Question re: My Instant Death Ability is Overpowered
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This title has a lot of volumes, and the recent anime release is what brought it to my attention.
My question is: Does this series introduce any significant homosexuality into its story?
A non-important, seldom seen homosexual charater, such as in The Great Cleric would be ok'ish for me, as they are easily tuned out. But a significant character, such as the one in Full Clearing Another World Under a Goddess With Zero Believers (FCAW), or volumes where homosexuality becomes the side / parallel focus of the story (as in FCAW from volume 10) I would like to avoid.
I was thinking I should stop reading all light novel content from one of my other threads, but there were some sensible replies, one of which was asking in these forums first. So, I am giving it a shot.
Thank you in advance.
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I want to say no, but I'm not particularly bothered by that stuff, so you may need to more narrowly define what's the level you won't cross or specifically would be a title killer.
From your previous posts, it sounds like the levels of implied relationships in something like AoaB where it's not explicitly talked about is not an issue, but something where a gender changing character that transforms into their female form when they effectively acknowledge their love for a male counterpart is too far.
If it's something used as a subplot or a joke for part of a volume (or longer) is that an issue (not saying instant death has this, but I'll be honest if I can't recall all the details of the entire series, so it may be important just in case someone does remember something like that occurring)?
Instant Death has a large number of characters that essentially only last one volume or less, but may be used to engage in all sorts of tropes for plot or comedic purposes. Your one benefit here is that the series is completed and fully translated now, so there's no chance of any curveballs showing up down the line.
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@jpwong said in Question re: My Instant Death Ability is Overpowered:
Your one benefit here is that the series is completed and fully translated now, so there's no chance of any curveballs showing up down the line.
Oh... Really? I was not aware it was completed. That would be great news if there is no homosexuality in it.
I sort of thought my examples were ok. The Great Cleric has a homosexual character, but is not (currently) significant to the story. He has appeared in three volumes, and has only had a couple of paragraphs worth of dialog in each one. Although the homosexual character does hit on the MC, the MC does not reciprocate. To me, that is fine. I will even go as far as the 'misunderstood possible homosexual act' trope being used in The Great Cleric as ok'ish as well. The line would be crossed for me if it were reciprocated, or the trope became an actual part of the character/story.
FCAW is an example of going to far. Where in novel 10, the story revolves around a transexual character, previously indicated as straight, as the driving plot. It goes way too far with the homosexual character asking to be treated as a particular sex. In this case, it is so troubling to me that I never finished the volume, having stopped right at that character's request. Which, after 9 volumes is sad since the story to that point I found compelling, but grievous enough 'for me' to drop it.
The only other examples I can pull from are of series not translated by this site. So I won't mention them in case that is frowned upon.
Does the above help?
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I don't think there is any homosexuality in My Instant Death Ability is Overpowered at all. I just did a re-read and I don't remember seeing any instances of it. In any case, if it is something that I happened to gloss over because it was too implicit, rest assured that it would only be mentioned (or perhaps I should say implied) as a characteristic for any such character that appeared. Romance (either heterosexual or homosexual) is not a focus at all in the story.
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Rahul Balaggan
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Hello,
The question has been answered, and I will be locking the topic down.
The more specific this topic gets the closer it gets to inappropriate content for these forums.
