The "transmigration" genre is where the author insert character is directly swapped into an existing character in another setting. So your main character wakes up in a different body (usually a prettier one) in a different world with a different background, sometimes with the memories of the "host" body they've taken over, and goes from there. True transmigration stories spend hundreds of chapters describing the main character living the life of their new identity.
The "quick transmigration" genre is where the main character transmigrates into different settings one after another. Less time (in terms of # of chapters) is spent per world, but the story as a whole benefits of being able to have many different settings. They MC's reason for world hopping so differs depending on how much effort the author spends on giving them a meta-story arc or backstory.
So in this particular story, for example, there's one main character (Ning Chu), who is hopping from world to world, each time replacing an existing character for a period of time. Her job is to fulfill the wish of the host she's replacing during her time in the body, usually something the original host themselves are not able to do either due to emotional attachments or lack of physical ability. She has the advantage over her hosts in that she knows the entire "storyline" of the world she's entering (essentially she knows the future of the setting to some extent), and she has various "cheats" which she accumulates over time (martial arts, supernatural powers, magic pills, etc.)
Each of the "Arcs" can mostly be read standalone. The chapters in between the transmigrations are kind of a separate meta-narrative.
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branchandroot
Explaining the genre
Date: 2018-04-11 04:29 pm (UTC)The "quick transmigration" genre is where the main character transmigrates into different settings one after another. Less time (in terms of # of chapters) is spent per world, but the story as a whole benefits of being able to have many different settings. They MC's reason for world hopping so differs depending on how much effort the author spends on giving them a meta-story arc or backstory.
So in this particular story, for example, there's one main character (Ning Chu), who is hopping from world to world, each time replacing an existing character for a period of time. Her job is to fulfill the wish of the host she's replacing during her time in the body, usually something the original host themselves are not able to do either due to emotional attachments or lack of physical ability. She has the advantage over her hosts in that she knows the entire "storyline" of the world she's entering (essentially she knows the future of the setting to some extent), and she has various "cheats" which she accumulates over time (martial arts, supernatural powers, magic pills, etc.)
Each of the "Arcs" can mostly be read standalone. The chapters in between the transmigrations are kind of a separate meta-narrative.