The Name of Love
Far Right Nutjob
I started one on Sufficient Velocity, so might as well start one here.
For those of you who don't know, isekai (lit. "another world") is a genre of speculative fiction that has a completely normal guy (usually a shut-in otaku/gamer) that gets transported to a world that looks like every JRPG you've ever seen and becomes the hottest shit. He has two jobs: messing up anybody who gets in his way, and collecting waifus. This video explains what you need to know.
In spite of this premise being a very obvious power fantasy that barely hides the self-insert elements, I feel that this basic premise alone has a LOT of promise even with the glut of fiction coming out with this genre. You can change the setting to not be a JRPG, for instance. Not many people know about it, but Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars and its sequels are thoroughly isekai except taking place on a pulpy science fantasy setting rather than a generic JRPG world, and the main character is a manly Confederate Army veteran rather than an otaku shut-in.
As always, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
For those of you who don't know, isekai (lit. "another world") is a genre of speculative fiction that has a completely normal guy (usually a shut-in otaku/gamer) that gets transported to a world that looks like every JRPG you've ever seen and becomes the hottest shit. He has two jobs: messing up anybody who gets in his way, and collecting waifus. This video explains what you need to know.
In spite of this premise being a very obvious power fantasy that barely hides the self-insert elements, I feel that this basic premise alone has a LOT of promise even with the glut of fiction coming out with this genre. You can change the setting to not be a JRPG, for instance. Not many people know about it, but Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars and its sequels are thoroughly isekai except taking place on a pulpy science fantasy setting rather than a generic JRPG world, and the main character is a manly Confederate Army veteran rather than an otaku shut-in.
As always, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
