Why truck kun?

[SuperHeiyan]

It's now Truck-kun's job because Brick-dono is retired and it's easier to just hire truck-kun than convince different people to drow in various bodies of water.

 

[LordJoyde]

Isn't truck-kun just for the memes?

 

[owotrucked]

@owotrucked You're being hated on. Defend yourself before the council.

Yeah I think it's a good idea to spend more time making death relatable, especially not making it an instant kill and prolong the suffering of the character as long as possible, putting the reader face to their mortality, rousing memories of pain from a similar death of close ones, create unnecessary fears of any form of transportation, just to yeet all of it next page to start a quest for soy sauce

 

[Daitengu]

Well Carpio, I happen to be old enough, and anime fan who isn't a weeb so I can give you a solid answer.

In Japan, when Isekai via truck became a thing, the nation had a huge problem of truckers being overworked and falling asleep at the wheel. Obviously this caused a lot of accidents. Often with the driver speeding off. Mainly because the driver would always be convicted and forced to pay the victims medical bills. As such death by truck became a meme on the net. Later it was used as a vehicle to Isekai people(pun intended).

Now a days there's mandatory auto insurance that covers potential victim medical care, so it's less of a issue for the trucker to actually stop. But the overworked status is still an issue for most working adults in Japan.

Now Isekai via truck is just a meme that seems ridiculous and funny to point out the story shouldn't be taken seriously. Konosuba has been around since 2012 after all.

 

[owotrucked]

Kazuma in Konosuba died from heartstroke from the scare of standing on the path of a slow farm tractor.

We know its been a long time if a 2012 work parodies the meme

 

[SerikoLee]

I love truck Chun when a homeboy likes that truck-killing fools.
Truck- chan

 

[LilTV1155]

Convient roadkill harvester and I think quick "painless" deaths.
Run wm down. Pick em souls and dumpem in landfills.

 

[BomBomBom]

Tell me why the hell do trucks kill so many people in isekai? At least use car accidents. Also, why do people have to be crossing streets to be hit? Please make them in a car being hit. Honestly, this is a bit of a rant, but I hate the hell out of the damn trucks now. Why does God somehow accidentally lose control of a truck and kill someone? Can't people make it a force of nature like lightning or a volcano? Why does no one do the trope where people get rewarded for doing good and that's why they get isekai'd? Also, more people die in car accidents than hit and runs sooooooo, please if any of you do isekai make them die in a damn car crash.

I once came across a short manga (or maybe a comic in manga style) where truck-kun is actually a career and it is the driver's job to go and hit people My own rationale for the whole isekai troupe is that it's all corporate and trucks are raw material suppliers, sort of like farmers sell products to companies so they can process it.

 

[Mr.Grey-Cat]

if you don't like truck-kun, then what? are you waiting for Truck-Prime or something? 'cause he is here.

 

[Carpio]

if you don't like truck-kun, then what? are you waiting for Truck-Prime or something? 'cause he is here.​

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Honestly, I would prefer that. Way cooler. Just get mecha truck or something

 

[Katsuya]

Ig cause it's pretty simple rather than suicide and stuff and diseases. Also, its gives the character time to think while they are about to die. When thy wake up again, they can also surprised that they don't have any injuries.

 

[Southdog]

Because if you get hit by a F150 you get sent to Warhammer 40k, instead of your average isekai world.

Alright where do i sign up?

 

[Keene]

I believe Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu greatly popularized the truck-kun meme. Mushoku was one of the first super popular isekai stories and you can see the roots of nearly all modern isekai tropes being prototyped in it.

However it is wonderful when other shows like Konosuba satirize the truck-kun meme.

 

[DutyInternal]

Tell me why the hell do trucks kill so many people in isekai? At least use car accidents. Also, why do people have to be crossing streets to be hit? Please make them in a car being hit. Honestly, this is a bit of a rant, but I hate the hell out of the damn trucks now. Why does God somehow accidentally lose control of a truck and kill someone? Can't people make it a force of nature like lightning or a volcano? Why does no one do the trope where people get rewarded for doing good and that's why they get isekai'd? Also, more people die in car accidents than hit and runs sooooooo, please if any of you do isekai make them die in a damn car crash.

what makes you think truck kun is not a force of nature?

 

[Ai-chan]

Tell me why the hell do trucks kill so many people in isekai? At least use car accidents. Also, why do people have to be crossing streets to be hit? Please make them in a car being hit. Honestly, this is a bit of a rant, but I hate the hell out of the damn trucks now. Why does God somehow accidentally lose control of a truck and kill someone? Can't people make it a force of nature like lightning or a volcano? Why does no one do the trope where people get rewarded for doing good and that's why they get isekai'd? Also, more people die in car accidents than hit and runs sooooooo, please if any of you do isekai make them die in a damn car crash.

The origin of truck isekai came from Japan. That's where the term isekai came from, which mean 'another world'.

In Japan, there aren't really that many cars in cities, such as Tokyo. Due to very efficient public transportation services, most people prefer to walk and take public transports. In Japanese cities, every public transport is within walking distance, and having a car is an extra burden most people do not want to deal with as you need to rent a parking space for your car, among other costs such as maintenance. Added to the fact that you likely won't be using a car every day.

What this means is, most of the vehicles you'd likely see on the road would be company-owned vehicles, many of which would be trucks. Truck drivers usually work long hours and as a result, it is not uncommon for them to be unfocused or even falling asleep on the road, eventhough that's completely illegal.

In 2019, 36% death to traffic accidents were pedestrians, followed by passenger car occupants at 23% and cyclists at 16%. Additionally, 60% of fatalities occured on urban roads, such as the city centers and suburbs of Tokyo.

Among the common characteristics of pedestrian deaths are the sudden acceleration among drivers, usually attributed to drowsiness or falling asleep while driving. Thus why the Japanese government was considering implementing mandatory automatic brakes to prevent sudden, unintended accelerations in 2019.

So in short, within the context of Japanese isekai trope, this makes perfect sense. As for stories outside of Japan, many Asian countries share the same characteristics as Japan. For example, while Malaysians still drive cars, those in the Klang Valley area increasingly rely on public transports as it is more efficient and drivers do not need to suffer rush hour traffic congestions. Ai-chan too prefers to ride the LRT or the MRT whenever Ai-chan is around KL. Komuters are automatically shit as it's run by the government and Malaysian government is definitely shittier than the toilet and that is reflected in the management of Komuter that is always full, late, broken and sometimes didn't come at all.. The Malaysian government makes Ai-chan want to move back to Japan.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Hey, give Truck-kun a break, okay? He's just doing God's job, which is taking losers from their dead-end lives and throwing them into different worlds that care enough to kick their asses back into gear.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

Why not trucks?

 

[CheertheDead]

Please make them in a car being hit.

I think this one answers your confusion well.

https://www.quora.com/Were-cars-built-tougher-30-50-years-ago-I-don%E2%80%99t-mean-the-engine-I-mean-the-exterior-I-get-the-feeling-cars-today-are-built-to-absorb-impact

To make it short, car exterior was much stronger in older days but modern cars are not. Modern cars are designed to break down in an accident if necessary to reduce the stress on the driver -> people in the car is less likely to die.

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

It's been done often enough to be considered both a cliché and an established genre trope which itself is a small representation of the "dying to get access to the other world" trope that sets up so many isekai stories (and others as far back, and almost certainly further than YuYu Hakashow) that many readers will just accept it.

Why do so many superhero stories begin with a "save the cat" plot?

In the end, how you execute these common structures (particularly how you display your charecter's reactions/method of handling them) will mean more for your story than the choice of plot itself. In real life, these events are rare enough to be significant, character defining moments that shape or reveal your guts both figuratively and literally. After all, how many times have you been mulched by a garbage man with one eye and a drinking problem only to fall in the arms of an ara ara elf lady?

Hell. How many times have you gone out of your way to save a cat?