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EP. REVIEW: In Another World With My Smartphone

Except this show is not set in the past, or even an universe that aspires to internal logic of any kind, it's set in the author's wet dreams. That is completely obvious 100% of the time and pretending that this is the one specific point that is there for "realism" is laughable.

Except this show is not set in the past, or even an universe that aspires to internal logic of any kind, it's set in the author's wet dreams. That is completely obvious 100% of the time and pretending that this is the one specific point that is there for "realism" is laughable.

Touya doesn't really encounter problems in his life so much as run into incidents that other people are having so he can instantly fix them and endear himself to them. Every woman in the royal court starts blushing and falling all over themselves once he heals the King..

If the absurd gifts of strength, magic, and unlimited night and weekend minutes weren't enough, Touya now has state-sanctioned pedophilia on his side.

Even God calls him up to encourage him to bang a twelve-year-old girl!

They also slip in that the relationship standard in the world is polygyny (not polygamy mind you, but very specifically polygyny: one dude taking multiple wives only). So hey, at least the show has launched headfirst into territory gross enough that I can finally take it to task without feeling like I was being too hard on it.

I'll take Touya cranking out shogi boards again next week if it means I don't have to deal with God calling him up and telling him to build a harem of preteens.

The glories of censorship. We are no longer allowed to include the bad things of the past in modern writings, even if they take place in a fictional past or alt past.

I am just saying that it shouldn't unexpected or unrealistic for a medieval set piece to feature such things. Our society is so perverse in its aversion to featuring harm to children, that they would gladly "pretend" that such things didn't happen in the past and be willing to censor the past to reflect that mindset. Much like the clamor over Made in Abyss.

On the young wife thing, for me it brings to mind season 2 of Gate, which had a fairly young girl show that she was not a victim of the practice, and gladly wanted to partake in the practice of getting married as per her culture, with a maturity and understanding that made her a strong character. It would have been nice here if the princess character showed a shred of that sort of strength. Her also making me contrast her to specifically Crusch from Re:Zero and I think how a similar trait was used where one is a well realised character, and the other just a bunch of traits. I think it is maybe extra sad that I could see how the princess could be made into a good character, here is hoping that princess does not mean she will often become a damsel in distress.

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Except this show is not set in the past, or even an universe that aspires to internal logic of any kind, it's set in the author's wet dreams. That is completely obvious 100% of the time and pretending that this is the one specific point that is there for "realism" is laughable.

It is an medieval setting, So there shouldn't be any problems with including all the bad and good things from a medieval setting. You just don't like the subject matter, and there is nothing wrong with that. But such things sit well with the setting.

I don't have a huge problem with the idea of teenagers marrying young as presented by the show because it's played for harmless laughs, imo. However, those who defend the inclusion of the concept because "that's how it was in Earth's real past" are missing the point. This show is hardly trying to recreate medieval Earth societies in a realistic way. There was zero requirement to ever broach the topic of young teenagers getting married. Fine, they did it for the (theoretical) lulz, but those who are conceptually squicked out about that have every right to assert today's standards with respect to a fantasy show that had no obligation in any sense to go there.

I'm sorry but this explanation doesn't work in this scenario. The story has taken a modern man with modern knowledge and values and deposited him into a fantasy setting that may be based on medieval times. That does not allow the modern man to abandon all values of modernity and avoid being judged by modern sensibilities.

If these were all characters from medieval times, this could be a credible argument, but they are not. As others have mentioned, this is really just wish fulfillment where a modern person can imagine themselves being in a situation where society would push a child bride upon them. For a lot of people, it's not a thing they are into so I think they are justified in raising it as a problem. The fact that God himself somehow sanctions this and encourages the MC to partake is just taking things over the top to hammer home the writer's post hoc justification. I mean yes, these types of stories always have the MC pretend to be against doing whatever taboo thing is being pushed upon him in the story to try and keep him as the "innocent" guy who just has kinky things happen to him by pure happenstance, but to have God come in and validate his innocence is taking things to a level I think we have never witnessed before. I'll at least give the author credit for the level of chutzpah.

While I do think pushing him to marry Yumina is wish fulfillment to some degree, it is because she is the princess not because she is twelve. None of the other characters are that young and she has not been the subject of fanservice, though there isn't much fanservice in the show anyhow and what fanservice there is is fairly mild. Tenshi 3P this ain't. Why do you believe that it is trying to appeal to lolicons and not merely there to produce "Do Not Want!" comedic moments? Also I think God was saying it was ok to have multiple wives, not that he could have relations with a 12 yo.