April 05, 2022
Isekai are now snarking at each other....
Just grabbed the first episode of Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road (aka The Executioner and Her Way of Life) where our Isekai'd hero is tossed out when they find he has no powers. She presents herself to him as a priestess of an order that takes care of "Lost Ones" like him (but as you can guess by the title, she intends a different kind of "taking care of" him).
While she's giving him the score, we get this nifty little exchange:
Mutou Mitsuki: "Oh, I see, I get it now! This is where I use knowledge from home to make a name for myself! What stuff do I know...? Oh, What about Mayonnaise?"
Menou: "Ah yes, Mayonnaise. It's pretty tasty."
Mutou Mitsuki: "Eh, You know what it is?"
At which point she explains that Lost Ones have been coming for a long time and they all come from Japan, and leads him around a corner to a part of town with lots of Japanese signs. A lot of Japanese has merged with their culture. And then he realizes that she's been speaking to him in Japanese, not some kind of magical translation.
I'm sure the both of you who read this blog get the reference....
Mutou Mitsuki: "Oh, I see, I get it now! This is where I use knowledge from home to make a name for myself! What stuff do I know...? Oh, What about Mayonnaise?"
Menou: "Ah yes, Mayonnaise. It's pretty tasty."
Mutou Mitsuki: "Eh, You know what it is?"
At which point she explains that Lost Ones have been coming for a long time and they all come from Japan, and leads him around a corner to a part of town with lots of Japanese signs. A lot of Japanese has merged with their culture. And then he realizes that she's been speaking to him in Japanese, not some kind of magical translation.
I'm sure the both of you who read this blog get the reference....
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The cultural convergence sounds like a problem with the setup. If everyone coming from Japan gets a Pure Concept, feels an urge to use it, and loses control the more they do so, how did some of them last long enough to not just transfer recipes, but effectively overwrite language, architecture, textiles, fashion, culture, technology, etc?
Did a sous-chef get "Pure Concept: Fluffy Bunny" and last two years before wiping out a city with an army of vorpal rabbits?
-j
Did a sous-chef get "Pure Concept: Fluffy Bunny" and last two years before wiping out a city with an army of vorpal rabbits?
-j
Posted by: J Greely at April 09, 2022 04:27 PM (ZlYZd)
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Or maybe enough of them actually had useless powers that it was a while before the need for assassins came about.
Posted by: Mauser at April 10, 2022 08:17 PM (gVjvf)
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