"mayonnaise and rice!"
I like the line from Tanya the evil, something like ""I come from a world that is scientifically, technologically, economically, and socially superior!"
Nobody will forget Tanya isn't from isekai Germany.
how much Kenzaburo’s previous life experience has mattered.
I agree. He’s not some empty husk of a character either meant for self-insertion
maybe they make mayonnaise or something like that
This trope drives me insane in generic isekai. The only thing they bring from their world is food. Always food. Those types of isekai are so unoriginal they even copy these inconsequential things.
sj_zero 4 weeks ago
pelya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s only like 50 years between Tanya’s Japan and magical not-Germany. She’s way more grounded in her knowledge, it’s all basically the end-of-WW2 military doctrine, and she cannot ‘invent’ better guns or tanks because there’s no technology to produce them yet, and much bigger challenge is not modernizing guns but producing enough shells for them.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hey, sometimes they also bring shampoo!
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I know of Ascendance of a Bookworm, but have others done this?
darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I can’t remember. I feel like I’ve seen it on at least one other place though.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The 80,000 gold for retirement Isekai. She also sells shampoo by teleporting it in from the real-world.
pelya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s also a scurvy epidemic, which the healers can do nothing about but MC solves woth a proper diet. I’ve read at least three novels with this plot.
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Oh, I’ve not come across that one before