ISEKAI - Terrible Writing Advice
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Truck-kun is such a cliche that they made a manga about the truck driver and how it's his job to send people to other worlds.
Like an other wordly hero delivery service
Oh wow, was not expecting such a big reaction to this.
But it's called "isekai transporter" if you're interested
That's actually hilarious.
There's another were these girls need to kill the protagonist so he can be reincarnated and fight against the demon lord, but the demon lord saves him while the "heroes" try to kill him
@@rikardosilva1754 What's the name? I want to read this.
@@rikardosilva1754
I need to know the name of this.
@@rikardosilva1754 That sounds amazing, do you remember the name?
“An Isekai protagonist’s personality is meant to be about as flat as the loli’s chest”
Fucking golden, im stealing this
Pure gold indeed🤣
Golden? It looks platinum to me.
It's not as bad as a reverse harem heroine
I think that "that protagonist" exist in every trash novel that existed not just in isekai.
Its not the Isekai genres fault for having a lot of trash author creating novel about isekai.
@@twaps1322 this is “Terrible Writing Advice”, you’re probably meant to give them a personality if you write an Isekai.
One of these days, I'm going to write an Isekai where the truck driver swerves into a lamppost and dies, and is reincarnated into a shipping guild and travels the world delivering supplies and running errands for the overpowered isekai characters.
Please do that.
Oh my god... yes
truck kun not only kills those crossing the road, but those driving it.
have you written it yet?
i mean, people have written isekai's about turning into a monster ant, the world is your fuckin' oyster
its been 5 months get to it, on a real note if you do i will happily help
story concept:
Main character gets isekaied, standard concept. But then, he's killed in the fantasy world in a similar way, and ends up back in his original world reincarnated once again. He quickly realizes this is extremely exploitable, and begins using the link between the two worlds to start revolutionizing both of them, with the hope of eventually punching a hole between the two world and finally being able to stop jumping in front of moving vehicles
I actually read one with that back and forth premise, but instead of using that to dramatically change the world, MC wants to stack paper.
Quite possibly one of the best money laundering schemes I've seen.
This is genius and I love it :D
Seems kinda cruel to completely mess up the ecosystem like that by destroying the wall between two universes.
Edit: Also what fantasy world has a truck.
@@samsonthe80yearoldhedgehog62 fantasy world have carriages and horses. the ecosystem will stabilize probably, there's magic involved
Honestly, i remember one of these comments of this video having to do something with: "I died on this world, a medival world, a sci-fi world, and etc." and that just sparked an idea in my head making an unrefined anime concept called: "The life and times of... whatever my name was." and in season ??? they found a solution to save those otherworlds and stuff while being reincarnated as an ordinary office worker, but first he has to make them know he(current life gender) cant die.
Concept peasant in medieval times gets hit by a carriage and is transport to a fantasy world filled with magic cars and orc gangsters.
Perfect!
There's a YA novel like this, Princess in the Pigpen or something.
There's also an episode of Primeval where a knight hunting a time-displaced dinosaur gets dragged to modern England. He immediately thinks he's in Hell.
I need more reverse isekai stories
@@supermansdaddy7019 Of course he's in hell. We have Class 144 Pacers.
Isn't that world you mention basically shadowrun?
Don't forget the most iconic isekai of the 90s: Space Jam
Yes the original Isekai cocaine fueled masterpiece
Ah yes th only isekai i have seen without magic or big tit cardboard cutouts of women just MJ and Bugs bunny playing basketball because why again
@@theguyfromtsukihime3898 somebody clearly forgot the loony toon physics and over-sexualized Lola Rabbit.
@emario Cartoon physics is a type of magic. Magic isn't all warlocks and witches, you know. Plus, Jordan didn't get hit by a truck to get there; he fell down a golf hole.
@@theguyfromtsukihime3898 I think you're forgetting about lola bunny.
“Accidental s3xual Harassment is funny!” This explains almost all anime’s no joke
Probably why most people dont go to anime to see comedy since its a hit or miss
Did you find them, Narancia?
Pretty much why I both hate & don't understand some of those anime "humours".
@@_Yeeboi_ I love anime comedies, but those are definitely the worst and probably laziest jokes.
Quick laugh, fanservice, and shows that it's bad all in one poorly executed joke.
all ecchi anime. Every single one.
“Anime equivalent of junk food”
No, junk food at least tastes good
There a few good ones it's just that the rest of them are ass beyond ass
**spits out cd pieces**
I know what you mean
brootal
Have you tried those weird orange peanuts? I'd rather watch a shitty isekai in it's entirety than eat a bag of those
@@nyalan8385 weird orange peanuts?
Here’s another trope for isekai’s : male side characters are nonexistent or are always evil compared to the MC
Or they have no role beyond being a quest-giver or a useless tool who exists only to make the hero look smarter and more competent by comparison.
@@Macrochenia Or serve only as a shop owner to give curiously sage advice and/or free gear.
The protagonist should at least have a best friend whom he confides in and enjoys being around. You know, someone who's always got his back, and hopefully doesn't get killed off or turn to the dark side at some point in the story.
@@andrewgarrett1356 **Look at Eugeo** (but for real though, even though I don’t like SAO, I felt like Alicization was a slight improvement from previous seasons. I really like Kirito and Eugeo’s friendship)
@@parkchimmin7913 Me too. Eugeo was a great best friend. Even in death, he had Kirito's back. The two of them were like brothers. We need more of that in storytelling in general. I'm not saying we need a thousand "power of friendship" stories, just more stories where the characters have that strong sense of camaraderie. Also, I wouldn't say I'm a die hard S.A.O. fan, but I don't believe it deserves all of the hate it gets. If you're interested, then I suggest you check out "Sword Art Online Progressive." It's more or less a reboot of Sword Art Online, but this time, it's the story Reiki Kawahara wanted to tell. Instead of jumping ahead in time like the original anime did, Progressive shows Kirito, Asuna, and the original members of the clearing group getting used to their situation and navigating through the first couple of floors. And, the story starts off from Asuna's perspective.
I hate that the breast size character role chart was 100% accurate.
Same it was very accurate
sometime it's so big, and sometimes it's sooo small
@@kakyoindonut3213 The so small thing is the one that writers need to stick with in my opinion, maybe it's because I'm a girl myself but I just haaaaate the unproportionaly big breast size. I want to get the plot, not hentai level fanservice
i don’t really care about breast size unless it’s extremely noticably large or overly sexualized, then we have a problem
Just please give me normal sized bodies not a bouncy castle
@@thankfulguardian9033 And there are also other parts and the way that the female characters are shown. Can't I relax and start nanatsu no taizai without Meliodas stealing Elizabeth's underpants while she is wearing an extremely short skirt on one of the first episodes? Guess not
Isn’t it weird that people who are isekaied don’t worry about their loved ones like family, friends, or spouses? Like what if the protagonist died from overworking because their parents are in the hospital and they can’t pay medical bills? Do they ever miss home at all? Wouldn’t being in a unfamiliar and potentially dangerous world with a slim possibility of being able to go back be terrifying and anxiety inducing?
Shhhhhhhhhhh no real world troubles in my power fantasy
@@samarthgour3026 tbh, that's like Complaining about shounen protagonists living alone
It doesn't need to be realistic
well isekai protags are made to be blank slates to project to the sad man children audience and those types of people either dont really care about their family and friends or are hated by them
@@faveless that's a massive dumb over generelizing lol
@@mysmallnoman I mean, is he wrong?
"I want my power fantasy now! NOW NOW NOW!"
Don't be greedy, any good Isekai protagonist needs at least 14 seconds of character development before the power levels start rocketing through the roof.
what about making an isekai where the protagonist is powerful, but that very power is why he is so feared, so everyone attacks him like a monster and are relentlessly hunted by the heroes of the setting, who is individually less powerful then him but who have the power of friendship on their side.
All the while the only friends he can get are the ones he kidnap, like in the Borne Identity (1980)?
@@rphb5870 Sure there are animes like that too :)
@@deltaxcd There was this isekai where the protagonist ends up as a noblemans daugther, except, and this is the twist, she have an identical sister that hates her for being a tomboy.
The sister is a prim and proper girly-girl and she cannot stand that someone "wearing her face" is so uncouth
@@rphb5870 what’s it called?
@@kobzelfn9588 I can't remember. But I remember that the protagonist used to be very active who did extreme sports until she got into an accident, which didn't kill her but it left her paralysed, she died ten years after that with all the memories and regrets of her rock climbing, paragliding, biking and black diamond skiing days.
She dosn't regain her memories until she is 16, but all of these desires were transferred, which made her into an irredeemable tomboy who kept getting dirty and into trouble.
While this of course annoyed her mother and father, more then anything it annoyed her twin, who is much more stereotypical feminine, but also a snob and somewhat of a villainess.
I think she was called Mary, with the Protagonist Sue.
Mary is in love with one of the kingdom princess, but Sue just think he's a pansy, because he is not that masculine.
Then something happens where Sue accidentally rescues the prince and he falls in love with her, which neither twin is crazy about.
I believe they try to pretend to be the other after that, which of course can only end in disaster.
Sue don't know the first thing about a tea ceremony, because she have never once wanted to try, and Mary have never even touched a horse before, much less ridden one.
"It's not an isekai unless it has hentai search terms attached to it!"
Big oof.
......loli?
Ah yes, the smartphone tag
@@GPhipps I wouldn't be surprised if there was something like a smartphone tag.
Well, like everything in the video, you should fo the opposite. Narnia feets this isekai thing, and nothing too mature (at least in the first two books)
@@madao7865 there is an Isekai literally called " In Another World With My Smartphone" and it's one of them when the protagonist buys a loli slave girl (and her mother)
Don't mind me, I'm just appreciating how his front hair is literally pencils
Yusei lol
I DID NOT NOTICE THAT UNTIL JUST NOW! 😮
wat...I just... notice that now. keeps forgetting his illustrations are so often full of pencil motifs lol
Can't be unseen.
Yusei
The worst part in almost ALL of these isekais that have been bugging me the most, is that there's literally no reason for them to reincarnate. There previous life have less than 0 relations to what happened after death, they don't even make use of anything of their memories from previous world.
the entire point is so the writer dosnt have to solve the problem of how to introduce the world to the audience. mc dies and reincarnates, everything is brand new for him and we are along for the ride as he discovers this weird world he now finds himself in. compare that with actually having a character start in saaid weird world and how its his normal, writing a beginning for that takes way more effort.
personally, i have a story ive been working on for a while and the middle and ending are good, but i just cannot for the life of me figure out how to **start** the thing
for the heck of it i tried writing an isekai start annd poof, took me 5 minutes and it works.
i however actually respect myself and hate isekai so i certainly wont be using that
I have two story ideas that involve reincarnation, neither of which have the “past life memories” stuff played straight. The first one has the multiple isekai’d characters remember little to nothing about their past life and gradually explore them through magically induced in-person flashbacks. Existential crisis ensues. The second is one where the single isekai’d character has an imaginary friend, and it isn’t readily established that the story is an isekai. Then, that imaginary friend turns out to be a manifestation of the protagonist’s past life memories. Apparently they had an interesting but unfulfilling life, full of many ambitions, and their reincarnation went a different but equally interesting way in the new world. Bonus points for the past life making the reincarnation as an alter ego or persona. Also, more existential crisis ensues. I think I like this specific kind of story…
@@imagiguard You are describing Grimgar and Prisma Illya. 2nd one might not be for you though cause loli is a big casual filter
@imagiguard
Maybe split the story between existential crisis/having to sweat for every inch of progress in the isekai world.
and the cast of his friends and family dealing with the fallout of his sudden death. Maybe he was helping someone through loss, maybe he had a job he loved, or a partner he argued with and never got a chance to make up with.
@@johnathanrichardson The main draw of the whole reincarnation idea (at least for me) is having the protagonist respawn as something other than a human, and them having to struggle with getting used to how their new abilities work. (I’ve been contemplating on starting a parody series about a guy getting reincarnated as a glass of juice and having to figure out how to do literally anything.) unfortunately, more often than not people just opt for the boring option of just having them reincarnate as a human or maybe an elf or something every now and then.
Unironically my favorite part of the genre is something I like to call "leadership porn." Who doesn't love watching a functional town and community being built from scratch?
love it when normal ass teens somehow develop the capabilities to build and manage a town/nation from scratch in the span of like a month after their reincarnation. Gotta admit that's a good trope doe cus it actually requiers world building and not just a lazy power fantasy with the world being barely explained.I have no idea why people write isekai novels and dont explain the fantasy world,like shouldn't that be the main goal of the ISEKAI genre? its quite literally in the name.
A man of good taste.
Who knew that charismatic leaders bringing everyone around them to accomplish great things and building a society around themselves would be compelling to read?
Or alternatively, how existing society interacts and jostles with this new upstart group and all of his values like no slavery, the worship of capitalism, liberalism, that ideology that caused the Napoleonic wars, because despite society being ordered by Religion and Feudalism, those two systems never counteract the protagonist. Or if they do, they do it in a mind-bogglingly stupid way.
@@slav7571 Then people will just complain about endless exposition.
Rogal Dorn approves
rise of the shiesh hero lol
He’s trying so hard to sound like he isn’t completely disgusted by this
And failing, tho I can't blame him
@@Art-ey7xj I'm more upset by lazy writing than by any kind of moral objection. Anime can be as degenerate as it feels the need to be, and as long as it's all internally consistent I'm not too bothered by it.
@@jonathan0berg Amen, but it never is. The issue lies in your wording, "need to be". It rarely does, and yet always goes over the top.
@@gunslingergirl2579 I'm not a fan of over the top suggestive content because it usually comes at the expense of quality writing.
There aren't many Isekai stories that don't do the whole Harem thing and actually have good worldbuilding.
Like Spirited away or Aura Battler Dunbine.
Or Futurama.
You actually did isekai you mad man.
I would watch his Anime
Well, it was that or an episode on sex scenes
strange that I should see you here funny music man.
You make some good remixes.
Is it really a requirement for all this to be an isekai? Like does it have to be depraved? And im noticing alot of anime stereotypes i mean isekai has now evolved and now involves anyone who gets transported to a fantasy world, not strictly for anime like some non anime isekai: owl house and amphibia i could even be argued that the wizard of oz is isekai, and i have seen isekais where the characters have personality, and they have to grow and did not get hit by a truck, ie shield hero and re:zero though granted i think it is implied the main character in re:zero did die but the main character in shield hero didnt, also nowadays arnt most of these tropes as outlined in the video parody?
My favorite isekai (and the only one i've interacted with) is the one where the protagonist and his friend are dragged through a portal by the antagonist in order to be used as slave labor, due to the fact the the world is largely empty after a mass departure by humans to another world. The ending involves killing an invading god by ramming it with a semitruck. It's called Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
I must play it no matter the cost
What the fuck 😂
Yeah they had us in the first half I’m not gonna lie
My favorite Isekai!
That's, umm... A surprisingly accurate summary
Imagine an isekai via the way of paranoia agent, where a death cult forms around people throwing themselves against trucks and mass hysteria breaks out.
i would watch that
Serial Experiments Lain starts out this way, sort of.
now that is truly something marvelous. how did you come up with that?
Alive: the Final Evolution
check it out
I'd like to see something similar, but more like When they Cry/Madoka Magica where it starts out traditional enough but becomes more dark and disturbing later on.
The most stupid part about slavery in sekai is that even after being set free by the MC, the slave want to continue being a slave but serving the MC instead.
Imagine giving up on your own life just because someone helped you.
@@jokafaire215 The problem here is that you're assuming the slaves *have* a life. They don't. Most slaves in isekai have no living family or friends and no home to return to, were captured as children and raised and conditioned to be slaves. They literally have no idea how to be independent. Where isekai fails is not the slave choosing the stay with the protagonist, even if set free they would have no money and may have to steal to get by, which would likely result in them being arrested and possibly enslaved again if that's how the world deals with petty criminals, or otherwise find legitimate employment which they can do with the protagonist, making leaving less efficient than staying. Staying with someone who can at least provide for them and possibly pay for their services is the safest and most effective option. No, where isekai fails is that they don't explore the long term effects their enslavement had and *why* they would stay.
Stockholm Syndrome. Totally romantic, amrite?
@@stevenhiggins3055 this
I think Raphtalia's relationship with Naofumi executes this trope the best, though whatever points in this video Shield Hero doesn't subvert Shield Hero executes well.
“An Isekai protagonist’s personality is meant to be about as flat as the loli’s chest”
This is _the_ most cursed quote I’ve heard from you.
the most based*
Cursed, but accurate.
You're one to talk bright!
Most cursed quote I've heard from you yet.
-Dr Bright. The most cursed thing the foundation met
I think this is officially the worst thing that has ever left his mouth.
The worst part is that when any amount of actual effort is applied to the Isekai genre it magically becomes one of the greatest things ever. Like it doesn’t even take that much and yet they still refuse to try to make a good story.
Focus on designing swimsuits for harem number 1 to 30 is more important than the good story.
@@aplaowattanakul7760no the MOST important thing is too make new 101%evil random stock bad guys for the hero too flex Thier power on obviously but no need too thank me I am here too help amateur writers such as yourselves because I'm amazing
I just came to the realization that the neverending story is technically isekai and it horrifies me
Unfortunately, you forgot about the business aspect, specifically, commercial writing.
If you're a new writer, you can't make your story too unique because it will take 1-2 years (best case scenario) before your work gets some traffic and you can earn money.
Of course, this is also assuming that you've written a good story. On top of that, also assuming that you're a gifted writer, it takes years to learn how to write really well and consistently. Furthermore, there's also something called life -- school, work, family, friends, etc.
Are you willing to spend 5-10 years of your life writing while barely doing anything else without a 100% guarantee that you'll even make it as a professional writer?
So yeah, sadly, the quick and safest route to earn money as a writer or manga artist is to write a commercially viable story which is why almost all isekai stories look the same.
Passion is great, but we also need to be practical 🤷
@@letsworkoutabit1959
Except are they really that commercially viable?
Like, there lots of shitty isekais ligh novels and comics.
Only the most popular ones get an anime or are hosted in webs like webtoons where they get income if they have enought views.
The rest get lost in the sea of trash.
Isekai protagonist: “well…I’ll take the the young one with the flat che-“
*John Brown charges through a brick wall head first and choke slams the protagonist*
Stonewall like stonewall Jackson
@@ee-ef8qr American Civil War reference I see?
@@iaminsideyourwalls2021 and an unintentional pun.
Look up His Soul is Marching On; Or the John Brown Isekai by TheCabbagePreacher
Cultured protag
I never thought about it before, but he’s right: isekai protagonists ARE an invasive species
And if they were well writen, maybe we read something more "unpleasant" but more exciting. Like trying to survive in a different world, without family, without friend, without powers (or few ones), and being just some weirdo from a weird place.
@@Frendlu You would think more stories would tackle that
A pretty good for you one would be something like "Some I'm a spider so what?" it's one of the rare isekai with excellent writing and storytelling with a female protagonist that has a interesting moral compass.
There are few comics that address this
@Balony Dagger very unfortunate
I feel like this was made out anger.
Seems about right.
It feels like he has taken all my frustrations for the genre, and regurgitated them into a comprehensible video
I mean, it is infuriating how many isekais are similar to each others, they are not even trying.
Isekai wa Smarphone, Master of Ragnarok, Death March, Dungeon only I can Enter, Kenga no Mago, isekai Cheat Magician, Arifureta...they all have MC to get OP in the very first chapters (often the first), easy harems, videogame terminology in a universe who is not a game, is almost as if they are all fanfics of each other. Bad ones, mind you.
I mean, that's literally the format of this channel.
@@igornascimm Many of the other ones are just "Don't this advice if you want a good story" but with this one and a few other ones, it feels like if I followed his fake advice, he'll find and strangle me.
1:58 I rolled a dice to generate my own isekai female character because I hate myself
Ended up with a HH Huge immortal tsundere maid... I hate the fact that it probably exists somewhere
You shouldn't be surprised
Make her a succubus in disguise, and I have read that comic.
Fairy Tale, Virgo's original form.
Albedo from Overlord
@@gangrenousgandalf2102at the very least she has a character it's a low bar but people seem too thinks it's really high
I have a friend who's really into this (genre? subgenre?) and he's mentioned slavery coming up in like three different stories, always with a justification along the lines of "it's ok! it's not like he actually treats her like a slave!" It's kind of nauseating.
Shield hero does it the worst as far as mainstream goes. The slaver explicitly states that business is booming because of the mc. Like, wut?
Edit: I should clarify that I think that shield boy is bad for perpetuating the system. I feel like some people didn't get that.
@@TryingIGuess i mean. He literally buyed a slave and keeps coming back to upgrade said slave. Its not like he doesnt know. He doesnt care
@@TryingIGuess Yeah but for shield hero the guy is lost and morally grey from the start
@@Momolulu1994 yeah in the novel when you can read his inner thoughts you can see how destroyed he was. he wasnt in a good mental state for a long time.
@@TryingIGuess I think people really missed the point of the Shield Hero slave thing, and it's weird for me to point it out because I'm not really a fan of the anime. Naofumi was ostracized by society from the beginning. No one was gonna help him and he was rejected by his fellow heroes, so buying Raphtalia was really his only option to survive his battles.
While this may make Naofumi look sympathetic in buying her, he is not really supposed to be seen as a hero doing that. He is doing something wrong and is full of hate against the people of that world. While he may treat Raphtalia nicely, he doesn't really trust her, and he believes if she wasn't his slave, she would betray him like everyone else. I believe the anime didn't want to paint him as a hero or a villain, just as someone having a hard time and doing questionable stuff. It drops the ball in later episodes, but the idea was solid for me. Sorry 4 the wall of text.
"There is nothing more attractive than aging, barely relevant, RUclipsrs!" - yes, that's... that's why I'm here, and for terrible advices.
Username checks out.
Relevance is temporary. Great writing advice is forever
@@marvelousball Terrible Advice can go even furthur beyond.
Most isekai characters: "I'm 8267382 years old mentally, but I'm stupid and more ignorant than a ten year old kid"
@Serenth holeee shit. you're right. no wonder boomers are like kids
@@justhiro6675 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Well our brain just available for 200 years, 2.5 petabyte
@@lewakar What would happen afterwards?
There is even a connection to dementia/ loosing brain power, where patients slowly "go back" in their memories. This is the reason old men (who never acted inappropiate before) in nursery homes start hitting on the 30 year old nurse. Because they think they are 30 too. Or 20. Or 15. As things progress, this can even end up in old, demented people thinking they are kids, often calling their own children mum and dad (maybe also because they obviously will look a little bit like them). My grandma once said she wanted to go home. She was at home. I figured she actually meant the place where she grew up before she married and moved.
You know clichés are so terrible when even TWA calls it stupid or he flexes his actual writing skills by coming up with honestly insanely better and intriguing ideas in literal minutes...
He does misunderstand what a historical harem was. He seems to be referring to concubines, but harem is an actual word. It referred to an area for sheltering a group of women where men were prohibited in Persian society.
@@eldritchcupcakes3195Well the Ottomans had harems and they were concubines. So he was right but thanks for giving a the other explanation I didn't know that.
3:15 Missed the opportunity to say "Thankfully, Isekai protagonists are the easiest protagonists to write, because they aren't written at all!"
I want to be isekaid into a world where this is what he said
Harem Guts without the sad is surprisingly not that good.
Guts needs the sad.
“Save cute girl by buying her out of slavery” nope the amount of times I’ve seen that EXACT plot ride out wow
Where?
I found that part of the video weird because I've never seen that actually happening in an anime.
Can you give me examples?
Only "The Rising of the Shield Hero" comes to my mind.
But that was actually good story.
The MC was wrongfully accused of rape, and couldn't find any one to join his party, so he bought a slave girl to fight for him, as he was only able to use shield.
@@MsciwojPL Also of note is that he picked the sickest child slave and spent a great deal of time and resources crafting her medicines and giving her whatever she wanted to eat while he picked the low-tier garbage food for himself (due to depression).
Also, Death March to a Parallel World has a protag buy a few slave girls to save them from their abusive owner in a society that allows slavery.
“Master of Ragnarok and Blesser of Einherjar” has the protagonist buy a slave. Apparently to save her from being bought by someone worse.
Yep, and these girls are of course ecstatic that their new owner is such a wonderful man it almost makes their enslavement worth while just to meet him.
You forgot to mention that said girl you bought from slavery is completely fine with everything and has no trace of mental trauma due to abuse from previous owners.
Oh, there are isekais that have this trope, though, they are far from being good.
Sometimes they do, but most don't go farther than using it as an excuse to make slave girl dependent on MC.
even in my shittier plotted first go at it I at least managed to get that right.
It shouldn't just be something to make them dependent either, realistically they would be terrified of the MC and paranoid of what they would try to do to her.
How could she? MC is such a Nice Guy (tm)(r) that she found a new life being owned by him!
Imagine a Isekai protagonist that came into a fantasy world by accident but was carrying a virus that became a plague that wiped out half out the population of the fantasy world. And now he/she is on the race against time to find a cure/antidote/vaccine while trying to avoid certain people from the surviving population who are eager to lynch him/her.
That's a great idea! Write it down!
covid 19
@@shinygoldenpotion1587so that's why the origin of sarscov was hard to find..the mf just re-isekaied back !
black death
@@Gchildwarrior I tried and all I got was "underage sex slave cult"
Minor, but relevant historical note: harems were NOT bands of sexy slave babes, that's European fanfic of Muslim States. See, a harem is basically just the women's quarters. Men, especially foreign non-Muslim men, wouldn't be allowed in. So European visitors wondered: 'What's going on that we're not allowed to see?' Their answer: sexy slave babes. Debauchery and sexual slavery became so associated with the term 'harem' that even when European women, who were allowed entrance, found out it was actually nothing special, that was just kind of ignored.
'Harems', groups of women, were not exclusively or even predominantly made up of slaves. It was actually often a desirable position, with access to the ruler, luxury, influence. You know, if you want to use the term in a historically accurate way.
And in places like Ancient china the harem probably had about same if not more politics and backstabbing than the men's side. For certain class marrying with the emperor or like was good way to ensure good future for children. Possibly even the best future.
@@_Ekaros yup. The harem was basically trying to get it on with the emperor while trying to keep others from doing it.
The backstabbing is rampant.
Historical harems are not great. Do not know why Japan loves it so much.
@@fattytan1377 Probably because they care about the romance and sometimes smut aspects of it rather then all the politics that revolve around them in real life.
This
Thank you for this goldmine of info. Definitely good to know for future projects c:
Isekai story idea: guy gets hit by a truck and teleports to another world with all his injuries from said incident and proceeds to die instantly
10/10 would watch
*Directed by Christopher Kojima*
Maybe it's a video game world where respawn system exists?
But combined with this idea, nothing new really happened
Short Novel with emphasis on SHORT xD
@@derrilazkia1002 In this world, rabbits eat you alive and scary creepy hands squeeze your heart when you say the forbidden word.
Your Hairstyle is already more distinct than that of 99.9% of isekai/power fantasy protagonists
Edit: Guys, I know how Yugi from Yugi-Oh looks like and everyone else probably knows too. You don't have to tell us in the comments, thank you.
Agreed.
Majority of them are just copys of kirito at this point
his hairstyle makes me believe that he is an ancient egypt Pharaoh that will save the world by winning a Childrens Card game
Yu gi oh
@@anorexicwater4663 Really? I thought it was One Piece
Man, this put Isekai into perspective. When it was a relatively new genre stories like Re:Zero and Overlord did all the interesting stuff described. Now the market is flooded with the harem/power fantasy brand. This came out last year, but this past summer "Black Summoner" hit virtually all the check marks:
* Bland main character with harem built entirely on his OP stats
* Buys slave girl to add to harem
* Introduces non-blood-related sister character that acts like other members of the harem
* Video game mechanics that mysteriously don't play into politics or world-building
* No central antagonist for an entire season
* Mix-and-match harem girl tropes to make up for none of them having motivations or personalities
It's eeriely accurate for how detailed this bad advice is.
Black summoner is so bad that it loops right back around to being a good time
Although I'd say the personality ones are a bit less valid 2 months later
black dungeon company is pretty good ngl
@@on1onman true
I only just noticed that JP’s “anime hair” is literally just deformed pencils
You forgot the so called "Demon King"/"Demon Lord" That is brought up at the start of the story and is never mentioned again for the rest of the series
or the protags who are demon lads and don't act much as such while always looking like a shonen mc during a new form
Eh, usually you will see the "demon lords" henchmen, in typical writing fashion before you ever see the main antagonist. Problem is, the way anime works is not good for long format shows, so often a show get's canceled way before the "demon lord" ever get's to actually do something.
KonoSuba: "You have to beat the Demon Lord!"
"But we're in debt."
...
"WE'RE RICH!"
"Yeah, we're going to hire adventurers to beat the Demon Lord instead."
...
"We're in debt again."
@@exocakes4587 "let's wait for someone else to defeat the demon lord"
@@LegDayLas You make some good points there. But could you elaborate on why animes are not good for long format shows?
You forgot that everyone acts japanese and everywhere is Japan.
And everyone looks white and caucasian.
@@exumbra1399 The blonde and redhead with blue eyes both have japanese names.
To be fair, there are a lot of Isekais that doesn't fell in this trope, fortunately. Thought, they fall in the other trope, where every serious fantasy world is an Medival Euroepan-like world, and we appreciate that authors take the time to investigate about European Medival times, but would be awesome to see more often other fantasy worlds completely unique, there are few that comes to my mind, less than 10 probably.
@@radamanthium They haven't even kind of made it like real medieval europe. The buildings and still of dress aren't medieval, also everyone acts like a modern japanese person.
@@Ieatpaste23 You are generalising every single Isekai/fantasy world, and that's completely false, actually. But ok, think whatever you want.
Honestly, a antagonistic government using a harem to "control" a MC (who'd likely woe the girls one by one for sure as character development on both sides) for political reasons sound very interesting. Can't think of anyone using a harem in that context
A couple isekais use the trope of the princess seducing the MC, iirc. But I don't remember it actually being fleshed out, nor do I remember one where the princess' treachery isn't revealed in literally the first chapter.
I remember this concept was breifly mentioned in Shield Hero.
This is actually a fairly big aspect of World's End Harem (not technically an isekai, but similar in some ways), but that anime is, kinda unfortunately, basically "an interesting premise that somebody had to ruin by trying to make it into porn instead"..
@@foogod4237 oh dear😅 well tbf, any type of "harem" thing could be turned into porn I'm pretty sure 😂
@@foogod4237 how does that ruin it?
Imagine an Isekai where the people of the fantasy world summons someone who they thought would be an average guy from our world but is actually a serial killer.
Welp, we're getting just that with the upcoming Suicide Squad Isekai.
you mean practically every isekai
Sounds like any isekai since any protagonist has some mental problem hidden in their personality like how after they kill someone they don't think how wrong it is even if the law isn't doing anything to them
I wanna read an isekai where the mc is just an psychopath like he has no remorse for men women and childeren but then like actually goes to hell and the story contimues
@@KfcOwner the story continues how
This guy has almost done everything, I wouldn’t be surprised if he started making satirical critiques on porn writing.
Wait, that isn't what this is? /s
still waiting for him to do one on fanfiction
@@dragonm8ster What about ghostwriting?
If he does he better give a really good critique of the pizza delivery guy setting
He still promised us to tackle the Hero's Journey story template. Then he can do erotic writing (but make sure he gets a special guest who's a woman, because there's this sexual double standard where woman writing erotica, no matter how bad it is, is okay, but a man doing the same thing makes him a creep. At least that's what I learned on "Close Enough").
He hates Isekai so much he dedicated a full 2 and a half minutes to giving away better ideas for free, absolute mad lad.
edit: Okay guys. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm dumb and stupid and don't watch enough things. I'm sorry for my child like wonder at the world. I'll try to not like things in the future.
He does that in every video
It's because he knows the truth...
"Ideas are a dime a dozen because nobody actually sits down and makes new things..." - Jonathan Blow
It's obviously an exaggeration, but with all the humans in the world right now, it's pretty crazy how rare it is for someone to sit down and even do a complete attempt at making something.
ruclips.net/video/R3UrdwnAu3o/видео.html
Fact is, I recognized where most of those ideas came from...
Truck-kun has to make ends meet somehow
@Max Powers I don’t know if that’s true but I don’t watch enough isekai to disprove it
"Now, not boning one's sister is like... the lowest of the low bars to clear."
Jaime Lannister: wow, RUDE
Yes ending slavery is the right thing to do ethically. But when your MC is a 16 year old introverted Japanese boy from the age of internet, that's a big ask.
Or you know, actually have the protagonist have a brain, and consider his options:
Maybe he has to give up on truly ending slavery, because slavery is too ingrained and beneficial to the current regime, and the protagonist would be too weak to actually conduct change on such a large scale. The best he could do on moral grounds is do what little he can to abstain from it, because abolitionism is easy without the simultaneous invention of the enlightenment. You know, like stopping the Barbary slave trade, required massive diplomatic pressure, a similarly powerful navy AND two WARS with DIRECT OCCUPATION by a foreign power to stop. But that would mean the protagonist is too weak, and we can't have that in an isekai!
@@flyerton9958 To be fair, slavery shouldn't exist in isekai in general due to the presence of magic. Shit for a majority of them, the slaves aren't for manual work, instead they're there for sexual activities or to make the protagonist look "heroic" by buying them. See this what drives me up the wall when it comes to isekai, they don't know how medieval societies function let alone the reason why slavery was rampant in the medieval to colonial era.
@@omarabe26 fax. Slavery literally existed just for manual labour without costs. But in a world of magic where you can just magically create things what good are slaves? Unless they have magic power I would think that slaves are very useless lol
@@omarabe26 The thing is, most slavery in fantasy is magic based, and is still used for manual labor reasons or simply to have absolute power over one’s servants. The fact that kind of magic isn’t abused more than it’s shown to tends to be the less believable part.
@@nevermore7285 Why would it be magic based, though? What are the slaves going to do if you're going to waste that much time binding them with magic?
If they're pleasure slaves, ok maybe, but if they're just there for "absolute power over one's servants" then at least have them do something useful like a bodyguard or some shit.
But every time I see slaves in isekai they're always in these shit conditions and are treated like commodities despite being expensive. Eh, whatver, I shouldn't expect anything endearing from Isekai let alone JRPG fantasy (unless it's final fantasy or granblue).
Movies : "Fear my loves triangle !"
Isekai : "Allow me to introduce my loves octogones"
Octagon!
Love tesseract*
Love dodecahedrons
@@icouldntthinkofaname7773 And Ranma 1/2 wasn't even an isekai...
@@icouldntthinkofaname7773 * love rhombicosidodecahedrons
I Got Sent To Another Dimension And Now I Make Videos Giving Terrible Writing Advice While Promoting My Book And Pushing Love Triangles.
Title is too short and not clear enough, but I guess it’s a good start.
Yeah that won’t work. Try this.
“Is it wrong to shill out my book by make writing tips videos in this fantasy world, where I have killed and become the grade sage of power?”
Now we wait for that money press to go.
@@frankwest5388 Fuck, of course it had to be a question. Knew I missed something.
Or how about "Truck-Kun! Squash me to the land of Isekai!"
@@frankwest5388 still too vague. It needs to mention the power of the love triangle.
Most creative isekai I know have their characters get there from “death by books in an earthquake” and “sold by shitty parents to a demon” (guess one direction didn’t need to buy any people that day)
Haha you are talking about Iruma aren’t you? Man I love that anime. It is just so hilarious knowing how Ameri’s family are basically Otakus for humans. Her father definitely “read” all those manga based on those fantasies (or should I say nightmares) he has of Ameri and Iruma getting together.
Iruma and Urano are...actually fun characters! One has comedy in the actual conflict of values/life conditions, and the other has the click of magic being harmful for you and the mc actually trying to be a good person by helping orphen from starvation and help advance the world.
You’ve put the image of Iruma’s parents selling him to one direction for cash instead of to a demon and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry because that’s ENTIRELY in character for them lmao
At least with ascendence of a bookworm that one is actually well written. I've read enough isaki stuff that I'll typically know if it's decent by the first chapter.
“Notice me semi” is actually fucking brilliant.
Imagine an isekai where the harem are actually succubi who are slowly draining the MC's soul until he is nothing but an empty husk as punishment for his lustful ways.
I would love to see that.
that sounds like Helltaker.
i'm sure i have read hentais with that plot
Fuck yeah I’m in, we need more real succubi anyway
Damn, that'd be neat, it should be like a parody of the genre, mocking the common tropes
And it'd slowly over the course of a few seasons change into psychological horror as the protagonist starts to realize that this isn't heaven, it's hell
"You would think that Japan wouuld pass safe driving regulations given how many young men keep getting killed by trucks"
I almost spit my water
They already have one. But accidents, irresponsible drivings, and mechanical failures do happen.
@@novaterra973 but that often????
It's a conspiracy started by Truck-kun in order to deliver more average protagonist bait characters to save the world from nebulous demon lords. Truck-kun is the ultimate hero, and arch-nemesis to the nebulous evil ones.
@@Diresilence Well, not so much a conspiracy as a business. More of a trucker side job with assigned archetypal bounties.
@@1tylerq127 "Is that a boring looking, cardboard cut out looking bother fucker? *puts into high gear* Well, generic fantasy video game worlds ain't gonna save themselves."
This channel makes me feel hope for humanity because there is at least one person on earth who recognizes the stupidity of 90% of media AND has genuinely interesting ideas for alternatives.
I can read Japanese, I used to read isekai novels before isekai genre became popular(before that slime isekai anime).
Many of those novels are never meant to be commercial, I think they wrote it for personal entertainment.
And there are some pretty creative ones.
One of them is about a protagonist who got isekaied without noticing because he never left his parents' house and he had internet. He refused to leave even after he noticed he was in isekai, and he kept asking advice from random jobless people in 2ch so that he could survive, because he was running out of food.
Isekai idea: guy gets hit by a truck, teleports to a fantasy land, then said guy returns to our world to do revenge on the truck and its driver.
Guy gets run over by a horse and carriage and ends up in our world.
@@bificommander reverse isekai sounds pretty interesting to be honest.
@@bificommander Carriages and cars are portals apparently. Nice idea though. So everytime the protag wants to go back to each world, he just throw himself to the streets
@@SorowFame While not by name, it was pretty popular for cheap live-action movies. You could establish your fantasy hero and his world for 15 minutes, then set the rest of the movie in the modern world, which was way cheaper to shoot.
But yeah, a parody of specifically isekai trends in reverse would be fun. As a setup: A teenager ridiculed by his peers because his magicial ability is weaker than everyone else's finds himself in our world, where no one but him has any magic. (It may have been done before.)
@@SorowFame There's this anime about a Demon Lord being transported to our world and working on McDonald's
Truck-kun is Japan's most prolific at-large serial killer. Prove me wrong.
Well... Is the most common way to die in Japan by a traffic accident or suicide... Murders do not happen that often and they do not want to use this as part of the narrative for something even bigger (your killer got isekai too so you want to kill him as an example)
Detective Conan basically causing a murder scene everywhere he go.
@LTNetjak genuinely nice to see someone calling out Japan's police corruption here on this anime video! And with a source cited, too?
*I do a chef kiss with my mouth*
This is the most at-large overused joke
You say serial killer, I say hero we didn't know we needed.
This form of writing is legit just “how to fuck up the story of the Heroic Epic, despite the Heroic Epic plot line being by far the simplest to make into a good story.”
Funnily enough, one of the earliest modern isekai, El-Hazard, stars off with the mani character building a machine FOR SCIENCE, being transported to a magical world where a lot of the ancient magical relics are actually lost advanced technology, and he helps save El-Hazard in part through his knowledge of SCIENCE.
"Yes, he's a slave-owning, power hoarding weirdo that lacks social skills and has the same personality as a wooden bucket, but he was nice to me once! Guys are hardly ever nice to pretty girls!"
JP going straight for the jugular this time holy shit
SERIOUSLY; DOES MR. BEAUBIEN REALLY HATE RISING OF THE SHIELD HERO FOR SOME REASON?!!
@@New3DSLuigi364 Nah shield hero was pretty good, 3rd best isekai anime I've ever watched in my opinion that de-rails from the cliche. (konosuba 2nd and Re:zero first)
@@phemelomakwela8057 own your trash taste, my guy.
There's a billion things awful about Shield Hero, but I enjoyed it regardless.
@@phemelomakwela8057 I gotta be real, the anime skips over a lot of the real important world and character building in the light novel or even the manga- which is understandable since budget issues and time constraints and all that jazz- so it ends up being a mediocre at best. If you haven't already, try reading the manga or LN.
Wow what did he does? He passed the salt
I find the fact that the Genre is so overdone, that most of the ideas at the end already exist extremely funny
Genuinely love all of those ideas, but I don’t know what shows they reference, could somebody tell me?
(I meant the ideas jp brought up as alternatives .-. (Thanks though))
@@kn1ght-788 references that I got.
Idea 2 sounds like Isekai Nonbiri Nouka. Except he chose to become a farmer instead.
Idea 3 kinda sounds like
I Got a Cheat Ability in a Different World, and Became Extraordinary Even in the Real World. Except we're still not sure if his grandpa came from that world.
Idea 4 sounds like The Devil is a Part Timer. Except he made the portal because he was losing the war.
Idea 6 sounds like Hero in White Coat. Except he got transported when he slept in his lab.
Idea 8 sounds like The Wrong Way to use Healing Magic.
Idea 9 sounds like (Sumireko Usami when she goes to Gensokyo) I put a parenthesis because that's not a title, she came from Touhou project series.
@@kn1ght-788 slave market thing is Shield Hero and the black coat comes from Sword Art Online.
@@kn1ght-788 the jesus lion wardrobe one is Narnia
Was any idea something other than a reference?
I absolutely love how you throw shade at the fucking cell phone Isekai.
Deserves it so much. It is so awful. It’s a very interesting premise, but the guy doesn’t even use the cell phone until episode three!
He doesn’t even use the cell phone to help him learn anything.
like it would’ve been really funny if he learned a magic by using his phone somehow, like watching a RUclipsr that somehow knows how to do magic in a completely different dimension. It just works so he has to keep on waiting for them to upload a new video. But instead, he just knows how to do everything.
He even knows how to fight… Which is stupid, it would’ve been even better if you learned how to fight via videos on his phone and he has to learn which ones are bullshit and which ones actually work. But no, instead God just gives him fighting abilities.
there's 2 cellphone isekais nows where the mcs actually use it to their advantage. Mostly checking wikipedia articles to learn how to do agriculture and how to wage a war
You don't know how much I want to watch a premise like this XD It adds a lot more stakes to the story by having the protagonist wait for a video he needs or learn through the videos in the moment. It feels somewhat relatable to modern days where a lot of people look to youtube to learn certain skills they need.
Would add some comedic value if the protagonist watches video while everyone else is being decimated by a powerful foe yet the video is buffering further delaying him.
I love how upon rewatch, this is one of the harsher videos on the channel since it covers stuff that plagues almost the entire anime medium, a lot more than just the "isekai" sort.
"Notice me Semi" has been nominated as a candidate for quote of the Year.
"the protagonist could decide to rescue a cute slave girl by buying her!"
Oh no, he's seen THAT anime....
*Not a meme*, tell me the name so I can stay away as far as possible from that degenerate shit.
The "Shield Hero" one or "the other one"?
@@CartoonTriper
Ah, so it’s even shittily titled (for me), nice! This won’t be hard.
Honestly WHO THE FUCK THINKS IT’S A GOOD IDEA?! Freeing them it’s one thing BUT BUYING THEM IT’S ANOTHER
@@droideka1890 Rise of the Shield Hero, which is honestly pretty good other than that mess...
@@droideka1890 thats not what happens in shield hero the main character gets screwed over in the begining and no one wants to help him and he cant fight due to his class being extremly weak in combat so buys a slave to protect him
idea for a joke in an Isekai: only the protagonist see thing as a video games mechanic because that is how his/her mind interprets it and everyone else sees things how best their mind can interpret it as well. The protagonist talk in term of these mechanics, and confuses everyone around them.
Summon Hero: I 'm going to out to level up.
King who summon them: Alright, have fun......level up?
This sounds like a Scott Pilgrim vs The World fan-fiction, like it would be called : "Scott Pilgrim vs another World" or something.
prob not entirely fitting this description, but my first thought was ichiban from yakuza: like a dragon
That's actually a really cool idea, Rising of the Shield Hero kind of delved into this when the Naofumi sees his powers like they are the UI in an RPG.
Not an isekai, but Solo Leveling did that lmao. When the MC posted on a forum about what was happening to him, curious if someone else happens to have the same condition, everyone just told him he's deluded and unqualified as a hunter XD
Once I thought on an isekai idea where the protagonist was a real-life historical figure: Manfred von Richtoffen, aka The Red Baron. On my idea, he got isekai-ed seconds before dying, because a steampunk kingdom needed a "sky-warrior" to fight an army of flying pirates and dragons. He also would use a prototype machine that was basically isekai version of his iconic dogfight airplane.
I heard publishers had to make rules in their competitions to stop the isekai thing. They got tired of how many young Japanese dudes getting themselves killed and suddenly waking up in medieval Europe with super powers.
That is fucking hilarious
@@lilplague4857 Japanese publishers: "If I read ONE more Isekai I swear..."
We need more Mecha anime.
@@bacd-nn2lg we need more good mecha anime. Ones that will restore the interest in the genre.
@@bacd-nn2lg *Yes*
How to make an isekai WAIFU:
-design a ten year old character
-call her a 100,000 year old demon lord
-profit
B, you could also do:
-make her inept a combat, not because she's a bad fighter but because you never let her fight unless it's to empower the mc as she loses
- horribly big breasts that would normally be encased in armor realistically, but instead they're either cupped by them, or there's no chest plate in the first place
- give her lingerie armor and long hair or pony tail but she doesn't wear a helmet
@@joshgroban5291 or you can do C
-make the girl (who’s a teenager,) have animal features, like cat ears or a tail (also have their be discrimination against these people, which will never be addressed)
-have them be a slave, who is happy to have a good slave master (who the “perfectly moral” Mc,) with her blatant Stockholm syndrome never being addressed (nor the Mc’s support of slavery, as he’s always right,) and finally
-have them constantly sexualized all the time, no matter the circumstances or age (this applies to all girls, even the one(‘s) that look about 10, or younger)
God I feel like a disgusting incel typing this shit.
@@AAZ-yu5ss How DARE you question the morals of 40 year old neckbeards who've never had an actual friendship eith a girl
you forgot to add
"-sexualization"
without that it would just be, a bunch of people treating this immortal demon as an actual 10 year old, which would be an amazing change from, well, creepy behaviour. Like nobody believes them at all, but just plays along, or shows extreme concern for their safety... you know, like actual people would.
'Oh of course youre a powerful adventurer!! my mistake sweetie,' *points at playset,* I think there is an evil villain in that magic tower that needs defeating,'
*magical girl transformation and draws their weapon* "DONT WORRY ILL PROTECT YOU CIVILIAN, STAND BACK!"
'WHAT!?! OKAY LITTLE LADY, FIRST OF ALL WHERE DID YOU GET THAT SWORD, THATS WAY TOO DANGEROUS, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?! AND WHAT IN GODS NAME HAPPENED TO YOUR CLOTHES?!'
"I'm a 47000 year old demon lord that works on this plane as an adventur-"
'NONO IM NOT PLAYING IMAGINATION LAND MISSY!! GIVE ME THAT SWORD RIGHT NOW, WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU A DECENT SET OF CLOTHING AND SOME FOOD, AND THEN WE ARE GOING RIGHT TO THE GUARD POST TO FIND YOUR PARENTS.... i swear, parents can be so awful these days,' *dragging them by the shirt collar to the nearest tailor*
Like, i want an anime to just, point out how fucked up it is, this demon lord just, shocked that anyone would be sexual towards them and goes into a 10 minute monologue about how wrong it is, slapping and hexing the protagonist, and then just, vanishing in a puff of smoke,
Or a extremely powerful mage, that was cursed by their former guild member so they could take the top spot, and this immortal being dealing with the fact theyre treated as incompetent and like a child for a few hundred years all while trying to fix it, dealing with those limitations,
-weapons, medium to high power magical items, "those are too dangerous for a little girl, here, this wand makes an aura of glittering lights, and this hat can change into any hat, and this ring gives people a tiny zap when you shake hands, do you want any of those?"
-home ownership, "I, youre 10... kid, where did you get this money? I promise you wont get in trouble if you tell me"
-higher levels of magical education, "I know youre excited to go to magic school sweetie, but you have to go through all the lessons, you cant just skip to the latest additions, there are so many basic you need to learn, just for safety!"
and more things that are not available to children
-not being allowed outside the city walls,
and over time, learning to overcome those limits, having people buy these items for them, it costs a fair bit more but is better than nothing; convincing or paying someone to act as their guardian in order to buy a home, and in return they get to stay and live there; tutors hired by their "rich parents who sent me to their summer home to study in peace"; paying smugglers, or sneaking out of the city to take quests, using a face to accept jobs on their behalf, and accept payment as well; and over time, mastering this web of resources and becoming a guild in of itself, nobody the wiser.
@@athena1491 .
Best line: "But I want my power fantasy NOW! Now! Now, NOW."
Isn’t it funny in a messed up way how the “slavery sucks :( i will buy this slave but dont worry im a nice owner :)” trope is so commonplace in power fantasy isekai?
We need to mail some therapists to Japanese otakus, alongside some cops, just in case.
Cops? You really are Overreacting.
They're harmless as long as they stay in their room and never leave
It's because the social skill dropped so low they can't imagine the character (representing themself) form a bond with a character who isn't litteraly enchained.
They are not became psychopath. They just became so unconfident they think the only friends thhey could have are slave.
You do know being a slave is more than a title, right?
If the "Slave" is treated right and giving freedom in spite of being a "Slave", can you truly say they are a "Slave"?
In fact, does the MC have to go into a big sentimental speech about how the slave is freed from the character not to be considered a slave?
That seems kind of silly, and the hang up seems to be with you.
Slavery is not that different from keeping pets, especially if that is cat girl slave and releasing your pet to the wild is not always that good idea.
they are free to roam around as they wish anyway and do whatever they want
“That was close! We almost had some narrative tension there for a second”
Yes he did say that
"an evil spirit could lie to the protagonist about what a fun time they'll have in fantasy land"
Basically the plot of Madoka.
"By day it's the real world, but by night it's isekai dreamworld time"
Basically the plot of Omori
I'm thinking more of Coraline actually...
@@geralfol117 Also the start of The Matrix
That's kinda Konosuba. Especially the early episodes. I think Kazuma said it best when he realized Adventurer in this world Basically means Temp Worker. Except it's even worse, because there's no mandatory breaks, no health benefits, "insurance? Can I eat it?" You get the idea.
@@djinn666 Oh my god, the Matrix is a Isekai trilogy?! 0_0
He forgot the part where the protagonist grooms the female protagonist, because he got reincarnated as a teenager but still has the mental capacity of a adult.
8:25 'NOTICE ME SEMI'
You forgot to mention the Kansas house "got whisked away by a tornado." way of getting to a fantasy world;).
Ah yes, The Wizard of Oz, the first Isekai.
Or the "follow a pocketwatch-wearing rabbit into a tunnel" path to fantasyland.
@@curnott6051
Wasn't that Alice in Wonderland? Or one of the Irish myths where the MC goes to the fairy realm?
That time I got yeeted into a fantasy world.
@@Cyricist001 Nobody counts the manga/ light novels into this.
Terrible writing advice: when you get to the part about boneing sisters, just say they not related by blood!
SAO: best I can do is cousins
There's no reason for them to even be relates, blood related or not, except to pander to creeps with a fetish for incest
@@KhayJayArt the harem in general is to appeal to weeboos 🤦♀️
@@KhayJayArt Eh, in Japan first cousins are somewhat acceptable targets for relationships. Its a difference in culture, not strictly an incest fetish (though some anime certainly play into that more than others)
@@seekerofalice9787 It being aceptable in their culture doesn't make it morally or biologically right.
@@gael.7593 biologically it actually isn't that bad so long as the blood doesn't get too thick. You don't see recessive genes really popping up until several generations of inbreeding occur, so as long as cousins don't repeatedly have kids across several generations it isn't a problem. Siblings on the other hand is far more problematic genetically speaking. As for the moral aspect, that is relative to the culture. In the US, we see cousin romance and squick a bit, but for other cultures, it is acceptable. As such, I really don't consider it an issue from Japanese media due to the cultural differences and the lack of actual harm done. I have my issues with Japanese culture, but that isn't really one to sweat over too much IMO. I'd focus more on gender rights, work culture, and the absurd expectations placed on children that lead to real psychological harm over something like this.
"In my fantasy I'm powerful and women love me"
Hey there, big guy, you can make that reality-
"Children, too. And my sister, too. And I'd buy a girl too."
......
The "parent's basement" and "weapon of mass destruction" methods of getting into the fantasy world sound so cool
Science portal is the most cool for me
Very important detail: despite the fact the protagonist is surrounded by his adoring harem, sleeps with them in one bed etc he is still virgin and doesn't dare to take a first step.
What if every isekai protag is just gay.
Or the teleportation portal that brought him here left his d at home
@@saranes that'd be a great idea actually.
@@saranes That's SORT OF the problem with Overlord's protag. He inhabits the body of a lich (skeleton) so is lacking the crucial bone and his emotions get stamped down by his undead nature if he feels too strongly.
Yes, this is always odd. I am sure it is there to keep the rating to teen, or to avoid some obscure Japanese law about lecherous entertainment.
@@saranes Isn't there a harem anime where the guy is only attracted to hermit crabs?
Edit: Found it, Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai
“I’ll never forgive the Japanese”
Quote: The peoples of china, korea, western micronesia, the malay archipelago and indochina, aswell as the honourable Ainu people.
Isn't it a MOTHERFUCKIN JOJO REFERENCE
@@valentinmitterbauer4196 Nice
Nanking people be like
To be fair how the hell can they forgive the japanese. Japan just keeps denying that they did the war crimes.
It really is a shame how a concept with so much potential has been watered down into the most barebones, lackluster "stories". Luckily something good still pops up now and again.
Isekai Anime Starter pack
- The title itself contain the whole plot
- A loner MC
- get killed by truck-kun
- Either given OP powers by a god or just born with it.
- have RPG style system
- forms a party
- forms a harem
- the target is killing the demon lord
You know an Isekai that is quite well regarded that barely has any of these tropes but still counts as an Isekai?
Samurai Jack
Holy Crap you’re right!
don't do this to me
*Digimon*
The Sonic The Hedgehog movie, Sonic X, Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Megadimension Neptunia VII, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, The 10th Kingdom, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and The Chronicles of Narnia are all isekais.
_Change my mind._
Was the movie Enchanted a reverse Isekai?
This is advice on writing bad Isekai. Well, horrible as it was it still lacks the final touch: the MC must NEVER have sex nor realize he could have his whole harem. Instead he must be trapped in doubts about which of his girls he really wants.
Two years of terrible writing advice flowed endlessly into subscriber-san with a glopping noise.
He has achieved...
Writer's Instinct.
Unfortunately, recently the exact opposite happens: HAREM ENDINGS FOR EVERYONE!
@@bobobo878 Oh God, why are you bringing up this piece of hellspawn...
HE KNOWS. HE KNOWS TOO MUCH
Ascendance of a Bookworm is an example of how much better these types of stories can be done.
Imagine if someone made a story about getting isekaied into the backrooms
Truck: A serial killer that murders people and sends them to another world
Ambulance: *Murders serial killers and sends them to Hell*
As always, Hirohiko Araki is on top of things.
I mean, Kira kinda got isekai'd if you read the one shot set after part 4.
@@Gaia_Gaistar Fuck you’re right. Araki really is a visionary.
Araki also isekai d alot of dogs and a few Jobros.
@@Gaia_Gaistar "That Time When I, A Hand Fetishist Serial Killer, Got A Second Chance; But A DeadMan's Question Is, What Now?"
If Araki was a light novel writer in current times.
It just now dawned on me that The Matrix (the first and best one, anyway) is a reverse Isekai: Neo's born into a "fantasy" world and escapes TO the real one.
this is why "help an isekai protagonist just got born in my world and is already warping the world into it's power fantasy" is going to be made eventually, and will make a lot of money.
Wow, this comment makes me want to start animating lmao
You could add some horror elements into that story quite easily.
tsuki ga michibiku sorta does that.
The protagonist got summoned into another world because of a promise his parents made but ends up getting discarded by the goddess because she already summoned two better heroes.
Those two heroes ended up being absolute shit heads with one of them brainwashing a kingdom and attaining a harem while the other blindly follows the goddess and believes in her plan.
The MC literally wants nothing to do other than to beat the shit out of the goddess and the harem hero.
The MC has two girls who like him, but they're both equally insane to a degree and are a jovial bunch.
Mage and Demon Queen
Okay, bear with me here (seriously, please, benefit of the doubt) since this recommendation is gonna be really offputting to a lot of people on the basis of being a... My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction.
But the fanfiction Not The Hero by alarajrogers is a genuinely rather interesting take on exactly this, filled with great dialogue, almost-obscenely-complex headcanon worldbuilding for the sake of establishing the reality being warped, and an immensely likeable, layered interpretation of a character whom in the original show is just a Kids Bop version of Q from Star Trek.
Check it out: www.fimfiction.net/story/217108/not-the-hero
I swear, we need "Isekai" parodic comedy about MC becoming background character without any OP powers.
There was an one shot manga with this premise (Wage Slave in Another World or something like that). However, it betrays its own premise in the last few pages.
Sato Kazuma: "You want more?"
I’m just now starting it, but “Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs” could be that, but I think it may actually still go in his way of him being the main protagonist….even though he does not want that. XD
in few words, this describes the entirety of Konosuba.
tbh this is the whole reason I missed the point of Konosuba.
@@o0bookwyrmknight0oyeah but he has op powers although he did work for them and didn't just spawned in and got op powers
Isekai is the YA dystopia of the light novels
So, good ?
"A wardrobe leads to Magic Jesus Lion" comedy gold right there
Now I'm trying to imagine what the Narnia books would be like with a harem and reaching for the brain bleach.
Chronicles of Narnia is proof that Christian fantasy CAN work.
@@plasmawolf7960 What about VeggieTales?
@@plasmawolf7960 Christianity is proof that christian fantasy can work
@@reasyrandom that too
How about a protagonist being whisked off to another world since they didn't read the full terms and conditions for a piece of software and it specified that the provider of the software might do that?
I think an otome game"s villainess isekai did that...
Slave harem did that...
to be fair, does anyone besides people looking to sue/It's involves finances, etc. ever look at those things
@@brutalnobody5240 Indeed, people seldom do that. Hence why I thought it was an obvious entry point to get the plot rolling.
It would be funny as shit
Isekai Idea: Guy got isekai'd with all the troupes like Harem girls, hero vs Demon King
But Plot Twist!!! He is Gay and is avoiding every single Isekai troupes meanwhile the Demon King is just some Guy who keeps walking into situations where people keep mistaking him as a Villain
dude that would be hilarious
I need this 😭😭.
Now im just waiting for when he covers Shonen stories and writing lol.
Will he conquerer the messy topics of the fighting genres that involves lots of schools?
Can he get past the tournament arcs?
Will he be able to scale the ever growing powerscale of the Main character?
Find out next time on Terrible Writing Advice Shippeden Super Slayer Academia!
ez: just have him read world trigger and _then_ every other battle shounen
Finely Flat - Little Sister - Poor Health - Tsundere
Looks like nii-san is going to prison
Who is ‘nii-san’?
@ older brother
@@Sugoie I thought that was Onni-chan
(Edit spelling fixing)
@@potatoheadpokemario1931 I think you mean ‘Onii-chan’, which is a more respectful version of the word
@@ZeroRelevance thanks for correcting my spelling
Oh, no! TWA look out for truck-kun!
Silent and blood thirsty psychotic killer
Oh no he is wearing airpods
The yandere of his harem🙄
Oh no hes wearing airpods he cant hear us
Isakai is actually hilarious
Because other world stories are almost entirely and traditionally a children's literature genre
So by sending the protagonist to another magical dimension
You are intentionally implying that they are a man child.
And they learn the power of friendship to defeat the scary villain.
That doesn't really make sense. And also a lot of anime genres are traditionally a children's literature genre.
Well everyone is a man child, if not then show me a cow human child. And by everyone I mean every human
what idiotic logic lol. a story element has no age restriction
@@yinnyonline Agree with you. That is like somehow blaming a tv cause you waste your time watching a bad show
I love how in Mage & Demon Queen, Protagonist's best friend turns out to be a Hero Summoned years back, who hid and nerfed himself so he won't get captured by the government. Then after years after collecting enough mana they summoned another "hero" who is the typical Isekai Protagonist and in fact the Villain