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[-] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 43 points 10 months ago
[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

Oh fuck, they're in the trees

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Even there you still hear Fortunate Son playing on a loop.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Elftunate Son

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Someone just watched Gate.

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 13 points 10 months ago

Best anime. I like the part where dragons get obliterated by missiles and tank shells.

[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Well, that was an intriguing sentence. I'll have to check this out.

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

That sentence only applies to the first episode. The rest of the series is an overly jingoistic power fantasy where the MC goes around collecting waifus for his harem and the japanese army exports ~~democracy~~ japanese culture.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Yeah the anime is pretty garbage outside of the pilot. You'd think you'd get interesting conflicts of fantasy powers vs modern military but nah

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 16 points 10 months ago

I watched an episode and said, "Oh, I'm not the target audience, a teenaged Japanese child who is malleable enough to be tricked into joining the JDF."

[-] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

The idea of a modern soldier going to a fantasy world and getting a "harem" sounds like a propagandized retelling of a war crime.

Imperial Princess Piña Co Lada

Go home author, you are drunk.

[-] Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network 3 points 9 months ago

Summoning Japan is still kinda power fantasy, but it’s much more focused on the world itself rather than any specific characters. It’s also consistently REALLY good. It’s still running, but there’s quite a bit already out before you have to wait.

Manifest Fantasy is a similar premise to GATE but much better, though is still an early Work In Progress; it too is REALLY good so far (there’s five chapters out so far AFAIK)

Then there’s Summoning America, written by the translators of Summoning Japan. I haven’t read it but I’ve heard good things about it.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

Japanese army exporting japanese culture into a fantasy land that's heavily influenced by their own culture... Sounds like 'murica invading bri'ain or something

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Well they did say it was an anime

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago
[-] jherazob@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

The anime is not TOO bad, but i've been firmly told to stay the fuck away from the original sources. I wish we had a more grounded one though.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Reign of Fire. Christian Bale, Matthew Mccaughey, and A109 helicopters vs dragons.

[-] Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network 3 points 9 months ago

P-51 Dragon Fighter: a WWII movie with Nazi dragons, a surprisingly manageable romance subplot and a ‘final boss’ stolen from Ace Combat 04, starring a whole bunch of people we’ve never heard of because their careers peaked in this work of art.

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Eh? The dragons getting shot with missiles and tanks is episode 17. There are waifus and stuff of course but there is even more fantasy world tropes getting smacked down by modern tech.

[-] jherazob@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I've heard it described as "Japan in Civilization playing for a domination victory"

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago

How do we know elves won't refine gunpowder weaponry first in their quest for ever greater ranges and precision? Maybe precisely engineered gyro stabilized rocket propelled 'arrows' is the path elves take, vs the humans big boom slow heavy artillery?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 48 points 10 months ago

Gunpowder is dirty and requires mining, which would mean talking to dwarves

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Sugar dust is VERY combustible.

[-] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 4 points 9 months ago

Sugar refining is grody

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

They'd make the most precise cannon known to history that used such specific msterials on the ammo that it would fire once a year, at best.

[-] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 6 points 9 months ago

Reminds me of a short story I once read in a Polish sci-fi and fantasy magazine, where a portal to fantasy world opened and Elves conquered Eastern Europe and I think Russia. At one point narrator tells us once Elves discovered humans made satelites, they made their own. Our of wood covered in magic runes, then coated with mithral. I don't recall how they got it in space but narrator tells us once it began orbiting the Earth and SENDING SIGNALS several members of NASA had to be instituionalized.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe precisely engineered gyro stabilized rocket propelled 'arrows' is the path elves take

That sounds more like a gnome thing.

[-] Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network 2 points 9 months ago

Kobolds would invent the Hwatcha to counter this

[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago
[-] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Don't complain if your whole platoon gets perfectly sniped with arrows before you can load your artillery.

[-] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 13 points 9 months ago

Humans breed like mad. We got other platoons.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

This is how Frieren feels

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