Revenge for all that summoning

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With the total amount of summonings being done, you would think a modern world would have ample evidence of the kidnapping taking place. If the other world can kidnap without worries, why is there no story of a vengeful, hatred filled earth military invading these worlds? I always wondered about this since kids are being kidnapped.

Imagine: the beautiful garden as the king and aristocrats enjoy the safe capital as the summoned slaves toil away. As a big bright light flashes in the sky... a huge mushroom cloud emerges as....
You get the idea. This might be wish fulfillment but dang that would be sooo nice in some of these summoning novels.

Or

Imagine: summoning several kids to help fight the demon king. As the summoning succeeds and the kids are told what they need to do. BOOM!!!! As a bomb explodes against the castle walls as a loud speaker spews out.... ATTENTION...ATTENTION you are all under arrest for kidnapping!!!!!
As a swarm of military personal with tanks and assault helicopters surround the castle.

Why does earth get the short end of the stick?

why why why does all these writers treat summoning like candy. Isn’t this another form of slavery no matter how “kind” the summoner is? You get pulled into an unknown world where you have to do what they tell you if you want to live - slavery.
You would think if enough children are kidnapped from a world, that world will move hell to figure out and get them back or have revenge. Since summoning can be done from that world, they should be able to figure out something.

Any stories similar? Or any other ideas? Does this have any merit? 
 
  • #3
There is a manga about truck drivers who's job is to run over random people for money. 
 
  • #4
Gate was awesome and def deserves another season! 
 
  • #5
But I personally dislike magitech, so if I was author-sama, I'd just make magic and science incompatible with each other~ (which is a fairly common trope, mind you) 
 
  • #6
Summoning Counter Project, get the princesses to earth and make them meat toilets kukuku!  
 
  • #7
You forgot something.....
Clarke’s law

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Or the reversed.

Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!

Frankly, if the world cannot view the magic in anyway, it should not be able to kidnap people in the first place.  Magic as setup in many stories is just another form of energy.  That is how I view it.  This may depend on the setting but if one world can do it, why can’t the other not do the same?

Where talking about the general setup of the novels here.  Magic in most stories are very game like. No more witches hidden in the forest brewing unknown and strange brews.  Magic works in a set of rules.  The mysteries of magic are very scientific and as long as you follow the rules, it works.  

I’m not talking about cthulhu. That really has no reason at all.  Pure madness!!!!!
 
 
  • #8
Your forgetting magitech.  
There have been many novels where magic and technology was merged to make a better world.
Frankly, I see magic as the other side of the science coin.  Just think of it as matter and anti-matter.  That my view of it. As long as the worlds rules are setup properly. It works.

Magitech novels....
Full metal alchemist - this is more magic is the technology but fits since alchemy is treated like science

Mahou Sensei Negima!  - this is very magitech near the end.

I Came Back but the World is Still a Fantasy!? - really good but very very slow translations.

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - this truly fits the magitech setting. 
 
  • #10
Isn’t there a manga that shows the perspective of  how some worlds hide it via truck kun 
 
  • #11
It goes both ways.

When people summon "demons", it might just be what you're talking about. "They are inherently evil" and any kind story like that is only the point of view of the summoners, who have the tendency to make stuff up and rewrite history as they see fit like the greedy liars they are.

Even if they're "actually evil", it might just be that the other world arranged it such that the only target of the summonings ends up being only those (maybe-artificial) "evil" beings as some sort of revenge.

Humankind should just nuke itself. 
 
  • #12
There was something more or less like that in 'Gate – Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku Tatakeri' 
 
  • #13
There's a novel about truck-kun too: There Are Too Many Truck Reincarnations! 
 
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