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Who Is Ellen - 45 - HD (Patreon)

Published:
2022-10-11 03:00:02
Imported:
2022-10

Content

A mysterious backstory

- At egscomics 

Commentary

Ellen feels pretty good about what she came up with.

In retrospect, I could've waited until this comic to comment on the whole "isekai" thing, and probably should have given that I think I was wrong about how many people would both immediately know about, and assume, that Nanase's character was from another world.

Which shows how views about what is and isn't common knowledge can be extremely biased based on who you communicate with, and how that can still happen even when you're aware that it's a thing that happens.

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Comments

Stephen Gilberg

For another example, during the karaoke arc, none of the song titles meant a thing to me.

wargrunt42

All according to cake

Dan Merget

I can't read... I can't read... No I can't read what's in panel four. Puh-puh-puh-panel four.

Thisguy

Larry and Rich don’t watch enough Anime. George probably watches more than enough. I’ve actually played a one shot with a guy who played an Isekai character. It’s pretty funny.

Dan Merget
>>93354196

I just skimmed that arc, and I think only two song titles were mentioned: "Sweet Dreams" (I assume the Eurythmics version?) and "Holding Out For a Hero". In most cases, we didn't learn what song the characters sang. If you grew up after the 1980's, then you missed the era when they were popular. That said, if you saw "Shrek 2", the Fairy Godmother sang "Holding Out For a Hero" as Shrek stormed the castle with the giant gingerbread man. (That was a pretty neat scene with dramatic irony BTW). I never heard the song Ellen sang at the end. I'm pretty sure Dan Shive made up those lyrics.

Prof Sai

Has any anime done more then one Isekai character? Like they have a special preschool for reincarnated humans from earth.

David Fenger
>>93354196

Back when that comic was made, there was a fan-made attempt (or two) at putting those words to music. So you *could* hear it... sorta.

Thisguy
>>93359608

In the setting of 'That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime', there are two ways of humans winding up there, one is to be reincarnated as one of the world's inhabitants. Thats very rare, and what happened to the Protagonist Slime. The second and more common is humans are summoned to the world through a ritual. Which is often done so that they can turn said humans into powerful warriors for whichever country summoned them. As such one country has an academy which has a special class consisting of human kids who were summoned from earth. These kids were rejects who were deemed not suitable to become superhuman warriors. But in this case, the kids were transported, not reincarnated.

James C
>>93359608

“So I'm a Spider, so what?” has an entire classroom of students killed in a mysterious explosion, and all reincarnated in another world. Mostly as humans, but the Teacher is an Elf, the "creepy goth girl" is a vampire, one of the class bullies is a dragon, and the main character is reincarnated as a spider. Or “Rising of the Shield Hero”, where 4 heroes are summoned at once, from different Earths — as the Sword Hero, Bow Hero, Spear Hero, and Shield Hero — as part of a recurring "defeat the great evil!" ritual. 3 of them then get special training and equipment, but the locals have all sorts of myths and legends telling them that the Shield Hero is evil, so he is basically abandoned on his own, and has to work everything out for himself without any help.

jubs
>>93359608

Rising of the Shield Hero also starts with multiple people being summoned (rather than being killed, then reincarnated), and Lonely Attack on Another World has a whole class of students doing that.

Anonymous
>>93359608

Multiple kids went to Narnia. Multiple kids were pulled through in Twelve Kingdoms or "Now and Then, Here and There". There being multiple kids was just as common as just one kid when when it was all portal fantasy. The modern Isekai which is more a power fantasy generally focuses on the one character, but as pointed out "Stuff like I'm a Spider, So What" where everyone in a school room is summoned or "The Executioner and Her Way of Life" where isekaid kids are a well known issue that society has a full beurocaracy to deal with are hardly unknown.

Stephen Gilberg
>>93354196

Huh. I'd certainly heard the songs by that time; I guess I just didn't recognize the titles.

KC
>>93359608

Short answer: yes Long answer: see above replies

KC
>>93355389

I wanna roll 'em like they do in Dee en Dee! Charge 'em, don't they hit me, curse it, dice f'd me!

Viktor
>>93359608

Portal fantasy rather than isekai, but Every Heart a Doorway is a novel by Seanan McGuire that’s about a school for kids who visited other worlds and then came back. Most of them aren’t coping well. Excellent book, highly recommended.

Some Ed
>>93359608

I've seen one where both the protagonist and the antagonist's willing mark were Isekaid. They'd been best friends until the protagonist told her about the Isekai experience she'd started having from this book, then her friend got a copy, started reading, and fell in with the antagonist and his gang. And somehow believed the antagonist over her friend, despite the fact that the antagonist very clearly demonstrated having no reservations about using people. To be fair, there were wishes at stake. But someone with the amount of savvy I had at that age would've realized that her new "right hand man" would do his best to influence those wishes to his own ends.

Daryl Sawyer

NANASE IS PROTECTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS.

Daryl Sawyer
>>93359608

"Mary Sues On A Plane"... I mean "High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World", had a whole group of them. Death March had one guy who fell asleep coding a game about the other world, and a girl who reincarnated in that world and remembers her previous life.

Kaz Redclaw
>>93359608

"TSUKIMICHI - Moonlit Fantasy," that one has three characters that were isekaied to the other world, The goddess of the world. It was originally supposed to be one, but the goddess of the world was obsessed with beauty and found the first one ugly, so brought two more over to replace him. "Uncle from another World," the other world has had multiple Isekaied characters in the past, and he's just the most recent, though none of the others appear in the manga (at least so far.) "The Saint's Power is Overwhelming" had two separate characters get pulled over at the same time in one event. (Basically both were in apartments directly above/below each other and the portal grabbed both of them.) As far as Manga goes instead of Anime, there's also "Multi-mind Mayhem: Isekai Tensei Soudouki" where the main character actually has two separate Isekaied personalities in him, and because of that neither one is able to take full control of him and both end up basically just helping him out. (And of course, he gets the bad habits from both personalities along with their beneficial knowledge.) And "Exterminator," I don't know if that one ever got an anime or not, but the main character meets some other isekaied characters during his travels around the world. The others aren't main characters though and just appear in one arc.

Anonymous
>>93359608

Not anime, but I would like to add the Vainqueur the Dragon book series here. Isekai is so common you have a whole reverse-Isekai religion worshipping truck-kun in the hope it would kill you so you would reach the fabled paradise land of Japan... (and this is definitely not the weirdest thing in those books)

Hurley
>>93359608

Strictly speaking, every person in "Restaurant To Another World" who walks through the one of the magical doors on The Day of Satur is isekai-ed*. They're literally transported to another world they know nothing about (at least on their first trip). Now, they get to go home once they've had their fill of food-gasm, but still... * Isekai as a genre doesn't require the person to be killed, only transported blind to somewhere alien to them. Reincarnation is a common way for that to happen in modern Isekai manga/light novels/anime, but it's never been the only method possible.

Daryl Sawyer

On other matters, I *love* Ellen's smug look. It goes really well with the pigtails.

Foradain
>>93359608

Can El Hazard be considered isekai? That one had several students and Fujisawa-sensei...