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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I’m aware of a few early isekai works from like the 80’s to 90’s (Dunbine, Elf Hunter, and quite a few western Choose Your Own Adventure books and pulp novels fall into this category). It seems to be that as a trend, the premise is that the main character wants to get back to the “real” world and that usually drives the main plot.

    Then theres a big trend of Isekai light novels (and related anime etc) in the later 2000’s to today. These almost exclusively seem to feature characters who just want to live a life in their new fantasy world. Literal escapism, even. Konosuba is notable for being very popular, maybe being around the start of this trend, and the main character is given a task to complete and be returned to the real world, but he just ignores it.

    I guess we can speculate on whether this means people got more miserable in the intervening time.



  • This is genuinely in bad faith. As far as I can tell, the “15 minute cities” are not some renaissance in urban development with dense housing and mixed-purpose residential and commercial spaces. It’s just slapping a steep fine on anybody who drives out of the neighborhood without bothering to check if they actually have access to an Aldi’s within their zone, much less where they might be employed. (Oh, don’t want to pay 38 pounds every day as a commute toll? Quit your office job and work at the corner store. We did it, we saved the environment!)