Are they annoyed that it’s catering more and more to creepy isekai slave harem and loli shit?
On a side note, most modern isekai give me the impression of catering to an ever increasingly capitalism fatigued society. People are so desperate to escape and I see isekai taking advantage of that in a rather unhealthy way, whisking the self-insert protagonist away to a world where he is the dominator of others. I find myself disliking most modern anime that people recommend to me because a lot of it has leaned hard into the worst tropes of the genre. That’s not to say that all modern anime is bad and that old anime didn’t have the same problems, but I’m finding the ones that get popular seem to all be shit I hate lol.
Cells at Work looks cute tho
I was going to recommend Reincarnation of a Bookworm but like the main character with vast knowledge on how to create books and has magic capabilities is nothing more than a libertarian.
She is born into a poor family, sees and hears regularly that nobles are able to do whatever and the peasants cannot fo anything. Yet she’s born with an insane amount of magic is capable of bringing books to the masses, has several run ins with death due to mobility. Yet, yet she allows herself to be adopted by a prince/king and will. Use her knowledge for the betterment of the nobilty rather than starting a revolution.
Like legit its shown that the city state (or country) shes in lacks magically powerfully nobles, and her power is so massive that many other extremely powerful nobles fully capitulate to several of her demands at several points in the story. Hell its mentioned the country recently had either a civil war or mass exodus of powerful individuals and now are scraping the bottom of the barrel for magical users for use in their knights order. But rather than seeing this as “hey I may be so powerful that if rn I catch off guard the kingdoms 2 OP trump cards because they respect me I could just steamroll this empire because they lack power due to a recent civil war” and freeing her family from the caste just joins higher caste because hey that’ll allow her to have books!
Edit: I was going to recommend because I actually really liked and enjoyed the anime but as I began to write my thoughts about the plot I actually began hating it lol. Still a good slop with good world building which I love in stories
Yes libertarian by modern standards. She ends up running an orphanage and only the children who work in either gathering supplies for her, or making the books she wants get to eat. Granted they are only able to get the funds to eat by selling the books she’s a god send to those children.
They were literally just dying and starving while the church didn’t give two shits before her. And luckily many of those children now know how to read and write because of her and may have a chance at being writers for nobility rather than dying as 7yrs old.
Maybe the writer will have a time skip and she’ll start a revolution once her health improves but idk isekai always have that :lea-why: feel .
Okay maybe so in the manga or light novel. But in her anger state from what I’ve seen in the anime, she could go all Darth Vader and force choke the entirety of the nobility shown. It seems to take setup time to put up a barrier while the choke is essentially instantly.
And I’ll grant you her fragile health would make a revolution difficult for her currently, but her mind is mid-20’s to early-30’s. She kind of accepted that this how society is and not want to change it drastically. The only changes we’ve seen have been in ways that further her only goal of getting more books. Sure that ended up saving a few dozen orphans from starving, but Myne bringing forth “modern” book manufacturing process could very easily bring forth a cultural revolution. Thats substantially more change than I could do if say I was isekai’d.
