I enjoy the genre, but I am getting so thoroughly sick of reading half way into a book and then feeling like I’ve wasted my time, and potentially money, when the main character puts up no fight against things like:
Forced marriage, slavery, violence against women and all those other *wonderful* (/s) things that were oh so common a few hundred years ago.
Hell, I’d also like one where they’re angry about the whole situation, but I doubt anyone has written that yet.
by Xirithas
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How about the original isekai, *A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court*
In Other Lands by Sarah Reese Brennan isn’t Japanese manga at all (and there are some line editing issues as I understand it’s self published) but I really enjoyed it and it has a protagonist who strongly sticks to his principles regardless of the norms of the magical world
>Hell, I’d also like one where they’re angry about the whole situation, but I doubt anyone has written that yet.
Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, Donaldson, however, some of your other hated tropes rear their head. I only read the first, 2 decades ago. Skimmed the 2nd, amd didn’t bother with the rest.
Luck’s Voice series by Daniel Schinhofen
The first book is called Suited For Luck.
MC fights racism, slavery, religious fanaticism, all while being the ‘Voice’ for a Goddess that technically allows multiple wives. The base story was good and well told, interrupted by okay sex scenes. The MC kindness and how he cared for those close to him are what kept me reading though.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57505/his-soul-is-marching-on-to-another-world-or-the
Someone else got even more fed up with isekai just accepting slavery and decided to send John Brown