What is the worst Isekai you've watched?

What is the worst Isekai you've watched?
Hard mode: No Re:Zero

Death March for me, it has to be the most generic formulaic isekai ever, I may end up dropping it at this rate and I hate doing that.

>Grimgar
>bad

Log Horizon, the premise is good but the execution is terrible. It's worse than SAO

you either have only watched like 2 isekai or your taste is irredeemably shit.

>le generic boring copypasted mc
Yeah, it's shit.

>Grimgar
>worst isekai

Imagine having taste this bad.

the whole genre is shit

Grimgar was probably one of the few good ones.

And GATE is probably the worst I've watched, although I'm not sure if it counts.

welcome to anime

i just recently started this one so i'm curious what exactly makes it so bad?

seems fairly more grounded and less of a "transported here and now i'm basically god" than the other shit that plagues the genre

>Grimgar
>bad
Shit taste, senpai. By the way, the worst I've ever seen was SAO.

Grimgar. Terrible pacing + music CD advertisement = utter shit. Also "muh manato".

I think gate was worse than re zero, but re zero is definitely one of the worst

zero no tsukaima is also really bad, gives gate a run for its money

>zero no tsukaima
Can it be bad if it was the origin of 'shitty' isekai?

The first shitty isekai anime was escaflowne though.

the first shitty isekai in general was narnia

>i just recently started this one
Keep watching, it's not bad.

Though I dropped it about 3/4 in.

Grimgar was great though, pic must not be related there OP.

>The first shitty isekai anime was escaflowne though.
first off: if you think that escaflowne is shit you clearly suffer from a mental disability. second: escaflowned wasnt the first isekai anime by a longshot.

What was wrong with Re:Zero?

I've only read Faraway Paladin and watched Overlord, which are both fine. So I can't say I've watched or experienced shitty isekai.

its not everyone's cup of tea (probably because they have shit taste)

the anime adaption is complete shit in how it purposely discards parts of the story plus on top of the fact Re:Zero is a story where alot of the stuff happens inside Subaru's head with his thoughts and monologues which the anime cannot show due to it being anime, the actual source source material is really good compared to other isekei though

I really enjoyed the anime but have yet to read the WN. Should I?

Grimgar was far from the worst, it wasn't the best ever made, good scenery and art fairly average story though

>being this stupid

learn some reading comprehension first amerifat

MC is a faggot. Maybe if he was an interesting or likable character I would like RE:Zero

so youre saying that leda, el hazard or dunbine for example were better than escaflowne? again, you clearly seem to suffer from a mental disability.

I'm offended by your pic OP. Grimgar was off the chain.

There was quite a bit left out of Arc 3 (whale and village) by the anime and even the manga (which decided to copy the anime 1:1) but I was able to make jump right afterwards. It’s a pretty rough jump straight from anime to WN because simply how much is lost by adapting it twice. And also the anime cutting out the ending of the arc.

You should, but be prepared since Arc 4 is the longest and also slowest paced Arc. If you don’t like it you could just stop reading.

yeah if he was a total chad XD and had a actual good ability it would be a good animes

why didn't he just go to adventure guild lol

>good scenery
Sure

Most people agree that Subaru is one of the biggest if not the biggest anime faggot of the last 5-6 years.

i see exceptionally detailed backgrounds and a nice butt. what point are you triyng to make?

>SAO.
It had too many leaps in logic to give it a pass. Kirito is a lazy faggot that got everything handed to him. Kirito should be dead, but his plot-armor was too strong and his nerve-gear decided not to bake his brain like a potato when h clearly died in the game.

Every Isekai MC is like that.

FACTS.

>nice backgrounds
>nice ass
why can't we get more shows like this? Why is it always a choice of either a nice ass or a nice background, when one complements the other?

People actually think grimgar was bad?
The worst one I've seen is SAO.

ZnT is fantastic. It low quality and full of cliches but its the epitome of bad but good early 2000 anime.

Not Korean or Chinese isekai.

Koreans MC are usually normal sociable people. They often use their new life to find purpose or do cool shit they couldn't do in their past life or world.

Chinese MC are OP and use their strength as justice. They create harems by raping unwilling women and kill anyone who dares go against them. Power-levels are often worse than DBZ could ever hope to be.

why all the hate on isekai anime i dont watch gay porn because i dont like watching 2 man having sex . Dont watch anime you dont like and then trash talking it grow the fuck up...... anime community really are full of retarder

Gate started off looking pretty cool. The premise actually seemed amazing. Then I watched for a few minutes.

But imagine if its writing and story emphasis were good! With lots of political/humanitarian bullshit interactions, tough choices, and some actual internal consistency for its systems (magic vs tech) it had potential. Unfortunately, that would take good writing though. Definitely worse than Grimgar, and than SAO, despite having the best premise for a couple minutes there. There's a ton of generic Isekai with more in the works so I'm not sure Gate is quite at the bottom of that impressively large barrel.

SAO was really bad. I didn't like Grimgar, either, but the new priest girl they got along the way after they let their own priest get rekt by goblins made up for it. Also Yume's ass and cake teacher

I'd pin it as an above average Isekai (there's a lot of trash that's not even mentioned here, sub-Tsukaima stuff). MC development is probably the biggest issue, it's choppy. I give props to that series for not manifesting an overwhelming superhero MC to prance around with weak conflict at best though, and for the way it screws with its characters. It's not perfect but its conflicts are still much better than most Isekai.

You haven't found the low bar yet. Get out your shovel, start digging, and you'll get down to "in another world with my smartphone". That one is so bad I'd probably rewatch the second half of SAO 1 again over it.

Worse is that there's quite a few that are essentially the same, death march is also like that...most others don't have anime adaptations yet. Nor should they, but apparently the standards aren't high.

> The most hated MC
> Generic

Death March and the smartphone one. Insta super OP MC, no real conflict, loose story if any. They're basically the same thing, and Grimgar doesn't deserve being in that tier. It has some character development, story progression, and world building. It's not amazing but you're not watching fanfic levels of power fantasy with no story.

Death March is such a comfy novel, with good world building. The manga and anime are trash though.

so why is it called death march anyway

To memorialize the bataan death march

Nah mate. The LN and WN are trash as well.

MC got isekai'd during a death march / crunch time at work

It needs more Liza. The LN and manga change too much, and the anime is even worse.

I don't think log horizon was fun to watch by any means, but I think you're taking it a little too far with that

While we're here, can someone recommend me a good one? Enjoyed Grimgar and re:zero. Also sat through the entirety of SAO and Konosuba, so I have high tolerance for shit

I know you've been informed of your shit taste already, but I'd just like to reinforce it. You have shit taste

Grimgar was a great deconstruction. Re:Zero was fine. I like them both. SAO is a dead horse. Log Horizon was boring overall but it was well thought out and had good ideas. Smartphone is probably the worst one I've watched. I had a giggle with it like how you laugh at a B movie like Sharknado, but it was so dull that I couldn't even watch it ironically after a few eps.

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I want to say Death March but it has lolis so I guess I'll go for Smartphone.

You might've already seen it, but Overlord does a good job of developing a living-feeling world and circumventing the problems of standard isekai fare without dropping the tropes. MC is overpowered as shit but he's in unfamiliar lands and culture so he plays it safe and smart. Plenty of interesting characters besides MC.

Also pic related pls don't bully konosuba.

What's wrong with reddit zero? It's popular with the western netflix watcher so it must be shit.

Skipped overlord because the character design seemed a little intense for my tastes. But I'll give it a chance.

And to be fair, I liked season one of Konosuba. But then they seemed to throw the satirical elements out the window and just embrace themselves heartedly.

fucking smartphone

Sword Art Online.

konosuba

>dude bad animation lmao

motherfucker are you implying grimgar isn't top tier

This was an okay adaptation that ended up failing near the end presumably due to money/time constraints. It was pretty faithful but that ending was atrocious.
Plus it only starts getting really good once they get beyond where the anime ended
RIP tank-kun

it's far from top tier but it's not as bad as shit like SAO or as offensively atrocious as death march or smartphone
also the novel is just written like shit

>Grimgar
>no harem
>no overpowered hero
>actual main cast
>no crop rotation
>nothing just fallt into their hands without earning it
Indeed, in a sense, it's the probably the "worst isekai".

I'm sure there's worse ones from previous seasons that were bad enough that I forgot them but death march this season is pretty dang terrible.

It's worse than the manga too, which is already kinda dull. The pacing of the anime is slower than reading so it makes it worse since you can't skim past the boring parts to the slightly more interesting parts.

Of all the isekai powers, I think I hate the 'die and come back' ones the worst. You're literally making me read slightly edited stuff I've already read again, under the guise that the MC is solving problems. I know stuff like boosted exp and max stats are dull too, but at least I don't have to go through repeating the same fucking story as a major plot point.

>And GATE is probably the worst I've watched, although I'm not sure if it counts.
GATE would be good if it could drop 80% of lt Itami's harem shit and instead focus on the political clashes between the two different worlds. The anime adaptation almost completely skips the politics and greatly reduces the interest of characters like pina (pina co lada, how the fuck did the author pick that name?)

Newest chapter indicates a move into the politics, se there's still hope

People here just like being contrarian.

I dropped it when I heard that the main characters could die. I was already having a hard time since there were far too many main characters, but it's annoying to get attached to characters and have them die when it isn't a major plot point. It's one thing to have a shounen bro die at the end of an arc, it's another to have a cute girl die to a goblin and then be forgotten for the rest of the story

>Log Horizon
>Show focuses on the MC using dubious methods to to cheat the economy and explaining those methods in great detail
>Author gets busted for tax evasion right after the anime gets done airing
He could save others from death, but not himself.

I feel like it didn't really use a lot of it's airtime well. I had fun with the first half of it or so.

It got popular

>MC is overpowered as shit but he's in unfamiliar lands and culture so he plays it safe and smart

Really? I watched the first season and didn't get that feeling at all. Ainz "playing it safe" felt pointless and unnecessarily dragged things out longer than they should have been. There wasn't really a logical reason for it in most cases as well so it felt forced instead of interesting or clever. I didn't dislike it, but at the same time it didn't really do much to make it stand out aside from the character designs. Is it just another case of the anime being a subpar adaption of the LN?

But Grimgar was good you little shit.

Go back to the DB Super threads

What ainz knows is that somebody managed to mind control shalltear so he is even more cautious.

Re:monster
The hard mode ain't even hard!

I didn't like grimgar but if it's really the worst isekai you've watched then you must have not watched a lot of those chineese cartoon

I found the characters to be utterly unlikeable and I didn't give a single shit if they lived or died. Which is kind of something you need to care about for such a setting. Subaru was utterly insufferable and I found him to be one of the worst protagonists in japanese fiction in general. Also a lot of hate the series got is because the fans of it were also insufferable pricks.

Because unlike gay porn, where you can be 100% sure that a man will suck on or be penetrated by another mans dick, isekai actually has variations. There is a chance that I'll open up a new isekai and that man will not be fucking another mans ass. There is a chance instead I will find something wonderful.

>comfy novel
The problem is that's all it had going for it and you cannot keep a 'comfy novel' going forever. Which is what Death March damn sure seems to want to do. Also it has a fucking awful protagonist who the author likes to remind fucks sluts but won't fuck the harem that he keeps building and building.

>Grimgar was a great deconstruction
Oh fuck off it was. It wasn't a great anything, let alone a great deconstruction. At it's very peak it was just mediocre.

I see nothing wrong with it staying that way as long as there is some variety in events, and there are still possibilities there if the author decides to use them. Satou's behavior is one thing I do want to change. Even if he didn't touch the harem initially, he needs some more development beyond being forced into situations where being engaged is just the simplest solution to a problem.

>MC is overpowered as shit but he's in unfamiliar lands and culture so he plays it safe and smart
I swear a good 30 - 40% of protagonists, especially korean protagonists, do this and most of the time I just sit there wondering why. I mean rarely you get told that they're worried that their loved ones will be targetted or they'll lose their comfy life, the latter of which is such an annoying character trait for an adventure focused novel, but often times you don't even get that. They just decide "I'm not going to tell anyone I'm super strong or special."

The problem with the keeping it the same way with some variety thing is that it comes off as sort of episode-of-the-weeky or whatever you want to call it. And that can turn a lot of people off. I like it when the story is actually heading towards something which I often feel Death March lacks. And yes the MC really does need some more development. I feel like from the very start he shouldn't have been overpowered. I mean it's clear the author wanted him to be a "smart" protagonist anyway. Prefering cunning over brute strength. So why GIVE him the latter, which he'll always fall back on, rendering almost all conflict utterly moot and just kind of a brief, repetitive obstacle? That goes for a lot of isekai really.

Real question newfags is what isekai is good ?
And inb4 SAO, kek.

Smartphone jesus was fucking terrible

Re:Zero isn't even that bad, especially for an Isekai. Anyway, my answer is SAO if that counts.

Re:Zero is unironically an objectively better time loop story than Steins;Gate.

Subaru is an insufferable cunt. It doesn't matter if he changes later or not, character development is a given anyway.

You're trying too hard to fit in, even if it's baitposting. This is nu-Sup Forums, you can just normally.
Also, I liked Grimgar and Now and Then, Here and There. Grimgar had great art, music, and a few really nice and weighty fight scenes. NaTHaT has the oldschool aesthetic that I'm a sucker for, and a really oppressive and appalling otherworld, which is a nice change from standard high fantasy.

Grimgar is good, but I agree on Rezero is unironically much better

I will take Subaru over standard-fare-isekai-cardboard-MC any day of the week.
Hell, I'll take an arrogant, borderline-sociopathic, atheist not-a-nazi as an MC over cardboard.

Youjo Senki

So you're so desperate to escape the standard fare that you'll accept a character who spends ARCS and ARCS being a complete fucking stone headed cunt, whining almost all the time, and never learning to get better at a decent pace?

>Subaru is an insufferable cunt.

Very strange statement.
From when I watched ReZero I remembered Subaru as a very lively character with an actual personslity unlike any other post-Shinji bland and weak highschool self insert.Subaru was a pretty positive, sociable and helpful young man with a sense of self who he is and what he wants and when he was acting like a cunt he had 1000% good reasons to feel like that.

I liked him a lot.

GATE the manga/novel, anime is meh is pretty good if you can tolerate the haremshit and alleged Jap propaganda. The politics are nice, but yeah the author should really focus on it instead on otaku pandering