Editing Isekai (section)

===More General Gripes===
* You ever notice how Isekai titles are always extremely long and ridiculously specific? Apparently Japanese adolescents are too busy to read the blurbs on light novels and manga, so they just put the blurb right in the title. How lazy can you get?
* While many stories are just copycats of one another, some will ''attempt'' to put an "original spin" on the genre, usually by adding a gimmick, such as the protagonist being a LITERAL VENDING MACHINE or a slime that can absorb powers. If done well, the story has some value in being interesting and exploring otherwise ignored facets of an overused genre. Done poorly, it comes across as just plain tiresome, especially if the gimmick is the only thing keeping the story afloat when the characters and plot fail to impress.
* [[weeaboo|O MY GLORIOUS NIPPON STEEL FOLDED OVER 9000 TIMES]]. Basically, just to show how self-righteously superior the Japanese and only the Japanese are compared to the other world.  Generally, it involves the reincarnated protagonist being homesick for their Japanese food and introducing amazing new flavors to the fantasy world: <s>jelly donuts</s> rice balls, soy sauce, and miso paste are the most common. Despite Japan and Asia in general being a huge market for Western fast-food chains, the protagonists are always treated as big fucking deals for introducing soy sauce over rice.  [[Katanas are Underpowered in d20|Katanas are also introduced in the other world to prove their superiority]], though exaggerated sword bullshit is the norm for Western and Eastern fiction alike. 
** GATE is worth calling out here as the worst or at least one of the most infamous examples of this, where the Japanese military in a medieval fantasy world is wreaking havoc with their modern weaponry against villains with single-digit IQ or self-preservation. This is not exactly unreasonable nor immersive breaking to imagine, even for the decidedly modest Japanese Self Defense Force, but it’s taken to the point where it comes across as a distasteful, tone deaf, juvenile power fantasy and a cheesy (but icky, like spoiled brie) recruitment ad targeting otaku: "Want to be a real hero? We kill more <s>orcs</s> fantasy Romans before 9AM than most <s>Paladins</s> barbarians do all day!" Which is expected with the author being a [[Blood Pact|right-wing JSDF veteran]]. Call it "Hard Otaku Making Hard Decisions (While Hard)".
*"Japanese" language or Japanese traits (black hair, white skin) being something sacred or ancient or special in the isekai world. Usually used to mean that some "undecipherable script of the Ancients" is just 21st-century Japanese carved on a plaque somewhere without any further development. If the author is going for cheap [[Edgy|edge]] boosts, anything related to the Japanese is a symptom of a curse or a demonic heritage. And it's just as stupid as African natives suddenly worshipping white people as gods.
* Some of the edgier Isekai have a tendency to deal with such serious issues as rape, [[slavery]], racism and genocide... which would be fine, if they didn't usually do so in such an immature, sociopathic and/or poorly handled way that you start to hate either the author's suspected age group, the whole nation of Japan (or whatever country produced it), or humanity in general just by association with this edgelord garbage.
* Even worse are the ones that are blatantly hypocritical or edgy regarding darker issues of mankind. For example, slavery is depicted as an immaturely handled "bad thing" (It's ok to abuse, kill, or use up slaves in deadly forced labor if no good user buys them- even ancient societies had standards for such issues), but when the protagonist also invests himself in that practice, all of a sudden, it is considered okay since he is considered a 'hero' and therefore, a 'good guy'. Because gosh, what our MC is doing couldn't possibly be considered slavery since he treats his property with such care and tenderness... '''No.''' Fuck off with that gaslighting [[bullshit]]. Either slavery is a bad thing or a good thing, no in-betweens. You can't have your cake and eat it too, especially with extremely dark topics like this. To pull this stunt reeks of dishonesty and bad faith. It reaches ludicrous levels of retardation when a righteous and good kingdom with plenty of magic to bypass labor, complete with knights and paladins and kind kings, has a bustling, legal slave trade where women are so ill-kept it's counterproductive to their value, a vampire noble can buy and drain an entire stable of girls and the burnt corpses get discovered, and everyone shrugs it off an an oopsie.
* Constant reuse of the same mythological terms. Always expect to hear about the big gods of Olympus, always expect a half-assed version of Norse Mythology, and so on. This is especially egregious in any setting where you see multiple pantheons coexisting in the same area.