Gekai Elise Episode 1 Discussion

So I've read the manhwa and I'm not a big fan of it (YES YES EVERYONE LOVES IT BUT I DON'T). And I can already see the problems I had with it here.

First of all, they're making her out to be this Mary Sue character, which was one of the things I hated in the manhwa. As a doctor, she is not able to save every single patient. Saying "I promise I'll save you" over and over again is not only unrealistic but also idealistic and feels overly romantisiced. Also, the way she saved that guy on the plane, yeah, no way.
Second of all, I do like that we got to see more of her life in our world but at the same time it makes no sense cause it's gonna be absolutely irrelevant for the remainder of the show unless they change some major plotpoints

Third, and this is just a personal pet peeve as an airplane geek. Ain't no freaking way that airplane sequence was realistic. Not only is the first thing Captain is doing making the passengers panic, but there was a shudder and the oxygen masks came down?? Like there were no signs of depressurization at all. And are you telling me they lost all hydraulic power even before the explotion of the engine 1?? And it went down immediately? Not only that, if it did go down immediately, it hit the ground with very high speed and surely with fire in the engine the plane would have exploded upon impact but no, some survived with minor injuries cause the...wing with the engine on fire split off? Upon impact? Yeah, no freaking way. I just hate how this was added in the anime to showcase her abilites as a surgeon.

@CallMeAi The part about her being a Mary Sue and making it seem like she could save every single patient bothered me too. And when she was promising she would save the one girl's mom I immediately remembered what one Youtube once said (he's a doctor) "We never do that"- It's just unrealistic. And I feel like even in a fictional setting they should't go overboard just to show how amazing her character is. Which seems to be a trend nowadays. Writing the female MC so over the top flawless and overpowered it's annoying. And your comment kind of confirmed my worries for this one (unless it's different from the source material).

I have mixed feelings with Isekai then being Reverse Isekai'd premise but....at least this is way better than that one anime they had a while back where there was also a dude/hero that was also Isekai'd then Reverse Isekai'd only to have everyone else still realize it was him (can't recall the name of the anime at the moment but I digress...)


My only gripe about this first episode is that I personally think it went WAY too much detail into the "surgeon" life she had in my opinion.

Examples:
She has bad handwriting, is that important? Who cares?
Did we really have to see her trying to save the other passengers after the actual crash? IMO No and I feel like it's totally unrealistic that people even survived seeing how mangled the plane came out (not that I'd want to argue the physics of that with someone but whatever)

TLDR: I think this "bit" could've been covered in half the time it took but for now I'm giving this the benefit of the doubt that the next episode has something that "can't be broken up" and the "extra padding" was necessary in lieu of a more awkward cliffhanger.

Not sure how I feel actually, it's been a while since I read the webcomic, but this hasn't particularly felt like the same story so far. The art style is definitely different and the animation is good with scenes with blood and operating. First time I'm watching an anime like this even though I've read my fair share of "doctor isekai"s.

a friend once told me that majority of the doctors iRL had bad handwriting.
actually, that depends and its by chances. some plane crashes mostly on the ocean you get 0%.
even a youtube video known as Epic How to describe things in detail on how one person can survive a plane crash. even in the past there are people who survived a plane crash and lived to tell the tale of it.

here's an example
Phil Bradley, who was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia.

I don't wanna be a stickler, but... That's not how airplanes or surgeries work >~>
I get realism isn't the point but please research your fiction better than this dear future writers.
We certainly had time to vagely gush over how amazing she is for 10 minutes straight.
I'll give them bonus points for the best German I've heard in anime yet tho. They still didn't get a native speaker for the one line, but at least it's someone that seems to know what the words they are saying mean

@fast2611 Writers don't even need to do a deep research. Just general research plus common sense would do.
But I definitely agree the focus of this anime seems to be more on gushing over our super OP MC.

@Wildflower3 The writing strongly reminds me of "The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent" so far (which is not a good thing) but alas, maybee I'll be proven wrong after seeing more episodes...

@fast2611 Sorry, I phrased it wrongly. In my opinion setting a story mainly around the female main character is not the way to go for me and isn't considered good writing in my opinion. Which is what they are doing here. Yes, the protagonist is always the most important part but worshiping her and the path she walks isn't it.

And I'm saying this as someone who likes to write (strong) female characters which have a lot of knowledge and are capable. But world-building and room for character development are vital too and you can't develop "perfect" characters.

But of course I hope you will like it more than I do so far...

@Wildflower3 So do I.
I dont have high hopes with a beginning like this, but I suppose there is always the chance of finding another gem like Akatsuki no Yona, a series that I noticed you put on hold on the very episode before her character development starts to take off, if you dont mind my nudge to pick it back up xD

@fast2611 Sure, no problem... I actually can't remember why I didn't continue this anime at that time but I think it was during a time I didn't watch much anime. I just know it wasn't because I didn't like the first episode. And when I returned to anime I had forgotten about it. I will try to pick it up again when I will have the time in-between this season :). Thank you.