Why did video game stat screens become so prevalent in anime that DON'T take place inside video games?SAO at least had the excuse of literally being a video game, but it makes little sense elsewhere.
>>283409305Virgins
>>283409305The better question is why is it never translated and you have to take a screenshot and feed it into the yandex ocr translator so you can understand whats going on
>>283409305Japan has, for a long time, generally had great difficulty separating the mechanics of a game from the story of a game.
most isekais background it or go implicit stats for good reason.The ones that commit to the video game aspect tend to be shit because they don't know how to utilize it properly (like shield hero).
>>283409305Because Log Horizon was the primary inspiration for isekai.
>>283409305But they explained it in shield bro tho?Something something world auto-translate it to match their perception or similar.
>shield hero>look inside>shield is just a clunky wand to cast cheat spells
>>283409305Because most isekai are an ungodly mix of several genres distilled into pure slop, stat screens are just one of the symptoms of this.
>>283409578I always assumed storywise most RPGs characters are the peak of their power at the start(So level 100 instead of level 1) and any increase in power is just improvement in gear or canonically learning new techniques or timeskip where they improved their new technique.
>>283409305Why do you think structured textual information is exclusive to video games?
>>283409975>But they explained it in shield bro tho?You're sort of missing the forest through the stat sheets, mate. The point isn't that they explain it the point is that they shouldn't need to have to explain it because they shouldn't do it in the first place. Stat mechanics are just a means to an end. They're non diegetic when you play a game, be it video or pen and paper it's meant to simulate the adventure you're having using stats and mechanics because it's a game. The player might get all min maxy because they're the player but as far as the narrative is concerned this shit is real life. There's no stat sheets, no mechanics. Hero didn't get stronger because he got enough experience points to become level 5 he got stronger because he worked out or studied or lived through a horrible experience.
>>283410239The specific style and presentation is absolutely inspired by video games, and the kind of information being provided is the type that very few things outside games can actually be defined by
>>283410239Consider the generations and interests of the author and the audience.
>>283410239Because why would you need structured text for information that's being zapped directly into your brain by magic?
>>283409305Japanese don't know how to write anything that isn't filled with tropes. Maybe 1 in a 100 writers will do something original, and it will become a trope that the other 99 authors copy.
>>283410752That's true of everyone. Manga and LNs just have a lower bar for entry than most forms of western media that aren't internet based.
>>283409550>you have to take a screenshot and feed it into the yandex ocr translator so you can understand whats going onI don't have to do this because1. I know Japanese2. I don't watch shit-tier isekai
>>283409305because the kind of people that would write skill isekai slop are the kind of people who would only ever engage with a fantasy setting through a jrpg
>>283409305Easy quantification and exposition of skills and powers.It isn't entirely nonsensical outside of games. In a world with magic, you could quantify someone's speed by saying that if they can run 30km/h, then they have an agility of 10. By increasing their speed, their agility increases, and so on.
>>283409305It's a fun fantasy
>>283409305it's a clutch for lazy authors who don't know how to convey a character's strength
>>283409305Authors grew up playing Dragon Quest and its clones, now they're writing DQ fanfics professionally. They're not writing normal medieval fantasy because they probably never interacted with the genre outside of video games. Or worse, they only know the genre through other isekai and are now copying the copies.
>>283410752Originality has never existed, and trope means nothing, everything is a trope
>>283410960That's just justifying the point though. You don't nee to say someone has a strength of 16 when they're rippling with muscles and able to lift heavy shit. The need to have everything cleanly quantified at all is the problem. It;s all justification so you can have shit you don't need because you can't process things outside of video game logic.
This began with Toriyama using scouters and power levels in order to convey how powerful characters are without having to actually show them doing anything impressive, he just throws out out a big number.Even after power levels were dropped, the trend of just saying that characters are stronger/faster rather than actually showing it continues to this day
>>283411942Thing is Toriyama himself shat on power level readings, by having the characters raise their power for short bursts than continuously. The last reading in the manga was Trunks with a power level of 5, and even after that you have Gero getting blindsided by Piccolo having more power than expected hidden.
>>283411831Retarded bot response
>>283409341>VirginsStop projecting
>>283409305People think video games are fun and like them, then write about it.
>>283409550Standard official sub formats are notoriously shit for trying to translate on-screen text. Like the guy who did the official subs for SGT Frog was from the 00s fansubbing scene and has gone on record saying he'd have LOVED to go crazy with translating the massive amount of on-screen text with custom fonts and such like back in the day, but it's so limited what you can do with standard subtitles that he was lucky when he could even make the text color match the color of the on-screen text.
