Now that I know the date, this is the migration blog post

I used content exporters to export the Joomla pages and Wordpress pages and blog posts into markdown content files for hugo.

Unfortunately, it’s not more specific than “content exporter into markdown”. But who knows if those specific ones would still be available today. :)

So I would suggest to use any Markdown exporter that’s available now.

I really liked Uncle from another world too, but I wouldn’t list it to that question. I guess because it’s more of a comedy than with a spanning story and depth or development.

Scrolling through the comments to remember some of them,

• Mushoku Tensei - great - the first two seasons have exceptional world building, story telling, contrasting, and developments; not everything is great, but a lot is; for me, last two seasons fell off a bit
• Grimgar - very good - very unique, great world and characters and relationship between them
• Ascendance of a Bookworm - very good
• The Eminence in Shadow - very good - exceptional satire
• The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady - very good until the ending, with exceptional visuals and vibrancy
• Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout - very good - great comedy with a gender bend/swap

/edit: Found two more from my list of good/decent non-harem isekais I replied to some no longer existing lemmy post.

It has unique visuals, but what really sets it apart is the great - what do I even call it - significance through realism? It has a lot of depth and is very different. It has my definite recommendation too.

Ascendance of a Bookworm. A really good one!

I don’t see how trademark and copyright law would be a hindrance. Any multinational company and any company with global markets has to gain this expertise, and they contract lawyers to do so.

Steam can do it. Bandcamp can do it. Netflix can do it. Amazon can do it. What is supposed to be so different for manga or anime?

I think this clip only works for those who have already seen it and remember. Without the context, it’s just random accusations without much in-scene.

I recently watched Back Street Girls: Gokudols, which has a very low frame and animation count. It still worked well as a comedy. It was enough.

Not that I want anime to be that way, but it can work for some.

alleged that 90% of animators quit their jobs in three years

Insane number. But not implausible to me. Bad working environments with impossible schedules do that.

I wish they would improve working conditions. As an industry, or through regulation because evidently, the industry doesn’t.

To finance it - I wish they would make anime more easily accessible and buyable.

Less oppressive checkboxed mass/standard productions would surely improve what we see as products too.

Stitched tongue?

I loved Vision of Escaflowne back in the day. (In 2006 I rated it 9/10 apparently.)

I wonder how it would hold up if I were to watch it today.

What do you mean by traditional material?

I can see your argumentation being followed by misguided production management, but I doubt it’s necessary or can positively influence world-building.

All kinds of mechanisms and progression can be presented naturally, intuitively, and embedded within the world. I doubt a noticeable number of people are so far gone they can only understand the world through the interface of video game interfaces.

I don’t think it’s about “everyone”. It’s about production companies picking what’s popular, the currently popular theme, and produces shovelware standard-productions in a narrow, uninspired target-audience checkboxing way. They contract producers and creatives, but restrict them and likely invest so little that it ends up with what it is. The industry as a whole, many titles, end up as forgettable, mediocre, similar shovelware.

Much like Hollywood produced an abundance of hero movies until everyone was sick of it. Or how EA produced the same sports game each year. Or Call of Duty. Or Battlefield.

I agree with there being a lot of sub-par and mediocre productions, and the overpowered, harem, and video game elements are big offenders and indicators of what most of the time end up as bad products.

I enjoyed Reincarnated as a vending machine. Simple formula, very forced, but hilariously absurd.

Most overpowered protagonist anime end up between bad and awful. But The Eminence in Shadow makes use of it as poignant satire. And I remember seeing another series where they made it work through enemy hybris, and the punishment/revelation was satisfying enough that it worked, in large part through direction and production quality.

The most “wtf” regarding isekai I recently saw was when the entire series was not about being an isekai, but - not at the begining nor end - they put a random scene in where the protagonist had a vision from modern Japan city and was like “what is this about?” and that was it. Maybe they included it just so it can have the isekai product tag? I have no idea.

Coming back to the original theme and hypothosis, the differentiation of and popularity of fantasy vs isekai escapism is interesting.

Ghost in the Shell is certainly fantastical. Enjoying or viewing or getting invested in fantastical stories is inherently partly escapism too. Isekai specifically puts a - most of the time - normal modern human into a fantastical setting though, materializing escapism as a fact on the protagonist.

I’m not sure there’s such a hard line to draw though.

I’ve thought about the clear inner voice during watching too. I found it acceptable, not that detrimental. Something different could have had more impact, but I didn’t find it that bad.

It’s certainly the easier way in terms of directing.

Those sound interesting, thank you for the recommendation. I’ll definitely take a look. I’m intrigued about how blindness is represented and integrated.

Kagami no Kojou is great. A movie from 2022. (Is it “less-known” or “hidden”? AniDB has only 95 votes, so I thought it would be. But MAL has 6k.)

Now and Then, Here and There is great. A series from 1999. Outside of the dated 480p visuals it’s exceptional. It has great depth. my short review and a clip