Novel pick-up requests
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listen to me, girls. I am your father!
NU Synopsis:
19-year Segawa Yuuta was looking forward to start his new university life and go through a normal university life, making new friends, etc, etc. But suddenly, when the plane which his elder sister and brother-in-law were on went missing, he became the ‘father’ of his three young nieces! Now, his six-tatami mat apartment not just has to accommodate himself, but 14-year old Sora, 10-year old Miu, and 3-year old Hina. What will be the fate of Yuuta? -
The reason we can't see any JNC release of a Shogakukan title any time soon
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I'm requesting a few pick up's
Assassins Pride by Kei Amagi
Maken no Daydreamer by Alpha Polis
Magi’s Grandson by Yoshioka Tsuyoshi
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@dj-johnson Assassins Pride was on my Seven Seas survey. That one looks really interesting.
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@bloodygaikotsu Yep, people who make dumb decisions are everywhere...
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This series looks a bit intelligent. Complex math. 😅
https://twitter.com/bunko_dengeki/status/992767447022235648?s=20
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New theme (if you so choose to participate): "Unnatural Hair Colors".
You can debate if bleached "blonde" hair on a Japanese character is technically unnatural, but for me, I'm looking more at purples, pinks, blues, greens, and the like.
Here's some fun ones:
"A rescue warrior of a different world"
https://bookwalker.jp/de769137a7-13fe-4f55-8128-293d0a8cf3a5/?acode=WpfPW3yk
This one has a green haired maid as the female lead next to the male counterpart. They're the two characters that appear on every cover. It's nice to have green haired leads. Story sounds like it's about a dude in an Isekai trying to live peacefully before a God makes him be a Brave to vanquish evil.
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@terrence Omae wo Onii-chan ni Shite Yarouka!?
look at all those different colours!
One day, Yoichi who grew up while not knowing his parents, received the news of his father's death. His father left behind a testament——which said he is to pick only one out of five 'little sister candidates'?!
"...I don't want to work, I want to laze around together with Onii-chan." (By Selene)
"Let's have a match! If I win, Nii-chan will... make me his little sister!" (By Tomomi)
"Onii-sama will choose me, isn't that right? It's our destiny." (By Sayuri)
"To become a girl, that's why I want to be Nii-san's little sister!" (By Yuuki)
"If Mii-chan becomes Nii-chama's little sister, she will become rich right?" (By Mika)
The little sisters who were presented to him had more than one or two odd quirks, a slapstick comedy between siblings starts here! -
@drone205 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence Omae wo Onii-chan ni Shite Yarouka!?
look at all those different colours!Kawaii (if this is romance, and he chooses yellow or black, he has failed the human race!).
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@terrence They are Little Sister Candidates I believe.
Witch Sister would you choose?
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@drone205 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence They are Little Sister Candidates I believe.
Ah, so it is a romance story then. xD
Witch Sister would you choose?
I know nothing about them... But red probably has a good personality. x)
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Witch Sister would you choose?
Implying the harem isn't the right/best/only choice.
I'll hop in on the theme. I keep wanting to request stuff I've requested before! Arrgh~ The only solution is for @Sam-Pinansky to license all the stuff we've previously requested. Like:
- Altina the Sword Princess - MC has dark green hair while main heroine Altina has red.
- Combatants Will Be Dispatched! - From the author of KonoSuba comes a Sci-fi x Fantasy with a Silver-Haired Girl on the first volume's cover.
- Fire Girl - Completed series from one of the writers of Type-Moon. Protagonist is a Pink-Haired Genki Character and it's a great "adventure" series in the classic aspect of not knowing about this new world. It's another kind of Isekai where they travel to another world via teleportation while trying to establish themselves there although it's all for school. Another character has silver hair, then there's the brown/blonde and regular blondes. Also Yamato Nadeshiko Purple.
Can't remember if I requested this one yet. I probably have, but I can't remember for sure.
Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?
Publisher: Hobby Japan (Right up Sam's Alley)
Zagan is a mage that lives a pretty boring life of kicking away intruders regularly. That is until he gets pulled to an auction by his friend and falls in love at first sight with a rare silver-haired elf. Spending all his money to purchase her, it's only then he realizes that he has no idea how to communicate with her. It's a fluffy/action series of a mage and his Elf slave that he wants to confess to but is too shy.
The heroine is silver-haired and there are other characters. Such as a Pink Haired Holy Knight, a purple haired mage, and a blonde winged person.
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@aruseus493 that one sounds interesting. Also a possibility of actually getting it licensed too.
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@terrence Red you say? What personality do you think a character will have each different hair colour? Also, I added the synopsis (in the reccomendation) I found so you can choose just a tiny bit easier.
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@drone205 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence Red you say? What personality do you think a character will have each different hair colour?
Well, judging by her look, she seems maybe a bit sporty and friendly. =]
But most red or Auburn heads are haughty Tsundere. Red heads are the most likely to butt heads with you before falling for you because of their fiery passion.
Blue / Black haired equal calm and collected, with the occasional sharp tongued remark (maybe quiet; are there any that are both super chatty and upbeat blue haired characters? Maybe some ojou like that Lesfina girl in Battle Divas). The dark haired tall beauties are usually the ones that are weakest on the inside despite their strong outward appearance.
Green Haired = Wild Card! Green is seen so little, that I feel there's no real defining trait to them.
Purple - Seductress. Of course, this depends on what their look is, but it seems like purple is often on sexy characters as a fantasy black hair substitute.
Brunette - Plain Jane girl next door. These are girls that I feel the creators want to make as boring as possible so the female readers can self insert, lol.
White / Blonde / Pink = Forced lead love interests. Blech! Pink can be a support character too, but blonde is almost never a support character, unless she's an Ojou (that is a haughty princess type) or Lolita. An exception would be Knight from Maoyuu, and even there, I assume she isn't totally left out by the Hero in the romance department.
Ojou and Lolita are the only things that really mess up hair archetypes. Short vs Long hair is a big demarker too.
For guys, hair is a little less defining. Glasses, jawline, hair product are more important. Brown is still the best for an every man outward appearance. Black is great for cool characters (nothing sexier than a pair of black haired male x female characters). Blue is reserved for knightly side characters. Dark green for boring side characters. Silver for annoyingly forced cool dudes and the occasional mysterious, weak pretty boy. Blue and green hair are almost never long haired on men; brown and silver can be. Black probably only on Samurai type.
At this current point in time, I want from most > least, more of:
Purple > Brunette > Green > Black > Red > Orange > Silver
I don't want more blondes, lol. White hair and Silver are just fantasy based stand ins for blonde a lot of times. Orange will make it's way back up I'm sure (Sakura Chiyo-chan, I apologise).
Hair is important business!
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@terrence you know what, I always saw While/Silver hair as the more Kuudere type.
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@drone205 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence you know what, I always saw While/Silver hair as the more Kuudere type.
This depends on what the white / silver looks like. Older silver hair characters in fantasy are mostly blonde stand-ins. The silver hair Kuudere you're thinking of I'd probably label Lolita, which again, throws off the labels.
Here's a girl I would write off as borderline Loli Robot personality (Kuudere). xD
"Instant Messiah"
https://bookwalker.jp/dea9d9f913-1aaa-4d03-9a78-c774e310d222/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Here's a Loli silver haired type that is a blonde stand in (but not Kuudere). I was only interested in this one because of the slime character. It also only has two volumes, and is "completed":
https://bookwalker.jp/debfa4c8fd-81a9-4bb5-904d-50d48960be76/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Here's a fun loving silver haired warrior. Lady Clena in Mixed Bathing is, like, the opposite of her in personality (more that Kuudere), but similar in look. Short hair changes everything; she's probably more an orange haired stand in.
"Lizard and Together"
https://bookwalker.jp/de2a800832-3789-4a5d-96f8-a5a3ac37994a/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Someone posted the mature silver haired gal from the Konosuba writer's new novel earlier. She has the Ahoge thing going like Saber, along with that thick hair style of a blonde haired Oneesama (so not quite a forced romantic lead; she kind of looks like the drunk older sister type mixed with the battle warrior type). Since it's by the Konosuba author though, he probably plays with the tropes.
There's also the "dark skin, silver hair" stereotype in fantasy, which again, is its own thing.
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@terrence Then there are the girls that have those swirly screw drill like twin tail things.
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@drone205 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence Then there are the girls that have those swirly screw drill like twin tail things.
A lot of those girls are Ojou (highborn). Not many of the drill twin tails get to be lead heroines though. =[
Catherine is the video game drill hair mascot. Or maybe Mirabelle from Fire Emblem. I guess Yandere simulator has a drill tail too, Kokona.
Who is the anime / LN drill hair mascot?
Edit: Just found a list of twin tails characters... Literally none of them are lead love interests. Some are in Harems, but none are solo lead love interests. Poor Drill hair. ={
https://www.google.com/amp/s/myanimelist.net/amp/featured/1584/Top_15_Anime_Girls_with_Hair_Drills
I think the gal from Hundred might be the most significant drill tail heroine in LNs / anime based on this list... And she's still second fiddle to silver hair afaik.
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