What is so wierd? His friends have an early day so he offered to clean up the party himself since he has the time. Just in this case that includes reconstruction of his body.
Good friend.
I mean, it's not like he's being the designated driver for the evening.
Taking him apart and playing with his brain is apparently their recreation between rounds of vidya gaming.
I'd have to imagine that would be a little bit weird at the average party. "Hey, let's see what happens if we feed little Bobby these bath salts" wasn't a popular game at my get togethers.
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I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
the only one like that I've seen is My Next Life As a Villainess, but that one's real good
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
So far I really like Master Villainess the Invincible for the action, and This Villainess Wants a Divorce for the romance. I don't know how many others there are, those are just a couple that caught my attention on Tapas.
I guess the main genre I've been looking at is romance stories with an action/fantasy background, where the female hero is reborn into the world but "knows the future" since she read the whole book already. Except, of course, since she interacts with the hero or antagonist of the story and changes their trajectory, she understands less and less of the future as it diverges from the novel. "Reborn as the villain" does seem to be a pretty common subgenre.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
More than you might imagine. Once Bakarina's story got popular all the copycats came out as they do
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
So far I really like Master Villainess the Invincible for the action, and This Villainess Wants a Divorce for the romance. I don't know how many others there are, those are just a couple that caught my attention on Tapas.
I guess the main genre I've been looking at is romance stories with an action/fantasy background, where the female hero is reborn into the world but "knows the future" since she read the whole book already. Except, of course, since she interacts with the hero or antagonist of the story and changes their trajectory, she understands less and less of the future as it diverges from the novel. "Reborn as the villain" does seem to be a pretty common subgenre.
I really shouldn't be surprised that it is a thing but I am. Really though, comparing it to other Iskei sub-genre things I could see saying the same thing about "waking up in a video game", which is pretty specifics too.
Also this totally wasn't just a clever blatant ruse to get you to list out titles I could google.
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
More than you might imagine. Once Bakarina's story got popular all the copycats came out as they do
It doesn't surprise me that there are copy-cats, but it's really the sort of premise that I dig, so I'm happy for as many people to try their hand as are willing and able.
Sadly the story you reference doesn't appear to be one I can pick up a chapter at a time on an app, though.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
More than you might imagine. Once Bakarina's story got popular all the copycats came out as they do
It doesn't surprise me that there are copy-cats, but it's really the sort of premise that I dig, so I'm happy for as many people to try their hand as are willing and able.
Sadly the story you reference doesn't appear to be one I can pick up a chapter at a time on an app, though.
You should be able to, I was just using a nickname. The English name of the original is "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!"
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I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
More than you might imagine. Once Bakarina's story got popular all the copycats came out as they do
It doesn't surprise me that there are copy-cats, but it's really the sort of premise that I dig, so I'm happy for as many people to try their hand as are willing and able.
Sadly the story you reference doesn't appear to be one I can pick up a chapter at a time on an app, though.
You should be able to, I was just using a nickname. The English name of the original is "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!"
No, you don't get it, I already googled that and was able to find the title easily. I can buy the full novels on Amazon, but I like the Tapas model of buying a chapter at a time, released once per week, and this series doesn't currently have that as far as I can tell.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
More than you might imagine. Once Bakarina's story got popular all the copycats came out as they do
It doesn't surprise me that there are copy-cats, but it's really the sort of premise that I dig, so I'm happy for as many people to try their hand as are willing and able.
Sadly the story you reference doesn't appear to be one I can pick up a chapter at a time on an app, though.
You should be able to, I was just using a nickname. The English name of the original is "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!"
Yep, this one is what everyone else tries to imitate. It's also funny as hell. My wife has fallen down this hole pretty hard lately after I showed her the anime, I'll ask for some reqs.
I've also read The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass (not a "dies she is reincarnated in an otome game" but literally a "is sent back to an earlier time at her execution") which is a bit more cut-throat. It's good and actually pulls some from things like Spice and Wolf by getting into economics, but I stopped reading the light novel because it got a smidge revenge-porn-y.
The one I'm actively reading as it's coming out is Death Is The Only Ending For The Villainess, which is a straight "into an otome game" thing, except she's in hard mode, which she never beat because she kept ending at game over via death. It's more tense than any of the others I've read, but seems decently well written.
E: the OG is available on crunchyroll if you've got that
I have fallen down the Iskei black hole. It appears my favorite kind are the ones where a woman dies in a car accident and wakes up as the villain in a popular piece of fiction, and decides to be a good guy so she doesn't die ignominiously like the original story envisioned.
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
More than you might imagine. Once Bakarina's story got popular all the copycats came out as they do
It doesn't surprise me that there are copy-cats, but it's really the sort of premise that I dig, so I'm happy for as many people to try their hand as are willing and able.
Sadly the story you reference doesn't appear to be one I can pick up a chapter at a time on an app, though.
You should be able to, I was just using a nickname. The English name of the original is "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!"
No, you don't get it, I already googled that and was able to find the title easily. I can buy the full novels on Amazon, but I like the Tapas model of buying a chapter at a time, released once per week, and this series doesn't currently have that as far as I can tell.
Ah now I see. Yeah makes sense in that case, that sort of model seems like it'd be for the less well-known novels.
Hmm, thinking on the ones I've seen in manga form, not too versed in LN's themselves, there's one I'd recommend called "I'm Not a Villainess: Just Because I Can Control Darkness Doesn't Mean I'm a Bad Person!"
Summary is that Japanese woman dies and is reincarnated into an otome novel she read, of course in the villainess role, with the key being that she is blessed by the Dark Spirit King who was once used to destroy an entire country. What makes it interesting to me is that while she knows how the story is supposed to go and wants to change it through her own actions, the fact she's got the power of the Dark Spirit King causes everyone to fear and hate her so she can't change people's first perceptions of her like some of the other villainess-genre heroines pull off. She has to work against that prejudice if she wants to avoid her ultimate doom, which makes her victories way more satisfying to me even if Katarina is far more into the comedy side of thing.
Well the most common theme of all of them is dying in a car crash. One of the comments on one I was reading was "Truck-san strikes again" or similar.
Here’s a variation that needs to be explored; isekai from the POV of the truck. Specifically, Truck-san is a a failed former isekai OC who achieved nothing with their side-trip and became the truck. Kind of a Santa Clause/free the genie deal: you screw up, you become the dimension hopping truck.
Ah so Dumbing of Age is an Isekai from the perspective of angry exRA. Who died ramming a truck in the Roomies verse but ironically was shifted into a universe without aliens and magic.
Getting killed by a truck and being sent into a novel world as the main villaness is such a wildly specific thing to be a whole ass genre I am absolutely shaken
Are there any reverse versions where some mighty fantasy warlord gets struck and killed by a boar or something, and wakes up in the real world where they have to get a 9-5.
Are there any reverse versions where some mighty fantasy warlord gets struck and killed by a boar or something, and wakes up in the real world where they have to get a 9-5.
The first reverse isekai I can think of off the top of my head is The Devil is a Part-Timer where the Devil, escaping the hero from his world, ends up in our world working at anime McDonalds. I'm sure someone who's more into the scene would know about more variations on the theme
Well the most common theme of all of them is dying in a car crash. One of the comments on one I was reading was "Truck-san strikes again" or similar.
Here’s a variation that needs to be explored; isekai from the POV of the truck. Specifically, Truck-san is a a failed former isekai OC who achieved nothing with their side-trip and became the truck. Kind of a Santa Clause/free the genie deal: you screw up, you become the dimension hopping truck.
Theres one where the truck drivers job is to kill kids and isekai them
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This reminds me of one of the early fan theories after one of the earliest episode VII teasers: what we eventually learned was Starkiller Base was Endor in winter, because ooh, look, trees, and also Darth Vader's mask, clearly we must be going back to Endor!
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the only one like that I've seen is My Next Life As a Villainess, but that one's real good
I was all nodding along with this, that sounds like a highly specific but interesting premise, when I realized you implied that it is like a subgenre. How many of these can you have?
So far I really like Master Villainess the Invincible for the action, and This Villainess Wants a Divorce for the romance. I don't know how many others there are, those are just a couple that caught my attention on Tapas.
I guess the main genre I've been looking at is romance stories with an action/fantasy background, where the female hero is reborn into the world but "knows the future" since she read the whole book already. Except, of course, since she interacts with the hero or antagonist of the story and changes their trajectory, she understands less and less of the future as it diverges from the novel. "Reborn as the villain" does seem to be a pretty common subgenre.
More than you might imagine. Once Bakarina's story got popular all the copycats came out as they do
I really shouldn't be surprised that it is a thing but I am. Really though, comparing it to other Iskei sub-genre things I could see saying the same thing about "waking up in a video game", which is pretty specifics too.
Nope.
Definitely not.
It doesn't surprise me that there are copy-cats, but it's really the sort of premise that I dig, so I'm happy for as many people to try their hand as are willing and able.
Sadly the story you reference doesn't appear to be one I can pick up a chapter at a time on an app, though.
You should be able to, I was just using a nickname. The English name of the original is "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!"
This might be my favorite Philosophy comic ever, holy shit
No, you don't get it, I already googled that and was able to find the title easily. I can buy the full novels on Amazon, but I like the Tapas model of buying a chapter at a time, released once per week, and this series doesn't currently have that as far as I can tell.
Yep, this one is what everyone else tries to imitate. It's also funny as hell. My wife has fallen down this hole pretty hard lately after I showed her the anime, I'll ask for some reqs.
I've also read The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass (not a "dies she is reincarnated in an otome game" but literally a "is sent back to an earlier time at her execution") which is a bit more cut-throat. It's good and actually pulls some from things like Spice and Wolf by getting into economics, but I stopped reading the light novel because it got a smidge revenge-porn-y.
The one I'm actively reading as it's coming out is Death Is The Only Ending For The Villainess, which is a straight "into an otome game" thing, except she's in hard mode, which she never beat because she kept ending at game over via death. It's more tense than any of the others I've read, but seems decently well written.
E: the OG is available on crunchyroll if you've got that
The J'accuse finger point is one of my favorite John Allison-isms out of everything he does (it's shown up a number of times).
Ah now I see. Yeah makes sense in that case, that sort of model seems like it'd be for the less well-known novels.
Summary is that Japanese woman dies and is reincarnated into an otome novel she read, of course in the villainess role, with the key being that she is blessed by the Dark Spirit King who was once used to destroy an entire country. What makes it interesting to me is that while she knows how the story is supposed to go and wants to change it through her own actions, the fact she's got the power of the Dark Spirit King causes everyone to fear and hate her so she can't change people's first perceptions of her like some of the other villainess-genre heroines pull off. She has to work against that prejudice if she wants to avoid her ultimate doom, which makes her victories way more satisfying to me even if Katarina is far more into the comedy side of thing.
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Here’s a variation that needs to be explored; isekai from the POV of the truck. Specifically, Truck-san is a a failed former isekai OC who achieved nothing with their side-trip and became the truck. Kind of a Santa Clause/free the genie deal: you screw up, you become the dimension hopping truck.
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Noticing newer isekai start with overworked people dying
Or asshole bosses getting murdered
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The first reverse isekai I can think of off the top of my head is The Devil is a Part-Timer where the Devil, escaping the hero from his world, ends up in our world working at anime McDonalds. I'm sure someone who's more into the scene would know about more variations on the theme
Theres one where the truck drivers job is to kill kids and isekai them
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This reminds me of one of the early fan theories after one of the earliest episode VII teasers: what we eventually learned was Starkiller Base was Endor in winter, because ooh, look, trees, and also Darth Vader's mask, clearly we must be going back to Endor!