Anime Recommendation: Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs

Laylyn · 2023-07-02T12:23:26Z

"Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs." -Victor Hugo "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" -Lord Acton Would the world really be kinder if it were run by women? Is the darkness of a human heart something that belongs to only one gender? As much as Western leftist activists tend to scream about Patriarchy, people rarely actually look at its opposite Matriarchy. This is something that has real world examples. Let's look first at the British Monarchy. As with the rise of King Charles, Patriarchy is suddenly a word hot in the British Public again. Let's take a look at how often women have ruled recently starting with Queen Victoria.wiki quote, Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days is known as the Victorian era and was longer than any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. and Queen Elizabeth IIwiki quote, Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and remained the monarch of 15 realms by the time of her death. Her reign of over 70 years is the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female head of state in history. It's 2023, as of this writing. As a matter of math, from 1837 to 2023, women ruled 133 years of the past 186 years or 71.5% of that time. In a tweet, on February 28, 2017, the British Journalist Piers Morgan brought up the fact that the five most powerful people in the United Kingdom were all women:Not picking a fight, but just bringing up the fact that neither in the last decade, nor the last two centuries, has the life of the citizens of that kingdom been all sunshine and rainbows. Mixing the gender of those in ultimate authority doesn't appear to change the fate of those without real power, compared to those that have it. In another example, from our own Western history, it is worth noting that women have exercised power in large groups, in ways that modern thinking and culture do not admit. So, let's look at an example where women of high social standing had the power of life and death over those of lower social standing. Let's take a quick deep dive on what wealthy and high status Imperial women in Rome did with Roman Gladiators. This is literally an example of what the women of privilege did with desirable men who were literally no more than slaves. As you can see in the video below, they did so even with Imperial Roman men of their status trying to discourage them from doing so. It was completely without success. Thus, there is actually historical research that basically states in a world where women hold absolute power over men, a man's best chance to be held as desirable is to do so by putting their life at risk. You have to stand so far above other men that women find themselves wanting you, regardless of a potential social stigma. The cost of doing so, of course, is your life is forfeit as soon as you lose. There is no change in the social standing. You are simply an object of desire, until you go to the grave for failure. The anime, "Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs" takes a deep dive into such a world. This world was literally created to be a romance and power fantasy for female customers, by a video game company. The story itself is told from the eyes of a man who becomes this world's prisoner. I'd like to recommend this one. It's a comedy that has a really interesting take on the anime Isekai subtype and has a lot of gamer culture baked in. A man ends up in a personal hell, after being blackmailed by his sister into completed a dating sim game for her. A game that must have been a Korean Grinder. The guy even takes out the credit card to pay to win. It still takes him about three days of non stop play to finish it. A feat that costs him his life, just like many real world examples. It's currently on Crunchyroll. You can view it with dub or sub. If you are a DND player, welcome to a Matriarchy world that is almost up to Drow Standards. It's not completely, as Drow females devoted to Lolth, demon queen of spiders, would never let a male own land or marry them. Men are just consorts in that society. It's not just a matter of status, it's that their children are their property alone as well... To quote wiki, "An office worker dies and finds himself reincarnated as Leon Fou Bartfort in the Holfort Kingdom of the otome game that he was forced to complete...