Hate isekai because it utterly ruins the self consistency and causality of a world unless done really carefully and limits your ability to handwave stuff; because it implies the meachnics or history and development of an adapted form of the real world.
Worst case - shit like rezero --- Magical world with supermen but even so physics are somehow just right that a cellular device just works, and honestly the bigger deal that a normie human works normally in superman world?
(Part of that is also why I hate modernscience slop in fiction like the cells in naruto)
Even in the best casw like AoaB, with reincarnation you mean to imply that this world with germanic-roman names created by gods with germanic-roman names somehow had language develop so finely that it mirrors both the phonology and meaning in another world in the universe?
Isn't an issue in non isekai because rw isnt implied so yeah it just happened tk be like that and since everythjng is equally likely that makes sense and not that two seperate worlds somehow underwent the same linguistic developments? (Not to meantion humans existing and lookong normal)
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@meeper@udongein.xyz A lot about isekai feels very lazy to me. Like you said, it's just too convenient that things in this different world are still fundamentally similar so that the protagonist has a pretty easy time to adapt. It's basically only a device to have a narrator who shares your knowledge and understanding of the world and inadvertently "translates" everything going on for the reader/watcher.
Part of my motivation to try making an isekai comic myself is to see if I can make one that isn't lazy in this way, but it's certainly a challenge.
@icedquinn@blob.cat @meeper@udongein.xyz Yes, I'm still figuring out how to strike a good balance.
@icedquinn@blob.cat @meeper@udongein.xyz Hell, just getting the basic setup right is hard. In my mind, if you get reborn as a dragon, it's not only physically impossible for you to talk, but your brain doesn't even know how to understand and form words. But you still need narration to explain what's going on. Third-person sounds too distanced and I'd prefer an unreliable narrator, but with first-person you easily end up with something that sounds like an internal monologue. My current solution is to use past tense to avoid the latter problem, but I'm not sure if I'm happy with it.