Isekai Tenseisha Koroshi – Cheat Slayer - Ch. 1

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What a waste. Damn. It would have been killer to see how someone subverts the usual isekai and wish fulfillment settings.
Now I'm curious to know what character is based on who. I only recognize about half of them.
 
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Things I liked about this story:
Addressing the fact reincarnation stories are mostly bullshit, that the protagonists haven't done jack to earn their powers and that cheat skills are bullshit.

Things I disliked about this manga:
The killing and rape was nothing more than gratuitous shock value, the relationship between the two wasn't even established beyond a wikipedia entry, and the protagonist (plus the audience) has no time to process anything before we move on to the next step.

This chapter is way too rushed and doesn't do jackshit with the characters beyond introducing their quirks - not character, quirks. No wonder it got immediately axed, aside from an interesting premise, everything else beyond the art sucks.
 
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This could've been really good. But I can understand why they were so pissed about this. Parody is fine, but it's way too blatant and there's just too much "hostility" and jabs towards the other author works, very explicitly during the Witch's speech about the whole "reincarnation" genre. I mean I would be pissed too if I wrote a series, and someone made a "serious" parody like this by painting my character in a bad light.

If they toned down the similarities a bit, but have enough for people to make a connection towards them, they might actually let this through.
Very unfortunate as this feels like it's going to be one of those guilty pleasure type of series.
 
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This could've been really good. But I can understand why they were so pissed about this. Parody is fine, but it's way too blatant and there's just too much "hostility" and jabs towards the other author works, very explicitly during the Witch's speech about the whole "reincarnation" genre. I mean I would be pissed too if I wrote a series, and someone made a "serious" parody like this by painting my character in a bad light.

If they toned down the similarities a bit, but have enough for people to make a connection towards them, they might actually let this through.
Very unfortunate as this feels like it's going to be one of those guilty pleasure type of series.
I dunno. I agree on the fact that the characters are almost plagiarized but I think they shouldn't be so thin skinned to not accept criticism against their settings and characters.
 
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I dunno. I agree on the fact that the characters are almost plagiarized but I think they shouldn't be so thin skinned to not accept criticism against their settings and characters.
It's more about the hostility towards these characters and the works they come from.
It's one thing to make an edgy parody of a work, it's a whole other thing to essentially plagiarize 9 characters of 9 different works and paint them as self serving rapists.

The Shield Hero has already tackled and is currently shedding more light into the idea that the reincarnators are assholes who only see the world they stumbled into as their playground, and now they're suffering the consequences for their selective ignorance.

The premise can work, other authors have made it work. The problem here is that the mangaka seems to have a hatred for those characters or the genre as a whole, and when you make your manga based on your hatred of something instead of the passion about the subject you're talking about, it's going to turn people off.

I remember there being an anime about a girl responsible for killing off reincarnator if they proved to be a threat to the world (can't remember the name, only saw a few clips), which tackles exactly this type of issue with the concept as well, yet that one gets a pass. Again, it's not about the criticism of the genre, it's about the hatred the mangaka has shown here.
 
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It's more about the hostility towards these characters and the works they come from.
It's one thing to make an edgy parody of a work, it's a whole other thing to essentially plagiarize 9 characters of 9 different works and paint them as self serving rapists.

The Shield Hero has already tackled and is currently shedding more light into the idea that the reincarnators are assholes who only see the world they stumbled into as their playground, and now they're suffering the consequences for their selective ignorance.

The premise can work, other authors have made it work. The problem here is that the mangaka seems to have a hatred for those characters or the genre as a whole, and when you make your manga based on your hatred of something instead of the passion about the subject you're talking about, it's going to turn people off.

I remember there being an anime about a girl responsible for killing off reincarnator if they proved to be a threat to the world (can't remember the name, only saw a few clips), which tackles exactly this type of issue with the concept as well, yet that one gets a pass. Again, it's not about the criticism of the genre, it's about the hatred the mangaka has shown here.
You're thinknig of Shokei Shōjo.

It got a pass because it was yuri and actually did some things, but my personal opinion aside, it was at the end of the day, actually being a story on its own.

A huge piece of missing context for this manga, was that the writer (who made Kakegurui) was really upset that his previous isekai manga was cancelled (Isekai Courtroom -- Houtei Barrister) and it had some criticisms thrown its way for not being well thought out (magic use kind of kills any courtroom drama). It's such a thinly veiled rant filled with bitch tears, that you can't really feel any sympathy for him.

If memory serves, he's also not the one who decided on the yuri stuff for Kakegurui and basically the editor and artist pushed for it.
 

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