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'.