Two LN/Manga Series
I've been reading a ton of LN and Manga lately, and two that I've been thinking about are Eminence in Shadow, and Tearmoon Empire. They're totally different genres, Shonen vs Shoujo, Isekai vs Time Reversion, but both are very similar in feel.
In one, the main character's a total Chunni, but has reincarnated into a world where his delusions always prove to be either accurate, or at least helpful to those around him. His main abilities are focused on fighting and making magic tools, and building up his organization. He thinks that he's just making stuff up, but his organization knows that everything he's doing and saying is actually accurate, and they're going out into the world and fighting the evil organization. He's completely selfish, but his selfishness ends up backfiring on him and helping others.
Tearmoon on the other hand, the main character dies and is sent back, but this time has knowledge from the prior life, as well as a copy of her future diary that tells her how she changed the timeline. What she does in response to those events end up getting her a reputation as a knowledgeable sage, so when her future diary suddenly stops working, or doesn't have enough information to solve a problem, she ends up giving platitudes or saying random things, and all the smart people she gathered around her are trying to figure out how to twist it into wisdom without realizing it, and end up solving a lot of problems. Like the other series, she's completely selfish and largely vapid, but that future knowledge lets her self preservation kick in and has her doing good things for others to save herself.
Interesting how such parallel ideas can emerge in different genres.
In one, the main character's a total Chunni, but has reincarnated into a world where his delusions always prove to be either accurate, or at least helpful to those around him. His main abilities are focused on fighting and making magic tools, and building up his organization. He thinks that he's just making stuff up, but his organization knows that everything he's doing and saying is actually accurate, and they're going out into the world and fighting the evil organization. He's completely selfish, but his selfishness ends up backfiring on him and helping others.
Tearmoon on the other hand, the main character dies and is sent back, but this time has knowledge from the prior life, as well as a copy of her future diary that tells her how she changed the timeline. What she does in response to those events end up getting her a reputation as a knowledgeable sage, so when her future diary suddenly stops working, or doesn't have enough information to solve a problem, she ends up giving platitudes or saying random things, and all the smart people she gathered around her are trying to figure out how to twist it into wisdom without realizing it, and end up solving a lot of problems. Like the other series, she's completely selfish and largely vapid, but that future knowledge lets her self preservation kick in and has her doing good things for others to save herself.
Interesting how such parallel ideas can emerge in different genres.
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