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
Mao forcing the urban intelligentsia to go live in the countryside and help out farmers was an isekai.
Isekai is fascinating to me because they're almost always terrible even though they have such an open premise, and they go through the craziest fads.
The industrious-person-gets-the-chance-to-own-the-products-of-their-own-labor-and-actually-have-friends subgenre us pretty big right now, though I think it was pioneered by Ascendence or a Bookworm, which is actually pretty good.
Sadly no anti slavery Isekai yet, but the on from last summer where the protagonist kills isekai'd people was fun.
There's an Isekai about literally John Brown liberating catgirls, but it felt a bit rushed
It's shame since there's potential for "people being transported to radically different times/places" in general. Like, say, an archetypical heroic knight from a generic fantasy setting being transported to a mythologized Ancient Greece, where they had different qualifiers for "heroic". Or a Marxist being transported to a preindustrial society. Closest I've seen to something like that was Release That Witch (especially since Redditoids consider it CCP Marxist propaganda lol ) and fucking Drifters.
It seems like the last dozen or so chapters were mostly thinly-veiled pro-Chinese communist propaganda.
Hmm really? What were they like?
The nobles are evil for having personal wealth and defending their right to govern their own territories instead of allowing the MC "centralized management" of everything.
Ahahahah. God I hate reddit. I'm not looking further.
Liberals then: There will be no justice until the last noble is strangled with the entrails of the last bishop. :swole-doge: :gui-better:
Liberals now: Won't somebody think of the nobles' property rights?! :cheems:
It looks a bit tropey but seems like a fun read otherwise.
I am very damaged by university, so my first impression is that balconies were concept that certainly wouldn't be attached to wooden buidlings like that, at least not before the 19th century, when architects got involved in city houses for the burgeois. Also the houses are built very wastefully, each standing freely.
Edit: and mining towns never had wooden framing construction in the first place, because wood was prioritized for mining. This is actually becoming relevant, because he wants to replace wooden houses with stone, but they already should be out of stone. Also calcite mortar exists, he shouldn't need cement.
Fate (really the Nasuverse) is the weirdest franchise because it's so bad but it's also so cool. The magic systems are basically cultivation tropes (All paths lead to the root) which I'm a huge fan of, but I just can't take the Fate series seriously anymore for who knows how many reasons.
Sadly no anti slavery Isekai yet
Pro-slavery isekai, on the other hand... :alex-aware:
When are they gonna have an isekai where a Japanese foreign exchange student visits the US and dies from school shooter-kun
Not sure if this was an intentional reference, but that might be a little too real.
US schools are the only schools in the world where students are at risk of this.
Let that sink in for a moment. :amerikkka:
they would be hit by the Amercan Truck-kun (some pickup truck in the suburbs)
Much more likely to be hit by truck-kun here, given the lack of restrictions on blind zones for trucks
I don't know how people are ok with that! I learned how to drive in a tiny hatchback with even better sightlines than a Camry, so when I first got into a sedan I was spooked
Who would win: American pickup truck or European Heavy Construction Equipment ? The results might surprise you .
Or maybe not, since open contempt for human life is a staple in the United States from what it looks like as an outsider.
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.
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.
He was reincarnated as a 10-year-old apprentice
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.
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.
I call dibs on "Tankie in King Arthur's Court".
Here's an idea: isekai series where the mc gets transported to a magical realm sans capitalism, years later is "rescued" or has to leave it with no hope of return, then finds themselves completely unable to lead a normal life back in our world and vows to make it livable (maybe through some kinda revolution?) Id read/watch tf out of that
double isekai could go hard if and only if it were leftist agitprop.
He Who Fights with Monsters is a progression fantasy novel series wherein the character Funnyman Austalio does get triple isekaid, but the author is a radlib with bad foreign policy so the entire "return to Earth" plot is stained by very Westoid politics that had my eyerolling and only looking forward to the return to the fantasy world with boring, nonexistent politics.
Yeah it's out there but it's kind of a short proof of concept - a proper adaptation of the idea is still needed and would be awesome.
Means theres plenty of free real-estate in the abolishionist isekai genre to carve out your very own John Brown sized story
Beware of Chicken is weird because it's about a guy who was presented with the former kind of Isekai and he attempts to turn it into the latter, inadvertently becoming much more heroic than the average trouble seeking punch-master kind of hero in the process.
Honestly I think this is much better. Isekai power fantasies can be pretty unhealthy.
