Isekai And/Or ISOT Ideas, Discussions And Recommendations Thread

[The Name of Love]

@The Name of Love , it’s a magical realist manga about a Japanese schoolgirl dragged back in time to the Hittite Empire by a Queen seeking to use her as a blood sacrifice to insure her son sits the throne; things don’t go as planned for her.

A modern Japanese girl got to 1400BC Anatolia, Hittite Empire. Her existence mess with the imperial politics. I've been mining some of the chapters for my novel ideas as well.

Really cool stuff. It looks interesting. I’ll have to look at it myself.

Monster Girls 2020 by Opie Anderson, found on TouchFluffyTail

It’s an interesting idea for a reverse Isekai, though I’m really not a fan of furries.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

It’s an interesting idea for a reverse Isekai, though I’m really not a fan of furries.

There are only like two Mamono that are furries, the rest are just Monstergirls

 

[The Name of Love]

There are only like two Mamono that are furries, the rest are just Monstergirls

Monster Girls 2020 is on a furries website.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Monster Girls 2020 is on a furries website.

Don't see much furries on TouchFluffyTail

 

[CarlManvers2019]

ISOT Idea: The entire continent of Tamriel+subcontinent of Pyandonea replace North and/or South America just when Europe sends its first waves of settlers

How long till the Missionaries give up on trying to convert the natives and convert to the Nine or Daedra or even worse, try to say Yahweh=Godhead to merge religions and that all Aedra=Saints

What’s the longterm effect on the rest of the world?

 

[The Name of Love]

Here was a post from my Isekai thread on SV that I found rather informative.

This quote in particular has some interesting ideas.

Here are a few hopefully creative examples using the recently popular "reincarnated as a freak" subgenre:

• Digital: You wake up as AI consciousness in the distant future after a scan of your brain is activated. Hopefully you are in a Von Neuman probe as part of humanity's first forays into deep space, but in a worst case scenario you wake up in a cyberpunk dystopia, in a seafloor facility after the apocalypse, or as the presiding AI of a warship after the Galaxy Federation collapsed.
• Cosmic horror: You are summoned by esoteric means to a Lovecraft pastiche, hopefully in the body of an antiquarian... but in worst case scenario as a shoggoth, possibly intended to xenoform new planets for the old ones.
• Genie: You pop out of a lamp in front of a young man/woman dressed like an extra from Aladdin. A terrible question forms in your mind: do you operate by Disney genie logic with arbitrary powers and a three wish limit, or are you an insanely rich and magically powerfully jinn from the Arabian Nights who is kept in check only by the oath of servitude imposed upon you by King Solomon?
• Autochthones: You emerge from the earth, and standing before you are absurdly handsome men wearing nothing but sandals and helmets holding spears, also smelling of freshly turned dirt. They kneel before you, and you realize that they are at least half your height at the most. You look down and notice that from the waist down your body is either that of some hoofed quadruped, the tail of a giant snake, two giant snakes that look at you with a measure of confusion, or something similarly freakish.
• Mummy: You emerge from a dark confined space and wrap your hands around the throat of the cur trying to make off with your stuff. When the body hits the floor, you realize you are standing in an elaborately decorated chamber filled with treasure. You look down and discover that you are covered in expensive looking linen bandages and jewelry. On the other side of the room, voices echo from an opening in the wall. You feel a curse taking shape on the end of your tongue, in a language that you don't remember learning, ready to destroy the interlopers.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I like the Digital & Cosmic Horror ones

 

[The Name of Love]

I like the Digital & Cosmic Horror ones

The digital one reminds me of that horror game Soma. Ever heard of it?

 

[CarlManvers2019]

The digital one reminds me of that horror game Soma. Ever heard of it?

Heard the name but never played admittedly

Also, both the Digital and Cosmic Horror thing can maybe intersect of combine

 

[The Name of Love]

Heard the name but never played admittedly

Soma is a game where you wake up in a robot body in an abandoned underwater research facility in a future where most of the Earth's population has been wiped out by a giant meteor.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Soma is a game where you wake up in a robot body in an abandoned underwater research facility in a future where most of the Earth's population has been wiped out by a giant meteor.

Okay, cool, let me guess it’s more Survival Horror rather than an Action RPG?

Anyway, just got a more closer to generic isekai idea

The protagonist is a mini-factory-forge from the future or really advanced timeline that finds itself in Iceland of all places during the Viking Age

Problem is that now a bunch of Vikings want to get them advanced technologies

So now Iceland’s got a sort of “base” full of “IronMen” going about shooting any Viking bastards who want guns

 

[The Name of Love]

Okay, cool, let me guess it’s more Survival Horror rather than an Action RPG?

Yes. It's actually the spiritual successor to Amnesia: The Dark Descent and plays exactly like an Amnesia game.

Anyway, just got a more closer to generic isekai idea

The protagonist is a mini-factory-forge from the future or really advanced timeline that finds itself in Iceland of all places during the Viking Age

Problem is that now a bunch of Vikings want to get them advanced technologies

So now Iceland’s got a sort of “base” full of “IronMen” going about shooting any Viking bastards who want guns

That's... an odd thing. Not a bad thing though.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I read Vinland Saga before, though I’d maybe instead go for a Low/Dark Fantasy setting instead with say beings of the NeverNever around and said “Isekai Protagonist” being an OCP in the sense that “Mortal Ferromancy” was never this advanced before and no one understands where the “Isekai Protagonist” came from

 

[The Name of Love]

Crossposted from my isekai thread on SV (link).

I finally found the isekai story that I was searching for but couldn't quite name. It's called "Genjitsushugisha no Oukokukaizouki" or "How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom." The premise of the story is that ordinary high school student Kazuya Souma finds himself summoned to another world to fight the demon king. Of course, this guy doesn't feel confident about fighting on the front lines, so he uses his political knowledge to suggest reforms the king could do in order to improve his kingdom. This so impresses the king that he arranges Souma to marry his daughter and then cedes the throne to his new son-in-law. The story is basically him trying to solve various problems in the kingdom with his unorthodox solutions.

Of course, there are things I don't like about the story. I don't agree with the author's politics (Keynesian economics? Bleh!) and it has some of the absurd fanservice elements, but it's a pretty good "isekai hero becomes king" story that shows the hero engaging with realpolitik and trying to address the problems in leadership. I haven't read that far into it though, so I don't know if the story ends up being all that great.

What I do like is the story of it. The idea of being summoned not to use some OP superpower to fight demons and get girls, but to use your political savvy to improve this world.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

So just how educated is this Ordinary High School Student? Because I don’t think someone of average intelligence could help fix the economy or simply knowing of base concepts

Unless he was mentioned to be studying economics, finance, accounting, logistics and politics in advance.

 

[BF110C4]

For me my the series that better shows how a relatively normal isekai protagonist would change the setting with mundane knowledge is Honzuki no Gekokujou or Ascendance of a Bookworm. Despite the fact that she was obsessed with reading in her previous life her actual knowledge base is quite mundane and the setting itself does not make it easy for her to actually make the full use of it.

She is reincarnated as the youngest daughter of a poor family in a place and time where reading is limited to merchants and nobles, papyrus and chalk boards are the only mediums for writing and a book is a very restricted item, or in other words hell for a bibliophile. So she starts experimenting in how to make different forms of writing mediums going from clay to a primitive form of paper with many attempts ending in failure. And the way she finances those experiments? Very mundane arts and crafts that gain her some money, specially for young children, but is not a fortune by itself.

Even the rest of her modern skills such as knowledge of arithmetic and health concerns while interesting and out of the norm from someone of her social level are not groundbreaking by themselves, and at no point she acts like the usual isekai genious that can stop an epidemic simply by teaching people to wash their hands.

 

[The Name of Love]

So just how educated is this Ordinary High School Student? Because I don’t think someone of average intelligence could help fix the economy or simply knowing of base concepts

Unless he was mentioned to be studying economics, finance, accounting, logistics and politics in advance.

I think he had ambitions to become Japan's prime minister if I remember correctly, but as far as I know, he's a regular high school student. I think his competence at the king job is basically his "cheat" ability.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I think he had ambitions to become Japan's prime minister if I remember correctly, but as far as I know, he's a regular high school student. I think his competence at the king job is basically his "cheat" ability.

Reminds me of Meikyuu Black Company, a manga that wasn’t an LN/WN before publishing so the narrative doesn’t sound like some sort of sociopathic elementary schooler learning english and barely having any emotion to descriptions and actions, where the MC before being unwillingly Isekai’d was a very good investor to the point he lived off his investments.

Then he gets isekai’d to a magical world with corporations and both gets in debt and is stuck working a manual labor job at a Mining-Dungeon.....let’s just say his hopes for a fine life keep getting crushed by increased expenditures from a Dragon-Loli

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Just realised this, most Isekai in Japan never does Space, or am I wrong? Because I’ve noticed SI fics that involve spaceships and expanding empires and fleets and increasingly advanced technologies

 

[Pocky Balboa]

Just realised this, most Isekai in Japan never does Space, or am I wrong? Because I’ve noticed SI fics that involve spaceships and expanding empires and fleets and increasingly advanced technologies

There's actually two with English fan translation, one being a reincarnation as a spaceship's AI and another (a misunderstanding/comedy one) reincarnating as a noble ruling a poor planetary system. There's some more in Narou that I remember seeing, but as the author of latter states, SciFi isekai isn't as popular as fantasy ones in Japan.