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Class of kids get isekai'd, super powers are given to those that are compatible. Super powered person tells them they get to live if they get strong enough to be 'sages' or whatever.
Dude sleeping in the back of the bus is the MC. Isn't given a power. Because he's had the power to just instantly kill anyone with a thought, even in his old world. Story goes from there, occasionally dipping into back story to hint at what dude is.
If you like something fun I would recommend reading Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute
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One big fat lie and a few twisted truths
Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a final boss. He'd rather lie low as a minor character until it's prime time to reveal he's a mastermind...or at least, do the next best thing-pretend to be one! And now that he's been reborn into another world, he's ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down...
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Girl is good at everything, dies and when she's reincarnated, asks to be just an average person. Then the god pulls a trick and makes her 'stat numbers' the average of the strongest and weakest creatures in the world (also the average economically/socially between the Emperor and a slave). Which means she's stronger on average than a large majority of the people/creatures she encounters, and has to hide that fact. Often fairly poorly.
Kind of sounds like it's managed to back away from standard isekai and right into classic Superman and Spider-Man 'the difficulties of maintaining a secret ID' territory.
I'm just amused to see it happen to professionals as well.
I did something similar several times when I would make City of Heroes characters. I'd have an idea, and then put effort into making sure they weren't too derivative of the obvious copyrighted character with similar powers, only to realize I had merely ended up making a derivative of a different copyrighted character by accident.
Nah, it's basically like if Superman accidentally blew up a subway station then threatened to destroy the city if anyone there mentioned it and thinking it'd actually work.
She's really bad at it.
Also she is totally Isekai broken. They don't really show it off in the anime much tho.
I've mentioned I don't particularly mind the harem in Bakarina, because, well, the story actually spends a lot of time and effort making Katarina likable, instead of having an extremely generic dude in there with a dozen girls waiting in hand and foot.
But for an isekai manga I have read lately that I found amusing, there's what I've taken to calling Kept Man Isekai, Risou no Himo Seikatsu. It's basically very much a completely indulgent trash fantasy, but the thing is, instead of being about getting slaves and power and killing dudes and being a stone-cold badass with OP magic, the main dude is a salaryman who happens to have a blood component that is really useful for magic genetics reasons, so the queen of a fantasy land offers him to come marry her.
The "catch" is that part of what she wants is someone who won't threaten her own position, because the country in question is kind of very chauvinistic, so an ambitious husband with political savvy could pose a serious risk as nobles would be likely to align with him instead of her. The dude is about 200% on board with the plan of "marry a beautiful woman, and spend the rest of his life parading around waving his hand and doing fuck all else". He and the queen end up falling in love for reals, having a very romantic and extremely loyal marriage (a plot point at one point being that it's typical for noblemen to take concubines and the dude is like "are you nuts, I'm married to the most beautiful woman in the planet, the hell do I want concubines for"), a kid, and while she's queening he spends his time entertaining dignataries, and helping with such things as running checks on the realm's taxes thanks to mad Excel skills.
And you know what, as power fantasies go, "be happily married and become a support pillar for your spouse" is one I'm okay with.
Noob move. Should have asked for median.
The protagonist actually seems to put in the work, which is nice. Despite being mostly a parody, it's better than the stuff that's playing it straight.
The characters are CG! It's really jarring. Will report back after watching the episode proper, but that sticks out like crazy.
Anyone else familiar with the series?
The new show is reportedly hot garbage. The original game is great, as is the PS2 one.
...but most of all I'm just flabbergasted by how unforgivably ugly the mecha designs are! Like...not since Betterman have their been boring and unappealing designs.
And it's all further compacted by the fact that you have these glamorous looking women piloting what amounts to steam-punk bipedal garbage cans. The contrast is actually kind of smart in a way?
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I feel like Japan's definitely in a kind of postmodern isekai period where we're getting a metric fuckload of stuff that was either designed and written by soulless marketing people chasing after Sword Art Online's popularity, but also a lot of fringe things that are basically the Twilight fan-wank of it that are get popular enough to gain some notoriety.
Either way, it's hard to write characters and stories that actually develop, but easy to just write out power levels, but with more steps, and this goes hand in hand with really lazy and shitty authoring versions of satire; to do the cliches, have a character announce that they're cliches, and then keep doing them anyway. As if that somehow turns it into a joke. The fan side is especially full of some particularly gross power fantasy and misogyny. If you thought Shield Hero was bad on that front, then hoo boy, that Eighth Son thing airing this season will knock your socks off. Its attitudes towards women are, even for Japan, extremely Not Good.
absurd skill also has a manga, but i don't know if it has an official translation.
That's a pretty tough sell when pretty much every good Isekai ever made is also a teenage male. Probably need a better metric than that. 'More than three female protagonists' probably winnows the field down to a much thrashier tier.
More than three female protagonists but only if they aren't part of the lead male's harem.
'Trash' is often pretty fun though. I get it if you don't enjoy it but I'm kind of surprised by how dismissive people are of everything.
I have fun with pretty much every show every season. Maybe there will be one or two out of 30ish that have the fatal flaw of just being painfully mediocre to the point of being forgettable but I feel like that's a pretty specific case. (Looking at you, Afterlost.)
Well if the girl is the MC that's a whole different matter. I can't really think of much that hasn't been at least decent. Though Fushigi got a little weird in parts. That's reaching pretty far back, admittedly, but it's a pretty limited pool if just looking at anime.
Also Inuyasha still the best Isekai. MKRE gets an honorable mention for having some pretty ok games I played through in highschool and used to study.
Studio Ghibli animating Chōjū-giga dating from the 12th century. This is considered to be the first ancestor to mangas.
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I really hope this comes to theaters in America eventually, or gets streamed, or something. Probably will be a big lag behind the initial release though.
It continues to be great, and our titular heroine lives up to her nickname.
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i've mostly seen male protag with a bunch of cute girl party members, or female protag with a bunch of cute girl party members.
there are some isekai i've read with weak/support female protag who romances an OP native male,
but those mostly just have romance genre conventions, which are fine but not very spicy, structurally speaking.
re: gleipnir, the ecchi is indeed tedious and horrible as usual, but i'm in for the body horror and femdom i guess.
protag vaguely reminds me of shinji.