Mostly it isn't from invading, it's from trading. Though they would love if you thought it was from invading lol
@BanditHadron I can't but help roll my eyes everytime I see nationalistic pride in Japanese manga. It's too much.
This entire thread is killing me, cos it's way too accurate.
I love talking with my Japanese friends and they claim something as
Super Japanese, and we'll point out that it came from Korea (like everything except rice and kanji), and they shift the discussion to how Japan assimilates other cultural ideas better than anyone... 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Like, damn son!
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Also, and this has just kind of been bugging me, in the position of the MC, why grow
rice?!
Wheat exists, and is way,
WAY more efficient; it takes less
room, less
water, less physical
work, and has
more nutritional content.
Hell, it even
keeps longer, and rots less over time in adverse conditions!
Don't get me wrong: if there was only one food I could eat for the rest of my life, it would happily be rice; I love rice the way an isekai MC loves rice!
But... if you need to feed a bunch of people really fast?
Wheat.
It takes very little to grow, all you need to add is salt and water to make bread (though yeast is nice), and can even be digested when eaten raw (yanno, if necessary).
And dude grows rice?
With the knowledge and ability of a
god, he chooses
Rice?!
Just seems dumb.
¯\
(ツ)/¯