Why do so many tragic characters meet their untimely end by the front end of a truck? Why do so many shut in NEETs immediately get run over in the rare occasion they step outside their apartment only to be whisked away to another world? Are Nipponese truck drivers known to be particularly reckless? Does Japan have a particularly sordid history with vehicular manslaughter?
I mean it's gotten to the point where writers are making fucking meta jokes. Pic related.
Just why does Japan romanticize the notion of death via truck so much?
As a hikiNEET, I can verify that nothing good ever happens when you leave your home and I've almost been ran over by a truck once and by cars a few times. Just lack of awareness to their surroundings, basically.
Dominic Harris
Asians are notoriously bad drivers.
Blake Martinez
The NEET has to die somehow in order to get whisked away to another world. Considering they are NEETs, how are they going to die?
The easiest and most plausible way, aside from a heart attack/poor health (which would disqualify him from being our MC) is a car accident--something easy to get into, especially in large cities like Tokyo, that doesn't put the MC at any kind of fault, and requires little to no set-up or world-building (such as a murder would require).
Jack Lewis
Japan is the notable exception. Japanese traffic is like the lines at Comiket.
Jeremiah Hernandez
Shootings rarely happen in Japan, so they picked the next most convenient thing.
Eli Lopez
Truck-kun purges the world of the useless and the impure
Robert Rodriguez
>The easiest and most plausible way, aside from a heart attack/poor health (which would disqualify him from being our MC) I've read several series where the MC literally does die from poor health prior to his reincarnation.
Benjamin Harris
Why can't the MC get stabbed by a Yakuza thug after looking at him the wrong way?
Jason Jenkins
They can't all die by truck.
John Brown
So tail gating everyday?
Samuel Brown
Too unrealistic. The Japanese are way too polite to look at people the wrong way.
Because yakuza don't use violence like in your tv shows. They buy your property and kick you out.
Brandon Turner
I remember one where a guy got killed by a thug before reincarnating basically for just that and talking shit, but it was an american thug.
Ayden Sullivan
What about slipping on a bar of soap? Tripping down the stairs? Choking on vomit after getting blackout drunk? A mugging gone awry? Falling into a faulty escalator? Tainted food?
There are so many dumb ways to die but nips can only think of trucks?
Asher Mitchell
Because Pokemon GO exists.
Aaron Stewart
Not all of them die by trucks, it's just a convenient plot-device.
A better question is, you're already in issekai, yet you're looking for variety...?
Jackson Walker
>Choking on vomit after getting blackout drunk AC/DC anime when?
Adrian Lopez
There's some variety, it's just something no one puts any thought into unless it'll become relevant to the plot later.
Kevin Price
Well there's this.
Nicholas Hall
>Person gets hit by a car >ohh that's to bad
>Person gets hit by a car while playing Pokemon Go >hur dur fucking Pokemon
Eli Ross
Japan is literally the only country in the world where people have died in traffic accidents thanks to Pokemon GO.
Looks like the meme isn't such a meme after all.
Asher Cook
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Owen James
Can't wait for the animated version
Gabriel Diaz
>Person gets hit by a car while playing Pokemon Go Except in that article its >Person gets hit by a car whose driver was playing Pokemon Go
Levi Johnson
It's the most convenient way to give a character a sudden, unexpected death in modern Japan.
Luis Murphy
Name three.
Tyler Martinez
It's a convenient heroic/tragic way to die.
It's tragic since it happens in a public place, so they can literally kill somebody mid sentence and whatnot, but really the main thing is showing the heroic side of a character who's not done anything in his/her life.
Consider Konosuba where the meta joke you brought up happens. It's set up as the traditional "Neet jumps into traffic to save a life and gets killed for it" situation, which happens because a lot of characters (neets especially) don't have a ton of great ways to both A. Show that they're heroic, and B. Sacrifice themselves for somebody else. Jumping in front of a truck and saving somebody's life is a convenient way of doing both, and get in that heroic sacrifice to get across to the audience that "no, seriously, he may have wasted his life but he's real noble"
is there something right now thats worse than konosuba but better than sao
i just want to binge on garbage
Alexander Gomez
Re:Zero
Adam Harris
He said better than SAO
Isaac Gutierrez
grimgar
Hunter Russell
Fate Re:Zero This
Brandon Nelson
Grimgar Log Horizon Overlord DanMachi Gate
assuming you want video game fantasy world type stuff
Henry White
>assuming you want video game fantasy world type stuff yeah exactly, perfect, i am gonna watch all this thanks anons
David Jenkins
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Leo Fisher
Am I supposed to laugh? Or are you serious? Never mind.
Nolan Hall
I do not know, Cirno. How about we blow this joint and go make money selling ice sculptures?
Aiden Phillips
Trucks are the thing of the past, man! It's trains now! And it's fucking unstoppable!
Joseph Reed
Hina from Hinamatsuri fucking managed to control a fucking truck, can you believe it? Trucks are nothin, man.
Isaiah Bailey
> North Korea So will foreign countries be able to use the power of trucks to their advantage?
Christopher Morgan
I don't think they're allowed to portray train collisions in manga/anime so they go with trucks.
Bentley Nelson
Didn't School Days and Oyasumi Punpun have train-kun attacks?
Leo Carter
It started with that one shoujo anime that killed off the heroine in the last episode for shock value. Japs have poked fun at it or even seriously used it for dramatic shorthand for decades.
The main character of Nirvana reincarnated in another world after dying in a plane crash.
Camden Moore
oh its marmite then
Connor Price
>Steins;Gate >Youjo Senki (which you just quoted) Come again?
Adam Wright
Seems like those are mostly comedies though.
Evan Perry
Why do they have to die to go to another world in the first place? I like the option where they get teleported there by magic or some shit.
Nathan Clark
>Guy gets murdered >Some time later, his murderer dies or is executed or whatever and shows up in the alternate world too There's room for a story here.
Carson Bennett
At least half of them are serious, while the others are making fun of how often its used as a plot device
Nathaniel Perry
>They meet >But they're both in new bodies so they don't recognize one another!
Wyatt Morgan
In-world explanations can be shit like "the worlds are connected through reincarnation, but you're the chosen one so you manifested fully formed instead of being completely reborn" but the meta reason is because they want the MC's life in the other world to be over so there isn't questioning about going back.
Michael Garcia
This sounds like the setup for a yandere love interest.
Robert Anderson
>Why do they have to die to go to another world in the first place? I like the option where they get teleported there by magic or some shit. Even when that option happens, they still die first
Easton Martin
I'm pretty sure this has actually happened, but I can't remember which one it was.
Cameron Russell
Suburban streets in larger Japanese cities tend to be narrow compared to the US, and a lot windier. That's the very simple reason that so many servicemen prang their cars on Okinawa, for example: shit's not easy sometimes, and even though accidents are surprisingly rare they're also a believable plot related misfortune.
Owen James
>Isekai-new-body-yandere love interest set her sights on MC-kun >Last episode she kills him again >They finally recognize each other >MC-kun wakes up in another world
Ryan Cox
Anime industry writers are notorious for not reading/watching many things outside their own industry, so there is a exagerated tendency on copying stuff from other anime. Yu yu hakusho killed their MC with a truck so I'll do the same and kill my MC with a truck too.
Aiden Robinson
I'd watch the fuck out of that.
Jackson Lopez
Aren't yandere heroines supposed to be slavishly devoted to the one they love? why would she fall in love with the reincarnated MC without knowing he was the reincarnated MC to begin with?
Evan Hernandez
I don't know what yanderes you've been hanging around, but "slavishly devoted" isn't what I'd use to describe them. More like extremely jealous and possessive.
Kevin Carter
>but "slavishly devoted" isn't what I'd use to describe them. More like extremely jealous and possessive. Two sides of the same coin.
Cooper Lopez
My favorite was in Grisaia where sachi's route has TWO instances of someone dying via truck. I was pretty unmoved by the first one taking it as simply exposition, but the second time was more funny than tragic.
Lincoln Rodriguez
They're not. A yandere does not listen to the object of their feelings, because they already have their own delusional view of them.
Kevin Brown
Well alright then, perhaps "singularly obsessed" would be a better phrase.
Either way it seems unlikely for a yandere love interest to fall in love with the MC again after reincarnation without knowing already that he was a reincarnation.
Josiah Adams
Well, I guess so... Perhaps, then, the yandere is the only one who recognizes MC-kun? The first murder could be like yandere-chan was a stalker MC-kun never knew about and when he talked to a female classmate outside school one day she snaps and commits a murder-suicide.
Bentley Nguyen
There was a French comic with vampire nazis in hell with this exact premise.
Mason Morgan
Would Suzuka make a good isekai protagonist?
Jack Evans
kek
Levi Nguyen
This is true. My mom was a driving instructor in Vancouver and she said japanese were good drivers. every other asian race though...
Jayden Clark
Kazuma didn't get run over by a truck. He was just so exhausted, he had a heart attack thinking a slow-ass tractor was a truck.
Henry Torres
>he didn't read the actual post
Ethan Morgan
What about MC killing himself?
Jace Cruz
fuck is this shit
Zachary Thompson
Truck-kun works hard everyday to send people to other amazing worlds, but his efforts are never appreciated.
Grayson Gutierrez
Such MC doesn't deserve a second life
Grayson Price
Nice post, truck-kun.
Thomas Jones
That is indeed a good question. It has been around since the golden age of manga. Way too many Tezuka stories, for instance, are plagued by the deadly JAPANESE TRUCK.
For instance, y'know, the god damn Astro Boy origin. Young Tobio driving his future car like it's no big thing, when suddenly, BAM! JAPANESE TRUCK!
Jackson Diaz
This. So many people have found happiness in another world by conquering the world, banging a harem, being an edgy motherfucker, mastering NTR, getting NTR'ed, becoming a Vending Machine, living their lives as a different organism and so on and on and on.
It really does make you think...
William Howard
>Why do so many shut in NEETs immediately get run over in the rare occasion they step outside their apartment only to be whisked away to another world?
Why do you think they're hikikomoris in the first place? Please don't take this as a joke, Japanese trucks and colds are a serious problem that have been troubling Japan since 1947. It's not funny.
Nolan Barnes
It's a thing everywhere. You're fucking stupid/sheltered
Alexander Jackson
>It's not funny. Yes it is
John Hughes
Name one. At best you get a car accident as a plot setting.
Robert Robinson
It's cancer.
Isaiah Sanchez
Japan sensationalizes violence because there isn't much of it. Truck drivers, batto satsujin, slashers, creepy cults, etc. All of these tropes for violence can be traced back to actual events in japan.
tl;dr cultures reference their own culture in media
Ryan Gutierrez
>normal high school student is killed by a truck >middle-aged truck driver gets a heart attack when he realizes that he killed someone >truck driver is the one who gets isekai'd Would you read/watch it?
Landon Peterson
>middle-aged truck driver who died from a heart attack reincarnates as the normal high school student he accidentally killed with this truck >normal high school student that was killed by middle-aged truck driver is reincarnated as that middle-aged truck driver who will accidentally run over the high-school student that was his past life and then die from a heart attack The eternal cycle. Nothing shan't ever break it.
