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June 7

Isekai works wanted

Hello,

I'd like to hear (recommendations) about "reverse" Isekai titles with a decent critical or commercial success published as light novels or manga. By "reverse", I mean stories where a character doesn't travel to a foreign world, but a foreign individual comes to our Earth. Does anybody know about stories that are similar in their setting to e.g. All My Neighbors are Convinced the Female Knight from My Rice Field Is My Wife (this is a Kodansha title), Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! or to the launching point of the story of Gate (novel series) with its invasion of Japan by fantasy creatures through the eponymous gate? Too much gore or too much leaning into high fantasy is not really my thing, I'd rather have a kind of "toned down", more "realistical" setting (e.g. like Mushoku Tensei, Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic, Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, IseSuma, Outbreak Company, Record of Wortenia War or Kuro no senki - these examples are stories that I like). If somebody have clues or pointers for me, I'd be glad to hear about these - with regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 00:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC) PS. Please use a ping to notify me about answers, I may not see them in time otherwise as my home Wiki is the German one.

OK, user:Grand-Duc ... I guess there's Otaku Elf, because if I remember rightly the elves in that one are aliens paying extended visits to earth. Iroduku: The World in Colors is about a time traveller from the future. (This seems to only exist as an anime and not a manga.) Stardust Telepath just about qualifies although the "alien" in that one is almost certainly lying.  Card Zero  (talk) 05:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Sword of the Highlands

I have just seen this fan-made video on Youtube. The song is "Sword of the Highlands" by Manowar, but which is the film or series where the action is taken from? Cambalachero (talk) 15:05, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

A comment below the video mentions Vikings (TV series). -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 15:14, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Rhythm complexity metrics

While dreaming of a somewhat complex rhythm with a long [shortest possible endless loop] I wondered what's the least number of simplest possible rhythms (x equal gaps per minute) that can make it (each can be any degrees out-of-phase with the first) and what's the least number if bpms could also be anything you want instead of all the same. What's the correct jargon for these? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 15:36, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

One beat per minute.  --Lambiam 14:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

What’s this trope called?

The one I’m talking about goes as follows: Two people holding suitcases bump into each other and unknowingly swap their cases. 47.153.138.166 (talk) 20:25, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Few tropes have actual names. Most are just narrative tricks that simply exist. There's a web page, TV Tropes, that lists them, but in most cases the names are given arbitrarily by users of that page as none really exists. Cambalachero (talk) 21:21, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I searched TV Tropes for "bag swap" and the closest I could find was one by the unikely name of "Satchel Switcheroo". Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:08, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

You don't like ike? Clarityfiend (talk) 00:27, 11 June 2024 (UTC)