Someone made an actual John Brown Isekai story: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57505/his-soul-is-marching-on-to-another-world-or-the
Some CWs probably apply, I haven't read it.
man i started watching that "in another world with my smartphone" anime and they have this princess who is all "uwu plz marry me <3 <3" and she's canonically 12 years old and the MC is all like "wowoahwohaoh no we can't do that! because I'm 16 and the age of consent is 16 for women and 18 for men!!"
and they could have just not done any of that like why does anime gotta be this way. They could have at least made her fucking 16 or whatever too! damn Japan
The best thing about shield hero is how it went from "based" to now where calling it trash is just the room temperate take over at r/anime lol.
Frieren did a pretty good job avoiding isekai tropes by just having a female ace MC
I mean it has all the trappings of it, high fantasy world with overpowered main character where there’s a demon king to be defeated and the MC accumulates allies as they journey.
Thats definitely a debatable point. Most especially the shitty isekai stop caring about the mc coming from another world and just focus on how OP they are. 90% of these stories would not change significantly if the character was just "born different"
See: SAO: Alicization where the MC has their memory wiped and lives their entire life inside the "other world" as a normal person inside of it and it's a twist in a later part of the story that he's actually from another world. Nobody would debate this isn't an Isekai despite it not being one canonically until halfway through the season.
Yeah and in that case its a pivotal plot point. My point is most isekai at this point are just c tier fantasy with truck kun slapped at the front. The trope is often used more for marketing than narrative.
tbf the demon king is already defeated. her journey is about going to heaven (ooh baby, its a place on earth!) to say hi to some old friends
Probably a large reason yes, although it still has its own form of fan service
i was referring more to the mimic running "gag" and the not-so-subtle butt and boob shots, and a lot of the female characters' outfits in the 2nd arc
Sorry, just making a lame joke! I never saw the mimic gag as fanservice, myself. I guess Frieren's butt is sticking out but I saw it as comical rather than titillating--made me think of a common trope where someone will get beat up and they'll be faceplanted but with their butt sticking way up in the air which looks very silly. Totally agree with the rest, though.
