Comment by BuyMyBitcoins
7 days ago
I can’t quite put this into words but the idea of a transmutation circle actually being the track of a particle collider is just so funny to me.
7 days ago
I can’t quite put this into words but the idea of a transmutation circle actually being the track of a particle collider is just so funny to me.
This is the plot of countless animes. New magical dude becomes ruler of the city state, constructs 5 new buildings that end up drawing a citywide transmutation circle to harvest all of the souls/etc
I actually can’t think of anything I’ve watched with that has exactly that plot, but I suspect the progenitor of that sort of Geomancy in anime is the novel series Teito Monogatari. (One or two adaptations were released in English under the name Doomed Megalopolis).
Just a tidbit.
Recurring theme in Full Metal Alchemist / Brotherhood
One episode of The Librarians involves a college student building a mini particle accelerator that (unintentionally) uses a magic circle around the campus as its track, which when activated opens a portal into another dimension filled with monsters.