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[DC] No Matter What Happens, I Still Won't Become An Anime Character
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Author: u/PeridexisErrant put aside fear for courage, and death for life*
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Score: 21
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Created: 2014-12-01T07:29:50
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u/FeepingCreature [+7] GCV Literally The Entire Culture (8 hours later)
"Somewhere, a scientist is --"
After Homeroom, the morning session is Science; which consists of a physicist standing in front of the blackboard and crying.
"Ah, there he is now."
God I love this.
u/bbrazil [+2] NERV (18 hours later)
Wait until you get to the literature.
u/None [+12] (20 minutes later)
Eeeheheheehehe!!!
(The title almost sounds like a Watamote allusion.)
And you know the really terrible part? If you manage to avoid all possible plot hooks, you end up a Slice-of-Life protagonist.
u/PeridexisErrant [+8] put aside fear for courage, and death for life (3 hours later)
But wait! It gets worse - this appears to be a response to our all-time top post... "Nope! The Anime".
The
protagonistindividual in question is not just doomed to ironic failure, but has failed many times before we even begin!
u/None [+6] (4 hours later)
For her best chances to avoid ever winding up an MC, she should really just move out of Japan. While there are anime plots that take place outside Japan, they're far fewer in number: she'll have an easier time avoiding them.
u/bbrazil [+23] NERV (8 hours later)
You're seriously suggesting that she becomes a foreign transfer student?
u/None [+6] (8 hours later)
Shit.
u/Kuratius [+4] (a day later)
If she could learn the foreign language so well that she is able to fake being a native, she might be able to avoid that fate. In general, there are definitely ways to make your story so boring that the entire thing turns into a timeskip.
u/TimTravel [+1] (a day later)
That's very difficult to do in practice.
u/scruiser [+4] CYOA (7 hours later)
Just read introduction. Wouldn't the best strategy be to select a favorable genre as opposed to avoiding any genre? Action-Harem anime would guarantee multiple strong allies, at the expense normal relationships. You could go for magical realism and benefit from having an ordinary life except for random magic events. Just avoiding it seems like a bad plan.
Of course knowing sufficient velocity, I'll bet they tried something like I described... I'll read it later if I have time.
u/Rouninscholar [+3] (2 days later)
I think that trying to get close to a plot and not falling in would work best. The world demands an anime, be just close enough to cause one then step away
u/None [+3] (8 hours later)
Rather than fleeing plots, she should try to solve them in ways that circumvent the story.
u/Escapement [+2] Ankh-Morpork City Watch (9 hours later)
The whole thing is great, but the literature teacher and the bucket are probably the best bits so far.
u/historymaking101 [+1] (11 hours later)
I'm likin' it. I kind of want a real-life anime made from it :)
u/None [+1] (18 hours later)
I quite wish it were available in a linear format.
u/eaglejarl [+1] (3 days later)
I read a fair bit of Nope, I read a fair bit of this. In both cases I stopped because the entire point of the story was to ensure that nothing interesting ever happened.
Yet, these stories are very popular on /r/rational, and the tastes here are extremely highly correlated with my own.
I notice I am confused.
u/Anderkent [+2] (3 days later)
are you saying there's more Nope than the two panels linked in another comment here?
Anyway, I think people find the protagonist against conspiring universe theme generally interesting, and that the goal of the protagonist is to preserve normality doesn't really matter.