Basically, a setting where magic and dungeons and dragons are all real, but so much time has passed that they’ve developed a society similar to ours so you have orks working on their college dissertations in coffee shops while siren baristas use magic to create more decaf?
Where political leaders instead established protests in segregated taverns to establish equality between humans and demonkind? Where farmers peddle mandrakes and slime extract at farmers markets so that health-savvy elves can make potion smoothies and then post a picture of them on Instagram?
Yeah, it’s like that. Anyway, enjoy the story of the MC realizing that none of his skills from the old world will wow people in this new world because they already invented soy sauce and crop rotation and double-book accounting on their own.
Also, I dunno who remembers my plurk about this before, but there's an LN where a dude makes curry rice and serves it to a bunch of aristocrats and they all know what rice is?
yeah there's something pure about isekai that is just... slice of life, and the hero isn't some wunderkind because of a mundane skill but is just, happier in this other world
I mean, realist hero makes the protagonist the king of the nation he ends up in, but it certainly takes a more mundane approach to everything. Even his isekai'd power has more usage in mundane stuff.
Like, yeah, he develops it later in a way that lets him use it for combat, but it's not the most efficient, and it comes back to bite him in the ass at least once.
I've read it you don't need to explain it to me. It's pretty dire and it keeps growing. And is full of double standards with the guy going "okay I can have LOTS of women but I get super jealous so I have to be the only person for any of them"
An ordinary Japanese man dies and is sent to another world.The twist, though is... well... you know that Pixar movie Onward? Or Bright, the one with Will Smith?Basically, a setting where magic and dungeons and dragons are all real, but so much time has passed that they’ve developed a society similar to ours so you have orks working on their college dissertations in coffee shops while siren baristas use magic to create more decaf?Where political leaders instead established protests in segregated taverns to establish equality between humans and demonkind? Where farmers peddle mandrakes and slime extract at farmers markets so that health-savvy elves can make potion smoothies and then post a picture of them on Instagram?Yeah, it’s like that. Anyway, enjoy the story of the MC realizing that none of his skills from the old world will wow people in this new world because they already invented soy sauce and crop rotation and double-book accounting on their own.Is This Really An Other World?