Yeah I can see why that would be generate backlash. Like having parodies of isekai characters doing evil shit could be a good concept but I think something like that would've been better as a reveal later in the manga cause that sounds like it's done for shock for the sake of it. This sounds like a failed deconstruction story.
I think its rather a big name author needs to make a decent work in general regardless of shitting on it or not.
I remember reading an article about it a long time ago and IIRC that's pretty much correct. Doujins are tolerated because there is the understanding that they're circulated within a niche fan community of convention-goers and the profit that doujin circles make from them is usually not that much, mostly just to cover the printing costs. Which is part of why doujin artists hate it when those gaijin pigs scanlate their stuff and spread it around everywhere online.
Cheat Slayer getting shitcanned gets much funnier in context and this doesn't fully represent how much of a seething hack the author is.
It also doesn't help Cheat Slayer that it was parodying Konosuba and Re;Zero which are actually pretty subversive of the Isekai genre since both have main characters that are losers or have shit powers instead of common isekai tropes of the main character being a gigachad surrounded by cheerleaders.
Oh yes, 'subversive'. Konosuba is good but Zero is shit.
That's not my point, was just saying it's really retarded to parody series that by themselves poke fun at Isekai tropes in very different ways.
Not really. Space Balls doesn't have a coherent plot with parts meant to be taken seriously.
You're talking about Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, right? Last I checked, Season 2 was a go for July.
No, Fruits Basket.
I watched Konosuba knowing nothing about Isekai, and still thought it was funny. The humor is IMO like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
I hear that Vision of Escaflowne and The Twelve Kingdoms are genuinely good Isekai and they were made before Isekai became a mainstay genre with SAO and all the weird shit that brought from 2012 onward.
Tbf, regardless of how you feel about the series, its pretty funny that author writes the parodied characters as op chads and then uses the schizo whose superpower is dying a lot.
The Virgin Subaru vs The Chad Honda
It's not like all the characters that were parodied were the archetype of "good guys" in their own stories either and a few felt redundant. I'd hardly consider Tanya or Ainz to be the "hero" of their worlds, their stories are more like we are getting to watch from the villain's perspective.
Yeah that’s also an issue honestly the best way to do an Isekai parody is to make original characters not based on anyone (but inspiration from the very bad isekai like smartphone for example) since a lot of the popular isekai that are well liked beyond just the target demographic of self insert faggots have flawed protagonists.