to my reading list. It was a manga adapted from novel with female mc btw, for ref.) 2. Dying wish for adventure but with cost: (I have seen a lot of this type, mostly manhwa, but I couldn't enjoy lots of them. Mainly because the plot doesn't get anywhere interesting to me as the time I was reading, so I dropped them. This is in fact, however, unlike normal isekais that "God will give you some chance" and pushes them like "eh just go, do ya best" with no consequences on the reincarnation process [no backlash whatsoever to get yeeted across universe]. I'll list the notables one for me then.) - Ascendance of a Bookworm /Not much adventure, but there sure is drawbacks of weak body and isekai element. - He will die soon (Manhwa) /Not much isekai, but it fits the premise of the suggestion. Very dark and fun, too. - Most of the farming isekai /Yep, that's it. Go to Google and search it. Most of them will be like "I want to live a peaceful life, and then god actually grant it" type. Most of them are dying wish or hidden wish, too, so it fits. Not much cost to pay for it, tho. 3. Secret room to another world from descendants: (This one has varieties. It can be both or either of them. I'll try to list the ones I strongly remember down.) - Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru /Not descendants' own property, but just got very, very lucky. Both lottery and travel-able isekai? What a lad. - Isekai de Cheat Skill wo te ni Shita ore wa Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta /Perfectly fits the description. - Boku no Heya ga Dungeon no Kyuukeijo ni Natteshimatta Ken /Reverse isekai. The room is bought, tho. A fun one. - Isekai Shokudo /Food-centered isekai. Very, very wholesome. Basically fits the majority of the description too. - Wortenia Senki /Descendants are from isekai. But the teleportation is generic. Good world building tho. - Let's Be An Adventurer! ~Defeating Dungeons With A Skill Board~ /Not just a room, but an actual dungeon is next too his house. The world design is somewhat like Solo Leveling, too. Very fun and similar to Solo Leveling, but more wholesomeness. - Sex And Dungeon /Perfect description. But with ecchis and sex scenes. Very fun "material". - There actually is another one that a male mc got a key from his grandma to a room to another world. I can remember this solely because of how ridiculous his grandma's photo is. She's actually ahegao in the photo with both hands signing Vs lmfao. Tell me if you find it. I really enjoy that. (Edit: I found it. It's "Itsudemo Jitaku Ni Kaerareru Ore Wa, Isekai De Gyoushounin O Hajimemashita") 4. Person from earth is actually a superior race to isekai. Bad people sent him back to be a tool. (Well, this mostly isn't revealed in most of it's kind since it basically is the planned twisted in the late stories. Some of them just blatantly announcing this, tho. I'll just put the one that confirmed this since beginning, then. Also, the tool for politics thing is common, but haven't seen the perfect combination to this tho, mostly combined with "higher proficiency in magic".) - Saikyou No Shuzoku Ga Ningen Datta Ken /Possibly fits all the things in the description. Heavy fan service but fun nonetheless. 5. Monster tricks mc to isekai. (Possibly none of them are going to reveal this in the near future. I don't suspect any of them too, so I'll just put this in blank.) 6. Science isekai. (The closest is Dr.Stone for scientific accuracy. The rest of them that "tries" to use their "science" in another world, mostly in "how to magic" cliché learning method, are just con-science. The idea of science portal is great, but no artist would ever want to research about it, tho. So, no. I'll just list the one that's closest to using actual science in another world, then. Not just spitting bullshittaries.) - Isekai Yakkyoku /Isekai pharmacy. Very accurate according to a full-time doctor I know irl (he's also a weeb). Very knowledgeable too. (Pt.1)

[@JirunoGiovanna]

@@blankbla7101 7. Monster's gauntlet is actually an isekai. (Completely unique. No suggestions at all. Kudos to TWA.) 8. mc get caught in the crossfire of someone else's isekai. (Very, very common. I'll list the best looking ones in my list.) - I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace /Perfect description. But another twist is already included in the name. Very wholesome indeed. - Konjiki No Moji Tsukai - Yuusha Yonin Ni Makikomareta Unique Cheat /Another perfect description. Good world building. - I'm Not the Saint, so I'll Just Leisurely Make Food at the Royal Palace /Perfect description, but twist is that she actually is the chosen one, and food based. - Kanzen Kaihi Healer no Kiseki /Kinda more of Shield Hero style, but no revenge and no slaves. Fun too. - I Became The Strongest With The Failure Frame "abnormal State Skill" As I Devastated Everything /Perfect description, but more of revenge and trash. - Class Teni De Ore Dake Haburaretara, Doukyuu Harem Tsukuru Koto Ni Shita /Perfect description, but just trash and ecchis and sex scenes. - The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic /Great one with perfect description and wholesome. - The Other World's Wizard Does Not Chant /Shield hero style, but the man is just sex machine. - Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World (Manhwa) /Perfect fit and VERY GREAT STORY AND ART. STRONGLY RECOMMEND - Lonely Attack On A Different World /Perfect description. Fun, too. - Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu /Kinda fits, but very great on world building and everything. Very recommendable. - Arifureta /Of course it fits... - Dungeon Seeker /A better, rawer version of Arifureta. - And many, many more. 9. Isekai in dream. (One perfect fit.) - Welcome To Japan, Elf-San /Perfectly perfect fit. Great fun. 10. JRPG made by god to choose the chosen one. (This is common-to-rare. I'll just put ones that really stand out to me.) - Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta! /Kinda fits. But great, great story. - Live Dungeon /Kinda fits. Great story and world building. - SSS-Class Suicide Hunter /Mixed with Solo leveling style world. Very great art and fun. - FFF-Class Trashero /Very savage, raw and great fun. - Btooom! /It fits! Right!? - and many, many more. The one that perfectly fits are all boring. 11. Wrong soul delivery. (Haven't seen one but pretty sure it's out there, at least as a twitter comic.) 12. Magic club turned real. (Have seen something like this before. Mostly a sketch. If I recall correctly, there is actually one like this, but not isekai. There is an anime for that too, but unrelated so not included.) That's all from me. Add me more if you want. I'm open to all suggestions.

[@loly9929]

My man... Honestly I wish I could poof all those stories in my mind. Idk I got/want to spend my time like that. I want the post- but not the process as much

[@JirunoGiovanna]

@@loly9929 Don't know what am I supposed to say here but don't worry man. I, too, do have a life. I just really enjoy overanalyzing these type of stories and stuffs in my break time. I am the type that can read 200+ similar isekai stories at the same time and can remember each individual of them, so this is just my little hobby that I love to spend my time doing. I also have responsibilities and studying to do, but I still can manage. Thank you for being concerned, I guess. Also, I don't really recommend everything I listed there. Some of them are just so bad it's burned into my memory. Choose the ones that you like and enjoy the hell out of it. Or just skip it all if you have some more important stuffs, it's fine too that way. It's your choice, man. I can't control you anyway. It's just that I was kinda overenthusiastic lol.

[@seaemji8591]

I’m surprised no one mentioned the shoujo counterpart of isekai. • The heroine is a normal girl who read a cliché romance book and then she died or just got transported into another world without any further explanation • Turns out she’s now in the world of the book before the love story happens. How does the book on Earth depict so precisely the new world she’s in and how does it predict what will happen, since the people in it are actual humans that react and adapt to what happens around them, and not just characters that follow a storyline and never deviate from it ? Was it written by some magician that has the power to see different realities ? Or did someone get isekaied to her world after the story ended ? Eh, who cares. • Back to the heroine, who actually became the villainess (more like a love rival for the OG heroine) who dies at the end of the book (do romance novels actually do that ?) and so she has to avoid doing what the OG villainess did, which isn’t that hard, given that the OG villainess was a borderline psycho. But what happened to her when our heroine replaced her ? Did she die ? Did she swap bodies with the heroine and start a life on earth ? What about her family, who lost her and doesn’t even know about it ? Are you seriously asking for an explanation ? Stop that. •Now let’s introduce the love interest. You see the CEO love interest in Wattpad novels that has infinite money, is constantly cold or angry, and has a dark past ? Well, he’s the same, but in fantasy land. Either a duke, a prince, or an emperor, because the heroine can’t end up with someone of lower nobility or -can you imagine- a COMMONER ! He also somehow is a genius swordsman, a competent politician, an incredible lover, and so on. Oh, and he’s hot. With big abs. •Anyway, the OG villainess was in a relationship with him but he hated her so when the OG heroine appeared he immediately went for her. But our heroine breaks up with him and starts to be nice with people so it sparks his interest and he starts pursuing her. Unfortunately the heroine is dense and too focused on the original story so she doesn’t get his obvious attempts to seduce her. That last sentence sums up 90% of the story. But don’t worry, they get together in the last chapters and live happily ever after even though he’s possessive, manipulative, and used to be a womanizer. But he’s hot. Do they actually have anything in common ? What did I say about explanations ? Who cares, he’s hot.

[@ameron1766]

I think these are usually in webtoons

[@seaemji8591]

@@ameron1766 yeah, webtoons and light novels, and since we are talking about storytelling...

[@ameron1766]

@@seaemji8591 Yup yup

[@RoboThot711]

My Husband Hides His Beauty is my favorite Isekai romance because the FL actually uses her knowledge of the previous world to her advantage and the ML reverses most of ~toxic~ tropes of Isekai male leads.

[@WildArtistsl]

Catarina is that you

[@TheTrueCowKing]

I only just noticed that JP’s “anime hair” is literally just deformed pencils

[@WhoWilliBe]

🍤

[@coalgolem4697]

Terrible writing advice: when you get to the part about boneing sisters, just say they not related by blood! SAO: best I can do is cousins

[@KhayJayArt]

There's no reason for them to even be relates, blood related or not, except to pander to creeps with a fetish for incest

[@DY2727]

@@KhayJayArt the harem in general is to appeal to weeboos 🤦‍♀️

[@seekerofalice9787]

@@KhayJayArt Eh, in Japan first cousins are somewhat acceptable targets for relationships. Its a difference in culture, not strictly an incest fetish (though some anime certainly play into that more than others)

[@gael.7593]

@@seekerofalice9787 It being aceptable in their culture doesn't make it morally or biologically right.

[@seekerofalice9787]

@@gael.7593 biologically it actually isn't that bad so long as the blood doesn't get too thick. You don't see recessive genes really popping up until several generations of inbreeding occur, so as long as cousins don't repeatedly have kids across several generations it isn't a problem. Siblings on the other hand is far more problematic genetically speaking. As for the moral aspect, that is relative to the culture. In the US, we see cousin romance and squick a bit, but for other cultures, it is acceptable. As such, I really don't consider it an issue from Japanese media due to the cultural differences and the lack of actual harm done. I have my issues with Japanese culture, but that isn't really one to sweat over too much IMO. I'd focus more on gender rights, work culture, and the absurd expectations placed on children that lead to real psychological harm over something like this.

[@Ultrapyre]

Even compared to the other episodes, the sarcasm dial is dialed up considerably higher than usual... Something tells me he doesn't like Isekai.

[@kakyoindonut3213]

he should, isekai is trash, except the good one

[@quintusfabiusmaximus8700]

Isekai is trash itself no matter how interesting the twist is Isekai only uses the transported because it’s cool and they only rely on that sh*t

[@chee.rah.monurB]

It is a really stupid genre,and overly saturated,with so much wasted potential...

[@emiliianoportillo1311]

@@chee.rah.monurB wasted potential and iseki. Name a more iconic duo

[@chee.rah.monurB]

@@emiliianoportillo1311 TWA and sarcasm maybe?

[@J4__]

The isekai genre has gone so far, people are reincarnating into vending machines

[@MarcosAlexandre-no3qx]

It's not the worst honestly. We have reincarnated as a sword, as a slime, as a goblin, in a shit game(this one is actually fun), as a fucking bath. I'm surprised that they didn't reincarnated as a wall

[@upsetlizard6910]

@@MarcosAlexandre-no3qx There exists a manga about a guy reincarnating as a wall though...

[@emblemblade9245]

Ok but are they the panties dispensing kind?

[@Onihikage]

@@MarcosAlexandre-no3qx There's at least two that reincarnated as a goblin. One of them didn't stay a goblin for long, but the other one fancies himself an intellectual and wears glasses. There's also a spider isekai, and that one is actually decent for the genre, avoiding most of the pitfalls expressed in the video, though the anime is terrible.

[@upsetlizard6910]

@@emblemblade9245 The manga was about a guy who reincarnated as the wall of a room where two girls made out and he enjoyed watching. That was what it said in the description...so I guess?

[@trudivination8497]

Most creative isekai I know have their characters get there from “death by books in an earthquake” and “sold by shitty parents to a demon” (guess one direction didn’t need to buy any people that day)

[@nathanieljefferies5491]

Haha you are talking about Iruma aren’t you? Man I love that anime. It is just so hilarious knowing how Ameri’s family are basically Otakus for humans. Her father definitely “read” all those manga based on those fantasies (or should I say nightmares) he has of Ameri and Iruma getting together.

[@lorenzotanzi9851]

Iruma and Urano are...actually fun characters! One has comedy in the actual conflict of values/life conditions, and the other has the click of magic being harmful for you and the mc actually trying to be a good person by helping orphen from starvation and help advance the world.

[@zombinary3138]

You’ve put the image of Iruma’s parents selling him to one direction for cash instead of to a demon and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry because that’s ENTIRELY in character for them lmao

[@mattiOTX]

At least with ascendence of a bookworm that one is actually well written. I've read enough isaki stuff that I'll typically know if it's decent by the first chapter.

[@MegaAgamon]

Finely Flat - Little Sister - Poor Health - Tsundere Looks like nii-san is going to prison

Who is ‘nii-san’?

[@Sugoie]

@ older brother

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

@@Sugoie I thought that was Onni-chan (Edit spelling fixing)

[@ZeroRelevance]

@@potatoheadpokemario1931 I think you mean ‘Onii-chan’, which is a more respectful version of the word

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

@@ZeroRelevance thanks for correcting my spelling

[@DoctorSpacebar]

The real answer is to buy the slavers' entire stock... WITH EXPLODING GOLD. Then as you leave, and the gold is about to blow up the slavers, say "Pleasure doing business with you" while looking away from the explosion. Shades optional, but recommended.

[@ahmataevo]

80's action movie theme required.

[@majorblitz3846]

Better yet, invite them to tea party at your house while discuss about the deal. *Then serve him special cup of tea that include 5 minutes countdown explodium potion*

[@thethethemososoki4555]

@@majorblitz3846 The Putin option

[@majorblitz3846]

@@thethethemososoki4555 It works as long as the slavers didn't pull the Rasputin on me. Otherwise it would skip to plan C real fast.

[@TheSpaceCommunist]

...and then you free the slaves, right? Right?

[@expansionpack4485]

I never thought when I subscribed, that I would ever hear you utter the word "Loli."

[@candarus_collective]

This channel makes me feel hope for humanity because there is at least one person on earth who recognizes the stupidity of 90% of media AND has genuinely interesting ideas for alternatives.

[@Hank_the_normal_I_guess]

I can't like this comments because I want to keep that nice 69😢

[@ItsKaypora]

Oh, no! TWA look out for truck-kun!

[@bluesap7318]

Silent and blood thirsty psychotic killer

[@shaehankhan7912]

Oh no he is wearing airpods

[@marocat4749]

The yandere of his harem🙄

[@altandavaz3543]

Oh no hes wearing airpods he cant hear us

[@bonogiamboni4830]

Fun fact about myself: when i was in like 4th grade my teacher had the class do a class test in which we wrote a short story starring ourselves. I had never watched anime or read manga before that point, and didn't remember similar stories from movies except maybe jumanji or the better, scifi version of jumanji whose name i don't remember. My big brain as a 9 year old decided "you know what would be fun? To write a fantasy story where i go on another world". I wrote a fucking isekai as a class essay in 4th grade. It's literally such a generic and cliché genre that a child with no prior exposure to it managed to create it. I even put in so many cliches like it ending with me waking up from a coma and thinking it was all a dream but then finding an object from the fantasy world in my hospital gown. I have no fucking clue how that happened and i wish i remembered it better. Anyway, if anyone knows the name of that better jumanji where the two brothers' house goes into space please tell me because i want to see it again.

[@bonogiamboni4830]

Ok, i thought it was called galaga but that was just a game from the 80s so i just looked up "scifi jumanji" and the first result was the one i was looking for, zathura. That movie fucking rocked.

[@kateanddevinlindsay5478]

Zathura. It's based on a book written by the same author as jumanji

[@bonogiamboni4830]

@@kateanddevinlindsay5478 ah ok, i thought maybe one copied the other but nevermind, it's just the author's shtick, isekai board games.

[@MrMViceroy]

I literally did the same thing when I was 12. Teacher had us all write a short story, mine is me getting caught in a storm on the way home from school, getting struck by lightening, and waking up in a kind of post apoc/steampunkish world, ruled by a generic dark lord and his army of mutants. It even ended with me and my band of plucky companions defeating the dark lord, but I'm mortally wounded in the final fight, and as I died from my wounds, I wake up again in the real world, still laying the field where I got struck by lightening. From memory, I eventually realised I was still clutching the villains magical/artefact eye in one hand. It goes to show how intellectually bankrupt the entire genre is. Tweens around the world have a tendency to accidentally invent it without even trying or having any prior knowledge of it.

[@bonogiamboni4830]

@@MrMViceroy at least your world was post apocalyptic and steampunk, that's cool, most normal isekais are just tolkien-esque fantasy over and over again.

[@thomaszboss3411]

What bothers me the most about isekais is how they never get the mc to even mention their parents or show how their relationship were before getting isekaid

[@WolffangPL]

Yeah the only 2 isekai i saw do that was Re:zero and mushoku tensei

[@radamanthium]

There are tons of isekais that do that, actually.

[@midnight_horizen8184]

Only Mushoku Tensei,Re:Zero and Konosuba did that.

[@NIHIL_EGO]

Well, considering that the target audience are cishet Japanese men who aren't really happy with their lives...

[@ballom5191]

Overlord : Ainz is pretty much in depression because he miss his former guildmates. As for the floor guardians and others inhabitant, they cherish what's left of their former creators.

[@MechanizationStudio]

I can read Japanese, I used to read isekai novels before isekai genre became popular(before that slime isekai anime). Many of those novels are never meant to be commercial, I think they wrote it for personal entertainment. And there are some pretty creative ones. One of them is about a protagonist who got isekaied without noticing because he never left his parents' house and he had internet. He refused to leave even after he noticed he was in isekai, and he kept asking advice from random jobless people in 2ch so that he could survive, because he was running out of food.

[@Zinervawyrm]

People are debating which was the first true Isekai: Yu-Yu-Hakusho? Alice in Wonderland? A Yankee in King Author's Court? Meanwhile... Ancient Egypt: We built an entire religious belief around it! No seriously, have you delved into the mythology of what happens in the Ancient Egyptian afterlife, especially if you are pharaoh?

[@canaisyoung3601]

Well, that explains Yu Gi Oh (or at least the abridged version as done by LittleKuriboh).

[@mechgouki7999]

Would 12 kingdoms count as one of the earlier Jpn based isekai? Except the setting is China based....

[@novaterra973]

@@mechgouki7999 Definitely. Rayearth and El Hazard too.

[@mechgouki7999]

@@novaterra973 yeah forgot about those. I guess visions of escaflowne too.

[@retrogamelover2012]

Probably laid the groundwork for it, at least.

[@bored4033]

Don't forget the childhood friend -make someone else get isekaied. Shocker, it's the mc's childhood best freind who was also a supermodel or somethin' -make her not nearly as powerful as the main character. This definitely won't add any questions about how the mc Is outrageously op and she's a normal human even though they both got isekaied the exact same way. - have the childhood freind aknowledge how cool the mc has become and not the definitely questionable things: like how he bought a slave or how he murdered a random guy who just said something slightly mean to one of his girlfriends -have her instantly join the mc's king harem cult without a second thought

[@StupidRawblocksGamrr]

I see that someone's watched Isekai Cheat Magician. It sits pretty in my favorites list with a rating of 1 / 10

[@Marlin123]

Yes

[@StarboyXL9]

More please 😆

[@filipaleksiekczuk3712]

Optional expansion pack

[@artman40]

Have the childhood friend be the main reason why protagonist rejects everyone, even if they're much better for him than the childhood friend. After all, the author needs to have the childhood friend fantasy he never got to have in real li....I mean in other isekais.

[@theavengingnarwhal5581]

“Notice me, semi! Or don’t, if you’re the protagonist.” *chef’s kiss*

[@blownupfishnchips9071]

No no, he's got a point.

[@demsterclippy4252]

I love how upon rewatch, this is one of the harsher videos on the channel since it covers stuff that plagues almost the entire anime medium, a lot more than just the "isekai" sort.

[@Starsmasher287]

The real magic power of the protagonist is to get cell service in another world when I can't even get a signal in my damn bathroom.

[@Surikoazimaet]

It helps God is doing you a service after screwing up, and he got a noodle spine so you can get some additional benefits...

[@Ghalaghor_McAllistor]

Have you tried turning your magic off and on again?

[@obnoxiousbarking5562]

I think it’d be interesting to subvert the dere trope where it’s tried to be played straight but the protagonist is like, “wait a minute, this relationship isn’t healthy. I’m not going to pin after a girl who calls me an idiot and can’t decide if she loves me or not” and he proceeds to date another girl and is happy.

[@canaisyoung3601]

It's mostly been done.

[@TheAnimeEncyclopedia]

@@canaisyoung3601 WHERE

[@bloodnessx]

There are quite some that does that imo. One that does that well is wise man's grandchild. The mc is in love and married with just 1 woman

[@justinokraski3796]

in at least the last 15 years, the Tsundere usually wins out when the MC makes a choice (otherwise, "status quo" usually wins) followed closely by the loli. Part of it is that they come pre-built with character development in the form of being honest about their feelings. I'm hopeful that the childhood friends start to become a more consistent winner, but I guess angry shrews are the current meta.

[@hariman7727]

I'm waiting for a harem anime where the main character spends the series rejecting thee unwanted advances of the harem because he already fell in love with one of them, and they're in a committed relationship.

[@draconomega]

Also, once a character get transported into fantasy land they forget about any family and/or friends they had in the old world and never try to comeback, nor do they ever tink or talk about it ever again, they also never miss the technology or food from their world

[@GamersHolyArmy]

Yeah, that's one of my least favorite things about isekai, I think the most interesting part of those kinds of stories is how a person is affected by suddenly being uprooted from their normal life into a completely different one, and the complete disregarding of that is not only disappointing, it just takes me completely out of the story. I am actually writing an isekai story right now, and the thing I set out to do more than anything else is to not fall into that problem and make the protag's normal life a real motivator for him in the story.

[@RyokuShogun]

@@GamersHolyArmy In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance the player character and friends get isekai'd by a magic book and while everyone else is enjoying themselves you're searching for a way to literally destroy the world in order to take everyone home.

[@mardshima2070]

Both Ascendant of the Bookworm and Kumo Desu Ga has a moment where the main character can't help but crying when they realize that they cannot enjoy their modern life anymore.

[@GamersHolyArmy]

@@mardshima2070 that among many other things is why I love Ascendent Of A Bookworm.

[@Kuudere_Fanboy]

Maybe it's because the real world sucks.

[@RapinatorOhYeah]

Isekai Anime Starter pack - The title itself contain the whole plot - A loner MC - get killed by truck-kun - Either given OP powers by a god or just born with it. - have RPG style system - forms a party - forms a harem - the target is killing the demon lord

[@cyberprime9355]

"A wardrobe leads to Magic Jesus Lion" comedy gold right there

[@ScorpionViper1001]

Now I'm trying to imagine what the Narnia books would be like with a harem and reaching for the brain bleach.

[@plasmawolf7960]

Chronicles of Narnia is proof that Christian fantasy CAN work.

[@reasyrandom]

@@plasmawolf7960 What about VeggieTales?

[@yersiniapestis5237]

@@plasmawolf7960 Christianity is proof that christian fantasy can work

[@plasmawolf7960]

@@reasyrandom that too