Novel pick-up requests
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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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@aruseus493 I requested the elf wife LN back several months ago :P.
I’ve been reading the fan translation, although they’ve only been doing a chapter a month, but it’s still so sweet it’ll give you diabetes. -
@terrence you should totally write a ln with one as the lead.
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@hyferzftw said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence you should totally write a ln with one as the lead.
It sounds like I have to.
I'm an Ojou Drill Tail Character, But That's Ok: My Drills Will Pierce The Barrier Between Me And All These Authors' Self-Insert Main Characters And Their Worse Fetishes!
Edit: This Overlap volume 1 below has a pink haired Lesbian with some curly-ish twin tails on the cover of volume 1 (I believe it is harem though... And the other girl is male; also, only 2 volumes).
ボクが乙女でひとり占め!

https://bookwalker.jp/ded0c64167-7d43-4cae-8c67-ce2725eec712/?acode=WpfPW3yk
(Looking at the inserts, those are just straight twin tails... She has failed us).
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@aruseus493 so, it's straight fantasy?? I'm in!
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@paulnamida Yea, straight fantasy with some interesting world building.
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Here is a theme: Harem King
Here are some of the more obvious ones (to me):
Highschool DxD

The Testament of Sister New Devil

Campione

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@drone205 I would add Magika no Kenshi to Basileus, Masou Gakuen HxH, Chronicle Legion and Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance to that list.
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@drone205 My kids would be ecstatic if JNC picked up DxD, but alas, Kadokawa.
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King harem seems to be my least liked Genre, lol. No surprise since I'm usually looking for the relationship drama as opposed to comedy. I'm going through my list to see if I have any demon king Harems or Kingly / Princely Harems.
I might do one more colorful post before moving on.
Anyways, I saw this on my wishlist while I was looking around. "Death Game Management". It's about a dude that manages death games with his daughter. Label imprint is Novel 0.

https://bookwalker.jp/de4d6be159-3fd0-406a-a6c1-9216e9a3f51b/?acode=WpfPW3yk
I hope we get some Novel 0 (Kadokawa label) stateside someday; that "Attacking The Dungeon With My Boss" is OT work would be a great one since it's a dungeon action, but with a real world Japan as the place they go home to. It also has 3 volumes now (I think the 3rd is the final volume, but it isn't clear; this is Novel 0's longest ongoing work).
https://bookwalker.jp/series/130639/?acode=WpfPW3yk
It's OK, boss. In the dungeon, I will guide you!
Together with my beautiful black haired boss, I challenge the extremely dangerous "dungeon attack". In the workplace, I have a capable boss, but in the dungeon, she was terribly feeble.
Edit: Does a female Orca count as the King of the Ocean? All the other characters are humanoid females too, so like the loose definition of harem. x)

https://bookwalker.jp/de48104c40-1952-4ba6-ad6a-2a9b70fc0fcb/?acode=WpfPW3yk
(Sadly, this has only one volume from Kadokawa, but it is a Syosetu work too, the final 127th part published on 10/20 2016; the light novel was published on 10/1, so I dunno if that covers the whole story).