Doryoku Shisugita Sekai Saikyou no Butouka ha, Mahou Sekai wo Yoyuu de Ikinuku. - Vol. 2 Ch. 15

[Solipsist]

A butt tattoo transplant is a no-no, but taking drugs to gain mana is okay?
Yeah, this really cannot be classed as "parody" anymore. It's just class-A incompetent writing that got some funding.

 

[Foreverhound]

Oh, right, I forgot this was an isekai.

 

[MinecraftNoob]

Just when I was starting to think that the whole isekai-part was only to explain why the MC is so focussed on getting magic and was already strong from the start. Turns out there´s more to it.

 

[Doomer]

didn't his mentor have no mana as well? was he also isekai'd?

 

[introvertchild]

@Doomer His mentor still has some mana, it's just very little. He said the mark is so faint you almost can't see it. Still there though.

 

[finalten]

cool

 

[welcome2atlantis]

Busted!

 

[Morose]

Doomer: I don't think he has no Mana, its more like he has extremely low levels of Mana.

 

[firosahoge]

shes SINGLE? Wife her up

 

[tranhi123]

Forever young waifu, i'm in.

 

[Talh]

@introvertchild @welcome2atlantis

Nope, that theory is already out of the question.
Did everyone here forget Noire?

Just a few chapters ago we learned that she did not have a mana seal either and only obtained one through that crazy researcher's transplantation.
And Noire is not someone with a memory from a past life.

 

[Daneya]

ty for the ch

 

[introvertchild]

@Talh ?? His mentor definitely has a faint mana spot. Dude says it himself. As for Noire, we don't know if she has past memories or not. But then, there might be more to the theory that Koron hasn't mentioned yet.

 

[Psychronia]

People talking about forgetting this is an isekai like it's a bad or unexpected thing.

This is kinda what an isekai needs to be. We're jump-started into a fantasy world with an easy excuse for exposition, but that's it. The fact that this story, despite it's extensive list of cliches, is enough of its own thing to avoid being grouped together with other Isekai is nothing but an achievement in my book.

 

[dh1ki]

oh yeah it’s isekai

 

[Ibri]

@Psychronia You don't really need an excuse for exposition in a story like this where he starts as child anyway, children get everything explained anyway. (And it is not like there aren't plenty excuses for exposition to go for, from uneducated farmer, to traveler, to just doing some exposition normally. Imo what world travel allows is getting the perspective of someone from a different world on the exposition. (Most often ours but in something like The Deathgate Cycle, the perspective of someone who wants to scout and prepare all these worlds for invasion is interesting too.))

About it being what isekai need to be, I think that is testament to how little the current crop does do with it. In a good portal fantasy book you are unlikely to forget the premise and that doesn't stop it being good.

 

[Psychronia]

@Ibri
You're not wrong. I think the main reason isekai is done so much (besides following the money) is because they're mostly written by newbie authors who aren't confident in their ability to drop exposition normally. An adult native to a foreign fantasy world is going to know things the readers don't no matter what, and children aren't normally mentally mature enough to be a perspective character while receiving exposition (reincarnation fixes this, but someone from the same world would know already and someone not would make it an Isekai).

I do agree that we need more application of "outside perspective", though. Strangely, the first example of this that comes to my mind is Titus from Final Fantasy X. He's someone in a totally foreign world-technically an isekai protagonist-and needs to have everything explained to him.
But the writers don't stop there with it; he often innocently asks "why" when he gets explanations and starts getting people to wonder and question the reality they've lived their entire lives in.

 

[stal2walk]

Koron is mild material
Wife her pls