2020-07-26, 12:42 | Link #61 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Texas
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That said, I can understand some degree of "superiority" just from the fact that you're sending someone with modern concepts of equality and modern understanding of science to a world that lacks these things. That's not saying that they can get somewhat inane, just that a certain degree is acceptable. |
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2021-02-25, 07:35 | Link #63 |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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My gripe with Isekai is that it is not as immersive when the character comes from Earth rather than being born in that world.
When the character is born in the world where the story takes place, the story feels much more real because you are made to identify with a person who is from that world rather than identify with a person from Earth so it makes you think that you are the character from that world and immerses you more effectively in the process. |
2021-02-25, 09:32 | Link #64 |
Shitpost Gremlin
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Formerly Iwakawa base and Chaldea. Now Teyvat, the Astral Express & the Outpost
Age: 44
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That's the point of isekai tho, a random shmuck being brought into fantasyland, since Narnya, at least. In my eyes, what is not played enough is the shock of cultures and values. Where middle age people are quick on accepting the more liberal values. Altho a time travel story, Poul Anderson's The Man Who Came Early conveyed such clash of cultures the best.
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2021-02-25, 09:46 | Link #65 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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If there is any culture clash, it should be between someone from the present time and a world with tribal societies like the ones found in the other continents outside of the Eurasian landmass. I have an article about the clash between the industrialized Japanese Empire and the primitive Mishihase tribes in Hokkaido: https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=155521 In this thread that I created, you will see images of Japanese water scoop mills along with animal mills, watermills, and windmills used in the other empires of Eurasia and this is proof that these empires were already using machines to mass produce goods while the people in other continents had no machinery and not even draft animals: all of their work was performed manually using only stone tools so they were literally stuck in the stone age while Eurasia had advanced to the industrial age as early as 500 BCE and even before that the Chinese already had manufacturing tools like the quern stone as early as 8000 BCE. Below is an image of the quern stone, invented in 8000 BCE, it is the 1st manufacturing tool used to mass produce grains and other powdered products and it began Eurasia's long march towards industrialization: Last edited by Garr; 2021-11-17 at 20:06. |
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2021-02-25, 12:29 | Link #66 |
Yurifag
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine / Barcelona, Spain
Age: 36
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BTW I was always wondering. Isekai is as popular amoung Russian-speking pulp-fiction writers as amoung Japanese ones also but is it any popular in the West (not counting Japanese LN translations)?
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