Hexbear

4 points

2 years ago

Agreed. And the “slowly they start to tolerate the presence of the lesser ones around him especially if they’re hot” thing in a lot of anime is horrid. :pathetic:

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Shoegazer [he/him]@hexbear.net

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8 points

2 years ago

And somehow the the hot popular girl falls for him despite him having almost 0 charisma during his first impression

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6 points

2 years ago

He’s the winningest winner at (meta)gaming the game world of the isekai game! :so-true:

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Shoegazer [he/him]@hexbear.net

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7 points

2 years ago

Oh it’s not even isekai. They have that guy in normal school dramas. Which make sense because every high schooler thinks he’s too smart for everything

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4 points

2 years ago

In a way the seemingly eternal focus on high schools and waifus in high schools is a sort of temporal isekai for aging otaku and weebs. :kombucha-disgust:

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Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.net

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9 points

2 years ago

I think it’s because working life for the average Japanese person fucking sucks so bad that for a worrying number of Japanese folks high school was the last time they really felt happy and free and unalienated from their fellow man.

Of course this isn’t Japan-specific anymore. From my times visiting family in Korea, I’ve started picking up the same shit over there from among my family and strangers I’ve talked to.

Which also explains why quite a few Korean manwha is also tends to be escapist power-fantasies as well.

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3 points

2 years ago

Returning to that tiny sliver of a human lifetime in “what if” fantasy scenarios over and over again seems like a maladaptive coping mechanism, but a profitable one.

It’s part of why I couldn’t get into the Persona series: at one point it’s a direct synthesis of high school escapist power fantasy and isekai power fantasy where your character can have all of the sex from all of the sex trophies and rule the school in every class and win at basically everything with sufficient sigma grindset. :so-true: :brainworms: :pathetic:

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