The problem with westfags is that they compare shit like "Reincarnated With A Trash Skill That Turns Out To Be The Strongest: Slow Life With A Battle Harem" with fucking "Moby Dick", which of course makes the west look infinitely superior, when you should be comparing it with similar teenager trash like Hunger Games or Harry Potter.
Isekai power scaling
Training arcs was a bad analogy. What about the MC getting more powerful through amazing adventures, and barely winning battles through the skin of his teeth? Like Luffy unlocking gear 2nd and 3rd during the Water 7 arc. Something about power having more weight when it's earned vs the cheap feeling of instant gratification
> Character sheet and skills
> Trying to be subversive but not actually
> Girls fall over heels for the MC just because
> Adventure guild
I say more to compare them to cape series
you know the biggest entertainment in America at this point in time
Harry Potter is a multi-billion dollar franchise that has theme parks around the world, including Japan. If you want to compare trash isekai to a western equivalent, then look at whatever garbage passes for comics nowadays
They're just dropping the pretense.
It's not like there are any real stakes in most anime/manga anyway due to plot armor and the power of friendship.
The key of combat is the tension. How do you get tension without the struggle? When the MC been able to cleave thought every challenge it will get old fast. That why OPM focus in the side characters more than Saitaman.
You know all fiction is a farce right? (otherwise it wouldn't be fiction), it's all about the execution.
I don't think that's a fair comparison because capeshit is made by extremely rich companies with millionaire budgets, unless you are talking about comics.
Isekai is literally just published fanfiction. Those crappy young adult novels that get published by the dozens seem like a much more appropiate comparison.
if only those retards didnt stop translating it for superficial reason