What changes would you make to the isekai genre to improve it?
What changes would you make to the isekai genre to improve it?
Jaxon Butler
Nolan Stewart
Characters must lose their memories upon reaching the new world.
Easton Reed
Remove all the "new world" bullshit. You could call this "native isekai" if you will.
Colton Bell
Those are the shit ones though? The why not just be a regular fantasy applies doubly to such.
Wyatt Ramirez
Forget about medieval times, do futuristic timelines or a world that looks like ours, but it has all kinds of monsters and species. Imagine a futuristic isekai with aliens and robots, but no humans.
Aaron Jackson
nothing wrong with the genre itself. it's just filled with generic carbage that keeps getting adapatations because of the demand. if people keep watching carbage of course the carbage will be made.
Jason Jackson
[Insert generic GENTLEMEN arguments here]
Daniel Bennett
OH SEX MILIM??
Samuel Morales
>amnesiac protagonists
Fuck no, that trope died in the early 00s and for good reason.
You mean Fantasy?
How do you make this idea interesting though? The idea behind a modern person being sucked into a medieval fantasy universe usually is that they can use whatever superior modern knowledge to do some stupid bullshit that makes them OP or impresses all the native characters or something. What does a modern person bring to the table in a futuristic setting full of incredibly technology or advanced alien races?
Logan Reyes
all magic systems must be based off of real magic
Jonathan Evans
Allow free movement to and back from isekai world, with a portal or something. Let the MC bring the elf girl to real world for a ride, let him buy guns here and take there.
Forget the whole "I had no life back there" bullshit. There is no reason for isekai to be a prison.
David Gomez
Use a better GIF
Wyatt Powell
Declare the use of video game mechanics in isekai to be punishable by death.
Legally restrict the amount of isekai that use generic medieval fantasy settings, so that such material may only make up 10% of the isekai market.
Create a legal limit on title lengths. Those who exceed it are punished with the loss of one hand.
Those wishing to write an isekai harem story, an isekai cheat story, or a combination of the two may do so in exchange for having one leg removed.
Jose Baker
Protagonists aren't spineless fags and actually fuck their harems often.
Alexander Robinson
More than one person transported
Transported to interesting times and locations
Alternate realities
No harem
No virgins on the writing staff
The world doesn't need some weird beta who couldn't speak to women to save it
Likeable personalities transported
People transported midstory, have a way back that they actually take
Reverse isekai
Stop using fap bait as a crutch
Overall less relying on tropes and instead a decent vision for a world and story
Juan Torres
Do something that isn't the same shit over and over again. Series like Ascendance of a Bookworm and Mairimashita! Iruma-kun actually try to do something different and they ended up being better than 99% of isekai
Benjamin Jenkins
But I love Milim???
Nicholas Johnson
The protag shouldn't be a unique case, and being transported to another world should have signifance beyond "oh look I'm so smart with my otherworlder knowledge even though I'm really a moron, also I don't understand things for the first episode".
There should be a reason that your story is isekai instead of normal fantasy.
Tensura is a rare example of an isekai setting where the existence of otherworlders is already well-established.
Summoning people from other worlds gives them unique powers, and while it's difficult to do and regarded as morally wrong, governments still do it because of the potential to get some kind of champion far more powerful than is possible through normal means.
Otherworlders acknowledging each other and seeing each other's influence is a way more interesting way to handle the isekai genre. Although I wish Tensura had less of a Japanese superiority mentality.
William Russell
Inuyasha and Digimon did it.
Actually, wasn't this more common?
Henry Barnes
-remove RPG stats and window
-standardize the use of fictional languages to enrich settings
-increase the creation of eternal lolis
Jaxon James
-MC is closely tied to Adventurer's guild or Academy
-Demon lord who's pretty much doing fuck all and is barely does anything note worthy in the running time.
-Demon lords (plural) that are pretty much worthless/rushed and the MC can take on 12 episodes in.
-Video game stats.
Just a few key details that instantly mark a generic as fuck fantasy today, isekai or not. Luckily this has given me time to watch some older novel fantasy.