Are the anime/manga audience that PATHETIC?

Why are there so many goddam isekai (other/alternative world) anime/manga. Are the anime/manga audience so pathetic that they so desperately need an escape fantasy to run away from their failure of a life?

ALL isekai stories are like this:
"One day this NEET/otaku/loser/failure/drop-out/piece-of-shit/lazy/fat/poor guy (just like our audience) gets killed by a bus and gets re-incarinated (in a younger body) to a RPG fantasy world where he uses his previous life memories to become super duper awesome cool! Not to mention girls just flock to him!"

Absolutely disgusting. Absolutely pathetic. The story is so poor and generic, but they are so popular.

MUSHOKU TENSEI - ISEKAI ITTARA HONKI DASU
A 34-years-old NEET otaku is chased out from his house by his family. Unattractive and penniless, he finds that he has reached a dead end in life and realizes that his life actually could have been much better if he had made better choices in the past. Just when he was at the point of regret, he saw a truck moving at a fast speed straight towards three high schoolers in its path. Mustering all the strength he had, he tried to save them and ended up getting run over by the truck, quickly ending his life. The next time he opened his eyes, he was already reincarnated into a world of sword and magic as Rudeus Greyrat. Born to a new world, a new life, Rudeus decided that, "This time, I'll really live my life to the fullest with no regret!" Thus, starts the journey of a man yearning to restart his life.

OVERLORD
Our protagonist Momonga decided to stay until the last moment in his beloved game and wait for the force logout. Unexpectedly, the server did not shut down and Momonga is stuck in his skeleton body and got transferred to another world. "The powerful Overlord" needs now to discover a new world and face the continuous challenges. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary man strives to take over the new world the game has become.

DEATH MARCH KARA HAJIMARU ISEKAI KYOUSOUKYOKU
29-year-old programmer Suzuki Ichirou finds himself transported into a fantasy RPG. Within the game, he's a 15-year-old named Satou. At first he thinks he's dreaming, but his experiences seem very real. Due to his use of a 3-time-use special power (meteor shower), he ends up wiping out an army of lizardmen and becoming very high level. He hides his level and plans to live peacefully and meet new people, though developments in the game story (like the return of a demon king) might get in his way.

TATE NO YUUSHA NO NARIAGARI
Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction.

RELIFE
Kaizaki Arata is a 27-year-old, out-of-work man who has failed at each and every job interview he has had after quitting his last company where he only lasted three months. His life changes after he meets Yoake Ryou of the ReLife Research Institute, who offers him a drug that can change his appearance to that of a 17-years-old again. Taking the drug, he becomes a subject in a one-year experiment in which he begins his life as a high school student again.

WORLD CUSTOMIZE CREATOR
Tagami Yusuke, led by a mysterious voice, is summoned to another world, "Caltsio". He was just a young video-game lover, but Fate decided to make him become the "Evil God of Calamity" of this world, obtaining the ability to create and customize everything, Customize Creation.

RE:MONSTER
Omokui Kanata has been re-incarnated in the weakest goblin, named Rou, after having undergone an unfortunate death. However goblin Rou has retained his previous life's memories, an unusual evolution, as well as becoming strong enough to gain status boosts from eating.

KEKKON YUBIWA MONOGATARI
Satou has been in love with his childhood friend and neighbour, Hime, ever since she and her grandfather appeared out of nowhere 10 years ago. Now a dazzling, yet mysterious high-school beauty, she makes it more and more difficult for him to confess his feelings. As the anniversary of their first meeting is nearing, will he muster up his courage to transform their friendsip into something more? Or will an entirely different fate await this tightly bonded pair?

CHOUJIN KOUKOUSEI-TACHI WA ISEKAI DEMO YOYUU DE IKINUKU YOU DESU!
7 high school students that got caught in an airplane accident wake up, in a middle age like fantasy different world where magic and beast-man (juujin) exist. But they do not panic at their current situation!? They build a nuclear plant in a world without electricity, they control the economy of a large city in a short work's trip, and finally for their benefactor's sake who are suffering from the misgoverment, they declare war on the evil nobles.

ISEKAI HOUTEI -REBUTTAL BARRISTER-
Yuuto Shiba is a 29-year old who, despite his desire to be a barrister, is a complete failure of a man. In a fit of drunkenness, he gets hit by a truck and dies. In the afterlife, he is brought into the world of Luanolde, and is tasked with implementing Japanese law into the country's court systems.

ISEKAI MAHOU WA OKURETERU!
Isekai Mahou wa Okuretru follows a young magician named Felmenia Stingray who happens upon a young man who had been imprisoned for refusing to help the Hero defeat the demon king after being summoned (mostly accidentally) into the strange world.

ISEKAI MAOU TO SHOUKAN SHOUJO DOREI MAJUTSU
Sakamoto Takuma boasted an overwhelming strength that was enough for him to be called the Demon King by the other players. One day, he gets summoned to another world with his appearance in the game. There, there are two people that insist, “I am the real summon master.” Takuma gets slave-turning magic used for summoned beasts cast on him by the girls – However, the peculiar ability {Magic Reflection} was invoked! The ones that were turned to slaves were the girls!

Thanks for the recs.

ISEKAI SHIHAI NO SKILL TAKER: ZERO KARA HAJIMERU DOREI HAREM
Konoe Yuuto is a genius martial artist who is summoned to a different world where slave trading is legal. There, using his "Skill Taker" cheat ability, he steals the abilities of monsters he defeats, and starts building a slave harem while hoping to live a carefree life after retirement.

ISEKAI YAKKYOKU
A young pharmacologist and researcher in Japan died from overworking, and was reincarnated in a Medieval Parallel Europe. He was reincarnated as a 10-year-old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, had attained an inhuman skills of ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction. Thus the boy pharmacist will cheat by using his previous knowledge to create innovative medicines while helping the people of the parallel world, a story about living his new life to the fullest this time.

KOU 1 DESU GA ISEKAI DE JOUSHU HAJIMEMASHITA
Accidentaly summoned by an ancient map, first year high school student, Kiyokawa Hiroto is forced by the arrogant Lord of the castle to exterminate the vampire that has been haunting his castle. Unexpectedly befriending a girl from Mummy tribe, Hiroto skillfully managed to capture the Vampire with her help.

MONDAIJITACHI GA ISEKAI KARA KURU SOU DESU YO?
Izayoi Sakamaki, Asuka Kudou, and You Kasugabe have tremendous psychic powers and are bored with the regular world. An envelope arrives for each person, and when each opens their envelope, they are stunned to see the scenery around them change to a world they had never encountered before. They've been summoned by the Black Rabbit to help the community "No Name" to overthrow the Devil King.

ORE TO KAWAZU-SAN NO ISEKAI HOUROUKI
Tarou was just an ordinary university student until a strange old magician summoned him to another world. Upon learning that his newly acquired magical power is 8 million (8 million more powerful than an average magician), he uses his abnormally powerful magic to revive the old man that caused all this... in the form of a frog.

TAKARAKUJI DE 40-OKU ATATTANDAKEDO ISEKAI NI IJUU SURU
Kazura was selected as the winner on a lottery that he bought on a whim, and received 4,000,000,000 (billion) yen. To evade the hyenas that smelled the scent of his money, Kazura took refuge at an old residence that had been handed down from generation to generation in his family. When Kazura was investigating the place that would become his shelter, he stumbled on a certain room where it was possible to go into and back from another world. The culture and technology level of that world was relatively low. The protagonist sometimes brought goods, sometimes brought technological knowledge. At that world, he would find his true value as a person.

TSUKI GA MICHIBIKU ISEKAI DOUCHUU
High school student Misumi Makoto is called into a fantasy world by the god Tsukuyomi, in order to be a hero. However, powerful others in this world aren't as thrilled to have him there, and they kick him to the edge of the world just as Tsukuyomi declares that he must leave Makoto to find his own way. Now it's up to Makoto to find his own way!

BLADE PLAY
Whilst searching for porn on the internet Sudo Kansuke, a 20-year-old university student, gets sucked into an RPG world called Munberdia. He is the chosen hero who carries the sword of light. Only the sword of light is not what you would expect.

KENJA NO MAGO
A young man who had surely died in an accident, was reborn in another world as a baby! After that, he was picked up by the patriot hero "Sage" Merlin Wolford and was given the name Shin. He was raised as a grandson by Merlin and soaked up Merlin's teachings earning him some shocking power however, when he became 15 his grandfather Merlin said: "I forgot to teach him common sense".

TENSEI SHITARA SLIME DATTA KEN
A man is stabbed by a robber on the run after pushing his coworker and his coworker's new fiance out of the way. As he lays dying, bleeding on the ground, he hears a voice. This voice is strange and interprets his dying regret of being a virgin by giving him the [Great Sage] unique skill! Is he being made fun of?

TENSEISHA WA CHEAT O NOZOMANAI
Mira peacefully resided in a magical world until a blow to the head caused her to partially remember her previous life in Japan. The protagonists in reincarnation stories always end up having to deal with trouble, which is the last thing she wants. Alas what awaited her was the selection exam for a magic academy and naturally(?) her special cheat ability was discovered then. A fantastical tale of a reincarnated girl who doesn't want any cheats.

TENSEISHICHATTA YO (IYA, GOMEN)
After a god screws up and accidentally takes high schooler Shou's life, he offers him reincarnation with a gift to make up for it. Shou asks to retain all his old memories for the new life. Shou is reborn as Will, a noble's son in a world where magic use is common and involves knowledge of kanji characters. With all his memories, he's a brilliant toddler, and when he experiments with magic, he finds that he has an amazing talent for it! What's more, though he was smart but unloved in his old life, in his new life he has a mother and a father who both love him deeply. His future as Will is looking very bright!

GRIMORE X REVERSE - TENSEI KISHIN ROUMANTAN
Inside a medium-boss room of an RPG game that he played again and again until he can get there with his eyes closed. Waiting for a hero, a demon who exists only to be defeated, got his former life memory revived. Knowing that, in his previous life, he was a nothing-special college student- Continuing to stay as a to-be-defeated mid-boss is a no.

GUNOTA GA MAHOU SEKAI NI TENSEI SHITARA, GENDAI HEIKI DE GUNTAI HAREM O TSUKUCCHAIMASHITA!?
Hotta Youta is killed while returning home from work on a cold evening. He wakes up being carried by a bunny-eared woman! Featuring Reincarnation, Guns and Harem, its a Gun vs Magic Story that gives Hotta Youta a new life... and an edge!

JARYUU TENSEI
The story is about a guy who died due to a car crash because of a young couple making out (what bad luck!) And he was reincarnated into a fantasy world - but as a dragon! An extremely funny and powerful one! Let's see how our unlucky main character lives as a badass dragon!?

JINROU E NO TENSEI, MAOU NO FUKUKAN
Reincarnated to a werewolf magician, the Protagonist Vyett was instated as the vice head of the Demon Lord’s third brigade force. Occupying a remote market town, he was entrusted to management and defense. As a former human, born a monster, I can understand the sentiments of both sides well enough. Because of that, those around seem to think I’m a man of wisdom, or something of the like, but it’s really just one trouble after the next.

>ALL
>I have only watched 5 anime in my life, please rape my face

>ALL isekai stories are like this: "One day this NEET/otaku/loser/failure/drop-out/piece-of-shit/lazy/fat/poor guy (just like our audience) gets killed by a bus and gets re-incarinated (in a younger body) to a RPG fantasy world where he uses his previous life memories to become super duper awesome cool! Not to mention girls just flock to him!"

The protagonist of Youjo Senki was a successful, normal person. Don't be a retard with hyperbole.

MY GOD

Did we just discover that anime/manga is used for ESCAPISM by people who don't like their real lives?!

PREPOSTEROUS?!

I've never heard of such a ridiculous thing. Begone! Begone and cease spreading your filthy lies!

/sarcasm

>ALL
I dunno, Log Horizon off the top of my head? A lot of them were successful businessmen, carpenters, college students, etc.

I think it's more pathetic to be upset over the trends in a small part of a foreign industry.

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I agree with him. Building up your life around an immature hobby, spending ridiculous amounts of time on it is not healthy.

Fuck off. You're only saying that because it's anime, nobody says this to people who dedicate large amounts of their time around more socially acceptable hobbies.

No shit.

I would say it.

I mean, if you actively reduce your social contact and productivity in order to engage in huge amounts of, say, stamp collecting, I'd say that's pretty harmful and pathetic too.

You've got one life on this planet, and spending it on collecting my little pony figurines or making rail transport models is kind of a waste.

If you want to spend such huge amount of time and attention on a hobby at least make sure it's a creative one. Make things, don't just consume/collect them.

But to each their own I guess.

LN fags tell you the trend for the next 4 years, anime/ manga fags completely ignore and consider LN threads not Sup Forums material.

I'm glad the wave hit you fags as hard as it did. They aren't even LN tier, just straight Web to manga adaptions. Every annoyed user by Isekai is just another pleb in my eyes, the Isekai just replaced the magic academy with armoured suits trope we've had for ages.

You don't belong here at all, and aren't welcome.

Good. I just drop buy form time to time to see how bad this place has gotten.

There's no point in cursing at the victims. Anybody who does that is a useless virtue signalling jerk who will never lift a finger to correct what's wrong.

Use this time to learn English.

Great thread.

You don't have to watch anime or read manga 24/7 (like you do) to be on Sup Forums.

>RELIFE
That's not isekai, you shitposting neet

Yes

Anyone read Legendary Moonlight Sculptor ?

Every (and I actually mean EVERY) fictional story, in every medium ever, is escapism. One's quality of life is irrelevant.
The Bible is probably the best example of escapism of all time
>your life is shit? Don't worry, just wait until your death and then you'll reach eternal bliss.

But to answer your question, the manga audience is way too wide and diverse in Japan, there is no "typical manga reader" over there, just like there's no "typical book reader" in the west or anywhere else. The anime and LN audience is usually thought to be made up of NEETs, obsessive otakus and so on, but then again grouping up every anime fan in one category is also incorrect.

>immature
Define mature.

>You've got one life on this planet
>If you want to spend such huge amount of time and attention on a hobby at least make sure it's a creative one. Make things, don't just consume/collect them.
How are those things I should make going to affect me when I'm dead? I agree obsessing over something can negatively affect life over time, but cutting off all social contact to devote yourself to woodworking is just as bad as watching anime all day, every day.

>RE:MONSTER

My nigger.