Just a question I wanted to ask since I was playing Sword Art Online on my PS4 the other day.
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dunno about best but theres an absolute crap load of really shit isekai that i keep reading
i will read the blurb go "oh no this sounds like an absolute dumpster fire" and then read it
some are great in their terribleness some are actually good and then some are just really bad, There was one i read recently about some guy who can talk to dragons and he got kicked out of his S rank guild because he cares about the dragons or something, the author appears to want to fuck the dragons and thats bad enough but it is also one of those isekai that goes a bit like this;
something happens to hero that sees them go at it alone (kicked out of guild)
thing happens to hero that gives them a bonus of some sort
thing happens to hero that gives them a bonus of some sort
thing happens to hero that gives them a bonus of some sort
thing happens to hero that gives them a bonus of some sort
theres no actual character or plot progression the hero just keeps coming across things that help them the hero has basically no reaction or struggles to anything they are just meandering through the "plot"
then there are the ones where the hero can summon things from another world somehow where the hero goes oh no i must be careful and then summons a fucking digger and tosses around guns and compound bows like candy while destroying the entire economy (but i just want to live a peaceful life)
oh almost forgot there are also the ones where our hero ends up with a broadcast device and tells the kingdom how to fix its shit and everyone be like "OH MY GOD A COMMON SENSE SOLUTION THIS GUY IS TEH BEST!!!!1111!!!!". some of the "fixes" tend to be in the massive shake up of how things work at a societal level type solutions and everyone just goes along with it with basically no pushback because the authors self insert is just such a galaxy brained gigachad
not sure how many of these are made worse by bad translations mind
amongst those hower you might find a polished turd or you might even find gold
i swear i had more of a point when i started writing this comment but i have written it now
Another thing annoying about the genre is that most of the time the initial plot point about being isekaied was completely forgotten after the Mc gets his first op power after awakening, except the occasional 'wisdom' that was related to the original world the anime might as well be op teenager with attitude and knowledge of a middle age man and drop the isekai all together
oh yeah so many isekai just forget why they even exist after the first few chapters
if i wanted generic fantasy i would go for generic fantasy
only thing worse is when a good series just ends abruptly (either by death of the author or something else)