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Seriously all these influx of isekai manga abd manhua need to stop. I miss the era of genuine fantasy shounen and seinen that never relied on that trope. It's pandering. It's one thing to have a, as you put, "genuine fantasy shounen" series where you can project yourself onto a main character ingrained in the setting - and therefor, harder to project on - and another to have a bland, empty protagonist who literally anyone and their mom could see themselves in or at least wish fufill themselves into those shoes and see this "that-could-be-me!" character go to worlds cooler than the one you're stuck in. ... That was terribly worded, skdjlfhldkjfhds. But there's a reason 95% of these isekais have the same cardboard cut out of the main character. It's, again, wish fulfillment. Replace yourself with Generic McBlack Haired Dude and suddenly you're the one visiting these crazy worlds. You can't do that as "efficiently" with a character who's lived in that world all their life. Which doesn't speak for ALL isekais, I mean, just... every isekai I've personally seen, oops.
there's only few isekais ive liked so far and those are mangas that didnt lose the character of the protag when he got into another world. Tate no yuusha nariagari is a good isekai and so does fuushigi yuugi and older isekais. But just, post-SAO, everyone just wanted to make their own kirito. I agree with all these tho. It was also like that when sao was such a huge hit
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last edit on Aug 2, 2018 1:41:02 GMT by von
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