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NEWS: Kakegurui Writer Homura Kawamoto's Isekai Revenge Manga Canceled After 1 Chapter

Yea, sarcasm,parody, dark humor etc.... Don't work in Japan at all. Walking on eggshells trying any of that out there. Maybe like 5% of the population understand that type of thing, but the rest will force you out.

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The story begins when one of the people Lute admires, Louis Crawford, appears.

This was the one character from that image floating around online where I didn't get the reference. The others were mostly obvious even without the handy pictures of their counterparts underneath:

glafrun wrote:

Yea, sarcasm, parody, dark humor etc.... Don't work in Japan at all. Walking on eggshells trying any of that out there. Maybe like 5% of the population understand that type of thing, but the rest will force you out.

(Formerly) Super sarcastic guy that once lived in Japan here that can confirm.
They took everything I said at face value and it made my life very difficult. Because I'm a big dummy on the spectrum, it took me too long to realize what I was doing to myself.

To this day, I still avoid saying sarcastic or dark humor.

「ルーパー」ホンダ・ユウヤ
"Looper" Honda Yuuya (Subaru Natsuki)

And yet Dragon Ball has an evil version of Super Sentai with the Ginyu Force, One-Punch Man's first villain was a recolored Piccolo, half the jokes in Gintama are references, and Shinji Ikari is basically Amuro Ray if he was mentally unequipped to be a mech pilot.

Shay Guy wrote:

Quote: The story begins when one of the people Lute admires, Louis Crawford, appears. This was the one character from that image floating around online where I didn't get the reference. The others were mostly obvious even without the handy pictures of their counterparts underneath:

Apparently, Louis Crawford is an expy of the protagonist of Magi's grandson, Shin:
Shin Walford - God's Messenger
Louis Crawford - God's Mistake

I might not have like Magi's grandson but making an expy of Shin that is also a rapist and murderer is a bit much. And that for me is one of two main issues with this work.
1) Making edgy expys of inoffensive protagonists like Bakarina or Shijou comes across as really mean-spirited. That said, most of these expies come across like the author is envious of more popular works.

2) Isekai already get accused of being edgy, especially the revenge ones. This only stands out for how brazen it is. Not because of how edgy it gets, nor is it the first isekai to have expys of other isekai characters (E.g. Ren, Sword hero, from Shield hero is an expy of Kirito) but because of how obvious the expys are. The author clearly wanted to provoke people. They just bit off more than they could chew.

glafrun wrote:

Yea, sarcasm, parody, dark humor etc.... Don't work in Japan at all.

(Formerly) Super sarcastic guy that once lived in Japan here that can confirm.
They took everything I said at face value and it made my life very difficult.

Animeking1108 wrote:

And yet Dragon Ball has an evil version of Super Sentai with the Ginyu Force, One-Punch Man's first villain was a recolored Piccolo, half the jokes in Gintama are references, and Shinji Ikari is basically Amuro Ray if he was mentally unequipped to be a mech pilot.

Because those are archetype, not full blow copy paste characters. You can't copyright an archetype.

1) Making edgy expys of inoffensive protagonists like Bakarina or Shijou comes across as really mean-spirited. That said, most of these expies come across like the author is envious of more popular works.

HAL14 wrote:

1) Making edgy expys of inoffensive protagonists like Bakarina or Shijou comes across as really mean-spirited. That said, most of these expies come across like the author is envious of more popular works.

This is where I fall as someone who doesn't have a lot of love for the original protagonists the manga is "spoofing."

I originally looked into it because I thought the idea of isekai protagonists being seen as the villains could be an interesting meta story from the POV of a regular joe. Unfortunately, the mangaka's way of making these characters into villains was the most hackneyed, ridiculous over the top evil achetypes imaginable. It really did come across as gross and bitter towards series that--again--I personally don't even like that much.

This was the one character from that image floating around online where I didn't get the reference. The others were mostly obvious even without the handy pictures of their counterparts underneath:

「異世界レストラン」四条雪子
"Isekai restaurant" Shijou Yukiko (presumably someone from Restaurant to Another World)