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I wake up on a Monday and I get a horse-girl based WTF.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Clearly ya'll have not known any horse girls.

This is extremely normal for them.

I'd be willing to bet there are nearly 0 horse girls who are not also absolute super fans of some kind of cartoon media / video game.

I dated a horse girl back in the late 00's.

She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.

... We did not end up working out, but she's since gone on to literally cross all of Mongolia, on horseback.

Do not fuck with nor underestimate horse girls.

[–] night_petal@piefed.social 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a 45 yr old horse girl. Can confirm. I have Magic Knight: Rayearth tattoos.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

... Damn.

I had to look that up, I'd never even heard of that manga.

Also: WTF I didn't even know CLAMP was that old?!

... Yeah, this is what I mean, horse girls are somehow able to consistently out-nerd me, and I do find this intimidating, lol.

[–] night_petal@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I'd recommend the show over the manga. It's why I laugh about the whole idea that "isekai" is new. I just want to be a girl ontop of Tokyo Tower and be transported into a new world where I am a Magical Girl xD

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

The funny part is the way Isekai is used now has been around in Japan for decades, but even going further back the old school Isekai were just an adoption of a style do story telling from eastern European stories into a Japanese style.

Those old eastern European stories go back hundreds of years. It's funny to watch tropes people think are new in anime show up in old ass stories from like the Ukraine region decades before anything remotely close showed up in manga or anime.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I did not know it was a show either, yeah ok I'll check it out!

Yeah I also find it strange that isekai is treated as like... any kind of a new thing.

Maybe some precise or specific mechanic of 'magically/technologically transferred into an entirely new world'... is somehow some kind of distinct thing...

But like, humans have been telling stories where someone is moved into an entirely different realm, that plays by different rules, and those rules basically transform them directly... for quite a long time.

Alice in Wonderland?

Tron?

The Wizard of Oz?

Dante's Inferno?

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

Peter Pan?

... and that's just 'western' stories.

Its like literally the archetype for an escapist fantasy story.

Not trying to knock the genre by any means, its wonderful to have tales that give you a kind of fundamental 'the world could be different' sort of idea... but it is silly when people act like its some kind of groundbreaking concept.

[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think the distinguishing feature of the newer “isekai” genre is just how trashy they all are. :P

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Well, its possible to do an isekai story without also doing a harem story, but, given the birth rate crisis, I guess it makes sense.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.

Another solid data point for my “horse girl to elder emo pipeline” theory. My working theory is that all horse girls eventually evolve into (at least) one of the following two groups: Elder emo girls, or tail girls.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Ok, I am not familiar with either 'elder emo girls' nor 'tail girls'.

Elder emo girls does not make sense to me at all, because emo girls are essentially the exact opposite of horse girls.

Horse girls learn how to do things, many things, practical things, and be good at them.

Emo girls are angsty, and make bad poetry or art, then usually either phase out of that, or transition into rave/scene girls, develop serious drug problems, and then basically work in retail or customer service the rest of their lives, with few exceptions... maybe a few become tattoo artists or become actually halfway decent at some other kind of art.

Perhaps you are thinking of elder goth girls?

Not the same thing as emo, not even close.


Tail girls?

I... do you mean a furry, some kind of anthro/humanoid type person?

No, I've never known a single horse girl that became or also is/was a furry or puppy girl or anything like that, again they tend to be extremely practical and utilitarian, they tend to be fairly domineering, task/goal oriented.

They just also have eccentric hobbies/interests, in my estimation due to the relative social isolation of either literally living away from a lot of other people, on a farm or ranch, or at least spending so much time at a farm or ranch that they're not as enmeshed in 'normal' society.

They do not need to fantasize an alternate identity as an animal, because so much of their lives involve very real and often traumatic experiences with animals, so they understand them in a much more grounded and realistic way.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I wish I had that dedication.