What's up with the isekai genre? Are there any *good* isekais out there?
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It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn't read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it's kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just "guilty pleasures"? The only one I've been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.
Some isekai manga/manwha I enjoy:
- Yakuza Reincarnation
- Villain Are Destined To Die
- Beware The Villainess.
- Fate/Type: Redline (to the past rather than fantasy world)
- The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
- In The Land Of Leadale
- A Witch's Printing Office
- I Was Reborn and Became a High Elf, but I Got Tired of My Slow Life after 120 Years
For some of these I have to wonder if they really just wanted a fantasy manga, but had to make it isekai as a hook by the publisher or something.
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I'm not one to talk, since majority of stuff I read is otome isekai...
Same. It is a thing because people read it. I do not think I have a quality filter, but I do have a finely-honed "will I enjoy it?" filter. And a lot of isekai passes it, so I read. Wonder how much of the backlash to it is
- genre fatigue: too much of it at all!
- genre is genuinely full of bad ones
also, [email protected] exists and is very dead. I tried to reactivate it for a bit when my kbin.run account still worked, before the server went down. I'd be happy to try again if you want to too—even if it is just you and me yelling at each other.
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It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn't read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it's kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just "guilty pleasures"? The only one I've been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.
I am enjoying the manhwa Hero Has Returned, aka The Warrior Returns, as a deconstruction of the isekai genre for tragedy.
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Same. It is a thing because people read it. I do not think I have a quality filter, but I do have a finely-honed "will I enjoy it?" filter. And a lot of isekai passes it, so I read. Wonder how much of the backlash to it is
- genre fatigue: too much of it at all!
- genre is genuinely full of bad ones
also, [email protected] exists and is very dead. I tried to reactivate it for a bit when my kbin.run account still worked, before the server went down. I'd be happy to try again if you want to too—even if it is just you and me yelling at each other.
Sometimes it just takes 1 or 2 people yelling at each other, as long as new posts appear preferably daily, or at least a couple times a week.
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Sometimes it just takes 1 or 2 people yelling at each other, as long as new posts appear preferably daily, or at least a couple times a week.
daily
I am kind of surprised. Communities with daily posts tend to be overwhelming if I have some communities posting a few times a week, so I've personally been sticking to a few times a week for posting. Good to know that some people actually want daily and that maybe that would be an actual growth strategy, instead of something that would make people feel spammed.
(For something big like Gaming or Books or Anime I expect a few posts per day, just by sheer amount of people participating, but for NicheTitle I'd expect a few per week.)
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daily
I am kind of surprised. Communities with daily posts tend to be overwhelming if I have some communities posting a few times a week, so I've personally been sticking to a few times a week for posting. Good to know that some people actually want daily and that maybe that would be an actual growth strategy, instead of something that would make people feel spammed.
(For something big like Gaming or Books or Anime I expect a few posts per day, just by sheer amount of people participating, but for NicheTitle I'd expect a few per week.)
A lot of people just use the "All" feed on their server to find new content, because Lemmy doesn't have a recommendation algorithm (and thankfully not).
I do that occasionally too, to find new and interesting /c's.
I also crosspost and make references to http://ani.social/c/anime to spread the word that it exists and is the best anime community in Lemmy-space. (see what I did there?)
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A lot of people just use the "All" feed on their server to find new content, because Lemmy doesn't have a recommendation algorithm (and thankfully not).
I do that occasionally too, to find new and interesting /c's.
I also crosspost and make references to http://ani.social/c/anime to spread the word that it exists and is the best anime community in Lemmy-space. (see what I did there?)
I keep forgetting I seem to be in the minority by refusing to touch c/All, thanks for letting me to know that the "daily" strategy captures what is probably the majority who will use c/All.
I do the same thing about referencing my communities, [email protected] and [email protected] with a link relevant, but thanks for the tip.
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It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn't read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it's kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just "guilty pleasures"? The only one I've been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.
If you like ecchi, the genre actually has seen a renaissance thanks to isekai mangas and are able to get away with much worse stuff nowadays compared to before, but in anime it's the opposite since they get censored to hell and back.
For guilty pleasures, Reincarnation Coliseum is the one I'm liking the most alongside Isekai Koushoku Musou Roku.
For normal stuff, Isekai Apocalypse MYNOGHRA, an isekai to a world that's suspiciously familiar to players of Heroes of Might and Magic, some nice war tactics and politics. -
It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn't read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it's kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just "guilty pleasures"? The only one I've been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.
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It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn't read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it's kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just "guilty pleasures"? The only one I've been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.
