>>149998211
So, in both lives, he faced a modicum of adversity, with a ton of advantages to draw upon? And in his second go-round, he acknowledged the chance he had to actually make something of his life, particularly because of his knowledge of his previous existence, resolving to do better? And it's still a struggle because he remains a lech with a middle school education, and (again) part of his shtick is that he's trying to overcome those carried-over failings?
Oh man that sounds like what I said here
>>149997001
Half the appeal of isekai is the main character's genre savvy (the other half being that savvy's conflict with the fact that the MC does not and cannot know everything about the new world and therefore has to adjust). The most popular work in the genre yo dawgs that dynamic with a time reset mechanic, so he's pulling from experience both outside the world, and outside time in the same world.
It's cool if you want to see stuff subvert that, and maybe whoever does it will end up with the Gundam to the its super robot peers, but you kind of have to understand what isekai is, and what situation isekai protags find themselves in. Very few people who find themselves in an analogous situation is going to just ignore that they're coming in with a massive outside-context advantage, and very few are going to look at the contrast between their old and new lives and not have some revelations about how they relate to the world.
