This work caught my attention a few months ago with the premise of having a ‘realistic’ economy based villainess type of story but as the story progress, it’s getting more and more blatant with it classical liberal wish fulfillment bullshit
The original message of “I will save Japan lost generation by making the economy better” got turned into “how I exploited future knowledge to make profit for myself (and Japan) while screwing everyone else”. The FMC basically just use her future knowledge to siphon America economic might to bail out Japan’s economic burble while encouraging the worst aspect of America capitalist system. War profiteering, political corruption, racism, stealing personal freedom and privacy, every tricks in the book is fine as long as it’s done outside of Japan.
Of course, the main character have to a be a super beautiful genius white girl from a rich and noble family that is only barely down on their luck right now cause of bad management by other people. It was totally easy to turn the ship around with future knowledge and a million dollar in seed capital. She was also super talent in singing and easily became an idol if her business fail.
To make the matter worse, to justify a world where the MC can be a blue blood noble in modern Japan, the author basically created an alt history where all other nations’ agency is erased and the Allies just decided to give Japan everything they wanted in WW2 cause they surrendered earlier. Japan got to keep Manchuria, Japan got to keep the Zaibatsu, Japan beaten the Soviet and got stopped by the USA cause the Soviet got the A-bomb etc.
Finally, the books were pretty blatant about the anti communism message. The author have many characters in story repeating the same cliches “my country bad when it was under socialism, we are so rich now under capitalism, praise capitalism” or “communist stole my grandpa slaves, they were bad people”.
The more I read the worse I feel so here is just my thought to easy my anger and grief of wasting time on such a piece of trash.
Realist Hero is rather like this as well, although it’s been some time since I was masochist enough to hate-read it.
Isn’t that the book about a guy who tried to save a mismanaged feudal monarchy with Japanese food and culture?
I tried reading the first manga volume and all I could remember was the MC tried to promote idol culture and Japanese soba to fix some food issues in a starving country. For a “realist” his plans feel really unrealistic to me so I just dropped it.
I would say it doesn’t get much better. At least he doesn’t enslave anyone though.
Isn’t that premise just Masayoni Son with his Softbank/Vision Fund
There’s limits to how much an individual investor can make with their genius foresight (or literal foresight in the case of this LN I guess) due to the limits of the market when you become a truly big player.
Why not just have her reincarnate and become the PM or something if she actually wants to save the Japanese economy in this fantasy. Which would still be structurally impossible as America will force onerous terms on you, and one woman cannot force fundamental restructuring of the country even if they have power.
Maybe I’m just a bad fantasy writer and taking the premise too seriously.
There’s limits to how much an individual investor can make with their genius foresight (or literal foresight in the case of this LN I guess) due to the limits of the market when you become a truly big player.
That would happen in real life with actual market that can responds to input and not a scripted simulation where all your gains doesn’t affect how the market moves. The MC might as well have unlimited wealth cheat code cause she’s throwing billion dollars around at this point.
Why not just have her reincarnate and become the PM or something if she actually wants to save the Japanese economy in this fantasy. Which would still be structurally impossible as America will force onerous terms on you, and one woman cannot force fundamental restructuring of the country even if they have power.
The Doyleish answer is the author doesn’t want to change the system and just want to write a story about how an already privileged individual in such system benefit from it. But the in story Watsonian answer is: the FMC is still a kid since it’s a story taking place between 91 and 08 and the FMC was born in 1990.
