In what Light Novels the main characters have a "physical" relationship?
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Seems like everyone is forgetting JK Haru ...
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@durask said in In what Light Novels the main characters have a "physical" relationship?:
Seems like everyone is forgetting JK Haru ...
No, @Wellwisher mentioned it as the third item in the included list, though that list was long enough that it was hidden in a spoiler tag. It appears nobody chose to discuss the series beyond that, though.
I haven't read the series, so I can't speak to how much it does or does not count as a physical "relationship" for purposes of the OP's intent, rather than the titular context of it being more of a transaction.
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@durask I'm not sure if it's forgetting as much as overlooking the "professional" in the room.
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Basically when it comes to getting physical, there are several levels of depiction:
- Nothing at all. Zip. Nada. Perfectly clean here folks.
- They k-kiss. It was nice. They have babies in the future.
- Heavy make out. Probably a reference to others doing it, but not our MC (yet?).
- They did it. Probably. Not gonna say when. Alternatively, he went to some brothel.
- Some foreplay and fade to black.
- They do the do. Here's some graphic description. (aka the JK Haru)
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the whole topic is spoilers but still
one of the series I read on BT before -so might be edited differently/ or slightly different content (I don't know if BT translated the LN or the WN) but it was rather explicit
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@Jon-Mitchell Huh. I read the JNC translation but gave up around v10 I think. Sill don't think it's enough to make me revisit lol, but if it ever comes back to catchup I might skim through (though it just did back in September so it'll probably be a while).
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You missed the lewdness that is hand holding
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@nofairytale said in In what Light Novels the main characters have a "physical" relationship?:
- Heavy make out. Probably a reference to others doing it, but not our MC (yet?).
- They did it. Probably. Not gonna say when. Alternatively, he went to some brothel.
- Some foreplay and fade to black.
In my experience with Manga/LN/Anime (excluding hentai of course) the vast majority of the media that includes sex at all fall into one of these three. Even some of the lewder ones (like Monster Tame and If it's for my daughter...) really just say enough to let you know they are having sex and then skip over what happens.
Having spent most the year just reading LN, it was a bit of a culture shock to read a western novel where (spoiler for lewdness)
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@catstorm As demonstrated in V1 chapter 6 of Okusama ga Seito Kachou?
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@mystyk said in In what Light Novels the main characters have a "physical" relationship?:
I haven't read the series, so I can't speak to how much it does or does not count as a physical "relationship" for purposes of the OP's intent, rather than the titular context of it being more of a transaction.
In the case of JK Haru you're talking fairly descriptive explicit scenes virtually every two pages.
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@kurosov I see, but does JK Haru have any romantic relationships? I believe the intent of the title post was to discuss LNs that have romantic relationships with a physical component. Are the physical relationships in JK Haru purely transactional or is there some romance in places?
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@Lily-Garden said in In what Light Novels the main characters have a "physical" relationship?:
@kurosov I see, but does JK Haru have any romantic relationships? I believe the intent of the title post was to discuss LNs that have romantic relationships with a physical component. Are the physical relationships in JK Haru purely transactional or is there some romance in places?
Tough to answer in much detail without spoilers so the most i can say is there are a couple of romantic interactions between the characters and the main character does show varying levels of interest in a few people she meets. As she works in a brothel however you can imagine that most of the scenes either aren't or are entirely one sided.
It's a very different read to other novels. It took me a while to get over the style difference to what i usually read but by the end i did want to read a proper continuation of the story rather than the collection of short stories that makes up the second book.
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@catstorm we don't do that sort of degeneracy here
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These six titles haven't been mentioned yet, I believe:
Dungeon Busters: Ezoe's and Akane's relationship gets very physical almost right away and they have plenty of sex as well.
Goblin Slayer: Dark fantasy with a setting where Goblin's reproduce by raping human and elf women, there's obviously a lot of sex happening. Or well, rape at least. The MC did sleep together on the same bed with two girls, but I'm pretty sure the MC is still a virgin though.
Der Werwolf: The Annals of Veight: I won't spoil with whom, but Veight makes a kid later on in the series.
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time: Van, considering his physical age, doesn't have any sex in the series (at least up to the point where the translations are now), but there's a bunch of women who want his child and I think Van has promised to make one with at least Basdia and maybe some others? Other than for Van though, there's plenty of sex happening between the Ghouls who have a very... free culture when it comes to sex due to their low chance of actually conceiving and giving birth to a living child. Orgies and changing partners happen pretty much every night. Van has also observed ghouls multiple times in the act while he was coming up with a solution to the problem ghouls have with reproductivity. There's also rape with Goblins, Kobolds and Orcs at one point in the story and there's a lot of children being born every now and then.
Black Summoner: Kelvin had sex with Efil right in the first volume, or at least, it was heavily implied that was the case.
Mixed Bathing in an Another Dimension: There hasn't been any sex exactly, but the MC, Touya, is in a fairly physical relationship with multiple girls and unlike most harem protagonists out there, Touya isn't neither a lucky lecher or an oblivious protagonist. With how mature the series is about lust and affection and how incredibly heartwarming it all manages to be, I feel Mixed Bathing deserves a mention as well.
Edit: Ah, Black Summoner was mentioned earlier as well, but I'll leave it in my reply.
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@Amakaze Der Werewolf is on the list @Wellwisher has in the 4th reply to this thread. Top of the list actually. But some new additions to be sure, which is more than I'm coming up with right now.
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@Amakaze said in In what Light Novels the main characters have a "physical" relationship?:
Goblin Slayer: Dark fantasy with a setting where Goblin's reproduce by raping human and elf women, there's obviously a lot of sex happening. Or well, rape at least. The MC did sleep together on the same bed with two girls, but I'm pretty sure the MC is still a virgin though.
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Madan no Ou to Vanadis had elen tame the tigre in volume 13, then tita had her turn in volume 15.
obligatory license it now
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@db0ssman I would disagree with your interpretation of the scene. I believe all they did was sleep in the same bed as him, as the conversation following implies that the ritual requires a virgin [girl?] (hence why SM couldn't do it on her own, due to the events of her past). It would be counterproductive if said ritual required the 'consumption' of that resource, though I can understand how you might think it did. It would also be strange to have such a vigorous physical act as part of a ritual designed to heal someone on the brink of death. There is also his reaction on waking, which is confusion as to where he is followed by checking his physical state. I.e. he had been unconscious ever since the fight up until that point.
Either way, there is no actual confirmation in the novel itself, just heavy implication based on conversation tone, and I'm not sure if there has been any official comment on it from the author. The relationship between the two doesn't really change either (beyond some implied temporary embarressment on one side from having been seen naked/near-naked), which is another reason I believe it was simply a ritual involving sleeping together rather than 'sleeping' together. ;)
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@AerosAtar I just searched through the volume for the scene after and they just refer to the act as 'sharing a bed' and 'sharing a pillow' are both euphemisms for sex.
In the explanation, they say that it is an incredibly rare ritual that costs a lot of money that only a few in the church can do. So, it's not that surprising if doing the ritual would cause the priestesses to lose the power (though it only diminishes) which is why so few of them can do it in the first place and why the church charges so much when it is performed. So it wouldn't be surprising if performing the ritual made it so you couldn't perform as well later, hence why it is so expensive.
So I guess there is no point where they explicitly say the words 'yes, we have had sex!' They just elude to it euphemistically, but that's as far as most light novels are willing to go on the subject. Though I guess it would be weird for a novel that starts off with goblin rape to suddenly get coy on the subject.
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@db0ssman Ah, the mystical power of a maiden's virginity. But, yeah, for a novel/anime that starts with very graphic depictions of rape, it does seem overly coy.
