Is this a bunch of animes about bland self insert characters for young Japanese dudes being magicked into a fantasy world where they're hot shit and fuck elf babes
Growing up, I always found Western 'Isekai' themed novels to be nothing more than thinly veiled power fantasies for the author and I always thought it would fail as a genre or would never expand beyond that niche audience. Twenty five years later and I'm filing that opinion in the same category as 'the Google search engine will NEVER hit it off, I mean there's like no news or anything on their page!' and 'Giant game boxes will never go out of fashion, who wants to buy simple DVD cases anyway?'.
Have you ever seen Army of Darkness? Well it's like if there was a whole genre of fiction that was just that, but way more horny. And occasionally with slavery apologia.
God damn Shield Hero was an uncomfortable watch. The first episodes seem like they might be going somewhere with the idea of the Shield Hero being framed and deciding to mentally scar a child into being a remorseless killer, but then by episode four he has a harem of underaged girls (two of which he owns) and it's all fine. Ultimately I had to stop watching because the episode where the racoon girl was freed and decided to be re-enslaved was my limit.
They couldn't even commit to the idea that he was more of a support type compared to the other heroes, which is the most surface level interesting idea that the show had.
What the piss is an isekai anyway, I see people throwing it around like it's a word or something
what if the narnia books were exclusively about sweaty virgins
So the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
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I mean, not put this way, no
Is this a bunch of animes about bland self insert characters for young Japanese dudes being magicked into a fantasy world where they're hot shit and fuck elf babes
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Growing up, I always found Western 'Isekai' themed novels to be nothing more than thinly veiled power fantasies for the author and I always thought it would fail as a genre or would never expand beyond that niche audience. Twenty five years later and I'm filing that opinion in the same category as 'the Google search engine will NEVER hit it off, I mean there's like no news or anything on their page!' and 'Giant game boxes will never go out of fashion, who wants to buy simple DVD cases anyway?'.
I mean, not all. The trope has been pretty much deconstructed since The man who came too early
Have you ever seen Army of Darkness? Well it's like if there was a whole genre of fiction that was just that, but way more horny. And occasionally with slavery apologia.
...Konosuba is pretty alright though.
God damn Shield Hero was an uncomfortable watch. The first episodes seem like they might be going somewhere with the idea of the Shield Hero being framed and deciding to mentally scar a child into being a remorseless killer, but then by episode four he has a harem of underaged girls (two of which he owns) and it's all fine. Ultimately I had to stop watching because the episode where the racoon girl was freed and decided to be re-enslaved was my limit.
They couldn't even commit to the idea that he was more of a support type compared to the other heroes, which is the most surface level interesting idea that the show had.