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It seems like every manga or anime adaption nowadays are isekais with absurdly long titles. As someone who hasn't read that much manga for the past few years but just started again, it's kinda crazy to see all these pop up. Are there actually any good ones out there? Or are most of them just "guilty pleasures"? The only one I've been reading is Ascendance of a Bookworm which is kinda interesting.

Edit: got a lot of recs, thanks everyone :)

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[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So basically everything with a long ass title comes from the long ass title LN era. The TLDR is it became difficult to hook people on your book so they'd buy it so authors/publishers/whoever decided to more or less put the entire plot summary as the title. A good example is That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. Lot of these are actually quite old, from what I understand titles are less stupid nowadays.

Far as good isekai go Konosuba is definitely on the list, as well as the other 3 Quartet members (Re:Zero, Overlord, Tanya the Evil) plus Shield Hero though the story after the primary arc has so far been quite lackluster, also the season 2 adaptation is pretty crummy. I've also found The Eminence in Shadow very enjoyable, Cid is a very Ainz type stumbles into success type character which I quite like.

If I had to chose specifically a long ass title isekai it'd have to be Tensura (that slime one from earlier) which I liked enough to read um everything. I've read the LNs, WN, Manga, Diaries spinoff, Clayman spinoff, Rabbit spinoff, and the Trinity spinoff. You could say I enjoy it quite a bit. The core of Tensura is not a battle anime but more along the lines of a city builder. You get to watch Rimuru slowly build a city, run into silly isekai problems and have fun isekai fights but really truly Tensura is about yapping. That's not to say there aren't good fights (though 8bit has kind of been slacking off when it comes to adapting them so far...) it's just don't go into it expecting your typical battle Shonen type shit. They fight sometimes but frankly speaking Fuse the author isn't very good at writing fight scenes. It gets especially bad once the power scaling gets a bit out of hand where it's pretty much just "Oh you've resisted my instant death move, that's a shame I'll have to use my instant death move V2 then haha!" "Impossible! How did you defend against my instant death move V2??" "Hmm yes it's a shame, but, I have an immunity to death, you can only kill me with battle will..." and then they sword fight or whatever for awhile and one of them wins because they have more existence points. Being a bit dramatic but they get extremely samey after should be season 5? if we get that far

Edit: oop. I thought I was on the anime thread I guess. Scrolled down a bit and saw what appeared to be a copy of this same post which is when I noticed, oh well. I've read at the very least the Manga for everything I talked about lol

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Great explanation and recs! Sounds great. I think I was thrown off Tensura because of the fact that being reincarnated as a slime sounded too ridiculous (but I guess not as ridiculous as the ones where they reincarnate as a vending machine).

[–] PrincessKadath@ani.social 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not one to talk, since majority of stuff I read is otome isekai...

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Same. It is a thing because people read it. I do not think I have a quality filter, but I do have a finely-honed "will I enjoy it?" filter. And a lot of isekai passes it, so I read. Wonder how much of the backlash to it is

  • genre fatigue: too much of it at all!
  • genre is genuinely full of bad ones

also, !otomeisekai@lemmy.world exists and is very dead. I tried to reactivate it for a bit when my kbin.run account still worked, before the server went down. I'd be happy to try again if you want to too—even if it is just you and me yelling at each other.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes it just takes 1 or 2 people yelling at each other, as long as new posts appear preferably daily, or at least a couple times a week.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

daily

I am kind of surprised. Communities with daily posts tend to be overwhelming if I have some communities posting a few times a week, so I've personally been sticking to a few times a week for posting. Good to know that some people actually want daily and that maybe that would be an actual growth strategy, instead of something that would make people feel spammed and thus something to purposely avoid doing. Genuinely, thanks for the advice. I'm just me and sometimes I guess incorrectly at how other people would feel.

(For something big like Gaming or Books or Anime I know to expect a few posts per day, just by sheer amount of people participating, but for NicheTitle I'd expect a few per week.)

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

A lot of people just use the "All" feed on their server, or a big server like .world, to find new content, because Lemmy doesn't have a recommendation algorithm (and thankfully not).

I do that occasionally too, to find new and interesting /c's.

I also crosspost and make references to http://ani.social/c/anime to spread the word that it exists and is the best anime community in Lemmy-space. (see what I did there?)

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 1 points 6 days ago

I keep forgetting I seem to be in the minority by refusing to touch c/All, thanks for letting me to know that the "daily" strategy captures what is probably the majority who will use c/All.

I do the same thing about referencing my communities, !otomegames@ani.social and !bunnies@lemmy.world with a link relevant, but thanks for the tip.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If you like ecchi, the genre actually has seen a renaissance thanks to isekai mangas and are able to get away with much worse stuff nowadays compared to before, but in anime it's the opposite since they get censored to hell and back.

For guilty pleasures, Reincarnation Coliseum is the one I'm liking the most alongside Isekai Koushoku Musou Roku.

For normal stuff, Isekai Apocalypse MYNOGHRA, an isekai to a world that's suspiciously familiar to players of Heroes of Might and Magic, some nice war tactics and politics.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago

Some isekai manga/manwha I enjoy:

  1. Yakuza Reincarnation
  2. Villain Are Destined To Die
  3. Beware The Villainess.
  4. Fate/Type: Redline (to the past rather than fantasy world)
  5. The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
  6. In The Land Of Leadale
  7. A Witch's Printing Office
  8. I Was Reborn and Became a High Elf, but I Got Tired of My Slow Life after 120 Years

For some of these I have to wonder if they really just wanted a fantasy manga, but had to make it isekai as a hook by the publisher or something.

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 4 points 6 days ago

"Good" is subjective. What's your criteria for good?

[–] chronotron@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

red ranger isekai

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 6 days ago

I am enjoying the manhwa Hero Has Returned, aka The Warrior Returns, as a deconstruction of the isekai genre for tragedy.