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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • too much detail; leading up to the findings that follow

    Looking at the git lot, it looks like it was in 2018. I don’t remember, and it’s not documented that thoroughly in the commit messages log. Looks like I had content pages in Joomla, and the blog in Wordpress.

    I may have exported the content via a plugin, or separate tool that reads from the database, did exported from the DB myself. I certainly did some mass-fixups via text search and replace. (I can recommend VS Code for that.)

    Unfortunately, I had other projects that I migrated, so I can’t remember which one I did what. :)

    Now that I know the date, this is the migration blog post

    I used content exporters to export the Joomla pages and Wordpress pages and blog posts into markdown content files for hugo.

    Unfortunately, it’s not more specific than “content exporter into markdown”. But who knows if those specific ones would still be available today. :)

    So I would suggest to use any Markdown exporter that’s available now.


  • I really liked Uncle from another world too, but I wouldn’t list it to that question. I guess because it’s more of a comedy than with a spanning story and depth or development.

    Scrolling through the comments to remember some of them,

    • Mushoku Tensei - great - the first two seasons have exceptional world building, story telling, contrasting, and developments; not everything is great, but a lot is; for me, last two seasons fell off a bit
    • Grimgar - very good - very unique, great world and characters and relationship between them
    • Ascendance of a Bookworm - very good
    • The Eminence in Shadow - very good - exceptional satire
    • The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady - very good until the ending, with exceptional visuals and vibrancy
    • Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout - very good - great comedy with a gender bend/swap

    /edit: Found two more from my list of good/decent non-harem isekais I replied to some no longer existing lemmy post.














  • I don’t think it’s about “everyone”. It’s about production companies picking what’s popular, the currently popular theme, and produces shovelware standard-productions in a narrow, uninspired target-audience checkboxing way. They contract producers and creatives, but restrict them and likely invest so little that it ends up with what it is. The industry as a whole, many titles, end up as forgettable, mediocre, similar shovelware.

    Much like Hollywood produced an abundance of hero movies until everyone was sick of it. Or how EA produced the same sports game each year. Or Call of Duty. Or Battlefield.


    I agree with there being a lot of sub-par and mediocre productions, and the overpowered, harem, and video game elements are big offenders and indicators of what most of the time end up as bad products.

    I enjoyed Reincarnated as a vending machine. Simple formula, very forced, but hilariously absurd.

    Most overpowered protagonist anime end up between bad and awful. But The Eminence in Shadow makes use of it as poignant satire. And I remember seeing another series where they made it work through enemy hybris, and the punishment/revelation was satisfying enough that it worked, in large part through direction and production quality.

    The most “wtf” regarding isekai I recently saw was when the entire series was not about being an isekai, but - not at the begining nor end - they put a random scene in where the protagonist had a vision from modern Japan city and was like “what is this about?” and that was it. Maybe they included it just so it can have the isekai product tag? I have no idea.


    Coming back to the original theme and hypothosis, the differentiation of and popularity of fantasy vs isekai escapism is interesting.

    Ghost in the Shell is certainly fantastical. Enjoying or viewing or getting invested in fantastical stories is inherently partly escapism too. Isekai specifically puts a - most of the time - normal modern human into a fantastical setting though, materializing escapism as a fact on the protagonist.

    I’m not sure there’s such a hard line to draw though.