General Isekai Thread

Focusing on more buddy-comedy types could substitute for the harems we've gotten this decades. And heck with it, it would be good to have some female buddy-comedies as well, because there is always room for good girl interactions outside of the Otaku O clock demographic.

I'd like to see an all-female road trip fantasy story, actually - like FFXV but with a female cast (and for context, I loved the cast dynamics in FFXV). I think you'd probably need a female author for that, though - with the genre and the market the way they are, I feel like you'd just get a lot of people boobing breastily down the stairs otherwise.

Sakurako Gakuin is a female author.

She'd still do that.

Also instead of making them all boring one mold faces. Have the girls be different fantasy races.

Edited by firewriter on Jan 12th 2019 at 9:34:05 AM

@Red Savant @Firewriter Or even better, why not make the girls with a truly different personalities and ideologies that they would develop some PO Vs?

I would so be on board with that.

Personally I just want some actual world building and not just ripping of RP Gs. God, I hate having rpg mechanics with levels and stats and other BS, or adventurers going to guilds and generic races. The orcs or goblins either being one-note villains or the complete opposite and lampshades it. Elves having comically long ages yet doesn't act remotely like it and only wears green. Animal people having male looking like furries but female having superficial animal attributes. No fantasy wildlife beyond dragons. I'm not asking for Tolkien level world building, but try to make a fantasy world something fantastical.

Or for something that really never happens. How about bring a whole family into the fantasy world?That's really never been done before. Not just a sister or mother tagging along, but a whole entire family going into a new world.

@firewriter That's actually on my idea tbh. I'm imagining the story is like in Karakuri Circus style or the families were reincarnated as Circus members on another world—In a Cyberpunk fantasy world—and that they fight against the evil demon queen or involved with some conflict in this huge world and tries to set things right

I would just transport them to another world, instead of doing the reincarnation thing. I never did like the reincarnation things.

@Parable

Thank you for that video. It did help clear up the differences.

The Swiss Family Robinson in space! No Game no Life had no problem with transporting two siblings into an isekai. Neither did Log Horizon.

Edited by gropcbf on Jan 12th 2019 at 8:32:22 PM

It's weird the kind of isekai stories you can find when you look for them. Like a lazy boy who reincarnates as a vampire loli and finds himself surrounded by lesbian monster girls, or a random loser who becomes a sword or a martial arts master who reincarnates into a scholar.

I do find myself a little tired of the unexplained Skill systems. I didn't realize they were that common when I started reading Kumo, which actually deconstructs Skills. That set the bar kind of high for me when the first isekai I read that used them was making a point of how silly they were.

Wait, what's that first one called? I think I may have seen it in the bookstore.

Loli vamp reincarnation? The Reincarnated Vampire Wants An Afternoon Nap.

Ah, web novel. No, must have been something similar, I guess.

In any case, yeah, Kumo is a strong contender and did kind of ruin the 'analyze is overpowered' subgenre for me, which I'm not super broken up about, admittedly.

Oh, is it a web novel? I just skimmed what manga there was on some website and then put it aside.

Also yeah not being that big on isekai in general I didn't get that a lot of the things Kumo does is meant to be a deconstruction, so I kind of took it at face value. I mean, the only isekai stuff I seem to be reading lately are those series that have a really weird premise in order to shake things up or make fun of the genre so it took a bit to realize 'Oh, these are actually massive cliches.'

Edited by Arha on Jan 12th 2019 at 1:58:54 PM

These titles just keep getting longer and weirder.

Maybe that works better in Japanese.

You know it would be interesting if the other world was Sci-Fi in origin instead of being a fantasy one.

I read an isekai about a scientist reincarnating as a robot. It was super trashy and kept changing genres.

How many Isekai works out there, that didn't have Overpowered protagonists?

Edited by VeryVileVillian on Jan 13th 2019 at 11:52:24 PM

Most of the successful anime ones in fact. No Game no Life, (arguably) Log Horizon, Grimgar, Re: Zero, Konosuba and most of the pre-2010 ones.

Edited by gropcbf on Jan 13th 2019 at 10:12:44 AM

Some of them should bound to have some.

i'd say the main characters in No Game No Life is pretty overpowered, considering how ridiculous the victories they pull off are. Grimgar and Re:Zero, however, has truly weak protagonists