🗡️Lmao what is this from
Reincarnated as a Sword
damn, I’d hoped that this was that John Brown isekai adapted into a manga
Shield Hero kinda did this, so maybe it’s a trope? Become powerful, buy cute slave, free said slave, she’s now your ally.
It’s a wonderful idea, except you had to buy the slave, so the slaver will use your money to buy more. That’s not what we’re seeing here, but the idea in general (“I’ll just buy one but I’ll be nice to them”) is fundamentally flawed. So yes, ideally you would win the slaver’s trust, gain a private audience with them, get them to show off their best wares, take their life quietly, and free the slaves. But, one, who’s going to provide for all of them? You? Some people backing you? You need to plan for that. And two, the slaver is likely state backed, so you’re going to have legal issues by taking out the slaver.
I’m not familiar with this anime/manga being posted, but those are factors a writer would need to consider before employing this trope.
it’s an isekai so you can just spawn with a billion local dollars and wreck the economy.
depending on the tech level and genre specifics maybe you can just go straight to the liberatory war. maybe there’s a different nation that abhors slavery and is waiting for a destabilizing event. maybe there’s an underground railroad for them already but dealing with the spike in fleeing former slaves is an interesting story of its own.
maybe you bait the isekai fans a second time and you die a second time almost immediately and the story goes on to follow some of the people you freed.
Also, there’s no rule that an isekai world would even have slavery, the rules of the fictional world can be literally anything the author wants, so unless they specifically want to write a story about slavery and injustice, it adds nothing but extra creepiness to most isekai stories to include slavery and not have “freeing the slaves” be a major plot focus.
It’s kind of funny that Mushoku Tensei which seems to be considered a huge inspiration for all the worst isekai slop, actually did have an early arc that introduced the slave trade, demonstrated how completely monstrous and irredeemable the whole thing was, and had “literally just massacre all the slavers” be such an unobjectionably necessary and good course of action that even Rudy, milquetoast little conflict-averse shit that he is, couldn’t object to it in the slightest.
It just didn’t handle the topic too well in later volumes, despite continuing to portray slavers as monstrous scum. Part of that was that even at his best the protagonist was still an unprincipled piece of shit who only cared about things that affected him and the people he cared about personally, who was only ever coerced into taking any sort of major action, but it’s still part of a broader failure by the author to either fix that flaw like how Rudy’s other antisocial traits got fixed (which admittedly would come into conflict with the whole “he’s not the hero, he’s the grill dad whose daughter is going to be the hero” shtick it has going on) or to force him to be the reluctant antihero by having someone he cares about drag him into it.
Oh that’s the “what if make a weeb a magic sword” comic.
