Japanese literature sure is scrapping the bottom of the barrel now aren't they

Japanese literature sure is scrapping the bottom of the barrel now aren't they.

>As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. So when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of dragons and magic, he's a little disappointed to find he's become a blind, boneless slime monster.

>Mikami's middle age hasn't gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he's disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he's not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero...

It pretty much the norm when i comes to isekai.

>light novels
>literature

Is this the new isekai thread?
I'm reading "release the witch", it's pretty great.

Sounds super interesting.

The manga is at least better than the webnovel its based on.

>As players of Monster Hunter
There are no slimes in Monster Hunter.

they are making this into an anime no?

>New Hachinan chapter
>MC finally has his wedding
>Has bridal night with each girl 5 nights in a row
>Maid is forced to listen in as a custom

What a nice read into a new year.

I don't think that it has an anime announcement.
They're doing Arifureta, though.

I mean there is slimeblight. And khezu are kind of like slimes....

Not good enough.

I get that he's boneless and shit, but why does he have to be blind? What's the point of being isekai'd if you don't even have all your senses in tact?

When your book is titled "That Time I Got Reincarnated as Slime" and the Slime itself is the most boring part of the plot, you have some serious issues.

>Monster Hunter
>slimes

Obey the call of the faceless lord.

>implying westernshit is better
Kill yourself.

HAD to be blind.

>Character Designs by Mitz Vah
jews have invaded Japan's last market finally

>Monster Hunter
>Slime

Are you trying to correct me or something?

sauce?

Dude. Look up I got reincarnated as a hot springs.

>now
You're years late, you fucking EOP. At the very least, this one is amusing unlike blatant fanservice like We need to kill whoever wrote this synopsis.

What would Sup Forums like to see in its ideal isekai?

Better writers.

Hood niggas.

No idea what tripfag's going on about, but slimes don't have eyes, unless they're from DQ and shit. The typical slime is just a massive "cell" membrane with a nucleus/core.

>What's the point of being isekai'd if you don't even have all your senses in tact?
That's the joke, but the problem is solved relatively quickly. Go read the first 4 chapters of the manga if you want your answer, faggot.

Let me know when it gets a manga. I have a pretty short attention span these days. Cant get into anything without a graphical depiction being illustrated.

>chinese novel
>manga
Surely you jestin'

talk about light novels on /jp/

How about an Isekai with no powers, literally just a regular dude with no cheats. He makes it through with a bit of wit and luck.

One with lots of worldbuilding and politics.

>>As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters.
Stopped reading. DnD slimes are terrifying, DQ is the reason that they aren't corrosive, nigh-impossible-to-kill abominations.

That sounds retarded. Don't you know that every other world than our own operates on JRPG logic?

How far would he go? Just a city or a small country, or would he try to realpolitik his way to world domination?

>Dungeons & Dragons
>slimes are common and weak
That's not fucking true, shit japanese video games made that trope. Slimes and gelatinous cubes in D&D are extremely deadly.

It's a LIGHT NOVEL
a LIGHT novel

LIGHT novel

do you understand yet?

a LIGHT novel. they are written for children between the ages of 12 and 17. and here you are, in your late 20s-early 30s, complaining about them

WH40k

This is an an isekai thread. lsekai is not exclusive to certain media formats ie light novels or mangas.

>Immediately gets apprehended and executed by the Inquisition for being a dimensional traveler

Something akin to Nobunaga no Chef?

>Monster Hunter
>Slimes

Pull a Drifters and have famous historical figures be isekai'd instead of a random Japanese teenagers maybe? Only keep the number of isekai'd people low so they don't steal the entire show. Make the story about the impact the figure has on the world instead of fighting Jesus.

What is the particular ordos for multiverse stuff?

Here, His cheat is useless in the situation that he has to rely on his wit and diplomacy. He isn't the MC though.

>otaku bait
>literature

I expect high quality vore porn out of this, else I will be dissapointed.

The only good Isekai are the comedy ones.

Yeah I agree with this. While I don't particularly find Drifters the best anime to have utilized this type of isekai, it was still very enjoyable in its premise.

I just really enjoy whenever anime shows take characters from history/legend and use them. LIke the fate series. It just really interests me for some reason.

One day I hope for a Drifters-type show... But like, you know, better.

slime lover

12 Kingdoms was pretty close already.

Who wins in a fight, smartphone Jesus or slime monster?

The exact same premise already exists in hentai manga's anyway. Look up Slime Lover.

I remember that series. It had the biggest asspull in all of Isekei.

I'd love to see a quality adaptation that does Akihiro Yamadas art justice in a similar way to Saraiya no Goyou. The story and world building is some of the best but the anime just doesn't do it justice.

>As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters.
You talking shit about my nigga here?

>I'm reading "release the witch"
you're just getting into that now?

>isekai thread
any recently translated ln/wn series come out that are good? Recent as in the last three months
Any recent rrl series that are good?

We always discuss LN & manga adaptations, but never fine, flashy VNs.

The only isekai VNs I know of are Muv-Luv Alternative, Eien no Aselia, Duel Savior, and Koihime Musou.

You get persecuted discussing VN since that isn't Sup Forums. I miss my washing machine

what are Sup Forums thoughts on tondemo skill de Isekai ?
it feels pretty comfy and isn't filled with softcore porn

Why would he even fuck a prostitute in an isekai without any healing magic. Think of the stds

Room for what purpose?

Probably for a sense of progression, these kinds of stories will eventually (usually pretty quickly) give them some kind of replacement sense that is as good as, or better then sight. Ironically being reincarnated as a slime is not a original story.

Hand holding and counting the stains at the ceiling

Disgusting.

This guy is pretty good too.

>some girl will actually fall for a fucking slime
Now this is beyond pathetic.

So same as anime eh? Sup Forums should get nuked.

>implying there's no people here who would fall for a slimegirl

That's different though. Just look at the cover of that LN. He's literally just a blob.

That series actually does something a bit interesting with the fated girl, though.

he quickly turns into a genderless figure

Its an honest work user. Please don't diss the common working class folk

He can tell which whores have STD's or not thanks to cliche appraisal.

i like this art

It's hard for me to define a ideal isekai because different isekai have different appeal. I suppose my ideal isekai story is one that draws me in on a interesting premise, then builds on the world, characters and story with some solid writing then tops it all off with a nice weekly update schedual.

We can skip the Isekai part too. Straight up fantasy is fine. Lately I'm really enjoying The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring. The writing is pretty good, the premise is fairly interesting with a fantasy setting magic soldier program run by the church as the openning background for the main character then it moves into the MC progressing through a military. The characters are fun and while it isn't a chapter every week, each chapter is meaty and long, so the existing 38 chapters is quite a lot.

The key thing for all web novels and light novels is to catch your attention though. I've read COMPLETE shit on a interesting premise before. Usually I'll give it a while to get settled into it's rhythm before dropping a shit title, if only to see if it improves or builds on it's premise. Often the worst isekai set up a interesting idea, then immediately drop anything negative or inconvenient about it. Those are the worst.

I had a lot of fun with early Kumo (web novel version) the writing isn't great, but the premise of the MC being reincarnated as a literal spider was fun and the first person perspective and attitude from the main character made it work.

I don't think people expect too much from Isekai writing. We are pleasantly surprised if the writing is 'good', mostly I don't expect much from the writing and I'm there to see how the idea plays out, maybe get some guilty pleasure from the fantasy involved.

>12 Kingdoms
I liked that one of the isekai'ed students had a modern revolver and 6 bullets, but couldn't produce more bullets and died in his first fight because he didn't know how to aim.

>he thinks LNs are Japanese literature

Japanese escapist fiction is scrapping the bottom the barrel, No Longer Human is just a narration of the author's life!

Could Hemmingway pass as a light-novel?

>Not human
Purge
>Dimensional Traveler
Purge
>Involved with magic
Purge
>Affected by magic
Purge
>Wearing strange clothes
Purge, probably
>Having a religion beyond "for the Emperor"
Purge
Mr. Isekai gonna die and die quickly.

Why the fuck does Isekai have to be in a fantasy/sci-fi world? Or a power fantasy? I mean, read Alice in Wonderland. I would like something that plays with the idea of an Isekai, like an adaptation of Don Quixote (the word itself is far more intreasting then every Isekai combained). I just would like a serious work of art that explores themes of 'another world', which are so enticing in the word Isekai itself.


should we compile a list of Isekai classic literature?

>guy travels to middle-ages
>he is just a free-man carpenter living in Paris
>has a little wealth, not bad off
>no battles, no knights (unless there just so happens to be one in town), no sieges and no going up the feudal ladder quickly
>instead it revolves around personal drama within the family, marriages and the religious lives of the characters
>the family becomes slowly richer, through marriages and goes up to have a higher social status then before. Tragedy happens after a scandel, and then the family ends up poorer then ever before - while still grabbing on to their freedom.
>last ep's are about the financial struggles of the MC, and his efforts to make the family name survive.
>all the while the MC is engrossed in the religion and philosphy of the Middle-Ages

most likely Hereticus since it will be assumed that you are chaos scum

>isekai haters complain isekai/time travel is completely irrelevant to the plot after 1st chapter
>historyfags complain this and that and everything else was not like that in real life
>other readers complain it's boring and pointless drama

I adore the art. Also fun and comfy story.

So the French equivalent of one of the many Chinese historical isekais?

Holy fucking elf titty milk bags, picked up.

Being isekai'd into a big dick ogre, and fucking to death villainous girls.

You'd have better luck with pic related.

Chapters.

I don't think I can deal with another 30 chapter, one a month then nothing isekai.

>now
Isn't slime quite old already?
I know people talked about it about the same as Kumo desu ga

Then why not get a historian on the team? If there is an actual good writer then it may turn out something more like the Sound and the Fury or The Mirror rather then Scum’s Wish, if I directed the the show I would make it as art-house as fuck.

Do customers ever wander out into city outside of his restaurant?

My weak spot for cooking series makes me unable to hate this. This art is a special touch.

Until his fated girl dies and he assumes her genderless form

>elves

I hate when the MC is some OP fuck who doesn't even need to try. At that point, I lose interest.