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>isekai is the white man’s fantasy
>gamers absolutely hate it for some irrational reason
Kinda makes you think huh?
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>>742108904
fuck off retard
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Shut the fuck up you reductive drooling template posting nigger.
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>>742108904
This is movie #2 that ruined my life
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>>742108904
People don't like to use their imagination and at the same time hate the idea of a second chance believing things should be rigidly defined by the confines of the life you live now. To put it simply gamers are fucking retards.
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>>742108904
I dream about having powers or being in another world every time I lie down. Been doing it since I can remember.
But "isekai" is weebshit with rainbow harems, nonsense unfair revenge quests, fucking rice and onions praising, sneaky anti-european themes and worst of all... the main character forgetting he is from our world and basically beeing a fucking NPC.
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Games already are isekai, especially those with char creation and MMO's
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I isekai IRL, I go to 3rd world countries and impregnate local girls then block all contact.
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>>742109042
Movies are just trash. They all try to teach you this "lesson" or make this "statement" that you can't actually do anything with because your pathetic life in this pathetic society is already over. You are just going through the motions until death. You have zero real agency in this world.

If the message of a movie is "corporations bad" or "pollution bad" what does it matter? You can't and won't actually take action against these things in real life because you meaningfully can't. Do people just get off to the feeling of "having done something" by the movie's evil hypnosis?

Or the movie is some loud stupid horror flick that interrupts my sleep. Or it's a fucking hours long commercial for plastic crap.

Fuck movies.
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>the white man's fantasy
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>>742109461
>implying alice isn't
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>>742109453
Sounds like you just hate all media.
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>>742109461
>Alice if severe cardiovascular issues
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>>742108904
>>isekai is the white man’s fantasy
>every protag is a swarthoid
nope
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>>742109461
Why are her legs so thick?
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>>742108904
>the white man dreams of throwing his pitiful life away to be a femboy in another world
grim
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>If I were transported to another world I'd be super cool and have a grand adventure with friends instead of being the same awkward loser I am in my world
Fantasy is right lmao
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>>742109453
yikes
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>>742109656
No I hate literally everything
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>>742109787
Its part of the design that makes it distinct.
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>>742110328
Why live?
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>>742108904
Isekai is just fantasy except the protagonist isn't as cool as a real knight.
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>>742109656
At least an isekai isn't pretending to be something it's not which is bread and circus.
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>>742109987
You speak a white man's language because they conquered you
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>>742108904
idk but i want to fuck the fairy
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>>742110576
I thought the protagonist has to grow like any piece of media. I mean the knight had to start out somewhere, so does the main character.
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>>742108904
>some irrational reason
being terribly written simplistic and uninteresting self fulfillment fantasies is not irrational. porns are written better than the average weebshit isekai anime where a wageslave turns into a king in another world with every fucking story beat playing the same as the one before.
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>>742109453
Worst take of the day award
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>>742110874
it's only natural
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>>742110732
>knows only one language
>thinks this is something to brag about
absolute state of amerisharts
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>>742109365
fpbp
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This is the worst board on all of 4chan and there are real people that will look you in the eye and say 'VIDEO GAMES FAGGOT VIDEO GAMES' because you post a picture of a professional Dota 2 player.

If you deleted every thread that's irrelevant you'd have 3 shit threads that are relevant on technicality and one of a guy trying to discuss the mechanics of an old game that gets sent to a butterfly farm after 3 replies.
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>>742111389
Do you know what that means?
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>>742110507
You tell me
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>>742111736
ywnbaw
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>>742111736
fifth post, best post
:^)
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>>742111832
Bodied that fool
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Isekai is the lamest shit for the biggest losers on the planet
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>>742109365
>>742108904
Isekai is hated because it works like a fucking video game, with level and shit. It’s ridiculous and dumb. We, players, use levels, lives, xp, and HUD to use a VIDEOGAME, to play a game. But as soon as you try to sell me a story where a guy just randomly open a menu in this new world, to open a fucking skill tab, it’s fucking lame. No, I don’t need guts to see the goat head monster’s level to know it’s a threat. No, I don’t want to see the girl levels to know she grew up and became stronger. No, I don’t want you to suddenly be able to lock pick because of a skill tree. It’s just so fucking lame.
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>>742113148
on a website for cool smart people with big dicks
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>>742108904
>[Japanese story trope] is the white man’s fantasy
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>>742108904
bro what? isekai is tailored towards japanese loners that want to kill themselves and escape reality
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>>742108904
Hexxus is still a cool design. A primordial oil demon that can drive machinery. Makes you wonder what kind of damage he could've done if he was behind the wheel of a Bagger 288.
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>>742108904
Recommend me some 90s animated kino
I don't care if they're mid, I generally love the way they looked
The obscure the better
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>>742111832
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>>742116631
Gen 13
We're back! A dinosaur's story.
The Flight of Dragons.
The Halloween Tree.
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>>742112964
People who consumed videogames can only imagine adventuring as looking through a screen. They don't 'live' the adventure they can only 'see' it.
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I hate Isekai Anime. Most of them are the same, cute guy goes to anime world and is OP and the world is full of cute girls that all love him for some reason. Complete Dreck.
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>>742116631
Fuck you and the 90s.
Wizards (1977)
Watership Down (1978)
The Plague Dogs (1982)

The Thief and the Cobbler Recobbled Cut.
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>isekai is the white man’s fantasy
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>>742116631
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>>742108904
I only like isekai when it starts at a moment the protagonist has been living it for a while so we skip the confused retard portion
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>>742118538
>skip the confused retard portion
But that's the best part
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Many of those planetary romance novels from authors like Burroughs veered extremely closely to what we call isekai in a Japanese context. They frequently involve a man, from Earth, venturing to some alien world full of sexy princesses in need of rescue. Often he has some kind of "cheat" too, like super strength (on Mars). All you don't have are the RPG mechanics, because the books were written long before such things existed.
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>>742108904
What is this disney looking shit? TELL ME!
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>>742109453
this post is kino if you imagine a really curmudgeonly old man saying it
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>>742108904
>isekai is the white man’s fantasy
Isekai is the Japanese man's fantasy. He hates his pathetic life, and wishes to escape to a world where he matters.
The white man's fantasy is to be part of the world that surrounds him.
>gamers absolutely hate it for some irrational reason
In contrast with my last point: play Ultima.
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>>742119235
Ferngully
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We need more fairy kino
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>>742108904
god I want to have sex with fairies
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>>742109365
>>742111021
>>742112964
All these anons are correct. Isekais are the lowest form of fantasy for philistines who lack any sense of shame or appreciation for nuance. It's like watching a child chug a bottle of syrup. There is no struggle or character growth to get invested in. The protag gets everything he ever wanted--power, adoration, adventure, his own personal harem--all through a product of absurdly fortunate circumstance. He didn't earn any of it. That's not a premise for a hero's journey, that's a premise for an ironic tragedy. No one wants to see anon-kun succeed.
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>>742108904
Toxic Love
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>>742109453
Holy projection!
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>>742109453
Really made the /tv/trannies mad
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>>742109365
>>742111021
>>742112964
>>742119852
These post were written by brown hands
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>>742116631
The coyotes groom the girl with gifts and probably rape her later, many such cases.
What movie?
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>>742120475
>this entire post
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>>742108904
>isekai is the white man’s fantasy
PORTAL FANTASY is the White Man's Fantasy
Isekai is the limp-dicked autistic yayoi insectoid soulless bugman neckbeard fantasy
Portal Fantasy is where an individual enters another world and becomes immersed in its adventure
Isekai is where a pathetic incel loser fantasizes about using the power of spreadsheets to become God and get laid
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>>742120618
I want to know what Disney was saying about this grooming at the time. It's for my benefit if I become a parent. Pinnochio was a good signal. The intent of my question is perverted by your own perception.
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>>742119885
>when you remember Tim Curry had a stroke 15 years ago
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Isekai is jap fantasy, white fantasy is Lord of the Rings
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>>742111328
You study my language by necessity. I don't give a shit what you speak
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>>742121653
Lord of the Rings is missing fairy sex
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>>742108904
>Crysta
Hump my cock, nrrrrgh
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>>742121653
Narnia, Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland both predate Jap isekai.
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>>742121653
>Isekai is jap fantasy
Japs made Stargate?
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>>742121930
those aren't true "isekai" though, they're portal fantasy
the words "isekai" and "portal fantasy" encompass entirely different meanings and values despite a similar basic ingredient
it's like saying "maruchan ramen" vs "chef boyardee" - both have pasta, but you can't call them the same
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>>742108904
That movie isn't Isekai its fantasy Pocahontas.

In that movie both worlds coexist, the bigger world is unaware of the smaller world, and the conflict comes from the two worlds intersecting and a hero who has walked in both worlds.

Isekai are explicitly about removing a character from one existence and placing them in another
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>>742120948
One, it's Don Bluth, not Disney.
Two, you're the one who thinks this is "grooming".
Three, you're not interested in being a parent.
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>>742109461
I love Arisu!
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>>742122207
Explain logically how they aren't the same.
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>>742119852
Even before addressing the terrible writing, the obvious wish fulfillment, the corny «the world is so mean to me and my crappy actually OP skill», the bland harem member who are actually slave but they somehow don’t give a crap about that, and the terrible world building full of identical adventurer guild with ranks, maids, evil church, dumb king.
>>742116939
>>742112964
This is the first and actual biggest problem. Why the fuck do you have some fucking stats and levels and ranks like a fucking JRPG ? Why can’t people interact with each other without a fucking game tab ? Why do enemy need skills and levels and attack ? Why does no salary man ever realize how weird it is that this apparently fantasy magic world somehow has fucking Final Fantasy game mechanic ? My first question would be : is this even a real world ? If I kill some rando in it, am I actually a terrorist ? Or just the equivalent of some guy on GTA going on a rampage with cheats on ? Are my waifus real or the equivalent of Lydia porn mod with a script and code ? Am I actually passed out on my chair ? The use of those fucking video game stuff is so dumb, it’s a fucking shot in your own foot.
Who wants the last samurai with a health bar and «skills» to learn ? If you want to do another world adventure, then just do it you fucking nip, stop adding video game shit in it. It doesn’t reinforce your world or your freedom, it limits it. Video game have ends, limitations. You take Skyrim : you can talk, steal or kil your NPC, nothing more, the world has clear end and so does the quest. Are those isekai japs limited in the way they can interact with their world ? Do they have moves that are physically possible, but can’t be done because they’re technically impossible ? Every time you see those game bullshit, you have to assume that they are stuff that they can’t do because it’s not «game intended» it limits your freedom, it limits the adventure, it limits the world building.
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>AAAA YOU ARE SUPPORT AND YOU AREN'T DPS SO YOU ARE USELESS TRASH GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY SSSSS-RANK PARTY AAAA
>AAAA I'M SILLY AND CHOLERIC AND I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW ADVENTURING WORKS AAAA
>AAAA YOU COULD'VE EASILY REFUTED MY NONSENSE BUT YOU'RE TOO HUMBLE AND BETA TO DO THAT AAAA

>hey mister, do you want to join our party, Protagonist's Onaholes?
>ladies, please let me automagically everything for you with my support skills
>OH MY GOD, support classes can do SUPPORT?!
>MASAKA
>BAKANA
>I've never felt so supported in my whole life!
>MC-sama sugoi, pls support my womb with your baby batter!
>*humble beta noises*
>AAAAAH MC-sama please stop being so useful, I already came twice!

>AIEEEEEEE WE ARE SSSSS-RANK BUT WE'RE GETTING DABBED ON BY GOBLINS AAAA
>AAAA WHY AREN'T MY SHOELACES TIED THEY WERE ALWAYS TIED BEFORE AAAA
>AAAA WHY IS EVERYTHING SO HORRIBLE WHAT COULD'VE POSSIBLY CAUSED THAT AAAA
>Hero-sama, m-maybe that support guy wasn't so useless after all?
>AAAA I HATE THAT USELESS TRASH SO FUCKING MUCH AAAA
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>>742120948
It's not Disney.
It's a Don Bluth movie called All Dogs Go To Heaven.
Don't get your dick too hard, because it's not pornographic, and the girl who voices the girl in the movie was killed by her father before the movie was finished.
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>>742109461
Maria...
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>>742120948
>asking for advice on 4chan about an animated movie you could watch right now to form your own opinion in relation to "grooming" on instead of shitposting about "being a parent"
For the love of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit don't entertain the idea of procreation.
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>>742109365
I dream about being able to create my own univers, a earth, human
I would make it way less shitty, less suffering for humans and animals, no war, no india, just peace and prosperity
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>>742108904
Ferngully isn't isekai, what the fuck is this shit?
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>>742108904
Fairy feet
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>>742122509
>>742122546
Fascinating how similar anti-isekai arguments are to those employed by feminists to attack games.
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>>742119852
>>742122546
Even before the writing and anime like world building with cat girl and all : the main problem is this :
>>742112964
>>742116939
Why do they all have video game elements ? Is it that hard to have a character who’s great with bows just be great with bows ? Why do he need to be RANGER SSS class adventurer+ bow skill ? Why does none of those Japanese salaryman realize that this medieval fantasy world has actual final fantasy fucking video game mechanics ? Aren’t they a bit curious ? Are they just passed out on their chair ? Do they become mass murderer if they kill peoples in here ? Or do they just become the equivalent of a player doing a shootout in a gta police station ? All those video game mechanics just limits the story : video game are finished, there’s a limit to the world and a limit to what you can do. In Skyrim when I interact which someone, I can talk, steal, kill and that’s all. The game doesn’t’ le me do more. So when you transfer this a fucking fantasy world, it become bland, it show you the limitations. The talents become points to earn, the mystery becomes quest, the adventure becomes grind, the object simply level up and the people becomes NPC, the danger and entités becomes boss with high level and the danger become skill issue. It limits the fantasy to a video game mechanics. Nobody wants to see the last samurai with points and skills to activate, nobody wants to know if Algren can climb a roof or if it will outside the map. Video game mechanics in littérature are lame.
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>>742120202
>whitest posts on /v/ in a long time
>uhh its brown o algo
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>>742123312
Well fuck me, I thought my first post didn’t made it
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>>742122484
isekai is cringe and bluepilled while portal fantasy is based and redpilled
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>>742116867
>The Flight of Dragons.
Oh fuck there's another person in the world who remembers that.
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I really don't understand "X is white, Y is brown"posting.
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>>742123163
I wasn't arguing against isekai because shoelacers technically aren't isekai
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>>742123163
Fascinating how much you cope. No one criticize hot girls or harem here. But when it’s so fucking dumb as in isekai who can take pleasure in it ? No white man wants to go on an adventure if it means going into idiocracy to attacks windmills
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>>742123478
I enjoy both, I'm infra red pilled
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>>742123513
Thats all 4chan banter is now.
>You're brown
>no you're brown
>no wait I'm brown but you're browner.
At this point everyone has been accused of being brown so logically one would think whats left of this site could move on and discuss games....
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>>742109453
What about books? Should we hate books?
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>>742108904
Isekai is ruined by dumb japs pushing vidya shit into those stories.
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>>742123356
>saar these are brahmin caste posts, brahmin caste is aryan saar
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>>742124089
I loved this movie as a kid, probably the only person that did
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>>742108904
I feel like these threads and posts about " white man" are just fishing info about the posters here

>>742108943
Oh but sir, what would these fine jannies and the like do with there time if they just let the board slow down?
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>>742124119
But that's just what I like about them
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>>742124119
the popular Isekai stories are more or less like create a character like video games where most of the content revolves around the MC being amazing for just existing and little context beyond that.
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>>742108943
just small enough to fit into your twitter grift post huh?
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>>742116631
Anon, just watch The Last Unicorn.
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>>742109443
based
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>>742123662
>No one criticize hot girls or harem here.
See:
>>742122546
>MC-sama sugoi, pls support my womb with your baby batter!
The undercurrent of every anti-isekai critique is always denying men fiction that makes them happy. Alleged low quality of the writing and allegedenly derivative nature are not such properties that they would inspire such rage.
What is particularly strange is that isekai is just one particular subgenre of a genre which I can't think of a name: Lost World, Planetary romance, are also subgenres of it.
Were they more popular still, the same critiques feminists and their useful idiots level at isekai, would be leveled at them.
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>>742109453
Be the change you want to see
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>>742108904
isekai is asians being reincarnated as whites bro
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>>742109656
not games
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>>742108904
1. This post is terrible

2. The concept of being transported to another world is not something people hate. What people hate is that concept was taken by the Korean manga industry and pushed to such an extreme that it has become far, far overexposed. It is also extremely formulaic and very pandering in its design. It is less about fan service (I like anime tits) but the constant repetition of "Loser IRL, but really cool in another world" is just wish fulfillment. Power fantasies are fun once in a while, but some people have a diet of nothing but that.

3. They hardly ever do anything interesting anymore. Because of #2, the look of all these worlds is the same. Fantasy, but with some modern convivences (don't want the protagonist to have to adapt too much). Sometimes it has that strange modern fantasy aesthetic: fashionable clothes crossed with swords and magic. It literally feels like an excuse to just give Joe Salaryman or John Otaku one or more girlfriends and authority.
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>>742111328
your second language is a white mans language btw
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>>742124854
No the current is criticizing isekai for what it is : badly written fantasy. Even when it comes to the hot girls, the MC is 9/10 always a pussy that doesn’t do anything with them. I don’t give a fuck about what girls goons to with their shitty space book about elite, +6 model like astronauts in the mid 25. It’s as shitty as isekai, maybe even more boring
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What if they did a reverse isekai, loser from a fantasy world becomes hero in our world perchance?
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>>742112113
not 4chan?
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>>742116939
cmon bro lets not pretend lord of the rings is any better in terms of writing.
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>>742108904

It co-opted by perverts running the teenage entertainment world and the genre is full of incomplete shitty stories all with the same set ups and same inconclusive half thought out drivel harem scenarios, one dimensional villains and pathetic protagonists living out closet fantasies.

Its a fucking scam of a genre. It isn't story telling. Its fan fiction published as a product. Just thoughtless wankery.
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>>742116985
is it because hes a cute guy?
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I want the Isekai genre of animation to die forever. Give it back to the females who wrote it throughout the 80's and 90's who were clearly far better at it.
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>>742119852
do you even watch anime?
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>>742108904
Im white and I have no idea who isekai is because animes mostly for fags who jack off to borderline underage loli stickers on their cars
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>>742122207
oh shut the fuck up
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>>742112964
The thing I really don't get about so many isekai making MMORPG game mechanic abstractions into actual rules in their universe, is most of the MMOs that actually work like that don't fucking exist anymore.
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>>742123513
brown is dumb white is smart
just like in real life
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>>742122546
It's astounding how accurate this is.
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>>742108904
please stop posting fairies I just fapped...
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>>742125537
they have those buts its usually hero in another world becomes loser in ours. Gabriel droput, jahyeesama, devil is a part timer, sora no otoshimono, inuyasha.
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>>742125798
>oh no! those japanese men all look like japanese men!
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I dunno what isekai is,and i hate this thread for it.
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>>742126069
Guess what? People who have jobs don't have time to play games anymore. Also most anime have a 5-10 year lag from the start of the source material.
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>>742126370
>Gabriel droput, jahyeesama, devil is a part timer, sora no otoshimono, inuyasha
pretty much all of these are trash except maybe inuyasha and jahy-sama
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What's some good isekai gayming that lets you create your character and self insert?
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>>742125798
Anime is mocked for having characters with unnatural hair colours. Yet deviating from this, also yields derision by gaijin. Almost as if arguments as soldiers is at play.
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What games are similar to those in isekai manga where this mythical otome game with a 'surprisingly deep combat system' exists
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>>742126553
appearently you don't know how to use a computer either
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>>742109453
man discovers motion pictures are propaganda
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>>742126584
literally all those are good EXCEPT inuyasha
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>>742124854
The criticism isnt that there are cute girls, retard-kun. The criticism is of the terrible writing, and the fact that the mc has everything handed to him, despite being a passive, boring, unlikable character. The only thing isekai protags ever have going for them is that they're nice guys. In no way do they deserve the power and pussy that they're showered with.
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>>742126283
That's just one branch of the revenge fantasy formula.
The other one is where the shoelace tying skill is "cleverly" worded to mean the MC can tie fate or some shit, so when he gets passed over he goes on a murder spree. But it's totally justified, because fuck you Toshi that promotion was mine.

Really, Isekai is at its best when it's completely unapologetic.
The pseudo subversions are a genre all of their own now, and they all fucking suck.
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>>742126660
are there even anime like that?
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The entire appeal of isekai is an outsider with privledged knowledge that no one in universe would have. Thing is when you play a video game you are already doing this with the player knowing far more about the game than the protagonist should along with the ability to execute on that privileged information. Isekai videogames wouldn't do anything meaningfully different from a regular game in this regard.
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>>742126776
Spoiler alert: thats how love works in real life too.
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>>742122546
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>>742126663
what's a computer?
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>>742109453
>unrealistic messaging
I just watched Identity Theft, where the message is to be more assertive for the guy, and not be a cunt by the girl.
Before that I watched Wrong Turn, and there was no message besides don't fuck with rednecks
This week I watched the Big Lebowski, where the message is "Not my fucking problem."
I saw Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: I'm still not sure what the message was, besides nostalgia over a long gone revolution.
I'm bringing up examples, of high-brow to low-brow, horror and literary, to show that your point of vague activism is incorrect. What's the message in Tropic Thunder? Pollution, corporations?
>Or the movie is some loud stupid horror flick that interrupts my sleep.
It sounds like a you problem. I'm not going to watch an action/horror movie and expect to sleep.
>hours long commercial for plastic crap.
That I agree. Fuck that.

>>742124089
Books are so, so much more rich as a medium compared to movies. I am careful with my wording: I do not say better/worst because those are blanket statements over vague quality that do not help us in discussion. I instead say rich, because the barrier to entry or production is so low, compared for potential of quality.
You need months of animating, scripting, programming to make a game that appeals to mass audience. Even if you're making a roguelike like Cogmind or Dungeons of Dredmor, there is still a massive amount of time to just make it look pretty.
Writing? Oh sure, it takes a lot of time for the author and editor, but it's crucially just them. And if the author knows what he's doing, he can crank out dozens of books. There's five Doom games over two decades: meanwhile fantasy authors can crank out three series with dozens of books each. And crucially, they don't need some multi-displine team, just themselves.
Coupled that with the interior focus narration, and you get a melting pot of ideas in books. A lot is shit though.
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>>742111653
>newfag learns that water is wet
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>>742126931
i look and see food
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>>742126961
name 1 rich book.
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>>742125697
so are those based on anything?
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>>742126442
>japanese people have GIANT purple eyes and blue hair
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>>742126818
there's a bunch of manga like that, mostly of the 'otome game where villainess is my(mob character) waifu and saintess/protagonist is actually another reincarnee with a terrible personality who wants the harem route'
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>>742125697
>what! I am an adult and yet I do not like stories for teenagers! how could this be!?
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>>742109185
This
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>>742127162
>nigga never heard of blue black
shakin my head
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>>742126881
>nice guy gets showered with pussy
>just like real life, bro
Are you retarded? In real life, giga-chads or richfags get everything. Being a kind of nice guy isn't enough to get anything in life.
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>>742127173
What does that have to do with the gameplay?
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>>742108904
If it's the white man's fantasy, why doesn't it have a white man's name?
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>>742126776
>In no way do they deserve the power and pussy that they're showered with.
"Colonialist male power fantasy, where the white (ugh) protagonist, by random accident of being born in a technologically advanced country, uses his knowledge common in his country, to wow or defeat racistly depicted natives, while sexistly white saving a native girl."
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>>742127447
Why is is the entire history of europe such a cringe white male power fantasy?
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>>742127238
hahaha kek this, fucking dumb uncs
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>>742127080
I meant rich as in rich in breadth of experience. I do not mean rich as in books are better or worst than movies, because again, I think that's a stupid tribalism.
I'll give an example of what I mean AND answer both your question and the underlying question: No Country for Old Men. Loved the book: prose, narration and actual story. Yet, it started off as a Hollywood script, only to be rejected. So Cormac just rewrote it as a book, the book got popular, and then it became a movie.
That's to the T why I say books are richer. No Country for Old Men could have been forgotten, just another rejected script. But because the production values of writing is so low, Cormac decided to rewrote as a book, and that ended up doing so well it became a movie.
You can't do that with movies. If I wanted to make a big-budget movie but I don't have the funding, there's nothing I can do. If I wanted to animate an epic shonen but I lack funding, there's nothing I can do. If I want to write a book, I can do that in my lunchbreak. And many did, and that's why the written word is rich. It's rich from all the one-man shops, geniuses, and schizos.
Fuck, even Hitler wrote a book. But can you imagine him making a game before he was Chancellor, and that game being good? Exactly.
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>>742126857
most of them have the chosen one bullshit and what not so as long as you get to make the PC it's an isekai fantasy.

>>742126881
it's not or rather the context for connections are more intricate. A passive, boring, unlikable person is a trinity of an incel NEET in the real world. If you want to argue removing two of those points would get them love I agree, if you say only one needs to go I debate some but could still see a path forward, but a person who was all three is ensured a life of nothing, but that's why they make them that way in the books, the buyers are fearful of the world and verge on hate for how difficult it is for them to be anything other than a NPC and have anything in there life so you have to go where the money is.
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>>742127559
>Why is is the entire history of europe such a kino white male power reality?
FTFY
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>>742127367
It is if you're handsome. Hell even just average looking you can easily get body counts with those numbers. And 1 girl likes you a million start to follow is truth. Also no one works for pussy. A womans mind is made up in a few seconds. It can change but thats whatever.
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>>742127441
umm...SHUT UP CHUD
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>>742127447
Literally all they had to do was evolve beyond straw huts and shitting in the streets and they'd be the ones colonizing.
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>villainess isekai
>dumb cunt bitches about the original female protagonist and how everyone automatically loves her
>dumb cunt is also absolutely convinced that she's gonna die because the original villainess died, somehow can't comprehend not dying if she doesn't repeat the original villainess's behavior
>inevitably attracts all the male protagonists and ends up acting just like the regular otomege protagonist she initially bitched about
This shit has even less thought put into it than the average kicked out of party or becoming invincible in the first chapter isekai, it's abhorrent.
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>>742108904
>Japanese people
>white
Fuck off kike
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I don't get iseaki because I don't understand why it has to me someone from our world. From what little I've seen, all it does is speeds up the fish-out-of-water setup, and excuse the character from not knowing society.
I prefer the soft-iseaki approach of Dune: the character lives in the universe, but just moved to a new place, and has to adapt there. Keeps me immersed, allows the character to build up skills without contrivance, keeps the fish-out-of-water while also allowing new lore and brings his family along. Jessica was my favorite character in Dune 1: if Paul just got teleported to Dune, we would lose all that regal/motherly/priestly undertones with her.
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>>742127647
Bro go outside and go interact with the average person. They're just what you described boring, passive. Unlikeable maybe to most people but they just have a few friends.
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>>742127758
Thats not even true unfortunately. China had more boats, never used em. They invented gun powder...and made fire works.
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>>742127931
>mommyfag is a retard
All such cases
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>>742125697
>>742127110
>so are those based on anything?
I'd imagine it's very loosely based on Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a well-preserved medieval walled town that's become a picturesque tourist destination. The most damning thing is I doubt the artists themselves know this. They're just imitating what they've seen before in older animes (e.g. Hayao Miyazaki who frequently traveled to Europe and became enamored by German architecture).
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>>742127931
The people who watch isekai are so pathetic, that in order for them to self insert, the loathsome protagonist literally has to go to a different world to find people that don't hate him. A magical portal is a more believable fantasy than just losing weight and becoming a better person.
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>>742127931
Because jap neets want to self insert.
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>>742109787
scottish highlander genetics
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>>742128026
China is fucking huge for a reason, dunce. Conquest.
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>>742128064
How come they never travel to sub sahara and become enamored with their architecture?
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>>742123872
coco is brown
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>>742112964
watched "Record of Lodoss War" days ago.
No powerlevels. No cheat skills, No holographic maps. Women not want the testicles of the hero. Modern anime is trash
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>>742128216
Chinas landmass has remained just about the same through every dynasty. And you're neglecting that like 90% of the people are basically 1 ethnicity. Also doesn't change the fact that they never sailed and colonized the whole world.
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>>742108904
>>gamers absolutely hate it for some irrational reason
Op makes statements that aren't true to skew the discussion in a certain direction thread.
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>>742127931
The three reasons are
1) To justify the MC having a gift wrapped uber skill to catch up.
If he was just some dude living in the world, it would be weird if he wasn't the god emperor of the setting by the time he's old enough to be a self insertable japanese salaryman's age.
2) Because lacking this
>brings his family along.
Is a feature, not a bug. The MC being completely cut off from their prior life means they can be as much of a blank slate as possible.
3) Because the genre has stagnated to the point where Isekai doesn't just mean a traveller to another world, but a very specific world of NotD&D or something very close to it.
If an author writes Isekai, 90% of the appeal is the fact they can put absolutely fuck all effort into worldbuilding.
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>>742123872
>no wait I'm brown but you're browner
still a fair point though
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>>742126069
They are as much a fantasy about how they wish MMOs worked (so they could be used as a means of living out fantasy rather than just to direct unbridled autism towards) as they are about an actual other world. Which is why game mechanics isekai is only a sub genre to begin with that sits immediately beside actual MMO stories like SAO and Bofuri. Isekai with no game mechanics, game connection, or gamer protagonist are plentiful.
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>>742128374
Bro witch hat atelier and apothocary diaries are being animated right now. Your problem is what you look for.
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>>742123513
Retards who think being racist makes them smart
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Feels more like people hate bad writing than the genre itself which is a universally shared stance. And if thats the case then what are good examples beyond the usual over reactionary shitposts. No one ever posts those.
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>>742128165
?? looks english
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>>742110507
Hate dying.
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>>742128412
They colonized Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet. Probably others. I'm no historian, but no, each successive dynasty saw massive expansions.
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>>742128660
you're brown
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>>742108904
I AM
BATTY
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>>742128660
Being racist doesn't make you smart.
Being smart makes you racist.
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>>742128743
Those are geographically adjacent to them cmon retard kun you can't be this pedantic
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>>742128683
Nah people really do hate the genre itself. Whether true or not it feels like the stories are some sense of escapism for the author, and not something he actually wrote to entertain the audience. Same energy as self insert mary sue.
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>>742128881
>it doesn't count as colonizing when they set up colonies and expand via conquest when they're geographically adjacent.
It does, though. The evils of colonization aren't because boats are involved. Next you'll be saying it's okay if I steal my neighbor's house because he's right next door. Retard.
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>>742128881
>russia and china get a pass because dumb turd worlds think colonianism == boats
lol
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>>742127779
Indeed. Villainess isekai really do have the stench of female writers in that they absolutely cannot bear for even one second to actually have their MC bear scrutiny from anyone or not have them be the most popular prettiest most beloved girl of all time. Some have half a mind to actually just remove the villainess from a situation where they might receive some blowback for their previous life- and yet in those cases it's basically just removing the "villainess" aspect altogether. As it never comes up or if it does then it's with someone who has become so enamored with them that they slurp and kiss at the wound.

I think the real worst bit is whenever it ends up in fucking pure yurislop shit.
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>>742108904
Isekai protags rarely earn their powers. It is fetishised nepotism.
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>>742128412
China's borders have varied to an extreme degree depending on which kingdom and dynasty you're talking about.
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>>742129102
Jokes on them, they didn't know cossacks used river boats
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>>742129049
This has nothing to do with good or evil its about colonizing THE WORLD or just taking over a few neighboring countries. Which is something almost every pre industrialized society has done atsome point. Try following the discussion.
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>>742129045
Again thats an issue with bad writing. People self-insert in stories all the time, even Tolkien did. If they cant entertain people even with that then once again, they are a poor writer. You guys hate that most people suck at crafting a believable story with likable characters.
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>>742129201
If no boats, how colonialism?
Checkmate.
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>>742129146
thats kind of the whole point, you were born with a shitty lot in life and you wish you could be born again but in a better environment.
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>>742129102
russia is white, also has/had discontinuities
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>>742129128
>fucking pure yurislop shit
hey thats based though
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>>742129287
No, you added those goalposts for some unknown reason. I said you (a group of people) would become colonizers as long as they were advanced enough to not shit in the streets, and you (or whatever retard I replied to) said "ummmmm chyna." This conversation was clearly about being advanced enough to conquer.
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>creator of isekai gets so depressed he kills every single character in the last episode except for a little fairy girl who has to witness mass death and destruction
>he did this once before
>he does it again a few years later with another show
lmfao
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>>742129146
did the villian earn his powers?
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>>742127779
Tearmoon Empire is the only good villainess story except maybe Live Commentary and it's not even an isekai.



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