>isekai in space
>op abilities in chapter 1
>elf waifu in chapter 2
>guild ranks in chapter 3
>harem in chapter 4
Why the fuck do they keep doing this? What is the goddamned point of setting your isekai in a space opera setting if you are going to tell the exact same isekai story the nips have been milking to death since 2012? Are they really this unoriginal?
>why is this isekai story like other isekai stories
That's how genres work.
>What is the goddamned point of setting your isekai in a space opera setting if you are going to tell the exact same isekai story
To have a space opera gimmick / flavor in your isekai, are you retarded?
Because isekai is a story genre. You can't do something completely different and sell it as the same genre. That's fraud. False advertisement.
You might not understand how genres work, but I guarantee you that the rest of the readership does.
There has to be more to isekai than op abilities, adventure's guild, and waifu harems. Not every shounen is a reskin of dragonball, so why the hell are 90% of isekai so similar to each other that even if you set it in god damn space it still feels like you're reading the same story?
>people are seriously defending lack of originality
>defending
Nobody's even said jackshit about it being good, we're saying that OP expecting this story to be different from its genre just because the setting is different is stupid.
>All stories in the same genre are the same.
Yes. Literally yes. Isekai is oversaturated as fucking hell right now so the only way people can think to make a boring ass isekai but have people actually notice it is to leave the fantasy setting even if you keep the trimmings.
OP literally said "the exact same isekai story," let's not be difficult here. He knows they tend to have the same elements and formulas, and for some reason he thinks being in space is going to make it different. It's like expecting Reborn to be something other than a standard shounen just because it's about mafia. They did it for flavor, not because they wanted to make a different kind of story.
You're describing tropes. Not a narrative. Shounen is a demographic not a genre.
Originality is a meme.
He got shortstack waifu before elf waifu.
Also, he fucks his harem. So that is different.
It's almost like narrative genres are distinguished by their narrative. But that would make too much sense.
>Why the fuck do they keep doing this?
Written by the editors more than any one author with a vision. They're just after another franchise to move books and merch, Isekai IN SPACE is a perfect twist on the trend done right. Personally, I think none of those designs are good enough for it to work, but it's not like trying costs them much.
A wolf might shed its fur but its nature won't change.
To be fair he's not OP, his ship is top tier but it's not strongest in the galaxy or anything. And two girls are not really a harem. Guilds in space are nothing new too Star Wars also has them.
OP even look like generic smug asshole like most Isekai duded too
I'll give you the other two, but it's really hard to defend the guild when it's literally just your bog standard adventurer's guild but in space.
In the words of one retarded user I met, "familiarity is comforting."
Isekai before SAO:
Fushigi Yuugi
Monster Rancher
Hack
Now and There, Here and There
Rayeth
Escaflowne
Kaiba
Bleach, technically
Lain, arguable
None of those had any other similarity than being an illegal alien. Isekai genre is not just uncreative, it's outright plagiarism.
That's retarded. You can get sued for copying someone's intellectual property
Please don't use the word plagiarism if you don't actually know how to use it, thank you.
You can't sue someone for using tropes unless you're Disney.
>forgetting about the best isekai ever made
Isekai is an instant red flag no matter the setting unless you are searching for a very specific set of tropes. You should know this by now.
If you want to watch a recent and perfectly decent space adventure try Kanata no Astra.
I don't know about that
Many japanese artists got sued just because it had the same poses as another artwork.
Even Madoka's Uro had to make an excuse when people noticed how similar it was to Mask Rider
There's also Inuyasha and Digimon
The only similarities was that they arrived in a new world
If they arrived as heroes, they are often very reluctant and their powers were something they worked hard for
Some were even not even handed any and just lived like a common man who revolutionized nothing.
The point was adventure, not power fantasies
>"story"
>when most of the stuff is introduction stuff and ultimately more about setting rather than story
Every fucking time. People take the setting and somehow equate it to story. The first few chapters tell you jackshit about the story. That's true both for good and bad. I had plenty of stories that had a reall cool setting, a great introduction at the beginning making me anticipate what will come out of it, but then the story while not actually generic, often still ended up being bad and therefore quite a disappointment. But regardless of that I don't get why everyone still ignores that an instead willfully conflates setting with story.
Look just because it's an isekai doesn't mean it has to have the same story. Both Digimon and hack are stories that have the main characters be transported to a computer related world, and both have them couldn't be more different to each other.
On the other hand you have this which despite taking place in space feels exactly the same as your generic medieval fantasy isekai, right down to the races and societies.
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>isekai in space
FINALLY we back to the roots
I honestly doesn't have a problem with the "isekai" formula itself. My only problem with isekai is that all of them are so generic aesthetically with the medieval buildings and people in modern costumes but with plate armor that is really boring visually.
So, an isekai in SPACE! I would take it, yes. Like I would take steampunk isekai, postapocaliptic dystopia isekai, ancient isekai or swashbuckler isekai.
Even if the formula is the same, if they change the flavor to make it slightly refreshing I will take it.
At least they are mercs.
Alice in Wonderland is an isekai.
Who are organized and function exactly like medieval fantasy adventurers which barely made sense in setting as is.