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Vapor Weyve
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Some kind of mutant writing raccoon. Resistant to most damage types. Intersex Latina. ✡️《she/hers》 Most blocks are via chain; you may tap a friend to appeal.

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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      mind if I share a hypothesis I have about the isekai genre? lol just kidding this is MY twitter feed, I don't need your fucking permission

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    2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      k here's what I'm thinking A running undercurrent of isekai anime as it's currently presented is that the world-transplanted protagonist generally does not give any fucks about the people they left behind. Their background is strictly a resource with which to achieve dominance

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    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      Like, let's look at my least favorite isekai of all time, possibly the worst anime I've ever seen, THE WISE MAN'S GRANDSON. The adult protagonist dies, gets reincarnated as a kid, basically just mines their knowledge of the modern world to become a magical wunderkind ubermensch.

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    4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      Now, that anime is terrible, but an anime I actually like, THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS A SLIME, does pretty much the same thing! Rimuru Tempest basically combines his past life as a project manager with his current existence as a protean 3D printer to bring modern reforms.

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    5. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      Konosuba does it too! The protagonist makes money by literally inventing the kotatsu. So these characters capitalize on a benefit of their past experiences—training, ability to innovate—but never suffer as a result of them. They never feel regret, longing, hiraeth, nostalgia.

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    6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      You never see these characters MISSING anyone from their past lives. You never see them revisiting trauma. You never see them pining over the people lost in the world they left behind And you can't tell me this is purely a matter of genre, because it hasn't always been that way!

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    7. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      Like, back when the isekai genre was still female-driven—I'm looking at Fushugi Yugi and Escaflowne, here—you DID see the protagonists feeling a sense of loss at the world they left behind. Their past experiences WERE a source of pain.

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    8. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      Honestly, it seems to me like it was when the isekai genre transitioned from a predominantly female-driven one to a primarily male-driven one—and when being the protagonist became more of a power fantasy—that this aspect of loss, longing, and regret was mostly discarded.

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      Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

      Vapor Weyve Retweeted TrickyC

      That's definitely a part of the power fantasy This idea that "someday, the fact that you're a piece of shit who sits in their room playing video games all day and has never done a decent thing for anyone will make you a prince among men"https://twitter.com/trickyc66/status/1261804037097152512 …

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      TrickyC @trickyc66
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      i mean, i always read the prevalence of that trope as specifically reaching out to alienated, self-pitying NEETs: basically presenting the ultimate, "Just wait; *someday* THEY'LL see..." fantasy that appeals to so many overprivileged ppl that see themselves as underappreciated
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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

          But I mean, it hasn't always been like that? Hitomi Kanzaki wasn't a NEET. She wasn't an otaku. She was pretty much a bog-standard Bella Swan type character. Sword Art Online seemed to refocus the attention on male gamers specifically.

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        3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

          Anyway I'm thinking about this in the context of the anime/manga/light novel series I continue to obsess over, MY NEXT LIFE AS A VILLAINESS, and how it kind of reconstructs the classical isekai format and reintroduces femininity into the narrative in a very interesting way

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        4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

          Like, the series is a kludge of various genres, it's not a "pure" isekai, but that's obviously the genre it most specifically draws from, and the female protagonist is clearly motivated by the trauma of a life ended prematurely and the people she left behind, never to se again

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        5. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

          That is literally the whole point. She died at the age of seventeen and found the experience so traumatizing that she literally dedicates the rest of her life to making sure she never experiences that sense of loss a second time. She's a goofball but she DOES feel that hurt?

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        6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

          And the narrative specifically doesn't treat her past self as totally disconnected from her world. Like, it is made really clear that when she was died, she was mourned by her loved ones and many of them never completely got over it for the rest of their lives. It's refreshing

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        7. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020

          Like it's weird that such a silly and ridiculous series would be the one to unpack these kind of grim realities of the genre conventions but that's kind of why I love it There is something really honest and sincere buried here and it's really such an unusual thing to see

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        2. chloe deguzman‏ @taitaisanchez 16 May 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy

          Does SAO count? Because I always thought that the key growth was that Kirito finally learning to trust others?

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        3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 May 2020
          Replying to @taitaisanchez

          SAO was definitely kind of a transitional work, Kirito definitely felt pain at being trapped in the game world

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        1. Henry W. Hall‏ @HenryWHall 16 May 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy

          Isekai but it's one of the guys who are protesting to reopen businesses, he's totally lost without indoor plumbing and TGI Fridays.

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