In Another World as a…Bus Driver?
Benjamin Taklaw, a Filipino high school student who dreams of being a bus driver like his father, got killed by Truck-kun. He thought his life would be over, and his soul would be in the afterlife.
But, he was given another chance to live his again, this time, as a bus driver in…a fantasy world? He literally woke up on a bus in another world as a young bus driver. Grasping on that opportunity, he, as a 16-year-old boy and bus driver named Russell May, is now living his new life in a new strange world, filled with monsters and magic.
Along the way, he took in a snow village girl named Azalea, a low-ranked adventurer named Adrian Paulton, who was betrayed by his hero party in a dungeon, and a pair of twin dragon girls, Rai and Ria. They are now his new party and family. Together, they traveled the world through routes, picking up passengers of different races and socioeconomic backgrounds and dropping them off at their destinations of different kinds.
Also, he discovered that he wasn’t alone in being reincarnated in that world: he was part of a class of creatures known as Renad. That group has different backgrounds of their previous lives, different ways they died, and best of all, different abilities, skills, and even equipment.
And also, the fantasy world will have evil entities and an organization named the Square Order of the Squirrel, whose primary goal is to free the demon king, Malarka, from the seal that sealed him 1,000 years before.
Roxas0702 · Fantasy
In the early 1950’s, the Philippines was experiencing major economic and industrial difficulties brought on by the Second World War, chief of which was a problem in public transportation. However, Filipinos, ever so resourceful, immediately found a solution. From the remaining thousands of U.S Army jeeps left by the war seven decades ago, they found a way to reconstruct and convert these vehicles of battle into one of the main modes of transporations we see today. The clever and innovative Filipinos from the past have done these by adding a roof, lengthening the perimeter bench seats and extending the rear ends of the typical army jeep. These transformed jeeps, formerly knows as auto-calesas or ACs, initially carried a total of six to eight passengers: two riders on the front seat beside the driver and two to three more in two parallel rows in the back. As the jeepney was born it became the long term symbol for Filipino’s capability and creativity. In order to further increase profitability and efficiency of the jeepney, Filipinos lengthened the ACs to accommodate more passengers. The seats were removed and replaced with two benches that stretched lengthwise on either side, allowing more seating space, and leaving a narrow space down the middle for an aisle. From carrying six to eight passengers, Jeepneys were stretched long enough to accommodate around 15 to 25 passengers per trip. Unfortunately, due to the increase in size and popularity of the vehicle for public transpor