Karate Baka Isekai
Karate Master Isekai

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You know the game. It's an Isekai story, it features an incredibly unlikely protagonist using some ridiculous power - just by the title you should already know what to expect, and it isn't the next greatest manga of all time, but damn can this be a good time.

While Karate Baka Isekai lures you in with the premise of martial arts and perhaps realism, yet its depiction of martial arts within the context of a Japanese Isekai fantasy completely throws out any concept of reality with our hero, who doesn't have any 'cheat powers' using the whacky powers of martial arts, Karate to decimate his ... opponent with exaggerated forms of martial arts. Needless to say, though our hero has no 'cheats' within the narrative, he has the 'cheat' of Karate. The man uses Karate to destroy armoured foes, dragons, orcs barehanded and it is gloriously ridiculous. Toss your brain your window and stop thinking for a moment and witness the spectacle that is 'Karate'. All in all, this manga is a really fun time with your generic Isekai setting, punchy action sequences, and simplistic martial art-based philosophies.

Yet despite its simple premise and action-packed execution, it should be noted that Karate Baka Isekai does have some aspirations toward more dramatic ideas, things it doesn't really do very well honestly. It wants to have some discussion on prejudice, inequality, racial conflict and all that but its dramatisation of these concepts is too black and white. The antagonists here are mostly portrayed as one-dimensional villains with their cartoonishly 'evil' grins and glare, and the whole story doesn't really have much to say about these ideas other than 'it is bad'.

I had liked this manga for a long while where i figured for an isekai manga i could relate to cause it had a main protagonist who had a well focused personality and sought to use his martial arts for good. however, as soon as the 9th chapter comes, one of the characters whos the king and father of the princess who is on good terms with the main protagonist ends up setting something that could be a trigger to a potential love interest between the protagonist and the princess. like, i wasn't expecting a possibly love interest between these characters not that there was ... any to begin with. the princess sees the protagonist as a teacher and admires him for his martial arts skills and hopes to learn from him which you'd figure it would be like they'd have a teacher and student relationship much later on since the the main protagonist modestly says hes not sure of taking any disciples in the beginning chapters while dealing with the important issues focused in the story and its fitting. but to have a character ship them together by making them marry when they are on complete opposites makes me angry and annoyed especially if you're a reader who at least would like to read one action manga with a main protagonist that doesn't have a love interest at all till the end of the story's debut. love interests and shipping characters is overrated and unfitting and i'd like to read horror and action manga that doesn't have for cool, interesting main protagonists thats put in a romantic-like relationship with anyone especially for an isekai genre where most of that is done so many times.