Why there aren't many isekai sci-fi?
Why there aren't many isekai sci-fi?
Daniel Rogers
Colton Anderson
No standard popular setting to rip off. If there was a mega-popular generic scifi JRPG 20 or so years ago we'd get more.
Samuel Reed
>isekai
god this shit is so bad. I have no idea how it because a subgenre.
Ryder Smith
It's bad BECAUSE it became a subgenre.
Same deal as harem some years ago, with a flood of shitty authors copying and pasting tropes from older works.
Ayden Allen
It's a lot harder to write sci-fi than it is to write fantasy. You need a basic understanding of physics for a sci-fi setting.
Cooper Williams
random schmuck dies and becomes a random spacer...
possesses no special skills to speak of that would allow them to gain an obscene advantage.
unless you are doing humans are space orcs, there isn't much you can write in this.
Cooper Martin
Why think of the sci when you can copy RPGs and Victorian nobility harlequin?
Sebastian Miller
It's like asking why Zig Forums is bigger than /m/
Mason Watson
>reading Boku no Isekai Tensei de Motoyuusha: Slow Life Cheat Skill no Harem Majutsu Maou
>story was initially a WN, gets published as a LN when it becomes more popular
>gets a manga, drawn by the same illustrator as the LN
>MC is a slave worker for a black company in his late teens
>bullied by everyone, hikkikomori
>gets hit by a truck
>reincarnates in another world, summoned by a princess
>in the meantime a god grants him some cheat skills
>his first two companions are a beastgirl and an elf
>elf and beastgirl have a crush on protag
>the demon king is actually a demon queen, and she has a crush on the protag too
>lots of ecchi, but no sex
>there's magic and protag is more adept at it than people who spent decades studying magic
>communication skills allow him to speak Japanese in the other world
>he "invents" mayo, paper, and onions sauce in the New World
>Protag and his harem live a nice life thanks to the cheat skills, after registering as adventurers in the guild
>they start at guild rank G, but in two weeks they raise to C
>there's a test to go from guild rank C to B, the protag easily overpowers the examiner
>the author explores the game mechanics to the minimal details
>the game mechanics are strikingly similar to DQ and DnD
Jose Powell
>That Time An Aniki-Type Rebel Group Leader Got Reincarnated As The Villainess' Maid
Christian Reyes
Gundam Build divers is the Isekai Sci-fi.
Grayson James
>Why there aren't many isekai sci-fi?
Purpose of isekai is to pander not be creative. Your average japanese nerd will connect more to dragon quest/final fantasy than star wars/trek.
Thomas Carter
Oliver Sanders
Getting Isekai'd in Sci-fi just means getting cryogenically frozen until that specific reality comes to be.
Gavin Robinson
Hard to flex when you're a savage
Jackson Howard
Does Gundam Build Divers count as Isekai?
Aiden Smith
Because it demolishes the power fantasy aspect of, "I would become a genius in this universe with my mundane earth knowledge", since you're thrown to a universe with a different set of physics.
Also the author actually needs to work his brain cells to create sci-fi physics and whatnot, something you would like to avoid in creating mindless isekai stories
Gabriel Foster
jap hates sci-fi
Daniel Harris
Like hell they do, the entire genres of Kaiju and Mecha are built around it.
Thomas Rodriguez
no, those are variations of power rangers
Grayson Jones
here's one
Parker Nguyen
>Kaiju
>Mecha
How much successful series you see created nowadays for it? /m/ is dead.
Isaiah Evans
Super Sentai is scifi.
Ryder Carter
Nadia, Nausicaa or Eva are sci-fi. Super Sentai is power rangers shit where tech is basically abilities-granting magic,
James Murphy
Futurama
Benjamin Brown
Faggot.
Connor Campbell
seethe
Logan Reyes
...
Jose Mitchell
list more boards
Julian Rivera
FPBP
You have to develop a setting. At that point you might as well have a legit story because you already put in too much effort.
Lucas Butler
just easier just to say
>MC was frozen for 1000 years
Elijah Ramirez
Anime Farscape when?
Jace Brown
You really don't: FTL, blasters and One Piece in space ain't hard. Japan doesn't like Sci-Fi simple as that. Even had to shovel typical DQ fantasy isekai tropes under Elite: Dangerous sauce for it to have audience.
Hunter Scott
There could be something like Buck Rodgers. It's essentially like an Isekai story, except Buck is a WW1 veteran hero, rather than a loser.
They should do more anime adaptations of old American pulps and French comics. There's already that one Valerian anime.
In fact, more shows should simply adapt older foreign properties like this. Accept the fact that, as far as these specific genres are concerned, anime is derivative, and tries to do what those old pulps, sci fi novels, and serials do except far shittier (stuff like Classroom Crisis, Clockwork Planet, and a lot of mecha shows).
Something like Flash Gordon would do well with a dash of Isekai sensibilities: spectacle, light romance and humor.
Camden Morris
Who would watch it? Certainly not japs.
Ryder Thomas
based. GBDRe doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Also, unrelated, but FUCK GBFTry
Nolan Stewart
getting isekai'd into warhammer knockoff would be fine and fun for the audience
Benjamin Nelson
Cobra and Dirty Pair are exactly like that but their time have passed. After Space Dandy nobody's touching sci-fi anime.
Kayden Gray
warhammer is old and elaborated setting, like star wars
you literally can't make shit like that simply for your one series like a novel
it takes years and collaboration of artists and authors to establish it
even if you rip off basic principles of the setting - you'll need to establish rich backstory to give life to it, that'd take time and talent
LOTR wasn't written by a wageslave in his couple free hours in the evening
Jose Perez
It's hard to say the culture doesn't take to it, because there's a lot of sci fi that was a smash hit in Japan. Star Wars being the main example.
The big thing is that Japan is bad at making and writing it. There really is something in their culture and literary tradition that takes to it a certain way, and it mostly doesn't work. The reason Cowboy Bebop is an exception is because it is a thoughtful take on quintessential Americanized ideas.
As far as recent stuff they do, their biggest problems they have is just throwing a bunch of random shit in all at once, with no particular thematic coherence. And this applies to fantasy. Western sci fi works better because it orients around a few big ideas, often just one.