Just stumbled across this today. Has anyone else here read this quaint isekai? Its premise breaks the mold (tl;dr: junior officer on a spaceship is the lone survivor of a catastrophic accident and gets stranded on a fantasy world) and the writing isn't quite as atrocious nor as terribly clichéd as usual. It still has its flaws, to be sure, but unlike most works in this genre it didn't immediately make me want to claw my eyes out and instead actually managed to keep me engaged throughout.
Unfortunately, the scanlation group that worked on it so far dropped it a couple of days ago when it was announced that the manga is getting an official English release. Hopefully some other group will continue the scanlation or upload the official version. However, each chapter has usually over 22 pages so reading the existing 35 chapters was still worthwhile, I found, even though I feel kinda blue-balled now, knowing that there are still untranslated chapters out there.
Its shit. Too much cooking. MC gets shit for zero effort. No one finds his superpowers sudpicious. Also, this.
Sebastian Hall
Hehe, yeah. I wonder if he's gonna enhance everyone in his lil' kingdom or if it'll be just his harem that gets this power-up.
Zachary Ramirez
>writing isn't quite as atrocious nor as terribly clichéd as usual Did we read the same thing? It is full of cliches and no different than other trash isekai.
i do like the concept that he's going for world domination in order to fend off an alien threat hundreds of years after his own death
Jeremiah Brooks
>Too much cooking It's not that much.
>MC gets shit for zero effort. Referring to what? Money for mundane things like a pudding recipe? Everything he did so far ultimately required little effort given how overpowered his technology makes him. On paper killing dozens of orcs should require more effort than cooking but it's effectively the same in practice.
>No one finds his superpowers sudpicious. Well, they constantly remark upon it as highly unusual but yeah, I guess they handwave it away a bit too quickly. Particularly where the fight with the dragon is concerned. Maybe that envoy from the capital is gonna ask some hard questions. Given his goals the royal court should act as some sort of antagonist in the end and provide some conflict for once.
By the way, I dislike how they're so cavalier about facing human opponents when a single arrow to the head would presumably mean game over for him. Unless the have that covered, too. But in that case I find it hard to believe that he'd be the sole survivor on the ship.
Sebastian Baker
There are plenty of tropes in it, sure. Maybe I'm just used to there being even more with even less self-awareness on the author's part. At least in my opinion it is noticeably less egregious in this regard than the average isekai.
Thomas Hall
Speaking of which, I find it hard to believe that they mastered AI, molecular machines and the like to this extent without making progress on the anti-aging front. Makes the story potentially more interesting, I suppose, but feels like a plothole.
>inb4 MUH SPACE LAWS The ship AI didn't give a shit about those when it came to cloning so why would it with this?
Joshua Perry
I guess i got different experience from reading WN/LN. There are way too many convenient occurences. He is building trust in powerful people way too easily.
Joseph Thomas
Some of the flaws I alluded to in the OP: SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS >in general, still too many of the common issues with isekai (MC is a Gary Stu, no real stakes - at least so far, everything working out too smoothly, ...), even if they're fewer than usual >in the beginning the princess assumed that her wounds were healed by the MC with super duper mega high level healing magic but then later when he learns actual healing magic (which is far less impressive in a way) she's suddenly like WOWIE ZOWIE NO WAI >whenever he's offered money he lowballs what he should get, even after he declared that they'll need a lot of it - you might try and explain that as him wanting to foster goodwill but as that one merchant remarked, this just makes him look like a sucker to be exploited >talking dragons
Henry Cooper
I only ever read the manga. But I guess that'd be fine if it was at least shown that the characters are quick to seize the chance to ally with him due to self-interest or for other, less 'noble' reasons. It's kinda hinted at here and there but still ...
Bentley Smith
They may have plenty of progress there, but 'how' becomes a thing. For example if we can upload your mind to a starship and then you just clone yourself with plenty of flexibility on whether you transfer your full knowledge/experience/emotions/life into one of the new bodies or send them off as sort-of-offspring, spending a few years with grey hair once in a while may be a non-issue. To the point where they basically brainwashed the knowledge, comprehension, behavior and ambition required of a captain into the MC to rank him up.
Hunter Jones
Regardless of the how, IF it is a thing you'd think he'd have mentioned it rather than saying he won't be around to see all this stuff play out.
Gabriel Nelson
Traveling between planets when you're from a spacefaring society is not isekai.
Joseph Perez
The premise is Star Ocean, but it's amusing anyway.
Joshua Roberts
I mean it wasn't really intentional travel. He crashlanded there. It's the "guy from society A suddenly finds himself in utterly different (fantastical) society B" pattern that all isekai follow, even if it's not exactly truck-kun who gets him there.
Aiden Harris
Is my car getting busted after traveling to the neighboring state an isekai?
Evan Mitchell
If the neighboring state is a hitherto never seen fantasy world with magic whereas where you came from is some boring normie world? Yeah.
Jonathan Jackson
So someone getting magically transported to a low fantasy world with similar tech level is not isekai?
Chase Cruz
The difference is key, not how you got there. If the world is basically just a carbon copy of the one you came from then yeah, that wouldn't be much of an isekai. That'd just be a regular trip.
Evan Murphy
Addendum: Take time travel manga. Same world, different period. Are those isekai to you?
Camden Martinez
The English translation isn't the best which makes it a slog to read through especially with all the long dialogues. But it's an okay isekai.
