Botsuraku Yotei no Kizoku dakedo, Hima Datta kara Mahou wo Kiwamete mita, episode 1
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BotsurakuKizoku, 没落貴族
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The show does something that’s a pet peeve of mine. The way the info dump by explaining everything to the character that the characters should be perfectly aware of. For example telling MC how old he is or who his family members are and who owns the land their house is on. Those types of dialogues are so unrealistic that it really pisses me off. Just imagine that in real life:
“Hello, Mary my wife. How is the apartment doing that belongs to Victor who is our landlord?”
“Oh it’s doing great Gary who just got 35 years old last month. Since you are the second son and have 3 more siblings who all live in the same complex we get a nice little rent reduction. And once Ethan who is our son moves out we have more time to build our house in Capetoon which is the small city the next town over”.
“I love you wife”
“I love you too husband”
Yeah but this is issue is also why isekai is so damn rampant. As an author it’s a bit of a cheat to have your MC not know anything so obviously they get things told to them instead of doing more subtle world building.
My favorite example of world building is the John Wick movie. First one. Nothing is outright explained. It’s shown and you understand. Those gold coins especially.
I don’t think this is an isekai problem. While yes, it’s a narrative crutch that makes exposition easier, it’s not used in the way you mentioned. As shown here in this anime it can even be a detractor. I’ve read hundreds of isekai novels that don’t fall into the same narrative traps as seen here. I think in this case it’s just a bad author (or screenwriter) and the exposition would be just as bad without the isekai aspect. The audience needs exposition regardless of the setting.
Where the isekai setting helps as a narrative crutch is explaining things to the reader/viewer in modern earth terms. I.e. “that dragon was as big as a school bus”.
Your John Wick example is a great example of “show;don’t tell” exposition where the writer/director had faith in the intelligence of the audience. We get it even without spelling it out. And if we don’t we’ll look it up online or discuss it with our peers until we get it. I really wish this type of exposition were the general rule, but I feel like it’s being used less and less. It’s this “no viewers left behind” mentality where studios are afraid to confuse even a fraction of the audience.