The current japanese economic dystopia is so disappointing. What happened to the 80's? The glorious dystopian visions, the likes of Dominion or Akira? All mangaka can come up with is "I woke up and I wasn't here".
Like, grow a pair and try something bold. Drop some asteroids, flood Sagami Bay like YKK, have youkai blow up some reactors like Arjuna... just do SOMETHING besides more frigging isekai.
I mean, every medium has its generic genre designed to sell to without rocking the boat too much, with the subverting that being the only ones anyone remembers. Shield Hero will probably be the only isekai people remember in the next decade for being the opposite of escapist fantasy (at first).
The same way everyone remembers Evangelion, but not forgotten mecha like Rahxephon or Eureka Seven.
I went yesterday to look at the lineup of new releases in manga and anime and roughly a quarter of the titles were isekai. Some of which don't even need to be isekai to work as stories, and only are isekai because of escapism on the part of the mangaka.
Quarter is not that much. That means there is more that is not isekai. So whats the issue?
It sounds here that you are complaining that isekai even exists. There are people who want that stuff. Leave them to it. Things not isekai are being made and you are not forced to read isekai.
It sounds here that you are complaining that isekai even exists.
Somewhat, yes.
There's something perversely wrong about isekai as a genre. I think it belies a loss of both imagination and optimism, that we can't merely have a setting, that it must be contextualized in relation to our world.
I hate it in the same way that I hate how Battlestar Galactica ended in the present. It's like they took "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and then felt obliged to say "no, really, see?".
What talent? It's isekai.
The current japanese economic dystopia is so disappointing. What happened to the 80's? The glorious dystopian visions, the likes of Dominion or Akira? All mangaka can come up with is "I woke up and I wasn't here".
Like, grow a pair and try something bold. Drop some asteroids, flood Sagami Bay like YKK, have youkai blow up some reactors like Arjuna... just do SOMETHING besides more frigging isekai.
I mean, every medium has its generic genre designed to sell to without rocking the boat too much, with the subverting that being the only ones anyone remembers. Shield Hero will probably be the only isekai people remember in the next decade for being the opposite of escapist fantasy (at first).
The same way everyone remembers Evangelion, but not forgotten mecha like Rahxephon or Eureka Seven.
I went yesterday to look at the lineup of new releases in manga and anime and roughly a quarter of the titles were isekai. Some of which don't even need to be isekai to work as stories, and only are isekai because of escapism on the part of the mangaka.
Quarter is not that much. That means there is more that is not isekai. So whats the issue?
It sounds here that you are complaining that isekai even exists. There are people who want that stuff. Leave them to it. Things not isekai are being made and you are not forced to read isekai.
Somewhat, yes.
There's something perversely wrong about isekai as a genre. I think it belies a loss of both imagination and optimism, that we can't merely have a setting, that it must be contextualized in relation to our world.
I hate it in the same way that I hate how Battlestar Galactica ended in the present. It's like they took "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and then felt obliged to say "no, really, see?".