KoraL Just a brief explanation regarding reincarnation, especially since it's an Asian concept and some misunderstandings may arise from it.

For most reincarnations, you don't simply replace an existing soul. In Buddhism, for example, the belief is that when you die, your soul continues to exist and usually exists somewhere (in Chinese mythology, you go to the underworld and wait in this super-long line to drink some soup/tea of forgetting brewed by Grandma Meng after crossing a bridge, and then you get reborn). It's more of a rebirth, where your soul is reborn in a new body, a new family, new time. You don't simply come in and replace an existing soul. The soul is eternal and indestructible, the physical body is not. Many religions state that reincarnation occurs many times - your modern life today could possibly be the hundredth time your immortal soul has been reborn and living in the material world. In Budhism, you get reborn and reincarnated again and again until you finally attain enlightenment and go to Nirvana - that's the goal of all practitioners of Buddhism. To go to Nirvana and break out of the cycle of death and rebirth.

The existing soul being replaced is transmigration. Usually what happens in most stories is that when the main character transmigrates, it's usually into a dead body. The previous soul in the body has gone to the underworld because he/she has died. In many stories, it's simply a reawakening - a rude shock to the head, and you suddenly regain memories of your past life (this is basically reincarnation, but skipping forward so that we don't have to go through the whole baby and child stage, which can be boring and tedious). But if you're worried about the replacement of soul, that soul usually just goes to the underworld or afterlife because it works on the premise of he/she died, and this random assassin/marine/soldier/martial artist/genius from another world also died and his or her soul decides to go into the dead body and reanimate it for some reason.

So you don't really need a society or universe at all. I hope this explanation helps.

      Tomoyuki I meant the going back to a younger version of yourself "reincarnation" where I suppose you can call it a prophesy which adds memories, but if it isn't, then you've replaced an earlier iteration of your soul (possibly from a parallel dimension). There are also plenty of novels where the transmigrator enters an existing body which may not necessarily have died at that point in time especially if they "enter a book" to change the cannon fodder's future.

      Besides, it's a chance to rewrite lore. Just because a few billion people believe something doesn't mean you can't create an alternative like the Pastafarian pasta monster.

          KoraL I don't think parallel dimensions come into play when you return to a younger version of yourself. We call those second-chancers or second lifers, I believe. Rather than having alternate souls and dimensions, it's based off game logic where you pretty much load a game from a checkpoint or saved file.

          I mean, you can, but what's so interesting about reading about a bunch of souls gathering in an alternative society or universe? Unless the story is about this poor soul trying to find a way to take back his body, there really isn't much you can do with the alternative universe because it's pretty much the same isekai template. For example: I got transmigrated into another universe because someone took over my body, so now I'm either going to turn into an overpowered god to rule over this new universe, or I shall live a slow life without being bullied in my previous life! In which case, the whole "new universe" and "original soul" become redundant. It becomes isekai all over again. You are just replacing "run over by truck-kun and summoned to another world" with "someone just forced my soul out of my body, and my soul got transported into another world." But the outcome and story will be the same. Are you ever going to make use of the fact that your original body got taken from you, or are you just going to live a slow life in this new universe like half of the isekai slow life protagonists out there?

          Now, if your story is about the poor soul trying to take back his body from this powerful ex-god/ex-martial artist or whatever, that would make for a different, original and interesting story. But if you do that, the whole "other universe" becomes redundant. You need a reason for why the soul doesn't want to simply live in the new universe and take back his body. Maybe those whose bodies get taken by transmigrators are forced into hell, and to escape eternal suffering, they must find a way to regain their bodies from these audacious transmigrators who rudely steal their bodies from them? In Dead Mount Death Play, the guy doesn't want to take his body back from the necromancer lord who took over because his life sucks, and he instead pleads with the necromancer lord to help place his soul in a robot (for now he's stuck inside a stuffed animal as a gag). Apparently he wants to be a robot.

          If you want to rewrite lore, you have to make it interesting. Changing the lore is itself pointless unless you can write a fresh, interesting story with the changed lore, otherwise you might as well not bother. Unless you do something interesting with your pasta monster, why would anyone want to read about a pasta monster? Is he going to pasta-rape girls? Is he going to become a god of foods? Will he create a world of food (where all the plants and animals are pretty much food-based, like seas of soup, plant creatures with literal peashooters, takoyaki with tentacles)? Or maybe the pasta monster is a dungeon core that creates a food dungeon? Will he evolve into some new dish? What's so interesting about a pasta monster?

              Tomoyuki

              You brain dead moron,why are you typing all that nonsense.

              My story isn’t about isekai reincarnation ,it is about different people getting same memory of earth tech and also MC memory so they use it for different purposes

              Just like we using internet for pleasure and enjoyment while you use it to torture others with spamming long long sentences,you can freaking write a novel with what what you type in comments

                  MAKKAPATI Because I was responding to KoraL. I wasn't talking about your story at all.

                  Sometimes, I think you get off from insulting me. It sounds like you jerk off every time you call me dumb or a moron. I know it brings you pleasure to insult me every chance you get, but gosh, your obsession is disturbing. You need to see a therapist and curb your fetish.

                      how much you can pay for it? The average price for 1000 words is around 25 - 30$. If you could afford to pay, send me a message then I will introduce you a good part-time writer at my Apknite company.

                        paul199192
                        Oh, really? oO I think it's very expensive, it's work, OK, but hey... 1k word for $25... that's $25 for not even two pages. Basically, to write a book of 200k words, it costs a minimum of 5000$. Erh... it still hurts the wallet, at this price you might as well write it yourself, especially since WebNovel are more generally stories with no real end. So it could get more expensive. If you really want to have people making proposals, you should make regressive rates (maybe you already do, in these cases nvm). However, Makka would have to know the length (roughly speaking) of his novel, like in 3, 4 volumes or say the number of words that his story should make (roughly speaking).

                          Tomoyuki You've never heard about the Pastafarian religion? It's a real thing and was meant to be used as a real life example of making up a new standard for core belief system because it's a religion that would not take too much offense at being called made up.

                          What I think would be interesting is not a single person or group jumping into a world and creating havoc, it's everyone in the world has been uprooted (I suppose this gets similar to trapped in a game) but we get different background cultures and eras for these people. It should probably center more about the society itself than any individual.
                          Do you actually care or do you simply want to knock down anything isekai?

                              KoraL
                              Pastafarianism is a parody of religion, not a true religion. Basically, God is a spaghetti with two meat balls, so well... Taking that as an example is not really valid.
                              After that I have to admit that creating an Isekai story with this "religion" would be fun and refreshing, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the story of @MAKKAPATI .
                              So yes, we no longer talk about the same thing at all.

                                  Zetheryl
                                  That's because you see people's bullshit and everyone spits on each other, that's why xD

                                      Of course I ain’t a novel expert but I am trying to write a novel here with the help of a person based on a outline I have,it’s a bit long one but I’ll make it short without any fillers to keep it interesting,all of you can check it out “Forced Transmigration “ i update only 1 chapter per day ,can’t spare more time than that for a novel ,however if you have any suggestions and any ideas to improvise it I don’t mind adding you as co-author and we can work it out together,I just wanna have some fun in making a novel that’s all.
                                      But if you are a critic like @Tomoyuki please don’t even think of reading my novel nor comment.

                                      I am just trying to make a novel more interesting and few twists that’s all.

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