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Yune Amagiri
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 5:48 am
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Waking up with multiple announcement which i was waiting for, such bliss.
Keep going on Kadokawa.
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prime_pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 7:32 am
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At first I wondered why the second picture was differently proportioned than the first one. Then on closer inspection, I was like "Oh, that's a sheep!"
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HannoX
Joined: 30 Apr 2012
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:08 am
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Sometimes I wonder if LN authors get paid by the length of their titles.
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xxmsxx
Joined: 06 Sep 2017
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 1:44 pm
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When I read the Japanese title at first, I thought it said "the pretty girl I met was my childhood friend who used to be a boy".
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MFrontier
Joined: 13 Apr 2014
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:45 pm
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Ah, when the bro you grew up with ends up becoming your girlfriend!
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Rob49152
Joined: 19 Dec 2014
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 8:50 pm
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I've only read the manga. But happy to see this get a go ahead.
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Kadmos1
Joined: 08 May 2014
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Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:14 pm
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prime_pm wrote: | At first I wondered why the second picture was differently proportioned than the first one. Then on closer inspection, I was like "Oh, that's a sheep!" |
A sheep is the GOAT, right?
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ch3ru
Joined: 24 Mar 2016
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:55 am
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HannoX wrote: | Sometimes I wonder if LN authors get paid by the length of their titles. |
It's because LN sites just list the title under a genre plus a few tags but no summary, so the absurdly long and detailed titles *are* the summary.
I still think it's dumb that once they get officially adapted they don't give them a 'proper' title though.
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ChirashiD
Joined: 11 Oct 2006
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:35 am
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MFrontier wrote: | Ah, when the bro you grew up with ends up becoming your girlfriend! |
You say it like there are other manga you're aware of that could use this same tagline.
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recsanime
Joined: 03 Dec 2018
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:01 am
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Boy discovers childhood friend is actually a girl..... Is this reskinned Tomo or something?
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Minos_Kurumada
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 12:18 pm
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recsanime wrote: | Boy discovers childhood friend is actually a girl..... Is this reskinned Tomo or something? |
Well, there is no nice way to sugar coat it:
"My childhood friend was actually a girl" it's an extremely normal trope in hentai.
It's not that normal in "mainstream" manga, there it's more common to make fun of it like Komi-san: Najimi is the perfect childhood friend, as such their gender is unknown, that way she can be a she for guys and a he for girls.
Series like Tomo makes fun of the trope while trying to deconstruct it.
A series like this its not coping Tomo, just using a common trope not that common in mainstream manga.
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Shay Guy
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:16 pm
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ch3ru wrote: | It's because LN sites just list the title under a genre plus a few tags but no summary, so the absurdly long and detailed titles *are* the summary.
I still think it's dumb that once they get officially adapted they don't give them a 'proper' title though. |
On Shousetsuka ni Narou, you can see the tags and summary on the detailed ranking pages and search results, and of course the info page for the individual story; they just aren't shown in the abbreviated rankings on the main page, the summary pages of the rankings section, etc. I don't know how Kakuyomu does things.
Of course, by the time you're getting officially published, you've got brand recognition to maintain.
Minos_Kurumada wrote: | Well, there is no nice way to sugar coat it:
"My childhood friend was actually a girl" it's an extremely normal trope in hentai.
It's not that normal in "mainstream" manga, there it's more common to make fun of it like Komi-san: Najimi is the perfect childhood friend, as such their gender is unknown, that way she can be a she for guys and a he for girls.
Series like Tomo makes fun of the trope while trying to deconstruct it.
A series like this its not coping Tomo, just using a common trope not that common in mainstream manga. |
Well, in mainstream manga, it goes back at least to Ukyo Kuonji in Ranma ½. Which was, y'know, fairly influential as romance manga go.
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AVGN88
Joined: 22 Apr 2023
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:59 am
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Can’t wait for this one. The manga is great! Hope this will speed up the releases of the manga.
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pikabot
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:51 am
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I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is a stock anime/manga/LN trope, albeit not a super common one, but the only time it has ever happened in real life is when the girl is trans.
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ChirashiD
Joined: 11 Oct 2006
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:58 am
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pikabot wrote: | I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is a stock anime/manga/LN trope, albeit not a super common one, but the only time it has ever happened in real life is when the girl is trans. |
That's because in romcom manga/LNs the genderbending character is often not the protagonist, so we see interactions from a more external viewpoint. I've seen variations on this trope, like the girlfriend character actually was a boy when they were children. Whatever the setup, many authors base their story on experiences of the protagonist.
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