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Supremezero
Apr 28, 2013

hay gurl

Clarste posted:

Maybe this isn't quite clear if you don't read a billion shoujo isekai stories, but the "prince denounces his evil fiancee and chooses true love" is a stock scene as overplayed and hard to take seriously as "the hero must defeat the demon lord." So on the most basic, he IS supposed to be seen as heroic and romantic in that sort of context; it's the culmination of an offscreen cinderella romance between the commoner and the prince.

But BECAUSE this is so overplayed (well, not really, it's more like "the butler did it" in terms of seeming cliche despite not actually happening that often in stories), it's trendier to parody it by shifting our sympathies to the villainess, which requires making very contrived reasons for the prince to publicly humiliate her. In fact, this reversal is so common that Anis immediately recognizes it ("this sort of thing really happens?"). And then the story goes on to parody THAT by immediately shifting focus again to the political ramifications. So it's like a double-layered parody of what at its core was a sincere appeal to true love over arranged marriages.

Honestly shifting to politics on the subject isn't even new either.

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Supremezero
Apr 28, 2013

hay gurl

kirtar posted:

Time to get some high grade dragon parts--- I mean save the country.

Multitasking :eng101:

Supremezero
Apr 28, 2013

hay gurl

Caphi posted:

iirc it was something along the lines of her dad being very recently titled due to some sort of economic thing, like he was super successful as a merchant or owned a big mine, so when she showed up in noble circles she got the nouveau rich uncultured lowblood treatment.

He was a highly successful adventurer.

Though he himself has magic too, supposedly.

Part of that speedrunning that was mentioned was skipping a bunch of explanations. Anis went and talked to some people about Lainie, but the anime skipped it.

Supremezero fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Feb 17, 2023

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