You might as well just put "make a good story"
How do you make a good isekai without relying on either parody or satire?
Ryder Roberts
Landon Martinez
>No self insert protagonist
Right.
>No video game elements
Not necessarily. It's an overused trope, sure, but not bad on its own.
>No harem/shitty waifu bait
Harem + story is OK, the problem is when shitty writers think a harem is enough for a story.
Eli Lopez
>If you wanted to make it Good, you'd have to remove those two crutches, and really take a risk on an inaccessible story that people would just have to put the time in on to understand. Which is not a recipe for commercial success and as a result we probably will never really see it.
You haven’t explained why having one of these two crutches automatically makes a story bad
Mason Phillips
It's always like this
Harem, ecchi, power fantasies etc never ruins a story but when the story is literally just those genres it's boring as shit.
Dylan Cox
>How do you make a good isekai without relying on either parody or satire?
Cultivate
Anthony Wood
Slow life. Just make it comfy and fun without the need for parody.
Jeremiah Anderson
And cute gay dragons are always a plus.
William Bailey
Aaron Sanders
I just want a modern high fantasy isekai like Escaflowne or an isekai version of Guin Saga
Dominic Taylor
DON'T have the main character go into a fantasy land and use his knowledge of video games to become a god, or introduce crop rotation and mayonnaise and have everyone around him act like he's the smartest man that ever lived. In fact, just ignore the the whole "He's from the present era" aspect entirely since it almost never goes anywhere interesting and is mostly just used for some cheap wanking off of the protagonist, and thereby the reader. If you want to have a fantasy world, it should legitimately feel fantastical and amazing, undercutting everything with incredibly rote subversions about how the hero flaunts danger and just wants to bang a princess and disrespects the royalty and goes into the world to farm low level monsters for EXP is worse than playing things straight at this point