Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Sharpandpointies]

The vaccine is good, but I dunno if it's THAT good.

...dammit.

[Beadle]

Be sure to get all five variants, that way you'll gain superpowers.

No, you’re forgetting the exposure to massive amounts of radiation.

That’s essential for superpowers.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

No, you’re forgetting the exposure to massive amounts of radiation.

That’s essential for superpowers.

Ah right. Can't roll around in it, it's gotta be a shower of radioactive matetial.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[Tami]

...dammit.

Then again, who knows what might happen in the future. You may just get your chance to power up.

[Jcogginsa]

[Jcogginsa]

Found the youtube version of this

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[Dark Soul # 7]

Hahah! I was finally allowed to book my covid-vaccination appointment!

I look forward to getting 5G nanobots injected in my veins.

[Sharpandpointies]

Hahah! I was finally allowed to book my covid-vaccination appointment!

I look forward to getting 5G nanobots injected in my veins.

Only just now? Please tell me this is your second!

[Dark Soul # 7]

Only just now? Please tell me this is your second!

Nope! First.

Sweden, and especially Stockholm where I live, have kinda bungled the whole thing so that it's just stupid slow.

[Sharpandpointies]

Oh dear, yes. Sweden. O_o

I'm very sorry. I hope it's soon.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Oh dear, yes. Sweden. O_o

I'm very sorry. I hope it's soon.

Wednesday next week was the earliest I could get. So relatively early, at least it's before my vacation starts.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Some interesting news.

Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine recently released the first chapter of a series called Isekai Tensei Sha Goroshi - Cheat Slayer from Homura Kawamoto, writer of the manga Kakegurui, and Aki Yamaguchi. The premise of the series is that in a fantasy world with a team of people who have been reincarnated from a more mundane world, isekai protagonists basically, and they're all very clear expies of famous isekai characters like Kirito from Sword Art Online, Ainz from Overlord, Tanya from Saga of Tanya the Evil, Subaru from Re:Zero, Rimuru from That time I got reincarnated as a Slime and several other.

The series got cancelled after a single chapter.

The reason being that all these expies are actually vile people who use their god-given cheat abilities to cause havoc and use the fantasy setting to do whatever the hell they want while gaining the unearned reputation of being heroes. The series real protagonist is a fellow called Lute, who is native to the fantasy setting and whose village gets burned to the ground and he's left for dead by the evil expies. Lute is then saved by a witch who promises to help him kill the fake heroes by circumventing their cheat-abilities, expose them for the degenerates they are and ultimately kill them all.

Portraying even evil parody versions of so many beloved characters as horrible villains didn't go over well with a lot of people. So the series is cancelled, the writer and publisher have issued apologies. And I'm just thinking of all the times we've seen similarly evil expies of the Justice League, and especially Superman, with very few people making a fuss of it. It's just an interesting difference in terms of cultural reactions.

[Nik Hasta]

The reason being that all these expies are actually vile people who use their god-given cheat abilities to cause havoc and use the fantasy setting to do whatever the hell they want while gaining the unearned reputation of being heroes.

Isn't that the plot of most isekai?

In all seriousness, I think it's kind of wild it got cancelled. Garth Ennis basically couldn't have a career in Japan then, eh?