Tensei Kaku Gamer: Ouji demo Kateru Isekai Kouryaku - Ch. 1

[Ovaeron]

this has a lot of potential

hope its good

 

[AmethystLord]

That's the most pre-recarnation back story I've seen for isekai. Really takes its time to set up MC's motivation. I have high hope for this.

 

[Sramos06]

an actual isekai backstory no way

 

[N2O]

With how well this intro was put together compared to 99% of isekai, I've got high hopes for this one

 

[w4nzxtxgrgn]

Truck-kun lands the TOD and wins with a perfect!

 

[Fiorno]

I was really hoping for a high score girl type story, one that's more centered on the actual fighting game part, especially since literally Daigo is here

 

[bandito]

Truck kun strikes again.

 

[Nickbot25]

Well, considering how much he liked defense and oki in Street Fighter II, he would hate current modern fighting games with his life and would go back to work in a week probably.

You do know those older games are still in the tournaments right? He could still become a pro that fits a niche

 

[reveluvza]

fuck this shit woulda be GOATED if he actually just had to go thru the trials and tribulations of getting into esports at his age and he worked towards meeting daigo and making it up to his younger self for giving up FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

 

[Lightbrand]

Incredible opener, best all time for an isekai?

 

[KuhaKenuvo]

This is incredibly stupid lmao. I could not take this seriously.

 

[MasterPannya]

Dread it, run from it, the Isuzu truck still arrives.

 

[sat129]

Probably one of the best first chapters I've seen in a long time and even the artwork is nice. If I wasn't poor I would buy this. I will check if my library has it at least.

 

[nanaya]

Also, MC is only mid 40s, which means, at the earliest, he was born in the early 80s. Even if he stopped going to the arcade in his early teens—early 90s—if he really loved the games, he could have played at home; sure, maybe not on home console, but ZSNES was released in 1997 and had netplay via TCP/IP and UDP up to v1.50 according to Wikipedia, and SNES9x started releasing versions in 1998, so he could have done his normal life and done competitive play from the comfort of his own home by finding opponents via BBS and Usenet groups.

PC gaming culture wasn't as mainstream or as widespread in Japan back then. There's also the aversion to emulation on PC issue that still exists in Japan. It's not like Western countries, Eastern Europe or South America who developed solutions to play fighters online.

 

[HaikenEdge]

PC gaming culture wasn't as mainstream or as widespread in Japan back then. There's also the aversion to emulation on PC issue that still exists in Japan. It's not like Western countries, Eastern Europe or South America who developed solutions to play fighters online.

Okay, fine, but what's stopping him from going to another game center? It's not like there's only one game center in town, and surely going to same one all the time wouldn't even be challenging if he's just beating the same people over and over?

 

[BCS]

"Dreams don't pay bills" which is why you make a fighting sports manga into an isekai for no reason

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

The MC backstory is great, but will any of this really matter once he's isekai'd? That's an issue with so many of these stories, and why so many isekai's have MC's with zero backstories, because they're all so formulaic that it's hard to even really say that the MC is a unique character, or even a character at all.

Anyway, I've got another 4 or so chapters to read, so I'll guess I'll find out in just a moment.

 

[Late_Komei]

Wow, Daigo Umehara in a manga? He must be honored. Was he actually bullied because he was too good playing Street Fighter II?

Pretty good start.

 

[Babymech2]

I was wondering how they would add drama to the fairly banal story of Daigo and moment 37... I shouldn't have worried; manga will always be able to overdramatize everything

 

[Wildfire_desu]

60 pages of kino then truck-kun came outta nowhere

that's life. an engrossing story, with highs, lows, passions and dreams - all can disappear in an instant. by no fault of one's own. and it happens every day in thousands