In Crime and Punishment, the drunkard Marmeladov gets hit by a carriage and dies. In a very low-brow fashion typical of Dostoevsky, Marmeladov isn’t reborn in a fantasy world with a game-like system that would help him rise to the top.
Why do so many people like this author?
I’m so tired of these “isekais with a twist”, where it is clear that the author didn’t actually want to write an isekai, but that was the only thing they could get greenlit. I don’t blame Dostoevsky, we all do what we can to make ends meet, but a story where a guy gets isekaid but we follow the people left behind in the original world is just ridiculous.
I think they mostly start as like semi-free web fiction being published chapter by chapter, and the most popular ones get turned into actual light novels with some backing which can then later be picked up by a mangaka and/or turned into an anime series if they’re popular enough. That’s why the titles are basically a story pitch and why there’s so much “genre fiction, with a twist” that come out of it: they’re trying to at once appeal to a popular genre audience while at the same time standing out from the crowd.
