Yajin Tensei
Karate Survivor in Another World

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Yajin Tensei is a little like what you would expect an isekai with functioning humans to be like. An average guy who learnt some karate is transported to another world, shenanigans ensue. Two things though, make this piece stand out to me as something more than just your average isekai manga. For one, it's heavily subversive, and comedically self-aware about it. Don't expect waifus or harem's here. The world more than anything else resembles the kind of gritty darkness of Berserk(though it never goes full on dark) than it does arifureta or shield hero.

More importantly, the author understands the genre he's writing for extremely well. ... Yajin Tensei is an adventure story, first and foremost. It's a picaresque novel in the vein of Tintin or Raiders of the Lost Ark. It appeals to the exact same sentiment as One Piece would. It's not a work of great depth, though there are occasional moral ponderings by our main character. It's an extremely fun story to follow along, and it handles the subject matter well. And in a sense I have little else to ask of an adventure novel than that. Would I reccomend it? Absolutely, one of the best written works of genre fiction out there.

Realistic. Grounded.
From all these Overpowered isekai mangas and animes this is exactly what I was searching for, Realistic. Struggling to level, expected real emotions of a person. Human nature in a harsh society.
The story is mostly on the survival side, with no grand goal for the protagonist. Art is neither a masterpiece nor a garbage. The protagonist has a kind heart at its core but can do anything for its survival. Overall relatable protagonist.
The fighting is great. The writer did his research on martial arts doing this story.
Overall, I highly recommend it if you want something close to life.

Yajin Tensei is good but not great, but it has the potential to be great. The pace of the story and storytelling is great. But it is severely held beck by the art style. The world feels like your looking at in through a magic ball at times, with some parts of the page being full of detail and life but the background literally just being blank with no attempt to fill it in. Now there are sometimes in the manga where this works really well to show the emotions of the characters, but most of the time it just feels lazy. To sum it ... up if the manga didn't look like a half finished canvas it would probably be an 8/10 but at this time I'm going to put it as a 6/10 solely for the storytelling being as good as it is.