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Tanya isn't really that great. It's good, but I expected it to be more ruthless and blatant in its nazisms rather than the odd pussyfooting, semi-unamibitious warmongering in a war without immediately obvious benefits and goals. It could've been a story about how a person's willingness to prove god wrong goes as so far as to be a major contributor in the Nazis winning the war and showing all the nitty gritty suffering that comes as a byproduct of the ruthlessness, but it doesn't. And Tanya herself also frequently loses (or forgets? or the author forgets?) the personality of her previous self, who was supposed to be this cold, emotionless, ambitious businessman who didn't let anything stand in his way.

So it fails as an isekai and fails as a precursor to a dystopia in a world not unlike ours.

Meanwhile the gold standard for isekai is just Mushoku Tensei and that's about it (though while it doesn't really matter, it's technically in the tensei genre because the character is reborn rather than sent to another world as is). But I've raved about Mushoku Tensei enough times, and it's a long ass series with a pretty lukewarm beginning. But the setup of the world during his childhood is incredibly relevant to the emotionally gripping and very enlightening story of Rudeus' life as a whole. If anybody has the will to read it through, I feel as though I won't find many people who disagree that it's the greatest isekai ever written. I've not read many isekais I found genuinely good otherwise, though there are plenty that are far more interesting and entertaining than the anime "meta" for isekais.

Like Konjiki no Moji Tsukai is interesting, though it's a straight up adventure story more than anything. The main character's quirks and his propensity for warming up to people he supposedly finds annoying is a great aspect of the story. Also his powers are super interesting and not excessively overpowered, so it can read like a Hunter x Hunter type of shounen but is more often a human vs monster than human vs human, though I think that changes depending on the arc.

Arifureta is something that I honestly think is one of the most entertaining LNs I've read in my life. It starts out super strong then is super weak then is super strong when it gets to the revenge porn stuff. It doesn't give much shit about themes or teaching lessons. It's just an excessively chuuni series about a guy who tears a surprisingly well-establish world a new one. Sadly it's not like it's flawless. Every time I read back on it, I realize just how many parts are just... lol not good. Like do they have to spend every few paragraphs in a new city about all the guys gawking at Hajime's harem? I feel like everybody understood after the first town. White Fox, which is doing the Gob Slayer anime, is gonna do the anime for this one. It looked like a train wreck and was gonna release this year but they decided against it and the previews for it looks hell a lot better now.

Shieldbro is an obvious pick. I don't think Shieldbro is perfect. The rage Naofumi feels for being betrayed and tossed aside is ultimately not well-established enough that the later explanations kinda feel like a cop-out. Maybe the LN fixes this but the reveal of the true reason was too far from the rage we see Naofumi build up throughout the series. Because ultimately, he gets everything that he wants and gets all the revenge that he wants, so why is he still keeping up that attitude? Also the fact that this is a lampshade of other isekais come waaaay too late and is the most entertaining part of the series. The anime will definitely not cover this aspect of the series, but also getting to it means enduring the incredibly mundane village raising parts
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