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

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      There's an Isekai about literally John Brown liberating catgirls, but it felt a bit rushed

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • WordsUnderstander [any]
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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:

          • DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            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.

        • NoYouLogOff [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          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.

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      2 years ago

      Sadly no anti slavery Isekai yet

      Pro-slavery isekai, on the other hand... :alex-aware: