Mitame Jirai-kei Osananajimi no Ren'ai Story - Ch. 12

[AdmiralSilver]

There is an MD page for the TWINTALE series.

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[AdmiralSilver]

you know, the craziest part is that on top of being in the like, 5th story: the author still wants at least 3 more gap stories. Twintale Cinematic Universe, lets go

It really is a whole different feeling when you think you're at the start of something but then realise you've barely scratched the surface of the rabbit hole

 

[home7]

It's quite common for the mc self insert to be called 主人公(protagonist) in these types of situations, despite the main moving force being the girl instead. I think it makes sense if you're willing to self insert, but some readers might only take a third person view of it, so it's a bit awkward if it's like that.

If you've listened to any Japanese ASMR you'd know that the girls always refer to you by skirting around the fact that you're a nameless self insert through pronouns, titles, or just adding -kun to whoever you are in relation to them, such as (幼馴染くん)childhood friend-kun

Nothing to do with the main moving force, the story is focused upon the girl. The protagonist is the main character around which the plot follows. If the male lead is the main focus of the bulk of the works it would make sense but otherwise it's like making a show called Kamen Rider where all the scenes focus on Goro. At best it's a grandfathered in bad translation from decades back.

 

[OmegaTemp]

Nothing to do with the main moving force, the story is focused upon the girl. The protagonist is the main character around which the plot follows. If the male lead is the main focus of the bulk of the works it would make sense but otherwise it's like making a show called Kamen Rider where all the scenes focus on Goro. At best it's a grandfathered in bad translation from decades back.

What would you suggest 主人公 be then? I personally don't find any issues with the author using that term because I think it works as a placeholder for a no-name male self insert. Maybe 'protagonist' isn't exactly correct, but the idea is that he's just a blank template for people who want to be the 'main character' of the love story, not that they are the protagonist of what the author is specifically focusing on.

If the author really wanted to make the mc his own character, he would've definitely given him a name.

Or maybe he was just really lazy, who knows

 

[tantei_metal]

holy shit, i hope the other doujins get translated

 

[rarstyak]

Twintale, Twintale revolution, Twintale zero, twintale negative one

I'm going to comeback in a few years and see that this has become a multi branching multi series series

 

[home7]

What would you suggest 主人公 be then? I personally don't find any issues with the author using that term because I think it works as a placeholder for a no-name male self insert. Maybe 'protagonist' isn't exactly correct, but the idea is that he's just a blank template for people who want to be the 'main character' of the love story, not that they are the protagonist of what the author is specifically focusing on.

If the author really wanted to make the mc his own character, he would've definitely given him a name.

Or maybe he was just really lazy, who knows

It's probably just an issue of OLD English/Japanese translations since the protagonist is intended to be the focus. Like I said before, if he took a more prominent position in the collective works, like in Mitame wa Jirai-kei no Sewayaki Joshikousei, calling him the protagonist would be fine. Hero would even be preferable to protagonist for the male lead as it stands, having only reading this and not the other connected works. Also since she's the one struggling Heroine better applies to her in this work.

To be fair blank slating is lazy as a matter of course.

Reviewing the meaning I have to concede that he can still be the protagonist as it fits the Antigone example presented here where the character with the most screen time is not necessarily the protagonist and the example is pretty good. https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/protagonist

 

[Bigvoii]

aint no way bro made an entire mangaverse