More shows and comics about doctors and engineers being sent to another world and making the best of their education to improve lives of people unrestrained by capitalist profit motive please. Also :hentai-free: please
More shows and comics about doctors and engineers being sent to another world and making the best of their education to improve lives of people unrestrained by capitalist profit motive please. Also :hentai-free: please
I've had this idea for ages about someone who goes back to like 1000 AD and tries to introduce germ theory, disinfecting surfaces and medical devices with alcohol, etc. The conflict comes from them having to overcome medieval institutions being resistant to change, starting with them naively writing a treatise on what is currently considered medical common sense but getting rebuked for apparently not knowing what they're talking about.
Naturally, the main character wears a cute version of a plague doctor outfit.
Mark Twain wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" which was one of my favorite books for a long time.
A 19th century handyman takes a blow to the head and wakes up in 6th century England. The rest of the book is this handyman trying to industrialize, modernize, and Americanize Arthurian England. It's been decades since the last time I picked it up but I remember it being pretty funny and poking at both contemporary society and how we romanticize the period.
Samuel Clemens freely used the n-word in his writings. Just for anyone who doesn't know.
I did a quick Ctrl+F and it doesn't seem to appear in that book (not too surprising, since it wouldn't be relevant)
Doctor Stone is vaguely similar, just really bad.
Everyone on earth gets frozen for 10,000 years. Super-genius engineer is unfrozen and the only people left are a tribe living in a new stone age. He recreates modern society (All technology and social development works exactly like it's described in highschool textbooks) while fighting the villain who is trying to prevent capitalism/industrialized warfare/imperialism (by destroying any technology and being really evil).
The best part about Doctor Stone is how fun the concept is.
The worst part about Doctor Stone is that the "genius" is an awful neoliberal who wants to bring back the free market.
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Yeah, fair fair. I spent too much time watching the anime thinking "but the Tarzan looking dude is right!" and have completely clouded my own view of the MC. He's definitely more of an apolitical technocrat, as you say.
I thought it was pretty explicit that the MC has selfish motivations (He wanted to be an astronaut when he grows up and he's going to get what he wants), and the designated antagonist's flaws are literally everything about Anarcho-Primitivism which we make fun of. I consider the actual main characters to be the villagers, who are repeatedly shown to not be as stupid or helpless as one might expect from this kind of story. They straight up re-invent the water wheel with no prompting from the MC just by observing the mechanisms he already built and noticing that the same principles apply to a flowing stream.
Dr. Stone is the most Reddit anime I've seen, and that's saying something.
I remember reading a book similar to that concept. I'll look it up later when I'm off work.
I also know there's a Korean comic that's very similar the first chapter is kinda cringe but thankfully the author rushes through that to get to the actual substance of the story he's writing.
Added that to my reading list! I've also got a comic called "The Little Healer" on there, which appears to be about a doctor who revives as a little girl in a fantasy world and does doctor things, so it's definitely a concept I've seen around - but not one that I think has been explored the way I want to see it done.
It's probably forgettable but there's also Doctor Elise, which has a similar premise of introducing modern medical theory to a fantasy world. I think it was ok? Maybe not a hard rec but definitely has that vibe and I think I remember enjoying it enough (it's also finished).
https://mangadex.org/title/da7bb886-7e6b-4174-83a9-2c478475b846/isekai-yakkyoku
added to my reading list but damn that's like exactly what I had in mind lmao
edit: okay after reading a bit in it's actually nothing like what I had in mind, enjoying it though.
Please tell me this doesn't go where I think it's going :disgost:
I've read like the first ten chapters, it's got unnecessary fanservice but it's all of adult women so far.