I haven’t actually read any isekai. Not by that modern Japanese definition anyway. Komi Can’t Communicate is what I was most recently reading through, but now I’m caught up and have to wait for more. I don’t have a problem with the concept or anything I just don’t know if there’s a series I want to commit to. I knew I liked Komi because I saw the anime on Netflix and wanted to see the comics. I read One Punch Man, MHA, & One Piece. Sometimes the MHA spinnoff, but I haven’t bought the actual books. Or more accurately bought them again in physical form because when I originally bough them it was digital on the VIZ app, but they discontinued it for IOS so I lost access to them except through the website, which is balls. So I learned a harsh lesson about not buying digital comics. Now I buy a physical copy and steal a digital version so they can’t take it away from me. I actually “own” and entire series digitally on VIZ. Something about the board game GO. I forget the title. Plus a couple of volumes of Inu Yasha. Which I didn’t finish out because somehow VIZ lost the license to Inu Yasha. Which is fine because by that time I was learning that digital is a fucking scam.
What was I talking about?
Whatever, I dunno. All I know is that Japan has a comics culture that’s much more like America’s was before the censors fucked it all up way back in the day. You can read all kinds of slice of life junk & it doesn’t have to be shoe horned into your superhero books because the American industry won’t take the time to actually build the culture. No, you have to go to webcomics for that stuff, where the creators toil for scraps. Although really everybody in a creative job at the actually ground level has to work for scraps in hopes that Hollywod will come and steal their IP for a handful beans.
I was reading some other ones about annoying girls teasing generic protagonists but I forget the names & I haven’t actually bought the books, but I think they are being printed right now. When I remember what they are I probably will. Quirky girls in awkward romances with generic boys is my spirit animal. Truly the most epic of fantasies.

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