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David Johnston
Sep 5, 2019, 11:18:28 PM9/5/19
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A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck. He is then sent by
a kami to another world with enough magic power to defeat whole armies.
He uses this power to acquire a "harem" of female companions who do most
of the actual work because he's almost as friggin' lazy as his author.
A typical Japanese teenage girl just arbitrarily wakes up one day
(because apparently Truck-kun only visits male characters) and discovers
that she is now an aristocratic villainess in her favourite fantasy
otome* game doomed to have her fiancee stolen by the heroine after which
she'll lose all of her wealth and power and may end up imprisoned or
even executed. She normally attempts to use her foreknowledge to evade
her fate, which sometimes results in a major genre shift.
(An otome game is a story based video game that is targeted towards the
female market. Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal,
is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player
character and one of several male or female characters.)
A "villainess" from an otome game (or at least a plot that mimics one)
must, after losing her fiancee and position, go into exile and use her
strength of character to rise to power in her own right.
A member of an adventuring party who isn't much of a offensive combatant
is deceived and betrayed (by the mage usually) in order to expel them.
However they had great non-combat talents that will be missed as they
pursue their own lives and the party struggles without them. Possibly
they will develop vast combat abilities without their exploitative party
holding them back.
All the players of a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game
possibly using futuristic VR technology find themselves trapped in the game.
a kami to another world with enough magic power to defeat whole armies.
He uses this power to acquire a "harem" of female companions who do most
of the actual work because he's almost as friggin' lazy as his author.
A typical Japanese teenage girl just arbitrarily wakes up one day
(because apparently Truck-kun only visits male characters) and discovers
that she is now an aristocratic villainess in her favourite fantasy
otome* game doomed to have her fiancee stolen by the heroine after which
she'll lose all of her wealth and power and may end up imprisoned or
even executed. She normally attempts to use her foreknowledge to evade
her fate, which sometimes results in a major genre shift.
(An otome game is a story based video game that is targeted towards the
female market. Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal,
is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player
character and one of several male or female characters.)
A "villainess" from an otome game (or at least a plot that mimics one)
must, after losing her fiancee and position, go into exile and use her
strength of character to rise to power in her own right.
A member of an adventuring party who isn't much of a offensive combatant
is deceived and betrayed (by the mage usually) in order to expel them.
However they had great non-combat talents that will be missed as they
pursue their own lives and the party struggles without them. Possibly
they will develop vast combat abilities without their exploitative party
holding them back.
All the players of a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game
possibly using futuristic VR technology find themselves trapped in the game.
Titus G
Sep 6, 2019, 3:02:55 AM9/6/19
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On 6/09/19 3:18 PM, David Johnston wrote:
> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck. He is then sent by
> a kami to another world with enough magic power to defeat whole armies.
> He uses this power to acquire a "harem" of female companions who do most
> of the actual work because he's almost as friggin' lazy as his author.
Based on no research whatsoever but with careful remembrance of my own
> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck. He is then sent by
> a kami to another world with enough magic power to defeat whole armies.
> He uses this power to acquire a "harem" of female companions who do most
> of the actual work because he's almost as friggin' lazy as his author.
fantasies, I do not understand the need to be hit by a truck nor to be
Japanese.
> A typical Japanese teenage girl just arbitrarily wakes up one day
> (because apparently Truck-kun only visits male characters) and discovers
> that she is now an aristocratic villainess in her favourite fantasy
> otome* game doomed to have her fiancee stolen by the heroine after which
> she'll lose all of her wealth and power and may end up imprisoned or
> even executed. She normally attempts to use her foreknowledge to evade
> her fate, which sometimes results in a major genre shift.
> (An otome game is a story based video game that is targeted towards the
> female market. Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal,
> is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player
> character and one of several male or female characters.)
David Johnston
Sep 6, 2019, 4:12:30 AM9/6/19
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On 2019-09-06 1:02 a.m., Titus G wrote:
> On 6/09/19 3:18 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>> A typical young Japanese man is hit by a truck. He is then sent
> On 6/09/19 3:18 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>> by a kami to another world with enough magic power to defeat whole
>> armies. He uses this power to acquire a "harem" of female companions
>> who do most of the actual work because he's almost as friggin' lazy as
>> his author.
>
> Based on no research whatsoever but with careful remembrance of my own
> fantasies, I do not understand the need to be hit by a truck nor to be
> Japanese.
Well the author's Japanese of course. Light novel is a distinctively
>> armies. He uses this power to acquire a "harem" of female companions
>> who do most of the actual work because he's almost as friggin' lazy as
>> his author.
>
> Based on no research whatsoever but with careful remembrance of my own
> fantasies, I do not understand the need to be hit by a truck nor to be
> Japanese.
Japanese format. The thing is, these things are wildly popular these
days in Japan. Truck-Kun is not technically necessary. The hero of
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime actually got stabbed, probably
because the author wanted him to be conscious long enough to beg his
friend to destroy the hard drive on his computer. But typically the
hero dies getting hit by a truck. The reason for that is that manga
artists prefer a truck because it's easier than depicting what happens
when a car hits a human.
Robert Carnegie
Sep 6, 2019, 5:03:03 AM9/6/19
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I suppose it still kind of is.
Now, you wouldn't want the female companions to have
nothing to do in the story but provide set-dressing
for the big magic hero... well, if I'm honest,
I don't say I would object strongly.
The other plots are about gaming, and evidently all of
this is about manga, comics. Manga is or was the big
thing in Japan, but how big is gaming? Do salarymen
do it?
Juho Julkunen
Sep 6, 2019, 7:42:48 AM9/6/19
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In article <qksj62$gg5$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, davidjo...@yahoo.com
says...
isekai plots?) As popular as those stories apparently are, surely there
are other standard Japanese plots.
Like a typical young girl having an encounter with a mysterious, cute
creature (and the universe's ice-cold night), and subsequently finding
herself fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight.
Or a typical teen boy having an encounter with a mysterious woman
(possibly falling from the sky) and finding himself enbroiled in a
struggle against an overwhelming enemy.
Or a new high school student meeting a cast of quirky fellow students,
with hijinks ensuing.
--
Juho Julkunen
says...
>
> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck. He is then sent by
Are these not the standard isekai plots? (Possibly the complete set of
> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck. He is then sent by
isekai plots?) As popular as those stories apparently are, surely there
are other standard Japanese plots.
Like a typical young girl having an encounter with a mysterious, cute
creature (and the universe's ice-cold night), and subsequently finding
herself fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight.
Or a typical teen boy having an encounter with a mysterious woman
(possibly falling from the sky) and finding himself enbroiled in a
struggle against an overwhelming enemy.
Or a new high school student meeting a cast of quirky fellow students,
with hijinks ensuing.
--
Juho Julkunen
Juho Julkunen
Sep 6, 2019, 7:55:08 AM9/6/19
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In article <cfc666ce-4f15-43a3...@googlegroups.com>,
rja.ca...@excite.com says...
inevitably get a manga adaptation. Manga remains very popular in Japan.
Gaming is, worldwide, the single largest segment of the entertainment
industry, bigger than TV or movies or music. Most everybody does it.
--
Juho Julkunen
rja.ca...@excite.com says...
>
>
> The other plots are about gaming, and evidently all of
> this is about manga, comics. Manga is or was the big
> thing in Japan, but how big is gaming? Do salarymen
> do it?
This was about light novels, actually, but the popular ones will
>
> The other plots are about gaming, and evidently all of
> this is about manga, comics. Manga is or was the big
> thing in Japan, but how big is gaming? Do salarymen
> do it?
inevitably get a manga adaptation. Manga remains very popular in Japan.
Gaming is, worldwide, the single largest segment of the entertainment
industry, bigger than TV or movies or music. Most everybody does it.
--
Juho Julkunen
Carl Fink
Sep 6, 2019, 9:16:42 AM9/6/19
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On 2019-09-06, David Johnston <davidjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck.
Aside from Ranma Saotome, how many female Japanese men star in these
> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck.
stories?
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Juho Julkunen
Sep 6, 2019, 12:07:57 PM9/6/19
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In article <slrnqn4n1n...@panix5.panix.com>, ca...@panix.com
says...
attracted to young male Japanese men.
Female Japanese men abound in other subgenres.
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-gender-bender-manga-of-all-
time/ranker-anime
There's also story types that mostly feature women of the opposite sex,
of course.
--
Juho Julkunen
says...
>
> On 2019-09-06, David Johnston <davidjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck.
>
> Aside from Ranma Saotome, how many female Japanese men star in these
> stories?
Not many, one would imagine, since it was specified that truck-kun is
> On 2019-09-06, David Johnston <davidjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck.
>
> Aside from Ranma Saotome, how many female Japanese men star in these
> stories?
attracted to young male Japanese men.
Female Japanese men abound in other subgenres.
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-gender-bender-manga-of-all-
time/ranker-anime
There's also story types that mostly feature women of the opposite sex,
of course.
--
Juho Julkunen
David Johnston
Sep 6, 2019, 2:15:56 PM9/6/19
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are influenced by comics. They have some manga-style illustrations in
them, but they're prose novels. And yeah, those tend to be different
types of gamelit.
Actually there is another standard premise that isn't so much game
influenced. "The heroine lives a life in which she is exploited,
betrayed and murdered but gets reincarnated and now seeks to relive her
life without making the mistake of trusting those closest to her."
Manga is or was the big
> thing in Japan, but how big is gaming? Do salarymen
> do it?
>
console games. You don't do that without a big domestic market.
David Johnston
Sep 6, 2019, 2:20:18 PM9/6/19
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observing a lot of them in the novels I've been trolling through as
opposed to the ones I listed which I'm seeing again again, again and
again. What I have noticed is a lot of "poor girl is "forced" to marry
rich guy" stories but I didn't include it because of topicality issues.
David Johnston
Sep 6, 2019, 2:22:05 PM9/6/19
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On 2019-09-06 7:16 a.m., Carl Fink wrote:
> On 2019-09-06, David Johnston <davidjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck.
>
> Aside from Ranma Saotome, how many female Japanese men star in these
> stories?
>
I lost focus when writing the sentence.
> On 2019-09-06, David Johnston <davidjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> A typical young male Japanese man is hit by a truck.
>
> Aside from Ranma Saotome, how many female Japanese men star in these
> stories?
>
Dimensional Traveler
Sep 6, 2019, 4:50:10 PM9/6/19
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"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
David DeLaney
Sep 9, 2019, 5:35:59 AM9/9/19
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On 2019-09-06, Juho Julkunen <giao...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> rja.ca...@excite.com says...
>> The other plots are about gaming, and evidently all of
>> this is about manga, comics. Manga is or was the big
>> thing in Japan, but how big is gaming? Do salarymen do it?
>
> This was about light novels, actually, but the popular ones will
> inevitably get a manga adaptation. Manga remains very popular in Japan.
>
> Gaming is, worldwide, the single largest segment of the entertainment
> industry, bigger than TV or movies or music. Most everybody does it.
I understand that in Korea, they sometimes die of doing it.
> rja.ca...@excite.com says...
>> The other plots are about gaming, and evidently all of
>> this is about manga, comics. Manga is or was the big
>> thing in Japan, but how big is gaming? Do salarymen do it?
>
> This was about light novels, actually, but the popular ones will
> inevitably get a manga adaptation. Manga remains very popular in Japan.
>
> Gaming is, worldwide, the single largest segment of the entertainment
> industry, bigger than TV or movies or music. Most everybody does it.
Dave, and not in the hooked-into-a-VR-game-and-inexplicably-can't-log-out way
--
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