Isekai Ojisan - Vol. 13 Ch. 65.5

[SpecialProjectY]

Tsundare Elf be like:

But she's right tho'... A bit...

 

[Meijin]

Ever since I read the story in Doraemon I always thought the lesson was "goodness can invite unwanted rewards so mind how you accept them".

I don't trust turtles when they can make evil AIs

But evil AIs are cuter than their normal counterpart? Tuttles should be collared up and threatened with electricity shock therapy to keep them in line.

 

[HelioCesar]

I thought the moral of the story was that mermussy comes at a expensive price...

that too...

 

[Aureliano]

nvm lol.

 

[manga_follow_75743857]

Ojisan started this story waking up from a 17-year coma in the hospital.

So far, we only see one relative in modern Tokyo. Maybe one of the heroines help Ojisan rewrite Takafumi's memories

 

[Gogglesluxio]

Uncle also has a lot of parallels with taro: brought to a different world and distracted by various things like magic, returns home after missing his family, finds out a lot of time has passed and loses his youth and the opportunities it would have brought, plus important things (Sega) have been lost during that time.

Uncle never lost sight of his goal though, and managed to return before all of his family died, and now gets to hang out with his nephew, and play with Sega emulators.

Moral of the story: don't get distracted by trivial things or you will lose what's important and everything around you will leave you behind.

Uncle's elf wife: (she got left behind)

 

[EirikrInnMyrkr]

I love it when there's a lot of talking or narration or some other text, so the artist just says "well, I gotta keep myself entertained SOMEHOW" and draws something happening in the background that ends up distracting me from whatever's being discussed.

Alicia: reads classic Disney fairytales
Sui: reads Brothers Grimm fairytales
Mabel: reads Garfield

 

[Frostisss]

Elf‘s just on the grindset.

 

[rexmundi]

thanks for the chapter

 

[Liquidxlax]

Need japanese bro to verify

No you don't. Elf is right on the moral of the story because you can take one of the easier examples of pleasure ruining ones life and causing them to missout on their families life. That being DRUGS. Pleasure is a drug already and it is well known that easy wealth/pleasure has the most consequences albeit not all are negative and many can be mitigated.

 

[DeusVult]

I don't know what the original intent of the story was, but I find it interesting that so many cultures around the world have very similar stories. It's a downright commonplace theme in many Celtic stories, for instance, and those were likely originally all one story before oral story-tellers adapted them for the times and places they were in. I wonder if Urashima Taro drew inspiration from a common root?

I know some old stories are supposed to be far older than anyone would guess. "Jack and the Beanstalk" is supposed to be one of the more ancient ones, for example. It derives from a story that is more than 4000 years old which linguists refer to as "the Ogre's Treasure Room". It gets passed down, tweaked to be more interesting, or streamlined to be made simpler, and translated into different languages and so on until it's something quite different and only the kernel at its heart is the same. Interesting stuff.

At page 3 there is use of "coup de gras" but isn't it "coup de grace" ?

Saw that too. Kinda funny because that means "blow of fat" instead of "blow of mercy", lol.

 

[BakedBanana]

Mabel doesn't look very amused. (Page 6)

 

[nyaasar]

Aw, it's so endearing to see the three wives get along so well.

 

[Forkuth]

Japanese Rip Van Winkle.
Funny how some things like this cross cultures during times where there would be minimal contact.
Kind of like swords. Every culture that hit the iron age has swords even ones that didnt really contact others.

 

[Noskal_Borg]

Japanese Rip Van Winkle.
Funny how some things like this cross cultures during times where there would be minimal contact.
Kind of like swords. Every culture that hit the iron age has swords even ones that didnt really contact others.

I think both stories might all be inspired by meeting Cain or John the Beloved, but that's dipping into other stories and assuming they are true. (Which i do)

 

[dogmeister238]

Need japanese bro to verify

Not a Japanese bro, but supposedly it was pieced together after being lost to time, so no one’s really sure what the original was or meant. Of the few incomplete works that existed from before being pieced together, they had wildly different underlying themes. Most likely, they used the same plot and adapted it to different themes as sort of a local folk tale.

It’s sort of like if in one version of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, instead of highlighting uniqueness, it was a precautionary tale about straying from uniformity. Then, that tale was unified with the original, resulting in something like “Rudolph saved the day, only to end up becoming greatly prideful from his uniqueness and causing the downfall of Christmas, until the other reindeer killed him, restoring peace to the land”.