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I have a bootleg VHS of the original and it's glorious, the case is in Japanese but it's the English dub pirated with bad Chinese subtitles
I don't really think "must involve another world" is all that stringent of a qualifier for the genre literally called another world
Your definition of "world" meaning exclusively "planet" is the opposite of being precise or helpful.
All stories are made up. Every genre is fantasy!
I have solved media.
Incredibly powerful dude just shows up in a strange world? Could be Goku, could be any Isekai protag
Yeah, I can get the comparison since the story structures are similar. It's mostly the foundation I quibble about.
Please point out where I said this. At all.
I mean you can't because I never did but go right ahead and try, I can use the laugh.
And he goes to a bunch of different worlds for that matter.
But some people are also saying that isekai has to mean specifically traveling to another world from specifically contemporary Earth, and I think most people equate travel to another world in some form or another as a key part.
Frankly, I try (not always remember to though) to shorthand the shitty things as power fantasy RPG or something like that. I've got nothing against isekai in spirit. Certainly some are great. I was involved in the projects for translating some of the classic isekai VNs back in my youthful days. But lately... yeah, trashy power fantasies rigidly adhering to RPG mechanics sums up 98% of them, whether or not anybody's actually coming or going from anywhere.
To me another world is one that is fundamentally different from the reality of the original and can't be reached through conventional means. Earth and Frieza Planet 419 are on the same plane of existence and are separated by mundane distance, so they're both the same "world" as far as things go. Earth and Disboard, from No Game No Life, are not on the same plane of existence. You can't launch from Earth in a ship and reach Disboard, you need to leave your universe behind and enter the new one which is governed by entirely different rules such as Tet and the whole game magical contract system.
It's not literally called 'another world', it's literally called 'isekai'. Loanwords are not the same as speaking another language. You might as well argue that the Simpsons is anime because in Japanese that just means animation.
Otherwise, it's sparkling incel fanfiction.
There's simple translations for words in other languages and there's words that can't be directly translated. Isekai is one of the former, it has a direct translation and meaning.
Also Japan does consider Simpsons to be anime. Because to them all animation is anime. Feel free to tell them they're wrong, I'm sure they'll listen.
I google searched "Watanabe Isek" as a lark, mostly cause the idea of someone using that as a pen name amused me, and well
I have no idea why this made me laugh so much
You keep reminding me there's no second season.
do talk about gengar tho
Yes, that is what I’m trying to get across. If a Japanese person said it in Japanese, they’d be right. If an English person said it in English they’d get a bunch of funny looks. Because loanwords do not map 1-to-1 to their meaning in the source language.
I'm sorry you appear to have me mistaken for a small island nation when my official classification is semi-mobile landmass larger than a chicken but smaller than a horse. I wish you luck in addressing your complaints to the correct entity.
Overall, lovely show, enjoyed it, but have some mixed feelings about it as a whole.
And I guess Daida ordering Bojji killed was also okay because he learned his lesson. The less said about him marrying a woman twice+ his age the better.
On a more personal note, I enjoyed the show more before it turned into a battle anime, but ho hum, shonen gotta shonen. And Miranjo's backstory with Gosh Some Cultures Are Just Too Oppressed To Not Be Backstabbers is just, maybe let's not.
Also the romcom between the Tokusatsu Red Ranger and the Evil Empress is cute.
Honestly, I thought it was a really effective bait and switch and it made me immediately like her a lot.
Australia
i believe it's really intended as a "small, island nation" than "small island, nation", as a nation it ain't huge in that class, but nations that are islands then yeah it's not so big. physically. economically, culturally and population wise, then yeah that's not accurate in either context.
re: end of latest chapter (77)
and while age difference is one thing, amount-of-being-alive-difference is probably harder to overlook
I read it that way also. BUT also Japan isn't really any smaller than, say, the United Kingdom.
In fact it's nearly twice the population of the UK! And a bit over a third of the US population! Not the least bit small in any way.
When you've been awake for over 24 hours anything is possible
No but I did have a weird daydream/hallucination that something was reaching over me from behind while I was laying sideways on the bed, trying to get its hand underneath my bottom arm to grab my chest. Felt the pressure of its grip and everything, though it didn't really try to do anything after it succeeded so it was more strange than scary. I could have moved at any point, but I was fascinated by what I assume was my first encounter with a sleep paralysis "demon".
'The monstrous Duke's adopted daughter' is also very good. The Duke is a badass who has some great lines and the series itself is pretty good. About a young girl who's family tries to burn her to death to transfer her cool shadow powers to their shittier older daughter. Tapas for this one.
'My gently raised beast' is about a girl who grows up with a divine beast and like I dunno it's just a kinda cute and funny thing. They time skip forward a lot so it doesn't drag overmuch. Webtoons.
'What should I do if I've signed a marriage contract with the elven princess' is a CN comic that is very CN in it's tropes and execution without being absolutely buried in dense cultivation or political tropes. It's a pretty good introduction if you want to see how CN output differs from KR and JP stuff. About a rando chef who thinks a lady she just met is being harassed by loansharks so signs the 'iou' to help her out. Except it's a royal marriage contract. Zany hijinx ensue, etc. On the Bilibili comics app or they also upload to mangadex a bit later.
With some quick searching and zero effort to validate, Japan appears to be the 4th largest island nation in the world. So, you know. "Small."
This is still so goddamn funny.
Also Ishigami continues to the best. (In a series full of really good characters.)
So, y'know, "small."
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