What Do You Dislike About Isekai-Reincarnation Stories?

[LazyMoofy]

You can enjoy the story. My comment was stating that the isekai elements are wasted within it. They could have grabbed a person from within the universe and made the exact same story.

true. the story is just a downgraded version of one punch man and anyone who might have gotten his power could have done it.

 

[Zagaroth]

Regarding backstory; if the character is not going to be seeking a way home, one can use a situation where they were already prepared for death.

An old man reaching his end in a hospital bed.
A young woman who has been slowly dying for most of her life (I am using this one, and ties into why she's being given a reincarnation this way)
A person who has lost all their family and friends to war already and sees their end coming for them (whether bombs or a cavalry charge, there are lots of options).

Someone who has already said goodbye to the world and either have no one left to grieve for them or the grieving has gone on for so long that the death might finally be a release of burden for everyone.

These are almost never used.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

One I plan to use is a guy who is executed for murdering the guys who raped and almost killed his sister...

 

[tobascoasako]

Generally dislike jammed in "convenience"

 

[Golden_Hyde]

True that. There exists a lot of reincarnation stories without transmigration ('Become a star', one of my favorite novels, is like that. It's a guy who has over 900 past lives since the beginning of times, and uses those in his acting career), there are also regression stories without transmigration (salaryman had an awful life, gets back in time and gets revenge, for exemple 'God of Money')

There is also transmigration through possession (another favorite of mine 'Death is the only ending for the villainess', where she suddenly enters the body of a villainess in a game), transmigration with reincarnation (most stories that we see here, really), and transmigration that is simple portal fantasy (like you mentionned, 'Gate')

In that case, which is isekai and which isn't ? Are only transmigration stories isekai ?

my analysis of that would be when the Isekai tag gets complemented with Reincarnation, it's usually either through death (the very typical trope of most Isekai), or that one trope where the protagonist wakes up after sleeping, only to find out he/she is someone else, in case of this Japanese LN titled "The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?!".

But when it was complemented with Transmigration, it's either through summoning ritual from the other side or through a physical portal, like GATE as I have mentioned.

Anyways, that's how I see most of them, with the exception of "permanently" trapped into a VR game, in case of Overlord.

 

[NtrAddicted]

When the MC is reincarnated in a non-human form and at the beginning of the story he gets a humanoid form and then never returns to the non-human form.

I read a story a while ago that I didn't remember the name of, but basically the person was reincarnated as a wolf and in less than 10 chapters he already had a human form and in the following 20 it was never mentioned again that he was a wolf.

Total nonsense, if you're going to be born as a different form, maintain that form throughout the story.

 

[Anonjohn20]

When the MC is reincarnated in a non-human form and at the beginning of the story he gets a humanoid form and then never returns to the non-human form.

I read a story a while ago that I didn't remember the name of, but basically the person was reincarnated as a wolf and in less than 10 chapters he already had a human form and in the following 20 it was never mentioned again that he was a wolf.

Total nonsense, if you're going to be born as a different form, maintain that form throughout the story.

*Reads name*

Was it an NTR story? Was the wolf getting cucked by a bear or something?

 

[NtrAddicted]

*Reads name*

Was it an NTR story? Was the wolf getting cucked by a bear or something?

BRUHHHH!!!


It was a common isekai story, but your comment gave me an idea and I will create a novel about a wolf being cucked by a bear and the entire forest. Thank you

 

[Anonjohn20]

BRUHHHH!!!


It was a common isekai story, but your comment gave me an idea and I will create a novel about a wolf being cucked by a bear and the entire forest. Thank you

The furry community will love it.

 

[DireBadger]

I hate it when the author puts in like a 3 chapter prologue, before truck-kun plows the character, when it could have been started in the very first chapter, and told in snippets of backstory instead.
And yes, I have done this myself, but at least I reastrain it to the REALLY weird backstories. (Isekai'd character is Death incarnate, or an alien from an exploding world, or a Cassandra whose death was so weird it HAS to be mentioned... )

Or when you have like this giant introduction where some god or system meets the character and explains in 22 pages how they are supposed to destroy the demon king.

A lot of the isekai tropes, especially the ones from anime, are so overdone that even my boomer grandmother recognizes them.

 

[LesserSarcasm]

Dont forget the obligatory 3rd person point of view to redescribe a scene that has already happened but only to show how OP the mc is or how much they love the MC. But acutally does nothing to contribute to the story.