NotaNuffian
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Perhaps because it is only in CN and the fact that I am affected by the below video to finally draw comparison that I decided to ask the people here.
As the title state, I am looking for the most common setting for a young male teenager no older than 16 yo and is in a Young Adult fiction aka Wish Fulfilment
For example, commonly in CN, if the setting is old China ie anything before late 20th century, the setting is Main Character either be in a cultivation sect as a disciple-in-name/ errand boy, a simple poor hunter, or a poor peasant about to lose his roof whose trying to get into a triad or saving up to 30 silver taels to get into a dojo for a three month trial.
And going to modern China, it becomes the same as everyone else.
In ye olde Japan Novel sphere, MC is always a modern student, who got isekaied. Then shenanigans. I kind of think that this setting is good, because more in line with audience. Then with their attempt to emulate JRPGs, MCs are often young sellswords that adventure and commit mass extinction to animals.
English fantasy setting is often like Supreme Magus; going to school/ academy with maybe hints of parttime as a sellsword. Or being a young noble who just recently orphaned and is now on a power struggle.
Korean novels... they give mixed vibes really because of murim which is an exact copy to China's thing whereas their dungeon exploration in modern-ish time is also abit taking JRPGs but now giving them an excuse to put into 21st setting.
Is this all of the setting for a young male teenager rising to power? Please let me know. I know I cited a lot more for CN because that is what I mostly read nowadays.
Which isn't good but it is hard to find a zero to hero thing really.
As the title state, I am looking for the most common setting for a young male teenager no older than 16 yo and is in a Young Adult fiction aka Wish Fulfilment
For example, commonly in CN, if the setting is old China ie anything before late 20th century, the setting is Main Character either be in a cultivation sect as a disciple-in-name/ errand boy, a simple poor hunter, or a poor peasant about to lose his roof whose trying to get into a triad or saving up to 30 silver taels to get into a dojo for a three month trial.
And going to modern China, it becomes the same as everyone else.
In ye olde Japan Novel sphere, MC is always a modern student, who got isekaied. Then shenanigans. I kind of think that this setting is good, because more in line with audience. Then with their attempt to emulate JRPGs, MCs are often young sellswords that adventure and commit mass extinction to animals.
English fantasy setting is often like Supreme Magus; going to school/ academy with maybe hints of parttime as a sellsword. Or being a young noble who just recently orphaned and is now on a power struggle.
Korean novels... they give mixed vibes really because of murim which is an exact copy to China's thing whereas their dungeon exploration in modern-ish time is also abit taking JRPGs but now giving them an excuse to put into 21st setting.
Is this all of the setting for a young male teenager rising to power? Please let me know. I know I cited a lot more for CN because that is what I mostly read nowadays.
Which isn't good but it is hard to find a zero to hero thing really.
