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It's not even that the setting or scenario is especially appealing, not like, incel transmigrates into man who has harem pheromones or lifelong weakling becomes the demon queen or etc, MC is thrilled because five minutes ago they were dead and for several years before that they were terminally ill and now they're not either of those things.

100 Ways Not to Fail in Another World is a manga and while it's been awhile it has a female lead who is happy to no longer have college + unsuccessful job hunting to juggle. Don't think I actually finished this....

50 Tea Recipes from the Duchess is less about leaving the modern world behind and more about a fresh start but there is a good sized element of enjoying life for life. Also it's one of the best written slice of fantasy romances I have ever read. Web novel.

Gourmet Gamer is not technically an isekai but holds a lot of the same elements. MC is a chef who lost his sense of smell and taste who gets introduced to a new VR game where your senses are included in the immersion. He tries it out and in the game he can smell and taste things. The WEBTOON is centered around him re-embarrassing his passion for cooking within VR.

Mage Tank is a... Light novel...? I think? It reads like an isekai start to a D&D campaign that someone wrote down. Absolutely hilarious. Currently in the middle of this one. Mc is happy he's no longer dead but kind of seeks out adventure in a way that doesn't quite fit this idea.

Grandpa and Grandma Turned Young Again is an anime that I haven't actually watched yet (in my to watch list rn) bit from what I can see it looks pretty close to this idea.

I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella.

Also! Bonus frog!

Idea #10

Warning! I use a translator, English is not my native language.

It's a very small idea, but the gist is that Danny has accidentally become a luck magnet after years of Fenton-like luck. For example, he's started finding $20 on the sidewalk almost every day, he always remembers something useful at the right moment, and he usually gets excellent marks on all his tests. Even his literature test score is better than it could have been.

He liked it, even a lot, at first. But over time, it started to get boring. Even fighting with his bullies didn't really help. So after finishing school, Danny decided to make his life more challenging and enroll in Gotham. There, he definitely wouldn't get bored!

Three months after starting his studies at Gotham University, nothing had changed. Sometimes, no one tried to rob him at all, and if they did, they'd incapacitate themselves. And Danny realized: this was fate playing tricks on him.

Danny: Oh my God, by the Endless Realms and the damn ectoplasm, Fate, if you can hear this, then give me some trouble already!... Or give me some kind of sign or drop something on me, even a flower pot *stretches out his arms and closes his eyes*

Danny:...

Danny: *felt something fall into my hands and opened my eyes*

Damian: …. * look of an angry cat who's been picked up against his will and is ready to kill *

Danny: ...Thanks, Destiny! Hello, Problem! :>

Damian: ....

Zuko allows this insult to pass with decades of experience. As his body is currently nine, he does this with a certain inherent smugness.

"...Regardless," his little Actual Baby of a sister continues, from her chubby baby face, "you go south and secure our new familial alliance.

"I," she says, lightning sparking from her little fingertips, "will stay here, and discontinue our previous paternal contract."

"...You're just trying to secure the throne for yourself."

"YES I'm trying to secure the throne, you already had a turn, do NOT make me involve mother in this."

As she stamps her tiny foot, Zuko reflects that, perhaps, time traveling into ones' significantly younger bodies may be having some... developmental consequences.

He also reflects that they have a mother. Then he throws back his head, and yells.

I’m sorry if I ended up rambling. It’s just that seeing Desna and Eska inherit their chiefdom really confused me because I always thought that it was an elected position

Traditionally, leadership in Inuit culture was determined by consensus, so basically a democratic election. Typically, the qualities that led people to choose you as a leader were your survival skills.

I've mentioned before that the Northern Water Tribe has more non-Inuit cultural influences than the Southern Water Tribe, so I've always just chalked up their hereditary leadership as being another example of that. Considering their proximity to Ba Sing Se, their emphasis on a strict hereditary chiefdom might be for the sake of projecting an image of centralized power, to help ward off their imperialistic neighbors to the south.

As for the Southern Water Tribe, I think they're actually a collection of small and independent villages, with each one having its own leader that's democratically elected; this is how they're portrayed in the "North and South" Avatar comics. This would explain why Katara mocked Sokka when he tried to claim he was a prince to Yue; it would be like the son of a small-town mayor declaring himself a prince. Plus, if leadership were hereditary, princedom would have been an internal struggle for Sokka, similar to Zuko. But Sokka's insecurity is never framed as not being worthy of being chief, but as simply lacking traditionally masculine skills.