honestly i admit i dug this show and i’m glad to see it back
the truth is that i LIKE when an isekai character employs basic physics to brutal effect
bro materialized a several ton slug of tungsten in low earth orbit and just fucking DROPPED it on a target. A several kiloton pure kinetic strike. it was goddamn beautiful.
the only other show i loved this much was that pharmacist one where he had the ability to alchemically conjure drug compounds and was in the process of revolutionizing his world’s comprehension of healthcare and germ theory.
Yeah the part I like most about isekai is when they bring modern technology or knowledge into a different world. One of my favourite animes is Gate purely for that reason.
Gate made me feel patriotic about a country I don’t even live in XD
What about Acsendance of a Bookworm? Seems like it would be right up your alley
Oh shit yeah that’s right! Myne didn’t even have super advanced physics knowledge but she’s still upending her world XD and she had to figure it out herself from scratch, only based upon trial and error and the drive to keep pushing no matter how many times she fails! She REALLY digs deep into the nitty gritty about figuring things out, too - no convenient shortcuts!
I was always just a teeny tiny bit sad that she didn’t happen to have known, at the time, the basics of how soap works. Her shampoo, I can’t imagine it can do a particularly great job of cleaning without at least a trace amount of a alkaline solvent of some kind (usually we use lye) which is where “soapiness” comes from.
Soap is molecules that are electrostatically polar on one end (like water is) with a non polar chain (a lipid tail that is hydrophobic) on the other, so it sticks to grime AND water at the same time, allowing the water to pull the grime away (whereas the grime otherwise repels water)
One doesn’t have to know the chemistry of saponification to understand that if you mix a strong alkaline with an oil, it makes soap. And… like … she has a wood stove right there. Wood ash is where humanity historically used to get our lye.
But no, I LOVE Bookworm, it’s STILL a lovely story and I will keep following it, of course!
Is anyone else tired of overly long titles that explain the whole concept? This title is like if Attack on Titan was called “Soldiers Using Complicated Grappling Equipment Fight Giant Attackers In A City.” It’s tiresome.
You could actually make a game of it of it. Like, take a show title and give it the Recent Anime Title treatment. It’s a new nerdy party game! I’ll call it “We Take The Basic Situation of a Show and Turn it into a Title for that Show” Just rolls right off the tongue.
“That Time I Obliterated my Brother’s Body and Spent an Arm and a Leg to Get His Soul Back.”
I can’t effing believe it took me until now to get this. I knew you were doing the game, and I kept coming back and re-reading it over and over…
And finally. Today. It clicked. Holy crap I’m slow lol.
Ah yes, the user of the most powerful summoning spell: Summon gun.
Even though I will admit this show is kinda trashy I really dug the first season and can’t wait for this one.
