From Another World - Oneshot

[LoliLover852]

Reptilian thinks they're hard and shit. Wait until they get to know who GAU-8 Avenger really is.

 

[Ominous]

This is actually a pretty good gem. It covers a lot of angles that the typical isekai entry gloss over, not just the power fantasy and wish fulfillment, but normal concerns. What I liked the most was how there's a focus on what the hero left behind and how it's still relevant. The usual isekai has a MC that's somehow okay with leaving his previous life behind. Here, you got the full circle.

 

[jonnywarlock]

Happy ending.

Especially after the JGSDF rolls up to see what's up.

 

[BusinessGL]

Do we gonna get a slave race. or we kill ‘em all. We know what humans are like.

 

[PugOfWar]

unless they are bulletproof, this can be solved easily.

 

[breakthelimit]

Eww he fucked that creature

 

[PugOfWar]

the big question is, why they are in full armor on one side, but naked on the other. And lets face it, those frogs are cooked when the military arrive.

 

[Pokari]

Definitely interesting layers there, where (as many have observed) despite the written Aesop you have to wonder if he wouldn't have done the same thing if he knew exactly what was going on and he was doing. "Catharsis comes simultaneously with the protagonist being betrayed" is a neat emotional hat-trick.

Also, I love the quote here in the comments of what the author said that sounds like such a polite way of saying "Sorry, I didn't quite understand isekai were supposed to be absolute garbage with no stakes or message in them. My bad."

This is actually a pretty good gem. It covers a lot of angles that the typical isekai entry gloss over, not just the power fantasy and wish fulfillment, but normal concerns. What I liked the most was how there's a focus on what the hero left behind and how it's still relevant. The usual isekai has a MC that's somehow okay with leaving his previous life behind. Here, you got the full circle.

Personally, I actually consider the fact that isekai-as-a-genre decided there was no reason to finish the Hero's Journey (just omit the homecoming arc entirely) and that people could just emigrate off to fantasy-land permanently and that's okay, to be... well, one of the few positive things the genre normalised, really.

The hero's journey always felt oddly repressive in that aspect. As if you're expected to be a Normal-Earth-Nationalist such that deciding you want to live somewhere else would be a gross betrayal of your homeland, or something along those lines.

(To be clear most isekai actually handle it like shit as is par for the course for the genre, but I still appreciate the trend anyway, you know?)

 

[eternalexhaling]

I mean he was going to die anyways. At least he got revenge on his and his family’s murderers.