If this is one of ours it would be the John Brown isekai meme:
Since we’re time travelling. Gotta hook our boy up.
Is this actually that common of a thing? I try to stay away from the trash side of anime, which is to say a solid majority of it nowadays and especially anything that could be described with the word harem, but I struggle to accept the apparent reality that slave romances are a common trope in the genre. Like that’s straight against the wall, do not pass go, do not collect $200 kind of behavior and to think that that has such an audience that it’s become a staple of the genre is maddening. In the lovecraftian sense
The Rising of the Shield Hero was the very popular show that had this trope, but there are some others.
Also that Ancient Magus Bride one came out nearly the same time.
Eeeeeeh Ancient Magus Bride is playing with slightly problematic tropes but it’s a show about found family and overcoming trauma, it’s more in the ball park of Beauty and the Beast than cryptofash wish fulfillment bull like shield hero
Oh absolutely but the very premise is horrible and the force-bathing at the start is wtf.
Aw does that one have that? I had heard good things about it, but shit.
He literally buys her and force-bathes her like a child in the first 10 minutes of episode 1. I despised it.
Yikes that’s worse than I imagined. Thanks for the heads up.
It’s still a very good show and worth checking out. I don’t think they really glorify slavery, the tone of the show is very depressing all throughout.
There was also one called something like “How Not to Summon a Demon Lord” where two women use a spell that’s supposed to make the protagonist their slave but it gets reversed and they become his slaves.
What if the slave owner ego insert protagonist is one of the good ones and the slave waifus want to fight for senpai
If you wanna see a web comic that actively calls out this kinda shit, I can’t recommend ‘This Isekai Maid is Starting a Union’ enough.
And if you wanna see the complete opposite, try subjecting yourself to Kuma Kuma Bear, the whole thing is just the author’s neoliberal power trip. It hasn’t gotten to the point of slavery (yet) but apparently child labor is fair game and God really loves you only if you accumulate wealth.
If this is the grizz that runs the r/konosuba discord they used to be extremely right wing so this would be a very significant shift leftwards for them.
I don’t find the slave dynamic in on itself a problem. When looking at cheap romances, it is filled with dangerous power dynamic even when aimed at women. Example, the infamous 50ShadesOfGray.
I take more of an issue with how the slaves fall in love with the bare minimum of effort and how despite otherwise portraying a monogamous culture the slave is fine with being one out of a dozen in the owners harem.
I don’t find the slave dynamic in on itself a problem
Well, I do, and so does any reasonable person. Why are you such a freak?
A reasonable person can distinguish real life and fantasy.
