Isekai Ojisan - Vol. 13 Ch. 65.5

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Tsundare Elf be like:
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But she's right tho'... A bit...
 
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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.
 
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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)
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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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.
 

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