Rettou Gan no Tensei Majutsushi ~ Shiitagerareta Moto Yuusha wa Mirai no Sekai o Yoyuu de Ikinuku ~ - Ch. 95

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So no one gonna say anything about how there's a Christmas in this fantasy world? Did the author really know what the Christmas is celebrated for? Has he ever explained the existence of Jesus or Santa Claus? This seriously breaks immersion and feels very random. He doesn't even try to build his own world, just lazily grab a festival from the real world, and put it in his own fantasy world. That's a lazy writing at it's finest.

Well. It's not like this has a good writing to begin with but this time is too jarring that I need to make a comment.

 

[Dwarfy2k]

So no one gonna say anything about how there's a Christmas in this fantasy world? Did the author really know what the Christmas is celebrated for? Has he ever explained the existence of Jesus or Santa Claus? This seriously breaks immersion and feels very random. He doesn't even try to build his own world, just lazily grab a festival from the real world, and put it in his own fantasy world. That's a lazy writing at it's finest.

Well. It's not like this has a good writing to begin with but this time is too jarring that I need to make a comment.

Normally I pan writing like this but at this point I just ignore things like earth holidays being in different worlds, although it does tell you when people such at world building. Sorta like when people put things like japanese onsens, katana and other things simply for that nationalism but makes no sense worldbuilding wise.

 

[Darkshade13]

So no one gonna say anything about how there's a Christmas in this fantasy world? Did the author really know what the Christmas is celebrated for? Has he ever explained the existence of Jesus or Santa Claus? This seriously breaks immersion and feels very random. He doesn't even try to build his own world, just lazily grab a festival from the real world, and put it in his own fantasy world. That's a lazy writing at it's finest.

Well. It's not like this has a good writing to begin with but this time is too jarring that I need to make a comment.

Agree that it's lazy, but I think in some cases it's a reasonable shortcut because the alternative is creating their own just-like-christmas-but-not winter festival/holiday and then having to spend multiple panels explaining its customs and attitudes just so that the audience (or the isekai'd protag if that's what we've got) can go "oh, so it's basically Christmas". I think it's permissible in small doses to avoid dragging things out too much, but it also becomes a slippery slope to laziness in introducing further fluke carbon copy elements that defy credibility.

Personally my bigger annoyance is something like what Dwarfy notes: instances of characters (often isekai'd ones) introducing very culturally specific Japanese things into a feudal world simply so that others praise them as the greatest thing ever in what comes off an awful lot like a heavy case of creator provincialism designed to show off the obvious superiority of Japan. Obviously it's partially just a shortcut because Japanese readers won't instantly "get" concepts that are more inherently European or whatever. But it's always funny that you have a classic D&D/Tolkien/Euopean high fantasy setting with guys in plate armor and heavy broadswords, then the chuuni action hero shows up with his katana that is obviously the best sword ever made because it's the height of Japanese blacksmithing and weapon-making arts.

 

[Matthewkeen]

nice.