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Nipponophile posted:Escaflowne isn't only because the series was made years before the term became a cliche, same with El Hazard. Isekai is not limited to game rules, as exemplified by that recent restaurant isekai.
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Yes, but only retroactively. It's not as if those series were made to tap into a particular zeitgeist.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:19
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Portal fantasy has existed for decades in tons of languages. Isekai's just the Japanese name for it.
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Mar 9, 2018 09:55
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My post was specifically about the "MC is transported into a JRPG/videogame" set-up, of which there have been at least a dozen series over the past few years and is overdone. All the  about "WELL TECHNICALLY IT'S CALLED" completely missed the point.If you like that sort of thing and keep reading every one that comes out no matter how many times the same scenario gets used, good for you, but the thread is literally titled Let's Read Something Different.
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Your posts sound like uninteresting griping about recommendations. So don't worry friend, we're all spergs here! vvvvv Jackard fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Mar 9, 2018 22:17
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Army of Darkness is my favorite isekai
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Mar 10, 2018 00:23
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Mine is Jumanji
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court E: this thread is “read something different” because its the japanese comic thread in the western comic forum though
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I always thought it was also supposed to be notable japanese comics, I mean, no one is recommending Naruto or DBZ.
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Mar 10, 2018 02:14
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For the most part it is for stuff that's notable or worthwhile but not insanely mainstream, especially in the west. When I posted attack on titan for example, it was popular at the time but hadn't yet completely exploded into the force it is now. Speaking of, attack on titan is super good these days, every single chapter lately has been amazing. Shame this stuff likely won't get animated for another two seasons at least.
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Here's a good, short little series. It's a highschool romcom/drama, of which there are roughly umpteen billion, but it's got an interesting twist and great characters. The Boy Who Cried Wolf Told Another Lie Today quote:Keitarou Itsuki is a high-school student unhappy about the menacing look of his eyes. Keitarou tries to confess to the girl he likes, Aoi Tokujira, but she rejects him flat out. Thinking that his eyes were the reason why she rejected him, he confides in his older sister about it at her salon, who helps by giving him a complete makeover...as a pretty girl! Forced to head home like this, he runs into Aoi in town, but she doesn't recognize him and thinks he's a somewhat manly girl. Before he can leave, Aoi asks him to help her overcome a problem she's had for many years: androphobia(an intense fear of men). It starts out relatively standard but things quickly pick up as he continues to fight with his conscience about lying to people he cares about, of who he is, of his own thoughts on things, and what he wants to do with or for those people.
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Mar 15, 2018 15:40
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drat kissmanga is rife with mobile hijack ads again 
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Fellis posted:drat kissmanga is rife with mobile hijack ads again What are those? I'm using adblock and noscript and have no trouble on that site as far as I know. edit: I'm on desktop though
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If you're on a mobile device, you suddenly get taken to the app store or an app store-looking webpage where they try to sell some kinda porn app. At least, that's my mobile web-browsing hijacking experience.
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Mar 17, 2018 00:37
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If you're reading manga on a mobile device, use MangaRock.
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Is there a rundown of the prominent/good isekai anywhere?
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I am also interested in a list of those.
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Konosuba. It's a solid comedy that mocks the kind of poo poo that normally crops up in the genre and stars a cast of rejects that were unwanted by literally every other adventuring group. The only other isekai series that I bother actually reading is Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? Girl is in her classroom one moment and is hatching out of a spider egg the next, so she's kinda confused. Decent at least for not ramping up the power creep too fast, but it leans a bit too heavily on its game mechanic aspect.
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Discendo Vox posted:Is there a rundown of the prominent/good isekai anywhere? Parody: Konosuba Serious(but disappointed me): RE:ZERO Serious(but I haven't watched it): Grimgar God is Dead And This Is The Hell We Built For Ourselves: Now And Then, Here and There
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Mar 17, 2018 07:32
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I'll do a writeup later with some, but unfortunately a lot of isekai that are popular aren't necessarily good ones. See: overlord, log horizon, sword art online, shield hero, etc
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Samuringa posted:God is Dead And This Is The Hell We Built For Ourselves: Now And Then, Here and There It's been years since I saw this, and I remember being kind of disappointed that it didn't hit me as hard as everyone seems to say it should. Like Clannad got me, but not this one.
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Discendo Vox posted:Is there a rundown of the prominent/good isekai anywhere? The only one you need to read is Dragon Ball Side Story: The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha. 
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Samuringa posted:RE:ZERO
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So! Isekai series. I've mentioned a few of them in this very thread. Death Flag Heroine, Qualia the Purple is a particularly odd version of one I suppose, Ressentiment, Maouyuu Maou Yuusha, Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka?, they are all good renditions of the isekai genre. Here's some more. World Customize Creator, this one's quite good. In most isekais, the person entering the new world might have some magical powers or sometimes is just dropped in powerless. In this one, the person is literally able to open the console window in this world he's in, and spawn in all sorts of things, modify stats, etc. Thing is, the world he's in is kinda like Avatar: The Last Airbender with air magicians, fire, earth, water, and powerless. And it focuses a lot on the politics of the world, in which he becomes a central figure as he is prophesied to be the destroyer of the world, but that might not mean what the legend implies. Overall a surprisingly good series so far, though translations get dodgy at times. Spirit Migration, about a mysterious spirit of unknown origins who can possess any monster in this fantasy world. The Devil is a Part-Timer, though I would say watch the anime of this. Based on a light novel where a standard Demon King is defeated by a Hero and flees through a portal to our world. His magic not working, he is forced to work to earn a living, and becomes the manager of a not-McDonalds. Anime is surprisingly funny and witty. A Certain Middle-aged Man's VRMMO Activity Log, fairly standard VRMMO-style series, except it's largely about one dude soloing things and goes really in-depth into crafting stuff, cooking, etc. He's a bit mary sue-ish, but half the fun is his overpoweredness. Can get a little harem-ey but tends to stave off it for the most part. Hero BBS, an interesting idea for a series, about a BBS board for heroes from the multiverse to correspond with each other and seek help in dealing with problems/villains in their own universes. Translations and scan quality can be rather low at times but it's a pretty cute series and rather short too. Heroes can be everything from magical girls to hard-boiled detectives to transforming robot animals. Ascendence of a Bookworm, I've heard good things about this but haven't read it yet so I can't say for sure. quote:Reino, a book loving college student who just got her Librarian certification and was just hired to be the librarian of a large university library. Just before graduating and entering the job of her dreams, she was killed by a massive earthquake crushing her underneath a pile of her own books. Series to avoid: Overlord - starts out with a novel concept and after the lizardman arc it apparently just devolves into repeated arcs of torture porn Shield Hero - starts out kinda interesting, has a prologue moment that is just terrible but I kept going past it, and it eventually gets really, really bad, problematic in the extreme, and that's not even counting the "mysterious" aging of his young kid sidekick to be a hottie literally overnight Sword Art Online(an anime) - the quintessentially bad isekai series, you name something bad, cliche, or creepy, it probably did it Log Horizon(anime) - like sword art online but even more boring amigolupus posted:The only one you need to read is Dragon Ball Side Story: The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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Qualia the Purple, Ressentiment, Maouyuu Maou Yuusha, and A Certain Middle-aged Man's VRMMO Activity Log aren't isekai. Just involving an mmo or sci-fi stuff doesn't make it an isekai work. Also Log Horizon is really good and written by the same guy as Maou Yuusha. Both are basically economics books in fantasy worlds and are great.
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I also think Log Horizon is good. I think Grimgar is pretty good. Perhaps it is not really isekai as the teens reincarnated into the fantasy world don't have any memories of Earth. The story is mostly about their forced conscription into a defense militia and trying to survive on the bottom rung of their new society. Probably less of an isekai and more of a coming of age in a fantasy setting. The anime has some really pretty background art.
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Brainamp posted:Qualia the Purple, Ressentiment, Maouyuu Maou Yuusha, and A Certain Middle-aged Man's VRMMO Activity Log aren't isekai. Just involving an mmo or sci-fi stuff doesn't make it an isekai work.
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Bokura no Kiseki   Here's a reversal of the standard setup - a bunch of Japanese students start having visions of a fantasy castle under siege, which suddenly explodes thanks to Well it turns out that death by magic guarantees reincarnation! These teens are awakening to memories, loyalties, and abilities from a past life, aren't really sure what caused the whole thing or who is on what side. https://mangadex.org/manga/151 https://mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-34337 https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=34396 Jackard fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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Shield Hero Is probably mostly bad, and definitely comes out of an unhealthy worldview and mindset, but it kinda makes me weirdly sentimental about when I was a lot younger and was filled with bitterness and hate, which may also be a bad thing. The whole setup for it was definitely bad, it would've been better if they had some kind of fantasy J Jonah Jamison instead. It's a little fun that over time, people start giving him the "Hey idiot, if you keep doing nice things for people, they'll like you, despite your past reputation" shpiel, but there is something that's kinda philosophically wrong about all of it that I can't quite put my finger on. Has anyone recommended The Girl From the Other Side - Siúil, a Rún yet? That's something that's really different.  It's all about a little girl being taken care of by a terrifying cursed shadow skull person. It's a very different style from most manga, either children's storybook or like 19th century cartoon like Little Nemo. It's very decompressed storytelling with a lot of mystery about what exactly's going on.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Shield Hero Is probably mostly bad, and definitely comes out of an unhealthy worldview and mindset, but it kinda makes me weirdly sentimental about when I was a lot younger and was filled with bitterness and hate, which may also be a bad thing. Isekai series have a tendency to introduce harem elements into them at some point, or a wide variety of potential suitors at various times at the minimum. Shield Hero has one of the worse examples of that, with multiple way too young girls attaching themselves to him. And the sidekick girl inexplicably digivolving into a sexy lady smacked of an editor going "we need a hero character we can make a sexy statue of". Her staying a young girl but a badass fighter like the girl with the gauntlets from battle chasers would've been neat, but her basically becoming a hot college student with the mentality of a 9-year-old is Bad with a capital B I really wanted to like it, I did. The artwork is mostly really well done, some of the storytelling is too, but those combined with some other things people told me of what happens in the LN made me nope right on out of there. quote:Has anyone recommended The Girl From the Other Side - Siúil, a Rún yet? That's something that's really different.
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Jackard posted:Blegh. I didn't like RE:ZERO either but it was pretty popular, for some reason, so 
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Samuringa posted:I didn't like RE:ZERO either but it was pretty popular, for some reason, so 
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Who is the blue one?
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Jackard posted:Who is the blue one? Which?
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Captain Invictus posted:Ascendence of a Bookworm, I've heard good things about this but haven't read it yet so I can't say for sure. This one is great; well, at least in book form. The manga adaptation is faithful and adapts most of the important bits. It's not exactly full of action, and it's an incredibly slow burn, but it's got a lot of "I have to figure out how to recreate this thing from earth using fantasy world resources", if uplift fiction is what floats your boat. If you're the type who gets annoyed when an isekai character just goes "and then I invented chocolate [explanation of how is left as an exercise for the reader]" then you'll be very happy with this because it goes into excruciating detail about everything she invents (or fails to invent), from the stitches on clothes to paper and ink. If you can read Japanese, the web novel is complete and free to read at around 700 chapters, but the manga adaptation will take... oh, I'd say 5 years to complete at its projected rate. And the manga translations are even slower. A goon is translating the novel here, and his work is pretty high quality, but you'll also be left hanging as he's only 67 chapters in.
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Literally 700 chapters, or is that exaggeration? How long are the chapters?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Has anyone recommended The Girl From the Other Side - Siúil, a Rún yet? That's something that's really different. Highly recommended. Great art, and interesting story with a setting that really is going for something original. A world being slowly revealed is always good.
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Captain Invictus posted:Literally 700 chapters, or is that exaggeration? How long are the chapters? Literally 700 chapters. 677 plus a bunch of bonus ones. The manga adapts 2-3 chapters at a time and new issues come out every 3 weeks. They actually realized that at this rate, it could possibly take 10 years to adapt everything, so they got a second mangaka to adapt arc 3 (of 5) concurrently with the upcoming adaptation of arc 2. One chapter of the novel takes about 10 minutes to read by my reckoning; word count puts the English versions at about 4000-4500 words per. It's not for everyone because it's an incredibly slow burn (30 chapters in and about all she has to show for it is some low quality paper, for example), but it's surprisingly educational and I love it. If you want to discuss the web novel rather than the manga, by the way, there's a dedicated thread for Japanese WNs.
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Samuringa posted:God is Dead And This Is The Hell We Built For Ourselves: Now And Then, Here and There Ok so what do you actually need to type into google to find more info because this isn't doing anything.
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The actual name is Now and Then, Here and There. The rest of it is "what type of story it is and how it will make you feel", but they capitalized every word for some reason!
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