★ 【タケムラ】 「 uncle from another world 」 ☆
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I've been enjoying That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime, and I realized something about the mechanics of isekai.
A big part of the fantasy is the moral superiority that comes from being benevolent at no cost to yourself and without repercussion. Like, Rimoru hasn't conquered or enslaved anyone... Because they always just happen to immediately swear eternal devotion and service to him. They just happened to independently decide to make him their absolute ruler. Rimoru doesn't have to sanction his enemies or mete out punishments, because they always immediately bow before him and beg forgiveness. The power imbalances are made palatable because they are always ostensibly occurring by the choice of his fawning underlings. The isekai protagonist's true superpower is avoiding moral ambiguity.
Perhaps this is part of why so much isekai explicitly takes place in videogame worlds. NPCs do not act like people, they act like vessels for the protagonist's fantasies. They lack agency, but they also absolve the protagonist of their exploitation.
This probably sounds like I hate Slime, but I actually think it's really good for the space it's operating within. Contrast with Overlord, which did the same thing, but so much more crassly, without the charm or character. Even a satirical take like Uncle From Another World (which I loved) isn't as far off from this as it first seems. It's just cool to check under the hood and see what makes these things tick. Isekai isn't really just stories about going to a different world; basically every Hero's Journey would qualify if that were the case. Isekai is the collection of tropes and conventions that enable the viewer to indulge in isekai fantasies.
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Sorry folks but i found the best cosplayers of the year.
Love me some "Uncle from Another World"
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— 𝙸 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚄𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝙽𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚎! 𝙼𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚄𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝙽𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚊 𝚍𝚘𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚖 (*^‿^*)
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my personal top 10 anime of 2022 (no sequels)
1. bocchi the rock!
2. cyberpunk: edgerunners
3. spy x family
4. chainsaw man
5. summertime render
6. my dress-up darling
7. lycoris recoil
8. call of the night
9. the eminence in shadow
10. do it yourself!!
honorable ment: ya boy kongming, uncle from another world, mobile suit gundam: witch from mercury and reincarnated as a sword)
highly, recommend checking all of these out if you haven’t or if you wanna get into anime they’re all actually really good starter anime imo!!! also, if i added sequels this list would be a whole lot different… and no i don’t watch blue lock bc i hate sports 💞💞💞
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Sometimes I think... Yousuke might be a bit of a tsundere himself.
But that’s probably just wishful thinking on my part.
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I worried in vain. For my uncle, spending money on a SEGA console can't be a waste.
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Isekai Ojisan (Uncle from Another World) - Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis Collaboration Illustration
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