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This article seems to præsent it as though it be news that there is a female commercial market, which is odd to say the least. “otome” as a genre by the way is
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
This article seems to præsent it as though it be news that there is a female commercial market, which is odd to say the least.
“otome” as a genre by the way is little more than living out a phantasy of being highly sexually desirable. It's part of the bizarrely popular “harem” genre in Japan, which comprises fiction and video games whose entire plot can be surmised as “The entire cast of attractive characters all fall in love with the protagonist and seem to exist for no other reason than to fall in love with the protagonist.”. — there seems to be a somewhat larger male than female market for this, but the female market is still quite large, and it's as much trash as my description would suggest. — it is really nothing more than plotless wish fulfillment.
The drawing in the article of the many is very indicative of the otome harem, indeed.
In any case, this article speaks as though they hit some kind of untapped hole in the market, but it's a drop in the bucket.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> præsent > auctor [from another comment of yours] Where did you learn this style? What effect are you going for here? Are you from a non-English speaking country? An especially fussy part of Britain? Your English looks flawless, except that you seem to wish you could replace some English words with related Latin words.
- sofixa 6y agoYou missed > phantasy As well. I'm also really curious about the writing style and choices.
- tremon 6y agoThe username is Dutch and means "ostentatious" (more or less). I wouldn't think too deeply about it.
- wccrawford 6y agoMaybe they're a chuunibyou. ... Or pretending to be one? It's that too meta?
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI object to the spelling of “author” because it's a historical contamination derived from confusion with “authentic”. The speling of “auctor” was more common till the 1800s and is still favored in certain arts circles for the aforementioned reason. Similarly, you will find me favor the spelling of “lim” over “limb” or “hole” over “whole”. I actually object less to “author”, than I do to “limb”, as many actually pronounce it as it is spelled, but with “limb” it is introducing a silent letter without any etymological justification, simply because other similar words such as “lamb” are spelled as such with etymological justification, as the “b” was once pronounced there.