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"Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian" Was Originally Envisioned As An Isekai Story (animehunch.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interesting bits of an interview with the series author. So, instead of Russian, it was meant to be that the female main character was isekai'ed. From the article:

In this version, the reincarnated heroine would speak Japanese to the protagonist, feeling confident that he couldn’t understand her.

The twist would be that the protagonist was also a reincarnated person who could understand Japanese perfectly. This humorous misunderstanding was meant to form the core of a short story.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This pretty much sums up how I feel about world building when I work on my D&D campaigns...

However, the isekai genre’s need for extensive world-building and background explanation led SUN to simplify the story, setting it in the real world instead.

When improvising in a session, it was often just way easier to say something is the fantasy version of [real thing] rather than come up with something whole cloth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Some people think a whole genre is just the paper you write any story on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's weird but cool.

I feel like the change was sensible. Worldbuilding is great as long as it does some purpose in the story; in this case however I feel like it wouldn't, it would simply get in the way. And without the worldbuilding it wouldn't be worth the trouble to make it isekai.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

That would've been cool. I'm glad it wasn't because alya how it is, is amazing. But I'd definitely love to see someone do just that