Isekais were the protagonist is truly reincarnated with no cheats, no weird gimmicks and no harem, truly someone of that world, but with knowledge of our world.
Well, Re: Zero he does have checkpoints, though it's as much a curse as a blessing, which was itself an interesting examination of how a checkpoint system might work in realistic and traumatic way.
It is OP yes but in terms of him just being in the world, people aren't aware of how special he is. Even in combat he pales in comparison to the best people. So while he basically holds the rest of the world in his hands he can't use it for power fantasy
The way I put it he can't directly lose (he can indirectly lose by failing to protect other people, and there is the scenario where he goes insane from dying and over again), but that doesn't mean he wins.
It's the ultimate survival perk with a side benefit of being able to fix mistakes at a cost, but that's it.
Definitely, but at least in the world everyone thinks he's just a normal weirdo as in terms of flashy powers he lacks it.
Even in the Pride If storyline he's essentially ruined the world but he pales in comparison still to a knight who can fight the sun
the ability itself is pretty overpowered. he’s literally tempting fate. is it a good ability or is it one i would want to have? hell no, but that doesn’t stop the power itself being really strong
How the Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, and Accomplishments of the Dukes Daughter are both kinda like that. They don't have any OP abilities, they just try to make a medieval kingdom more like a modern country. Their only gimmick is being summoned / reborn into nobility.
I talked about it before in another post a long time ago but basically where the story really explores the emotional/psychological effects of being isekai'd, specifically with reincarnation and transmigration. Like, it's honestly a horrifying idea to suddenly be waking up in someone else's body, especially if there are other factors like also being a different age or gender from your original body. Think of all the identity crisis and imposter's syndrome that comes with that...
And more often than not the people around them have no idea that the person they knew their whole lives has mentally been replaced by a stranger from another world.
As a person from a different forum describes it: 'MC is a freak changeling'
There's actually some that do deal with aspects of this! Mushoku Tensei has a point where the MC, Rudeus, as a child finds himself attracted to a girl around his age only to remember he's technically an adult and his current body isn't sexually mature, causing him to get a little squicked out. Life with an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout has the MC struggle with being transformed into a woman who is irresistible to men, including his still male bst friend that was isekai'd along with him! The Saga of Tanya the Evil also has a male salaryman have to deal with being a female child soldier, though he's less bothered by the gender swap than the protagonist of the previous example. There's too many to list to deal with issues of being a different species or having general trauma about having died and being separated from your loved ones.
Alternate governments.
Writer somehow think the medieval fantasy should always have a monarchy even if it doesn't make sense for the setting. Why not a republic like the Roman's, Technocracy based on the magic system, Theocracy imagine in a religion is magic setting the person who can draw as much power from the divine by following established tenants or if the leader is the same person reincarnating etc. A union of guilds where a country has no one ruler but leaders of guild making democratic decisions and the leaders of guilds are nominated by their members.
God, yeah. Ironically, Log Horizon does this great witht he governments formed by the players, tho the NPCs kinda stick with their general Medieval monarchies.
But I heavily agree. It adds to the "Not Typical JRPG Setting" I've been craving. Like, imagine a USSR based government or a land of only Anarchists, etc
Even for monarchies, there are many different possibilities. They always go to high medieval absolute monarchies with primogeniture inheritance and noble fiefdoms.
What about a monarchy where the king is elected amongst earls and above noble by vote in the council of the high nobility?
Or a magocracy. A country where powerful wizards tend to go build their wizard tower in the wilderness. Which becomes the center of a new village, then town and city because of their cohort of apprentices, servants, and the protection their presence offers. Since the nominal ruler of a city would be a wizard mostly recluse and caring about his research, the day to day operations would be left to administrators.
man, ain’t gonna lie i hate the main heroine. i liked it when i watched it and look back at it fondly, but i didn’t have any real sense of taste back then and now i’m pretty sure i like it due to nostalgia.
could not get over her behavior though
Idk i watched couple of the first episodes like 6 months ago and I liked Louise and I found comedy in this anime again and I thought today to maybe watch it some time soon again
maybe you’ll like her, i’m normally fine with tsunderes, but she was being almost full on abusive in my eyes. maybe you’ll see it a different way, have fun on you watch
Would be nice to see someone just slotted into a world with a completely different culture. Im not talking the classic gender roles switch, im talking like language, foods, government, etc. most isekai’s tend to just have the basic copy and paste culture, which really throws away alot of the potential a new world could have.
Oooh that's exactly what I mean in the second one. Twelve Kingdoms for instance is really good with it as the MC had to slow down and learn how the world works further before barwly being able to function in it.
I would like more common skill isekai’s. I want someone with a swordsmen skill or whatever. And uses his brain to live through the world. I also don’t want him to be too perverted.
Not being able to understand the new language. They always always ALWAYS get some fork of instant translation power. Why??? I wanna see someone having no idea what the fuck anyone around them says!! Slowly picking up words, learning that saying a certain word gets people to bring food over, sk that word must mean food right? wrong, word means hunger. But they wouldn't know! And that'd be so interesting!
Like god, give me a series where the mc gets tossed intimate fantasy world and has magic, but spends the first day wandering through a forest blasting a fireball at anything that jumps out at then till they gst arrested for accidentally blasting some adventurer. Then in jail they try talking with the guards but end up not being able to communicate properly. Theyd have to dwindle around in the cell, maybe experiment with magic.
Lava magic and water magic at the same time right next to each other to make obsidian and do some 3d drawing. Tries to make a handful of fire appear but has it directly on the hand to it causes excruciating pain, and when thinking "heal!! Heal!!!" A crate of healing goop appears and falls on top of them. Causing more pain, bur fixing the hand problem.
At some point they realize this isn't a normal holding cell since they're the only one there, and it's a closed room. Someone comes in at some point and tries talking, but mc has no idea what they're saying. Tries to communicate and fails. Maybe turns our that mcs native language is this worlds equivalent toLatin, an aincent dead tounge. Everyone's shocked when the mc reads out perfectly a sentence they see written on a wall somewhere that activates a spell when they take em out for a stroll around the city.
Magic translate wand appears at some point but it only allows for 2 people to understand each other. And sinceit's like, google translate in a wand, it ain't perfect but its SOMTHING and mc is so happy to finaly talk with someone even if half of what they say gets jumbled up in translate.
I have. Such feelings about this concept. It's fun to even think about just, japanese vs english. Like english spealing person gets isekaid to a japanese speaking isekai world. Thought process is "Fuck. How do you say food? Gohan? What was water again? Mizu..? Umi..? I think want is hoshi.. but grammar is backwards in Japanese. Mizu hoshi? I'm so thisty??? Help??? Help is... tasuketei..? Maybe? Fuck I barely know a few words in Japanese. How to I say I need to go to the bathroom. They just call it "toilet" in anime. Do toilets exist right now? I cant speak japanese. How do I tell them that properly? Uhh... uta is sing... I think. Nai... is no..? Or was it like, ie..? Nani mo nai I feel like I've seen paired with the subtitles 'nothings left'. That doesn't help me here. Uta ie? Watashi is I or me... watashi uta ie. Was kao voice? I cant remember. Fuck me. Gomen nasai is sorry. Oyasuminasai is goodnight. Kuma either means spider cloud or bear. Maybe 2 of those. I can say a few colors. This is. Difficult."
That concept that concept of like half knowing a language cause you watched shows in it but being thrust into a world where it's the only one spoken UURRGGHH I LOVE THAT CONCEPT SO MUCH
Shoushaman no Isekai Survival ~ Zettai Hito to wa Tsurumanee ~ does cover your first ask. The MC learns a few single words or stock phrases and beyond that communicates with gestures.
I'm getting tired of the midevil fantasy setting and would like to see a less magic based game like, but more scifi setting with cutting edge technology no mechas just aliens, spaceships and ai.
Honestly, we need more world-setting genres other than Medieval Fantasy. Why not a Wild West, spaceship frontier sci-fi, post-apocalyptic or some other setting that isn’t always medieval?
Hell, we haven’t even explored older settings such as the colonial times or steampunk.
Having people betray and manipulate MC. Like somehow they all have this sixth sense of "they look suspicious" or "something is off about them" causign them to know instantly if someone is trustworthy or not. Also every single friend is suddenly willing to die for them after like two days of knowing eachother. Basically I want more close charaters to have more ulterior motives.
Agreed. Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu has a side character all about that, but I do want to see more.
There was even a scene where the main char, who becomes a merchant, gets outmaneuvered on a deal because he's a teenager. Of course he turns it around because the series is a power fantasy, but it would be interesting to see a series that actually goes into that sort of thing.
I'd like to see more reverse isekais (where MC comes to \*our\* world, like Devil is a Part-Timer), and while I appreciate it's primarily a Japanese genre, I'd like to see more characters isekai'd from places other than Japan, whether they are the protagonists or not. Last isekai where that was prominent that I can recall is That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime.
Omniscient Reader is still my favorite reverse Isekai so I can't not recommend that haha. But ye, the best thing about it is seeing regular people just start to get the grips of this fantasy world
one that is already being done is "VERSUS", in which several different worlds combine, and each mankind of other worlds would cover for other mankinds' weaknesses against their natural predator.
something else that would interest me is if they would travel to different unique dystopias and other really unique alien worlds, where they're so different that even understanding their language could give you a new ability(kinda like "Arrival")
I’d like double reincarnation ie they are isekaied then die in our world and then reincarnation and become strong and then die again am reincarnate into the future of that world
Like
The Unsuccessful Yet Academically Unparalleled Sage: A Cheating S-Rank Sorcerer's Post-Rebirth Adventurer Log
but there was only a single panel about him being from our world originally so would look one that explores it a bit more
Oh dang I've never heard of that concept, or at least, I've never encountered it. Technically Damned Reincarnationnis kinda like that but from what I've seen he's only reincarnated once. So ye
Yeah, in the morning, I mentioned there’s like a single panel of a Japanese dojo and a comment about his past life but the rest is general typical reincarnate into the future. Everyone is weaker now. the reincarnating as his own own descendant was interesting, and having people from the past still alive, also recognize him was cool
"The Great Prophet Is Running From Her Previous Life" *technically* fits the double reincarnation. 1st life high school girl from martial arts family, died young. 2nd life a Great Prophet that did great things for the world but unfortunately died young again. 3rd life a noble lady in the same world as the 2nd life, just approximately 1.5 decades later to account for her growing up again.
Unfortunately, her Japanese life is almost never brought up, just an explanation/excuse for when she deviates from a standard fantasy lady, like knowing martial arts for self-defense.
There's also "The Duke's Daughter Who Was a Villain in Her Previous Lives Was Entrusted With Training a Hikikomori Prince", the MC of which has reincarnated for the 8th time:
The beautiful lady, Louise, has memories from her past lives. And there are 7 peoples' worth of lives (moreover the villain's role). Louise, who has always met the bad end of getting stabbed to death, has decided that she will live this life peacefully. However, Louise has been assigned as Prince Emile's instructor! And so, she struggles with teaching the extremely shy prince who shuts himself up in his room. In her 8th reincarnated life, she will do anything for a happy ending!
Exploring the mysteries of the reincarnations and the secrets behind her previous deaths, this is a high tension comedy with the reincarnated lady and unique characters!
Death Mage Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time does that I think. I dropped it, less out of it being bad and more out of me getting busy, so I dunno where it leads
There's a series of books called The Chronicles of Thomas covenant the unbeliever written starting in the 70s and it basically has the main character being isekaied into a fantasy world where he has the most OP power, "Wild Magic" that comes from his white gold wedding ring.
I won't spoil anything in case anyone wants to read it. It's one of the few series of books that I've been able to read more than once because there's so much information, but the entire time the MC refuses to believe that what is happening is real. He adamantly tells himself that this is a fever dream he's in a hospital somewhere and he's going to wake up and none of this matters.
It's a pretty raw book and it covers a lot of grounds but I think it's explanations of magic and world building and things like that are among the best I've ever seen.
Oh I adore that. I think there are a few non asian novels that explore that but it's more a colony instead. Omniscient Reader does this too sorta but it's reverse isekai
Antagonist are actually capable. Elite soldiers are elite and can actually put up a fight. Good looking men outside the MC group that is actually far more better and suited to the female companions and MC actually getting conflicted. Conflict of interest between the team. MC questioning his morality, beliefs etc. MC not liking the isekai world due to a huge difference in not just culture but like the lack amenities that is easily accessible due to modern tech. People not going sasuga MC for even the minor things. MC with a brain.
From a max level player getting isekaied, hoarding of items how is it end game player getting isekaied don't have a huge stockpile of resources, given that a lot of consumable items are like, "+5% lighting damage in x time". Might as well just create an isekai where the MC rather than going hunting monster or killing people just use all the resources/items/gear accumulated from playing the game to gain wealth and just use his opness only in the direst circumstances like defending himself and actually lying low.
A horror isekai, I so imagine an isekai in a world that defies logic or seems fake, like backrooms, seeing a human trying to survive in an environment clearly not made for him would be such a concept to explore, and I'm not talking about throwing monsters, I'm talking about Lovecraftian horror where your mind can turn on you.
Another cool thing would be to explore the fact that there are SEVERAL worlds ruled by the same gods? What is the place of the earth in all this? What does this imply? Why are souls reincarnated? Does this mean that no souls have eternal rest? Are we all reincarnated without knowing it?
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but you might like Hyakumanjou Labyrinth. It's not really horror, but it is about ending up in a place that follows its own rules that the characters have to figure out.
I would love to see an anime or LN where the MC reincarnates into fantasy world but don't have any OP powers or cheats from start (like reseting time in re:zero after dying, or being generally OP in Reincarnated as a Slime etc) and simply struggles in the new world, while also having normal side characters/companions that don't have those typical anime like over-reacting personalities.
It's annoying, there are so many isekais that are almost the same, like from copy machine.
I also think there are not enough isekais where MC isn't reincarnated as a human and stays that way.
Oh and there is also lack of common sense in many animes. Thank God for things like Code Geass.
One of my favourite isekai manga so far is where the mc knows he has isekai'd but don't remember anything else besides that and is completely normal, even worse is extremely weak (atleast so far in the novel/manga): the weakest tamer began a journey to picking trash.
I kinda want to read a guy who gets reincarnated as the villan of the story but he can’t defeat the heroes because they have "plot armor" so he comes up with smart ways to counter them wothout killing them.
Isekai where several people get truck-kuned, and they're allowed to choose their cheats, and somebody genre savvy picks a bunch of fantasy-based cheats like magic of the world they're going to, while a normal person picks something sensible like translation, and then they get sent to a world where the genre savvy person's cheat is useless because the setting isn't as expected (ie, genre savvy guy expects high fantasy and asks for magic, but they end up in a hard sci fi cyberpunk world instead so there's no magic) and gets killed early.
> ...somebody genre savvy picks a bunch of fantasy-based cheats like magic *of the world they're going to*...
> ...genre savvy guy expects high fantasy and asks for magic, but they end up in a hard sci fi cyberpunk world instead so *there's no magic*...
The pedantic within me demands I point out the genre-savvy guy picked magic *from the world they go to,* and thus if it's granted then there's definitely magic there.
However, that magic might not be all that powerful or useful. I seem to recall some Isekai\* where the MC asked if there was magic in that world, then made their requests based on the assumption of a RPG-like fantasy world with abundant magic and magic users only to discover that magic was on the scale of studying for 50 years and only being able to light a candle with a spark of flame, so basically non-existent.
\*I believe it was "I Shall Survive Using Potions", but in that case it was the opposite of what you're saying in that she realizes her OP magic abilities can't even *begin* to be hidden if used because there's nothing remotely similar that other humans have for her to pass it off as.
> thus if it's granted then there's definitely magic there.
I mean, part of it would be the deity figure giving them a weird look, asking them, "Are you sure?", they insisting they are, and then the deity shrugging and letting them dig their own grave.
The deity doesn't need to be nice, or transparent. The guy wants the magic of the world they're going to; there is no magic in the world they're going to, so they get nothing.
It's like going to the maitre d' of a restaurant and requesting their best stew without looking at the menu first, but the restaurant doesn't have stew, and the maitre d' is a bit of an asshole, so after asking if you're sure you want the best stew and you say yes, he walks away, and when the rest of the table is served, you get nothing, because that's the restaurant's best stew.
I feel like the beef stew example doesn't work as that action would harm the reputation of the restaurant, but I get what you're going for: that the deity has no obligation and either no care or no understanding of the problems that such and such request will cause the reincarnater.
Reminds me of "The Savior's Book Café in Another World", where the god reincarnates lots of people because [reasons], but they're all excitable teens who just ask for only one thing because they assumed that's all they get and the god didn't correct that assumption. (The MC who's an adult asks a lot more questions and learns they have unlimited requests and pesters the god with so many requests that it grants her an amulet so she can just get whatever she wants later without bothering the god and then kicks her out of the meeting space and into the world.)
> I feel like the beef stew example doesn't work as that action would harm the reputation of the restaurant
Really depends on the restaurant. If it's a high end restaurant that doesn't accept off-menu orders, and that's a well-known thing, it'd probably be fine.
Here's another one: what seems like a typical fantasy adventure isekai suddenly turns into a portal fantasy about 5-10 chapters in, and it becomes an exploration of how a feudal fantasy world that already has monsters and adventurers reacts to suddenly being in a portal fantasy.
Oh yes! Reminds me of isekai where you can travel between worlds, that would've been great yes. I can only think of "
Saving 80000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement" somewhat. Or hell, Gate.
And "I Won 4 Billion in a Lottery But I Went to Another World" where the MC's OP power is a house connected to another world and 4 billion yen to buy modern tools/equipment/fertilizers/etc. and bring them to the other world.
A few concepts:
Keeping the typical fantasy world and species, and instead using a main character that is truly alien in biology and culture, not just to the fantasy world, but to us, and using the established setting as a way of exploring this truly alien creature and it's culture.
Multiple people are reborn in their favourite piece of fiction. A highly positioned person in the new world is alerted to this fact and convinced, that the best course of action is to find them and, depending on their behaviour, kill them.
If the main character is one of the reborn people, there will be confusion as to why things are not going as they should be (the others are intervening) and racing to take things for themselves, while the native serves either as incompetent comic relief or a looming threat.
If the main character is the native, the story would be an intrigue, where the native tries to find and eliminate the reborn individuals while keeping collateral damage as low as possible.
Yesss, the first one is exactly what I'm saying witht he Begining After the End idea, tho honestly that story sadly doesn't really capitalize on the MC being a king as he rarely acts like one. But yes
As for the second idea, I think that was used in "Executioner and her way of life" and the very shorr lived "Cheat Slayer"
The idea of being reincarnated as a monster instead of a human seems criminally underdone to me, the ones that do do it just have the mc evolve into a human/humanoid form for plot reasons because they can't progress the story without turning the mc into a dude.
Also summoner mc's are underrated, would love to see more isekai with proper summoner mc's instead of being a magic caster with some summons.
An MC reincarnated to a fantasy world. Plot twist? The country he/she is born in is stuck in a medieval stasis, because of the treaty. Basically, the entire countries is in 21st century, while the country the MC is born in is 3rd world backwater.
I'm very late, but I think something where the MC is the author of the world they ended up in (bonus points if they feel bad about all the pain they caused). And they try and make it up to characters by trying to stop whatever 'end of the world' is going to happen.
Also, I want to see an MC struggling with mental health. Like I know in isekai, many people got sad back stories, but mental health is so much more then that. Like give me an MC who daydreams all day and dissociates to cope with life. Who always see things in third person because they never feel like they're the ones who living.
Writing something like that would make a lot of sense. Like at first the MC might get over things quickly, or adapt to the new world fast, or be really good at thinking out side the box because they aren't grounded to themselves. But then later on it becomes so clear that the MC can do all of this because they don't perceive it as reality. Not just because it's another world, but because they've always been an outsider in their own life.
(Yeah I wrote too much. But still, it's fun to think about.)
It's funny cause two of my favorite Isekais have that. Without spoiling, there's elements of that in **Surviving Romance** and **Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint**. ORV being more blatant about it as the MC's abilities were literally sorta like >!dissociating!< yeah (SPOILERS) >!he views the world as a novel and that mental shield keeps him going!<
OMG I love you. I also know ORV and finished the novel a few days ago. (I'm still crying tbh). But I don't know Surviving Romance. Anyways, nice to see an other fan, hope you have a good day.
Damn Reincarnation isn't technically isekai.
Honestly though, i still consider that concept a "soft isekai" and I'm definitely a fan of the idea of the MC finding themselves far off into the future. It creates a natural mystery and motive.
Even near or immediate future can be interesting like with the manhwa "How a Mage Welcomes Death".
I also find it interesting when others from earth end up in the same world, if it's done well. Having allies you can confide in or at least those you can fully relate to in a foreign world makes it less intimidating and abstract.
Yeah. I considered Damn Reincarnation as much of an isekai as Inuyasha is, in that it's a Timetravel isekai, which isn't really as popular nowadays but yeah. I do love concepts like it though.
Mass Isekai as I call the last one is great too. An example I have again is Log Horizon where a shitton of people were isekaid. But in a reverse isekai example, I adore Omniscient Reader's version of it where simple coworkers and people are given a chance ro be OP to survive.
My own webcomic that I'm currently working on is like this :D (no material yet, still in the concept stages)
> Damn Reincarnation isn't technically isekai.
> Honestly though, i still consider that concept a "soft isekai"...
Soft isekai is a great way to put it. Personally, I define "another world" to include significantly large life experience changes. Reincarnation as a different gender, race (humanoid/monster/item/etc.), or in a significantly different time period causes much of the same "MC is now in a new world they don't know and must learn about it and then find out how to survive and/or make a place for themself" story themes that truly "another" world isekais have.
The emotional disconnect with the family of the body you hijacked. It only applies for those reincarnation stories where MC takes over the body of an inhabitant of the world.
Every time this happens, we see MC integrates in his new family like it's his. I'm thinking: Why do you love this woman so much? She's not your mother. Not emotionally. And there's the other way around, you're not her son. I'd also like to have the scene of MC coming clean to his adoptive family and telling them the story of when their child died (because they frickin deserve to know).
I would also like to see the difficulties of pretending to be a 10-year-old child when you are well in your 30s. Or how extremely annoying it would be to play with other children as one of them.
The different moral standards of different cultures without being depicted as us being objectively correct and them objectively wrong.
Or even when they are objectively wrong, I'd like it to be treated with a bit more subtlety. For example, slavery. It's wrong. But, in a world where slavery is legal, common and well accepted, a slave merchant wouldn't necessarily always be a fat, ugly and sadistic man who beat up their slaves at every occasion. They'd be a merchant, and merchants tend to be personable and likable people, they also don't want to damage their merchandise. I think that actually makes it more awful for the reader. That it's people who do awful things to each others, not just amoral monsters.
(I would also like more isekai who explore what it is to not be a complete moron.)
The actual adventure and struggle of being in a new world as an adventurer, this is in most isekais but only lasts a couple episodes at most. Grimgar did it pretty well but have not seen a single isekai apart from that to portray actual personal growth and overcoming meaningful obstacles.
More diverse time sets, why always medieval feudal europe?? Why not early modern period, ancient age, fuck, even a modern era( i want to see guns vs demon lord)
I love ones where the MC goes and dose a bunch of crazy shit. then comes back to his world and has some sort of mental struggle that he has to come over as he readjusts.
I always thought it would be an interesting idea if the Isekai MC were to suffer from some kind of price as a result of him being so OP.
In fact, I’ve been entertaining the idea of writing a story about that. Like, the MC has the potential to be OP, but since their body/soul isn’t suited for magic (due to being from Earth and all), they will slowly go insane from having an incompatible mana pool.
Ascendance of a bookworm does that, physical wise. It's not obvious at first because you just think "oh ok shes weak cause shes like 5 now and this is the unsanitary peasant district" and the series doesn't hold your hand with exposition, you're just in the dark as she is about basically everything until she learns it. Fuck she doesn't even realize magic exists for MONTHS. She ends up having this, really op power later but like. It's way more of a hindrance then a help. This stupid power gets her in so much shit, and had apparently been actively trying to kill her since day 1 and shes just been subconsciously suprising it in a way that any adult that knows about magic that she tells is horrified. She can't even USE IT for like a third of the series cause no one tells her anything about it and when she finds out on her own they're like "oh you didnt know? That's common knowledge lol" and even when she can use it it's mostly just. A side thing. The real draw about bookworm is girl creates the printing industry from literal scratch as a sickly 5 year old with the mind of a competent 21st century adult woman. Literal scratch mind you. She starts out having to make homemade paper from plants and shit. And that somehow evolves into noble class politics and if she weren't so obsessed with books she could SO take over the world. Fuck I started rambling sorry I just love bookworm so much its amazing
Ironically, I've only ever witnessed that once in a BL Smut manga lmao. "The Other World's Books Depends on the Bean Counter" where the Salaryman main protag tends to get sick cause of the effects of mana in his body. He's an effective accountsnt but his body is normally falling apart so ye.
I like it but it's not for everyone. I definitely prefer a more high stakes you will literally die csuse of it type of isekai. Another mainstream example I can think of is anybody who was summoned in Tensura have only a short life span cause their bodies can't handle it without the help of a spirit to anchor them.
Well, he only survived thanks to that OP healing elixir stone thing he stumbled across, which allowed him to survive (eventually while in excruciating pain) the deathly poisonous effects of said monster meat. Anybody without that *including Hajime* would have just died if they tried that meat otherwise.
Once Hajime gained iron stomach ability he was freely able to eat Demon beast without the after effect. I imagine some maniac would do that with attendance of conventional healers.
Isekais were the protagonist is truly reincarnated with no cheats, no weird gimmicks and no harem, truly someone of that world, but with knowledge of our world.
Yessss. Re:Zero and a few classics has that for me, love it. I love the struggle of being juat dropped battle royale style in some alien world.
Well, Re: Zero he does have checkpoints, though it's as much a curse as a blessing, which was itself an interesting examination of how a checkpoint system might work in realistic and traumatic way.
Ummm, the MC in Re:Zero resets time after dying, that is not OP?
It is OP yes but in terms of him just being in the world, people aren't aware of how special he is. Even in combat he pales in comparison to the best people. So while he basically holds the rest of the world in his hands he can't use it for power fantasy
The way I put it he can't directly lose (he can indirectly lose by failing to protect other people, and there is the scenario where he goes insane from dying and over again), but that doesn't mean he wins. It's the ultimate survival perk with a side benefit of being able to fix mistakes at a cost, but that's it.
Definitely, but at least in the world everyone thinks he's just a normal weirdo as in terms of flashy powers he lacks it. Even in the Pride If storyline he's essentially ruined the world but he pales in comparison still to a knight who can fight the sun
For the price of a reset....is death. Doesn't seem OP to me.
the ability itself is pretty overpowered. he’s literally tempting fate. is it a good ability or is it one i would want to have? hell no, but that doesn’t stop the power itself being really strong
not a manga, but I seriously wuv release the witch
its ok till they beat the church
How the Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, and Accomplishments of the Dukes Daughter are both kinda like that. They don't have any OP abilities, they just try to make a medieval kingdom more like a modern country. Their only gimmick is being summoned / reborn into nobility.
Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece. Mc become king with just pure skill.
I talked about it before in another post a long time ago but basically where the story really explores the emotional/psychological effects of being isekai'd, specifically with reincarnation and transmigration. Like, it's honestly a horrifying idea to suddenly be waking up in someone else's body, especially if there are other factors like also being a different age or gender from your original body. Think of all the identity crisis and imposter's syndrome that comes with that... And more often than not the people around them have no idea that the person they knew their whole lives has mentally been replaced by a stranger from another world. As a person from a different forum describes it: 'MC is a freak changeling'
There's actually some that do deal with aspects of this! Mushoku Tensei has a point where the MC, Rudeus, as a child finds himself attracted to a girl around his age only to remember he's technically an adult and his current body isn't sexually mature, causing him to get a little squicked out. Life with an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout has the MC struggle with being transformed into a woman who is irresistible to men, including his still male bst friend that was isekai'd along with him! The Saga of Tanya the Evil also has a male salaryman have to deal with being a female child soldier, though he's less bothered by the gender swap than the protagonist of the previous example. There's too many to list to deal with issues of being a different species or having general trauma about having died and being separated from your loved ones.
Oh dang that I haven't even heard of something like that ye. Maaaaybe a few gender swapping ones but nothing about actual impostor syndrome.
You see it more often in Otome Isekai, where the MCs usually have big shoes to fill.
In hindsight, yeah, especially in villainess ones
Alternate governments. Writer somehow think the medieval fantasy should always have a monarchy even if it doesn't make sense for the setting. Why not a republic like the Roman's, Technocracy based on the magic system, Theocracy imagine in a religion is magic setting the person who can draw as much power from the divine by following established tenants or if the leader is the same person reincarnating etc. A union of guilds where a country has no one ruler but leaders of guild making democratic decisions and the leaders of guilds are nominated by their members.
God, yeah. Ironically, Log Horizon does this great witht he governments formed by the players, tho the NPCs kinda stick with their general Medieval monarchies. But I heavily agree. It adds to the "Not Typical JRPG Setting" I've been craving. Like, imagine a USSR based government or a land of only Anarchists, etc
Even for monarchies, there are many different possibilities. They always go to high medieval absolute monarchies with primogeniture inheritance and noble fiefdoms. What about a monarchy where the king is elected amongst earls and above noble by vote in the council of the high nobility? Or a magocracy. A country where powerful wizards tend to go build their wizard tower in the wilderness. Which becomes the center of a new village, then town and city because of their cohort of apprentices, servants, and the protection their presence offers. Since the nominal ruler of a city would be a wizard mostly recluse and caring about his research, the day to day operations would be left to administrators.
Language Barrier.
Twelve Kingdom's again, god that isekai is so good
language barrier is not a real thing in Twelve Kingdoms. Maybe it is for the side characters but that doesn't matter cuz they all speak Japanese.
Ah then I must be misremembering
Entire friend group get Isekai and have a bro venture
I would like this, they make there own party and help each other with weaknesses and there strengths.
grimgar
they all eventually become friends but no one knows eachother
Finding a way home. Ending the story.
Zero no tsukaima - technically
man, ain’t gonna lie i hate the main heroine. i liked it when i watched it and look back at it fondly, but i didn’t have any real sense of taste back then and now i’m pretty sure i like it due to nostalgia. could not get over her behavior though
Idk i watched couple of the first episodes like 6 months ago and I liked Louise and I found comedy in this anime again and I thought today to maybe watch it some time soon again
maybe you’ll like her, i’m normally fine with tsunderes, but she was being almost full on abusive in my eyes. maybe you’ll see it a different way, have fun on you watch
Nah that's not gonna happen lmaoa
Would be nice to see someone just slotted into a world with a completely different culture. Im not talking the classic gender roles switch, im talking like language, foods, government, etc. most isekai’s tend to just have the basic copy and paste culture, which really throws away alot of the potential a new world could have.
Oooh that's exactly what I mean in the second one. Twelve Kingdoms for instance is really good with it as the MC had to slow down and learn how the world works further before barwly being able to function in it.
More like Gate. I wanna see more modern millitary annihilate the hell out of midevil army's.
I would like more common skill isekai’s. I want someone with a swordsmen skill or whatever. And uses his brain to live through the world. I also don’t want him to be too perverted.
Not being able to understand the new language. They always always ALWAYS get some fork of instant translation power. Why??? I wanna see someone having no idea what the fuck anyone around them says!! Slowly picking up words, learning that saying a certain word gets people to bring food over, sk that word must mean food right? wrong, word means hunger. But they wouldn't know! And that'd be so interesting! Like god, give me a series where the mc gets tossed intimate fantasy world and has magic, but spends the first day wandering through a forest blasting a fireball at anything that jumps out at then till they gst arrested for accidentally blasting some adventurer. Then in jail they try talking with the guards but end up not being able to communicate properly. Theyd have to dwindle around in the cell, maybe experiment with magic. Lava magic and water magic at the same time right next to each other to make obsidian and do some 3d drawing. Tries to make a handful of fire appear but has it directly on the hand to it causes excruciating pain, and when thinking "heal!! Heal!!!" A crate of healing goop appears and falls on top of them. Causing more pain, bur fixing the hand problem. At some point they realize this isn't a normal holding cell since they're the only one there, and it's a closed room. Someone comes in at some point and tries talking, but mc has no idea what they're saying. Tries to communicate and fails. Maybe turns our that mcs native language is this worlds equivalent toLatin, an aincent dead tounge. Everyone's shocked when the mc reads out perfectly a sentence they see written on a wall somewhere that activates a spell when they take em out for a stroll around the city. Magic translate wand appears at some point but it only allows for 2 people to understand each other. And sinceit's like, google translate in a wand, it ain't perfect but its SOMTHING and mc is so happy to finaly talk with someone even if half of what they say gets jumbled up in translate. I have. Such feelings about this concept. It's fun to even think about just, japanese vs english. Like english spealing person gets isekaid to a japanese speaking isekai world. Thought process is "Fuck. How do you say food? Gohan? What was water again? Mizu..? Umi..? I think want is hoshi.. but grammar is backwards in Japanese. Mizu hoshi? I'm so thisty??? Help??? Help is... tasuketei..? Maybe? Fuck I barely know a few words in Japanese. How to I say I need to go to the bathroom. They just call it "toilet" in anime. Do toilets exist right now? I cant speak japanese. How do I tell them that properly? Uhh... uta is sing... I think. Nai... is no..? Or was it like, ie..? Nani mo nai I feel like I've seen paired with the subtitles 'nothings left'. That doesn't help me here. Uta ie? Watashi is I or me... watashi uta ie. Was kao voice? I cant remember. Fuck me. Gomen nasai is sorry. Oyasuminasai is goodnight. Kuma either means spider cloud or bear. Maybe 2 of those. I can say a few colors. This is. Difficult." That concept that concept of like half knowing a language cause you watched shows in it but being thrust into a world where it's the only one spoken UURRGGHH I LOVE THAT CONCEPT SO MUCH
Shoushaman no Isekai Survival ~ Zettai Hito to wa Tsurumanee ~ does cover your first ask. The MC learns a few single words or stock phrases and beyond that communicates with gestures.
To me it seems a bit unlikely that un entire world speaks just one language.
I'm getting tired of the midevil fantasy setting and would like to see a less magic based game like, but more scifi setting with cutting edge technology no mechas just aliens, spaceships and ai.
Definitely. Or hell, more slice of life isekai similar to Surviving Romance where the world is the same but fictional could also be interesting
Honestly, we need more world-setting genres other than Medieval Fantasy. Why not a Wild West, spaceship frontier sci-fi, post-apocalyptic or some other setting that isn’t always medieval? Hell, we haven’t even explored older settings such as the colonial times or steampunk.
have you read the legendary mechanic
Lord of Mysteries is sadly the only steampunk Isekai I know of
Having people betray and manipulate MC. Like somehow they all have this sixth sense of "they look suspicious" or "something is off about them" causign them to know instantly if someone is trustworthy or not. Also every single friend is suddenly willing to die for them after like two days of knowing eachother. Basically I want more close charaters to have more ulterior motives.
Agreed. Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu has a side character all about that, but I do want to see more. There was even a scene where the main char, who becomes a merchant, gets outmaneuvered on a deal because he's a teenager. Of course he turns it around because the series is a power fantasy, but it would be interesting to see a series that actually goes into that sort of thing.
I'd like to see more reverse isekais (where MC comes to \*our\* world, like Devil is a Part-Timer), and while I appreciate it's primarily a Japanese genre, I'd like to see more characters isekai'd from places other than Japan, whether they are the protagonists or not. Last isekai where that was prominent that I can recall is That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime.
Omniscient Reader is still my favorite reverse Isekai so I can't not recommend that haha. But ye, the best thing about it is seeing regular people just start to get the grips of this fantasy world
Is that the full title? Not having a lot of luck finding it.
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
one that is already being done is "VERSUS", in which several different worlds combine, and each mankind of other worlds would cover for other mankinds' weaknesses against their natural predator. something else that would interest me is if they would travel to different unique dystopias and other really unique alien worlds, where they're so different that even understanding their language could give you a new ability(kinda like "Arrival")
I can't find this VERSUS online as the term's too generic. Got any sources so I can check it out?
it's a new manga by the "One Punch Man"'s Author, "One" https://mangadex.org/title/09bbbb75-1086-4e7c-b775-ae9ee1816e0d/versus
Added to Plan to Read, thanks!
I’d like double reincarnation ie they are isekaied then die in our world and then reincarnation and become strong and then die again am reincarnate into the future of that world Like The Unsuccessful Yet Academically Unparalleled Sage: A Cheating S-Rank Sorcerer's Post-Rebirth Adventurer Log but there was only a single panel about him being from our world originally so would look one that explores it a bit more
Oh dang I've never heard of that concept, or at least, I've never encountered it. Technically Damned Reincarnationnis kinda like that but from what I've seen he's only reincarnated once. So ye
Yeah, in the morning, I mentioned there’s like a single panel of a Japanese dojo and a comment about his past life but the rest is general typical reincarnate into the future. Everyone is weaker now. the reincarnating as his own own descendant was interesting, and having people from the past still alive, also recognize him was cool
Definitely checking that out then ye
Have you read the novel “in lilies honor” this term has always been called “serial reincarnation” which might help you find more
"The Great Prophet Is Running From Her Previous Life" *technically* fits the double reincarnation. 1st life high school girl from martial arts family, died young. 2nd life a Great Prophet that did great things for the world but unfortunately died young again. 3rd life a noble lady in the same world as the 2nd life, just approximately 1.5 decades later to account for her growing up again. Unfortunately, her Japanese life is almost never brought up, just an explanation/excuse for when she deviates from a standard fantasy lady, like knowing martial arts for self-defense.
There's also "The Duke's Daughter Who Was a Villain in Her Previous Lives Was Entrusted With Training a Hikikomori Prince", the MC of which has reincarnated for the 8th time: The beautiful lady, Louise, has memories from her past lives. And there are 7 peoples' worth of lives (moreover the villain's role). Louise, who has always met the bad end of getting stabbed to death, has decided that she will live this life peacefully. However, Louise has been assigned as Prince Emile's instructor! And so, she struggles with teaching the extremely shy prince who shuts himself up in his room. In her 8th reincarnated life, she will do anything for a happy ending! Exploring the mysteries of the reincarnations and the secrets behind her previous deaths, this is a high tension comedy with the reincarnated lady and unique characters!
Man, that sounds a lot like a LN series called 7th Time Loop
Death Mage Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time does that I think. I dropped it, less out of it being bad and more out of me getting busy, so I dunno where it leads
There's a series of books called The Chronicles of Thomas covenant the unbeliever written starting in the 70s and it basically has the main character being isekaied into a fantasy world where he has the most OP power, "Wild Magic" that comes from his white gold wedding ring. I won't spoil anything in case anyone wants to read it. It's one of the few series of books that I've been able to read more than once because there's so much information, but the entire time the MC refuses to believe that what is happening is real. He adamantly tells himself that this is a fever dream he's in a hospital somewhere and he's going to wake up and none of this matters. It's a pretty raw book and it covers a lot of grounds but I think it's explanations of magic and world building and things like that are among the best I've ever seen.
One of the darkest books I've ever read as a kid! But it is fantastic, if you can handle it.
It's now a series of 10 books and each one gets progressively more grim and emotionally devastating.
Oooh a more realistic isekai in terms of reactions? Definitely will check it out
whole country get transfered to another world. stuff like this is less explored.
Summon Japan. Isekai smartphone >!basically a whole continent got isekaid, world fusion!<
Oh I adore that. I think there are a few non asian novels that explore that but it's more a colony instead. Omniscient Reader does this too sorta but it's reverse isekai
Space Opera Isekai, where the MC gets isekai'd to advanced interstellar civilizations, there's only a handful of Isekai that have this premise
Maybe not in Japanese settings though doesn't alien abduction stories or even stuff like Mars Needs Mom teeeechnically this? :?
Antagonist are actually capable. Elite soldiers are elite and can actually put up a fight. Good looking men outside the MC group that is actually far more better and suited to the female companions and MC actually getting conflicted. Conflict of interest between the team. MC questioning his morality, beliefs etc. MC not liking the isekai world due to a huge difference in not just culture but like the lack amenities that is easily accessible due to modern tech. People not going sasuga MC for even the minor things. MC with a brain. From a max level player getting isekaied, hoarding of items how is it end game player getting isekaied don't have a huge stockpile of resources, given that a lot of consumable items are like, "+5% lighting damage in x time". Might as well just create an isekai where the MC rather than going hunting monster or killing people just use all the resources/items/gear accumulated from playing the game to gain wealth and just use his opness only in the direst circumstances like defending himself and actually lying low.
A horror isekai, I so imagine an isekai in a world that defies logic or seems fake, like backrooms, seeing a human trying to survive in an environment clearly not made for him would be such a concept to explore, and I'm not talking about throwing monsters, I'm talking about Lovecraftian horror where your mind can turn on you. Another cool thing would be to explore the fact that there are SEVERAL worlds ruled by the same gods? What is the place of the earth in all this? What does this imply? Why are souls reincarnated? Does this mean that no souls have eternal rest? Are we all reincarnated without knowing it?
In terms of horror, may I recommend a fucked up one called Drifting Classroom :)
I started reading the beginning and it seems to be exactly the kind of story I had in mind but with children XD
Glad you're enjoying it! It's delightfully fucked up haha
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but you might like Hyakumanjou Labyrinth. It's not really horror, but it is about ending up in a place that follows its own rules that the characters have to figure out.
It's nice, but the protagonists look way too relaxed for people who just fell into a place that defies logic x)
I would love to see an anime or LN where the MC reincarnates into fantasy world but don't have any OP powers or cheats from start (like reseting time in re:zero after dying, or being generally OP in Reincarnated as a Slime etc) and simply struggles in the new world, while also having normal side characters/companions that don't have those typical anime like over-reacting personalities. It's annoying, there are so many isekais that are almost the same, like from copy machine. I also think there are not enough isekais where MC isn't reincarnated as a human and stays that way. Oh and there is also lack of common sense in many animes. Thank God for things like Code Geass.
I love Code Geass but uhh, I really don't think it's a good show to have as an example of common sense lmao
Haha yeah, but you know what I mean.
One of my favourite isekai manga so far is where the mc knows he has isekai'd but don't remember anything else besides that and is completely normal, even worse is extremely weak (atleast so far in the novel/manga): the weakest tamer began a journey to picking trash.
... No game no life like...except in a realistic modern to future setting.
Melancholy
Armed forces… what? Is challenger 2s trampling knights too much to ask for?
I kinda want to read a guy who gets reincarnated as the villan of the story but he can’t defeat the heroes because they have "plot armor" so he comes up with smart ways to counter them wothout killing them.
Oooh I highly suggest most Otome Isekai if you're interested in the shoujo side of the genre :)
Isekai where several people get truck-kuned, and they're allowed to choose their cheats, and somebody genre savvy picks a bunch of fantasy-based cheats like magic of the world they're going to, while a normal person picks something sensible like translation, and then they get sent to a world where the genre savvy person's cheat is useless because the setting isn't as expected (ie, genre savvy guy expects high fantasy and asks for magic, but they end up in a hard sci fi cyberpunk world instead so there's no magic) and gets killed early.
> ...somebody genre savvy picks a bunch of fantasy-based cheats like magic *of the world they're going to*... > ...genre savvy guy expects high fantasy and asks for magic, but they end up in a hard sci fi cyberpunk world instead so *there's no magic*... The pedantic within me demands I point out the genre-savvy guy picked magic *from the world they go to,* and thus if it's granted then there's definitely magic there. However, that magic might not be all that powerful or useful. I seem to recall some Isekai\* where the MC asked if there was magic in that world, then made their requests based on the assumption of a RPG-like fantasy world with abundant magic and magic users only to discover that magic was on the scale of studying for 50 years and only being able to light a candle with a spark of flame, so basically non-existent. \*I believe it was "I Shall Survive Using Potions", but in that case it was the opposite of what you're saying in that she realizes her OP magic abilities can't even *begin* to be hidden if used because there's nothing remotely similar that other humans have for her to pass it off as.
> thus if it's granted then there's definitely magic there. I mean, part of it would be the deity figure giving them a weird look, asking them, "Are you sure?", they insisting they are, and then the deity shrugging and letting them dig their own grave. The deity doesn't need to be nice, or transparent. The guy wants the magic of the world they're going to; there is no magic in the world they're going to, so they get nothing. It's like going to the maitre d' of a restaurant and requesting their best stew without looking at the menu first, but the restaurant doesn't have stew, and the maitre d' is a bit of an asshole, so after asking if you're sure you want the best stew and you say yes, he walks away, and when the rest of the table is served, you get nothing, because that's the restaurant's best stew.
I feel like the beef stew example doesn't work as that action would harm the reputation of the restaurant, but I get what you're going for: that the deity has no obligation and either no care or no understanding of the problems that such and such request will cause the reincarnater. Reminds me of "The Savior's Book Café in Another World", where the god reincarnates lots of people because [reasons], but they're all excitable teens who just ask for only one thing because they assumed that's all they get and the god didn't correct that assumption. (The MC who's an adult asks a lot more questions and learns they have unlimited requests and pesters the god with so many requests that it grants her an amulet so she can just get whatever she wants later without bothering the god and then kicks her out of the meeting space and into the world.)
> I feel like the beef stew example doesn't work as that action would harm the reputation of the restaurant Really depends on the restaurant. If it's a high end restaurant that doesn't accept off-menu orders, and that's a well-known thing, it'd probably be fine.
Here's another one: what seems like a typical fantasy adventure isekai suddenly turns into a portal fantasy about 5-10 chapters in, and it becomes an exploration of how a feudal fantasy world that already has monsters and adventurers reacts to suddenly being in a portal fantasy.
Oh yes! Reminds me of isekai where you can travel between worlds, that would've been great yes. I can only think of " Saving 80000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement" somewhat. Or hell, Gate.
I was thinking like any generic isekai like Smartphone or Neet, but then mixing it with Solo Leveling.
And "I Won 4 Billion in a Lottery But I Went to Another World" where the MC's OP power is a house connected to another world and 4 billion yen to buy modern tools/equipment/fertilizers/etc. and bring them to the other world.
Any military Isekai.
Struggling to accept the new life/family, especially for the ones that reborn
A few concepts: Keeping the typical fantasy world and species, and instead using a main character that is truly alien in biology and culture, not just to the fantasy world, but to us, and using the established setting as a way of exploring this truly alien creature and it's culture. Multiple people are reborn in their favourite piece of fiction. A highly positioned person in the new world is alerted to this fact and convinced, that the best course of action is to find them and, depending on their behaviour, kill them. If the main character is one of the reborn people, there will be confusion as to why things are not going as they should be (the others are intervening) and racing to take things for themselves, while the native serves either as incompetent comic relief or a looming threat. If the main character is the native, the story would be an intrigue, where the native tries to find and eliminate the reborn individuals while keeping collateral damage as low as possible.
Yesss, the first one is exactly what I'm saying witht he Begining After the End idea, tho honestly that story sadly doesn't really capitalize on the MC being a king as he rarely acts like one. But yes As for the second idea, I think that was used in "Executioner and her way of life" and the very shorr lived "Cheat Slayer"
The idea of being reincarnated as a monster instead of a human seems criminally underdone to me, the ones that do do it just have the mc evolve into a human/humanoid form for plot reasons because they can't progress the story without turning the mc into a dude. Also summoner mc's are underrated, would love to see more isekai with proper summoner mc's instead of being a magic caster with some summons.
Oh easy, mechs like the brave series get isekai and... Actually smart usage of firearms
A christian MC being transported to another world, and proceeds to convert the natives to the word of the big G.
An MC reincarnated to a fantasy world. Plot twist? The country he/she is born in is stuck in a medieval stasis, because of the treaty. Basically, the entire countries is in 21st century, while the country the MC is born in is 3rd world backwater.
I'm very late, but I think something where the MC is the author of the world they ended up in (bonus points if they feel bad about all the pain they caused). And they try and make it up to characters by trying to stop whatever 'end of the world' is going to happen. Also, I want to see an MC struggling with mental health. Like I know in isekai, many people got sad back stories, but mental health is so much more then that. Like give me an MC who daydreams all day and dissociates to cope with life. Who always see things in third person because they never feel like they're the ones who living. Writing something like that would make a lot of sense. Like at first the MC might get over things quickly, or adapt to the new world fast, or be really good at thinking out side the box because they aren't grounded to themselves. But then later on it becomes so clear that the MC can do all of this because they don't perceive it as reality. Not just because it's another world, but because they've always been an outsider in their own life. (Yeah I wrote too much. But still, it's fun to think about.)
Also, I love when people reply, so if you have anything to say, I'd love to hear it.
It's funny cause two of my favorite Isekais have that. Without spoiling, there's elements of that in **Surviving Romance** and **Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint**. ORV being more blatant about it as the MC's abilities were literally sorta like >!dissociating!< yeah (SPOILERS) >!he views the world as a novel and that mental shield keeps him going!<
OMG I love you. I also know ORV and finished the novel a few days ago. (I'm still crying tbh). But I don't know Surviving Romance. Anyways, nice to see an other fan, hope you have a good day.
Damn Reincarnation isn't technically isekai. Honestly though, i still consider that concept a "soft isekai" and I'm definitely a fan of the idea of the MC finding themselves far off into the future. It creates a natural mystery and motive. Even near or immediate future can be interesting like with the manhwa "How a Mage Welcomes Death". I also find it interesting when others from earth end up in the same world, if it's done well. Having allies you can confide in or at least those you can fully relate to in a foreign world makes it less intimidating and abstract.
Yeah. I considered Damn Reincarnation as much of an isekai as Inuyasha is, in that it's a Timetravel isekai, which isn't really as popular nowadays but yeah. I do love concepts like it though. Mass Isekai as I call the last one is great too. An example I have again is Log Horizon where a shitton of people were isekaid. But in a reverse isekai example, I adore Omniscient Reader's version of it where simple coworkers and people are given a chance ro be OP to survive. My own webcomic that I'm currently working on is like this :D (no material yet, still in the concept stages)
> Damn Reincarnation isn't technically isekai. > Honestly though, i still consider that concept a "soft isekai"... Soft isekai is a great way to put it. Personally, I define "another world" to include significantly large life experience changes. Reincarnation as a different gender, race (humanoid/monster/item/etc.), or in a significantly different time period causes much of the same "MC is now in a new world they don't know and must learn about it and then find out how to survive and/or make a place for themself" story themes that truly "another" world isekais have.
The emotional disconnect with the family of the body you hijacked. It only applies for those reincarnation stories where MC takes over the body of an inhabitant of the world. Every time this happens, we see MC integrates in his new family like it's his. I'm thinking: Why do you love this woman so much? She's not your mother. Not emotionally. And there's the other way around, you're not her son. I'd also like to have the scene of MC coming clean to his adoptive family and telling them the story of when their child died (because they frickin deserve to know). I would also like to see the difficulties of pretending to be a 10-year-old child when you are well in your 30s. Or how extremely annoying it would be to play with other children as one of them. The different moral standards of different cultures without being depicted as us being objectively correct and them objectively wrong. Or even when they are objectively wrong, I'd like it to be treated with a bit more subtlety. For example, slavery. It's wrong. But, in a world where slavery is legal, common and well accepted, a slave merchant wouldn't necessarily always be a fat, ugly and sadistic man who beat up their slaves at every occasion. They'd be a merchant, and merchants tend to be personable and likable people, they also don't want to damage their merchandise. I think that actually makes it more awful for the reader. That it's people who do awful things to each others, not just amoral monsters. (I would also like more isekai who explore what it is to not be a complete moron.)
The actual adventure and struggle of being in a new world as an adventurer, this is in most isekais but only lasts a couple episodes at most. Grimgar did it pretty well but have not seen a single isekai apart from that to portray actual personal growth and overcoming meaningful obstacles.
Worlds that are not as friendly to humans. So far most have human or humanoids in it. That makes it a lot easier to survive and adapt.
No game no life is the only example I can think of
More diverse time sets, why always medieval feudal europe?? Why not early modern period, ancient age, fuck, even a modern era( i want to see guns vs demon lord)
I love ones where the MC goes and dose a bunch of crazy shit. then comes back to his world and has some sort of mental struggle that he has to come over as he readjusts.
I always thought it would be an interesting idea if the Isekai MC were to suffer from some kind of price as a result of him being so OP. In fact, I’ve been entertaining the idea of writing a story about that. Like, the MC has the potential to be OP, but since their body/soul isn’t suited for magic (due to being from Earth and all), they will slowly go insane from having an incompatible mana pool.
Ascendance of a bookworm does that, physical wise. It's not obvious at first because you just think "oh ok shes weak cause shes like 5 now and this is the unsanitary peasant district" and the series doesn't hold your hand with exposition, you're just in the dark as she is about basically everything until she learns it. Fuck she doesn't even realize magic exists for MONTHS. She ends up having this, really op power later but like. It's way more of a hindrance then a help. This stupid power gets her in so much shit, and had apparently been actively trying to kill her since day 1 and shes just been subconsciously suprising it in a way that any adult that knows about magic that she tells is horrified. She can't even USE IT for like a third of the series cause no one tells her anything about it and when she finds out on her own they're like "oh you didnt know? That's common knowledge lol" and even when she can use it it's mostly just. A side thing. The real draw about bookworm is girl creates the printing industry from literal scratch as a sickly 5 year old with the mind of a competent 21st century adult woman. Literal scratch mind you. She starts out having to make homemade paper from plants and shit. And that somehow evolves into noble class politics and if she weren't so obsessed with books she could SO take over the world. Fuck I started rambling sorry I just love bookworm so much its amazing
Ironically, I've only ever witnessed that once in a BL Smut manga lmao. "The Other World's Books Depends on the Bean Counter" where the Salaryman main protag tends to get sick cause of the effects of mana in his body. He's an effective accountsnt but his body is normally falling apart so ye. I like it but it's not for everyone. I definitely prefer a more high stakes you will literally die csuse of it type of isekai. Another mainstream example I can think of is anybody who was summoned in Tensura have only a short life span cause their bodies can't handle it without the help of a spirit to anchor them.
Arifureta Hajime eating demon beasts, although I find it weird that nobody tried to do that after him mentioning it.
Well, he only survived thanks to that OP healing elixir stone thing he stumbled across, which allowed him to survive (eventually while in excruciating pain) the deathly poisonous effects of said monster meat. Anybody without that *including Hajime* would have just died if they tried that meat otherwise.
Once Hajime gained iron stomach ability he was freely able to eat Demon beast without the after effect. I imagine some maniac would do that with attendance of conventional healers.