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From critical commentary, this is even more true of Solo Leveling - the original series, especially the later books, "sell" South Korean culture and the hero is uniquely Korean. The anime, however, tries to downplay that (to the ire of many critics, at least, but fans seem to prefer it as it...

To quote the late Robert Jordan: There are beginnings, and endings, but they are not absolute. Some are obvious, planned, some are not what we expected, and some are open ended. And some are so far off as to be non-existent...

Though different characters may take turns in the lead, most stories have one, single main character, at least for one "book" if a larger work (as an example, my own "Between Worlds" - no longer here, sadly, but on Pocket FM as Between Earth and Pyrroth, had a main cast of six (temporarily...

The irony is that the distinct "Japanimation" art style made popular in anime began as an attempt to copy the style of Walt Disney Studios (because Occidental eyes seemed ridiculously large to most Japanese artists, the characters they drew exaggerated that trait, becoming one of the core...

Depends on how long the story is and how you plan to present the mystery. The author has denied that either one is really a mystery, but Sharyn McCrumb won a well-deserved Edgar for Bimbos of the Death Sun - which takes about ten chapters to get to the mystery, and spends more time exploring...

Wait - Crossdressing boxers? Sorry, but I find that concept weirdly hilarious. assuming it means they actually box in clothing of the other gender (and men and women are allowed to box - as long as they fit the right weight classes). Now, cross-dressing WRESTLERS would be a bit more disturbing...

Conceptually I love dark fantasy. In practice, it tends to more annoy me when it goes into long form (horror can sometimes as well - love both more in short form fiction than long). As a writer, I have trouble maintaining the darkness without getting TOO dark. As a reader, I often find either...

There's a series of books, the Talen Cycle, that began as Manga (My Vampire System) but the novel forms began with, IIRC, Level Up Zombie, then My Werewolf System (and the actual genesis of the series is supposedly the last "leg" written, which I think ended about a year ago, My Dragon System)...

I got into superheroes because they combined fantasy and science fiction - Superman, The Spectre, Thor, Spider-Man etc. Years later, I also found out they incorporated (even created to some degree) mythology, my other fascination.

Eh - my most successful story here has a bland title and synopsis (Strange Awakening) - a title used for at least one non-fiction and three other fiction projects per the google search I did last year, after the fact. Ironically, a search on character names turned up a woman with a similar job...

I've written two stories with Systems. One, The Kaiju System, just has M78 (the System) talking to the MC (and later some of his allies). The other, originally Digital Cowboy here, used < and > to denote messages from the Virtual Interface Command Console (VICC) , which shifted to [brackets]...

Earliest memories are fragments of dad reading Lord of the Rings to mom (he started with The Hobbit during month seven or so; I was a bit premature so he was almost finished with it when I arrived, and he finished reading it sometime between my second and third birthdays. closer to my third)...

If your story deals at all with the real world, unless you manage to keep it to some isolated island or some other highly insular place, you will have something that will at least be seen by some as some ism at some point.

Oh, if anyone is worried about being a panth... er pantser - the television series Orphan Black was about as close to pure pantsing as you can get with scripted television (probably much closer than some of the allegedly UNscripted "reality" shows ... the lead had to come up with one of the...

There really isn't any one thing I look for, unless maybe it's "something familiar but different - not the same as everything else I've read"

Start? Yes. Write for a while? Definitely. Finish? Probably not unless I got paid for it.

Probably with printouts of my other stories.

It sounds like you're following John Norman's lead with the Gor novels. I know one person who read (and loved - but also warned others away from!) the entire series - and about eight who only made it through three or four books, ditching when Tarl Cabot started showing signs of "breaking bad."...

Woke Up Better Than An Average Elf But Want A Nap.

Main? What main? I have Strange Awakening (stalled), the Jack Diamond series (stalled), and True Blue (stalled) here (the latter two also on Royal Road - pretty sure their censors would axe Strange Awakening pretty quickly). On Pocket FM I have Between Earth and Pyrroth and Digital Cowboy Dane...