You shouldn't tease people like that, blech. I checked and that title sadly does not seem to exist. I'd totes read it if it got long enough to take at least a few hours to read.
Honestly know that feel. I remember reading the one where guy got turned into a tree and it was just 60 chapters of "tree gains new power but faces new foe who forces him to develop new power but suddenly an even bigger foe appears." Still ended up reading all of the chapters. It's like the LN equivalent of having 4,000 hours in a game and leaving a review "I hate this game"
Any case, I'm just sayin' there's no guarantee a shift towards stuff in spice and wolf's direction would actually mean escaping the litrpg curse blessing curse clurssing/blurse. We could see a spike in what amounts to Torneko fanfiction instead :V
... and, like. Hell. If you spat out a Torneko anime you'd probably have my attention. Someone should get on that, dragon quest spinoff anime, keep the boxes.
Gib Torneko fanfic animes now
That so much of mankind's media (it's also not even a little something new or unusual even among older media) is basically just the story of someone having a middingly okay life without unending trouble and stress says a lot.
Yeah it's fairly common to a lot of genres. I think Isekai tend to stand out more because the transition between "I am an ordinary, mediocre loser" to "everyone loves me and I am all-powerful" is as sudden as getting hit by the isekai truck. But YA Novel of "Mary Sue was an ordinary girl...
UNTIL SHE WASN'T, now she needs to lead the resistance" or the superhero story of "Jimmy was an ordinary boy until he touched the moebius strip, now he is Captain Moebius and it's Moebius time" are pretty common parallels of this.
Sure, but rarely does it feel as, I dunno, blatant as it is in typical isekai? Like it almost revels in how pathetic the protag used to be in the real world versus fantasy land. "Elves HATE him! Pathetic hikikomori discovers this one weird trick that helps them rule middle-earth." (The secret is he played an MMO three times)
I would 100% read a stupid LOTR Isekai where an isekai hikkomori protag neet styles on Sauron's armies at the battle of Dale using his SASUGA SUGOI knowledge of RPGs and RTSs. Or fuck it, Saruman receives a neet who advises him on how to make Isengard a power to rival Mordor and the last alliance
Eh, maybe? That kind of thing isn't uncommon with fantasy in general, though (frikkin' hell, many tellings of the legend of king authur is basically that, just as an example!), and low-point to high-point as a narrative framework is quite common in all sorts of genres. Isekai might be worse on some level, but I don't think it's by much, and quite a lot of it (... outside the stuff that gets anime adaptations, anyway 
) doesn't fit into that framework anyway.
I think Arthurian canon also has the first true "isekai" as we would know it. A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was published in 1889 and features a rugged American boy getting transported back to King Arthur's land after getting hit with an isekai crowbar where he uses his knowledge of industrial capitalism, firearms and democracy to change the world™ and get everyone to love him
Not nearly as fun as the ones where people get yoinked into a terrible place where they die horribly due to having no applicable skills. You can imagine that the afterlife is just an unending chain of such environments.
I remember reading one funny comic panel where the protag gets isekai'd and plans to revolutionise the world with their knowledge of electronics, chemistry and physics. Then they remember they don't know anything about any of those.
Subaru from Re;Zero is a pretty cool exception. For starters he wasn't hit by the isekai truck, he was just abducted. He has a loving family, and to them he just disappeared. He latches onto the first person to show him kindness to an
unhealthy degree, professing to make them the centre of the world and fulfil all of her dreams. I remember a lot of my friends stopped watching at this point because they were all "lol simp" but:
later on in the show the girl he's simping for calls him out for claiming to want to support her, but actually undermining her by ignoring what she actually wants. The main gimmick of Re;Zero is he can respawn a few days prior if he dies at a "checkpoint" moment. He goes though
a lot of deaths.Oh boy does he goes through so many deaths. He tells himself all of his deaths and sacrifices are to protect the people he loves, but when he hurts the people he loves he has to seriously look in the mirror and ask who he's doing all of this for. When he finally confronts the witch who cursed him with this immortality, the witch keeps telling him she's gifted him immortality out of love. He begins having a mental breakdown because of all the pain and suffering he's been through, and accuses her of putting him through hell and saying he doesn't want her love. The witch corrects him - saying she meant he should love himself, and she gifted him the immortality so he could keep himself safe.
Subaru is SHOOK by this revelation. It's a huge character growth moment for him because for all the first few seasons he's been using his immortality as the one tool he can "use." Constantly throwing himself into mortal danger to collect more information and "savescum" to victory. And just like depression, his curse means no one can ever see his suffering and he can't ask for help or even tell anyone he has this curse. But he realises in the end that he can't find victory by parasitizing the dreams and happiness of others, nor can he find victory by constantly engaging in acts of self-harm and suicide. All of this culminates in his challenge to one of the antagonists; that he will save everyone (even the antagonist), and that he will do it without even dying once. Bro EARNS his happiness. Builds up his own self-worth not reliant on external validation. And then realises he's made all these friends along the way, and the key to victory isn't burning himself up to help them - but it's to accept the help they want to give him. It's like a perfect metaphor for someone trying all these unhealthy coping mechanisms for dealing with depression but then finally fighting tooth and nail to build themselves a bridge to get out from despair.
That's why I think it sucks that all of my friends dropped Re;Zero because they wrote the MC off as a wet-blanket harem self-insert. There was way more going on with this char
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