Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29325824-20180624115932/@comment-29602226-20180913185558

99 % of isekai is crap... most are repetitive, lacking creativity, main characters are huge losers who get huge cheat powers without making any effort from their part... In a mahwa, a girl learns magic by literally hitting herself with a grimoire, and done, all spells learned...

In most isekai the MC uses levels and stats like in games, and can open VR screens to check and manipulate their own stats, and use appraisal to check the stats of other people...

Fantasy worlders are stupid in order to make the main character look smarter (they can't multiply and divide, or they can't make soap, or they don't know about crop rotation, or they don't know about even the most basic military tactics, or they haven't thought of using spices and sugar for cooking despite both of those being for sale in their shops, or they don't eat rice, potatoes or eggs for some reason, despite growing these plants and having chickens around...)...

What is more, the natives are often quick to mistake the Japanese for messengers of God/the gods, even if they have real magic of their own...

Everything from Japan is seen with awe... japanese food is perceived as heavenly (despite many real life foreigners not liking it that much), japanese girls who were called "dull" or "boring" or "plain" back in Japan suddenly become popular and desired, and teenagers who learned kendo as members of a high school club are able to beat warriors who have spent their whole lives training for war and have fought in real wars and killed people...

The Japanese are able to build stuff like automatic firearms, engines...etc., using just their high school level knowledge.

Girls become willing sex slaves for the MC because he patted their head when they were crying or something like that...

As for female isekai, young, powerful, charismatic, handsome men suddenly become willing to sacrifice wealth, home, reputation, social position, family and former lovers just to protect the MC, despite having met them once, for like two minutes...

MCs come only in two flavors: Edgelords who hate Humanity and want to unleash a horrible revenge, or doormats who will do anything they are told.

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And despite everything I said, I enjoy reading them... It's a guilty pleasure, like eating burgers... It helps that I like D&D and that I tend to read them as permutations of the same story... like "I wonder what will the MC do this time..."; I tend to read them for free and go through them in a single day, not going back to them again, because most of the time I am interested only in what spin the author will try this time, not on the story itself...