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Questionable Questing

Heaven Canceler
Heaven Canceler
You would think a modern person who isn't a sociopath moron wouldn't be able to get over slaughtering people en mass with a few sentences of inner monologue pep talk. But hey, fuck inner conflict, mass murder ho! Nevermind that the bandits likely had no other way to get ressources and food or the fact that most people don't become criminals because they feel like it.
Heaven Canceler
Heaven Canceler
If you threw all these Isekai protagonists into a room, they probably would kill each other thinking that the others are "evil" while showering themselves in their own moral superiority.
beast_regards
beast_regards
Panicking is boring so authors gloss it over. At least I was told so
Heaven Canceler
Heaven Canceler
I do not understand this. I mean yeah, it can be boring if done badly, but everything is boring if done badly. I am bored with the fucking action scenes in most of these stories. I am bored with their fucking RPG mechanics and OP protagonists with cheat abilities. I am bored of waifus, I am fucking bored of fanservice! How the fuck do these guys manage to make me bored of tits and ass?
Heaven Canceler
Heaven Canceler
At this point I only read the first chapter of these things on the off chance that maybe another Konosuba or something pops up.
beast_regards
beast_regards
All Light Novels are made with virtually the same impulse as most fan-fiction, and only with marginally better quality (which is enforced due to official publishing process, but nothing more). Almost all copy-paste same concept, only with a different tone and visual re-skin (in case of anime and manga adaptations).
Daniel K. English
Daniel K. English
Yeah, that particular series has the strange power of making me bored of the waifus...

Isekai Yakkyoku's manga is okay so far, but I read somewhere that it'll get repetitive later. Honestly, we're already scratching at the bottom of the barrel here.
Heaven Canceler
Heaven Canceler
It's like if all these teenage girls who saw Twilight and loved it decided to make their own stories inspired by it. And people eat it up like it was high class a pack of swiss chocolate truffles.
beast_regards
beast_regards
LN authors usually don't think it through and are basically making this up as they go. More often than not they don't have slightest idea what they are writing about, they just put in things they think would be cool.
Original manga is even worse. Artist (person who draws the pictures) is also the writer, and don't think about it too much from other than visual perspective
daimahou
daimahou
Then you have Kamachi Kazuma (To aru series) aka the writing machine.
Heaven Canceler
Heaven Canceler
Yeah, Kamachi somehow manages to have a million plot threads going on and not turn it into too much chaos. For another Light Novel story that actually felt good, I remember the Monogatari series being pretty great. Though generally non-power fantasies feel less trashy on average ala Spice & Wolf and intrigue stories. The ones where the MC has to work and suffer.
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