>>53283218Mmm. While I don't hate isekais as a general rule myself, they are usually quite predictable with how they start out and develop over time. It isn't a surprise, seeing as they are usually power fantasies for any number of schmucks out there that want to indulge n a world by proxy and pretend to be in one that isn't as a shitty of a state that ours may be, depending on the person.
Me personally? I'd like some more variety in my isekai. Something to play around with, such as teleporting an settlement of people, their tech, culture, and prejudices, and see how that pans out as they and the world they are teleported to struggle to adapt to each other and new circumstances that each bring to the table. The chaos alone would be a delight to see pan out, especially if you get something going both ways.
Or hell, have someone else other than your typical young'un isekai lad/laddette teleported along with them, say an old man/woman mentor, lending their own wisdom and experiences to make things more interesting, perhaps as a deuteragonist or fellow protagonist of sorts to compliment the young character in their own way, their own sets of morals, experiences, history, and what not struggling to adapt to a different world, but perhaps having other ways to adapt more readily.
I.E: Maybe insert some Vietnam veteran grandpa who has seen some shit be taken along to the Pokemon world with their grandson, perhaps with a new, young body to compliment it so that they can kick ass and take names again. A contrast of old and new in a new world. I'd be interested to see how a Vietnam vet would interact with any given mon, say a empathic psychic or dark type who'd sense the potential darkness in such a man, and be drawn to them for their own various reasons. Not to mention the chaos that would ensue when they find out just the nature of what "our" world is like, and the environment that made them in the first place.
