• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    I hate isekai, because they often remind the viewer it’s not a fantasy world, but supposed to be a game. Many isekai would have been so much better if they were just straight up non-isekai fantasy anime.

    The isekai idea is supposed to make it more relatable and easier to start, but people don’t really need that to pretend a mechanic different from our reality exists in that world and someone got cast into it somehow.

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      “Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town” does that well because it plays on the stupidly overpowered, doesn’t know what’s normal trope without the MC being reincarnated.

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    “I am the worst, but actually the greatest because of macguffin.”

    I’m getting real tired of these open-faced and very uninspired power fantasies.

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      Random idea I got while reading your comment:

      I am studying at the magic university to prove magic doesn’t exist.

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        It’s all advance science application! The magic circle is literally a circuit diagram! And that! That is literally a smith chart!

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      I really don’t get this schlock either. It’s not like a videogame where you can feel cool, it’s just gets in the way of telling a good story.

      Man i miss cgdct, and i am not even a fan of chdct it just feels less cheap.