>Former Dengeki Bunko editor-in-chief and A Certain Magical Index and Sword Art Online editor Kazuma Miki has been dipping his toes into writing novels himself. On February 10, he started publishing a web novel on the online novel website "Shōsetsuka ni Narō." The story is titled Cheat no Ō: Isekai Tensei no Saikyō Yūsha VS Mura no Jūnin (The Cheat King: The Strongest Hero Reincarnated in Another World VS A Villager), and an abridged synopsis is translated as follows:
>What if...
>Instead of being the overpowered protagonist reincarnated into another world (the cheat side), you're one of those people whose lives are trampled on (the side being cheated)...?
>Yuri is a young boy from a certain village and an aspiring soldier. If he keeps up his diligent hard work, he may even be able to pass the test to become a member of the imperial knights. But one day, his village becomes a sea of fire. Yuri is attacked by the "shadow" that killed his family. In the face of such uncanny and overwhelming power, he cannot make a single dent.
>Later, he discovers that these "shadows" were invincible beings reincarnated from a different world called "modern Japan," armed with the strongest bonus specs.
Having narrowly avoided death, Yuri swears to defeat the mysterious "shadow." To do that, he borrows the power of the god of darkness lurking in this world's abyss. He obtains the power of "immortality" - no matter how many times he dies, he'll rise again.
>His sworn enemy is called "the hero." So he'll become "the demon king."
So far, Konosuba is the only isekai that parodied and deconstructed the genre to great effect
MC remained underpowered and used nothing but his smarts and art of the asshole
Justin Martinez
Fuck off.
Asher Young
Try Eminence.
Hudson Rogers
that's a funny way of saying plot armour
Gavin Rogers
>the "heroes" are evil and wronged the protagonist >mc aapiring to become a demon king >the only thing that changes this from a regular revenge plot with isekai elements is the fact that he starts out as a member of the fantasy world from the jump
Certainly sounds like he did get inspiration from his other editing jobs though.
Xavier Young
Best parody is re:monster.
Nathan Cox
Simply by writing a random synopsis he bested reki, how insane is he.
Nicholas Powell
>Editor who cares?
Asher Perez
Editors are the true hero that stop the writers to fuck up their own series. Unless the writer is totally shit, which nothing can be done.
Noah Price
but who will edit the editor?
Gabriel Johnson
Sometimes the editors can create problems that didn't originally exist too.
Henry Bailey
Wow that guy's really handsome for an LN writer.
Robert Bailey
It's Miki, the legendary fucker who danced on stage.
John Evans
>Certainly sounds like he did get inspiration from his other editing jobs though. Well, you are what you read
To prevent stagnation, you must read different genres This encompasses all forms of art to avoid cases of repetition, same-face syndrome, and painful cliches
Liam Evans
Readers In this case the writer needs to troll his editor by playing 4D chess. Made up shit, wait until the editor correct him, then he offers his original plan which is better.
Adam Turner
Editor-in-chief.
Lucas Torres
But Miki is an Editor-in-chief. Who will edit him?
Dylan Gutierrez
Promoted editor dude
Jaxon Foster
Unnecessary, really. They already passed the language course and should be qualified for the role. Should they make mistakes, it would be noticed only by fellow scholars
Lucas Anderson
The guy transformed a complete shitshow int something somewhat readable. I think he deserves some praise.
John Barnes
Master chief
Jeremiah Roberts
>Another isekai
Levi Hernandez
Now the next thing we need is for Reki to stop with the garbage and continue the progressive novels full-time.
Robert Reed
But we already had Apocalypse Witch and it skipped the isekai.
Sounds like shit Kamachi or even Reki premises sounds more interesting
Jonathan Russell
Himself.
Matthew Smith
wow what a hack
Leo Flores
>and it skipped the isekai That explains why I've never heard of it then.
Jace Lopez
It's pretty fun, and has already added another case of tactical suicide to Kamachi's series. Just don't let the first few pages cause you to drop it, Kamachi fell back into a bad old habit briefly at the start.
Robert Flores
I understand playing second fiddle for a pile of crap like SAO(now, imagine we got the curated version, where he beat down the most ridiculous ideas) makes you feel kind of like, what the hell, if he can - anyone can, but what the fuck is that shit
Ayden Campbell
>What if we write a story about some woefully underpowered dude in an otherwise powerwankfest and then turn around within the first few chapters and have him become OP as shit. Wow
Mason Carter
>he borrows the power of the god of darkness lurking in this world's abyss. He obtains the power of "immortality
Jesus...
Samuel Clark
seems to be a native isekai, but OP mob is such an overdone concept at this point too.
Julian Rogers
We need to stop with this entire LN meme.
Ryder Morgan
Explain how Kuzuma is underpowered? Seriously his plot armor is one of the strongest I’ve read. It is unfortunate it’s a comedy series. If it were more serious and not a beta, he would be having a merry time with all the female characters.
Jose Bell
>immortal darkness shadow death god japan cheat! cringing pretty hard at this, is he aware of how juvenile his ideas are?
Julian Davis
So its just LN Fire Punch?
Lucas Wood
The hell is overpowered on him? Complaining about plot armor in comedy is moronic. He just wins out of actual smarts. Even his superior luck is not available at the direst of times
Jason Ramirez
seems interesting.
Lucas Edwards
Konosuba is not a parody. It might sometimes subvert things but it's still fairly standard.
He has 'luck" which triggers whenever convenient and revives when the enemy is powerful. He attains substantial wealth pretty early. He gains the favor of multiple prominent nobles.
Michael Collins
Next you'll tell me Animal Farm isn't satire because Napoleon doesn't just end up as bacon.
Levi Roberts
next it'll be a harry potter analogy public education was a mistake
Jason Martin
Did you just missed S1 where they literally live in a manger, did construction, eaten by frogs, and their rewards for defeating a general put them in even larger debt because they had to pay for the repair of the walls?
Even in season 2, it took them some episodes more to obtain a filthy haunted mansion
Grayson Morgan
>living in a mansion >but muh debt that will be conveniently resolved or delayed as is needed
Adrian Allen
>The story is titled Cheat no Ō: Isekai Tensei no Saikyō Yūsha VS Mura no Jūnin >long arse title >English words in it >one of them is "cheat", "skill", or "slow life" This is garbage. Even if he's thinking outside the box and making the protagonist a different person than the main character, he's just vomiting your typical isekai tropes like there's no tomorrow.
Xavier Diaz
Don't move the goalpost now Even Aqua was unable to make the most of her own worshipers and was almost killed. Even after protecting them, all they felt was loathe because Aqua destroyed their main source of income
That ain't substantial wealth to me
Mason Thomas
>living in a mansion eating fine >no they're actually really poor >they aren't even super rich without imaginary inconsequential debt yeah and it's not a harem because they all hate each other right?
Sebastian Hernandez
b-but its a deconstruction
Parker Evans
They ain't poor by S2 but they ain't rich at all, mate. Only Darkness and none of the team wanted to dig her gold either. Kazuma wanted her to marry someone so she can leave the party
Blake Peterson
>it's so terrible living in a mansion with a good diet surrounded by girls not being obscenely wealthy isekai deconstruction achieved
