So, yeah, "MobuSeka" is a thing. Full title: "The World of Otome Games Is Hard For Mobs".
A 'mob' is, of course, the unnamed side characters who aren't important to the plot. 'Otome games' for the few of you who haven't heard are female-player-oriented dating sims.
Fan translations of the five extant LNs were available but have been taken down as the series has been licensed for US release. Fanslations of the manga are still around at the usual places.
The main character is only known by his post-isekai name, "Leon Fou Bartford". ('Fou' being a noble prefix that indicates a border-marches noble who primarily fulfills their feudal duty via military service). Just prior to his first death, Leon - then an average Japanese salaryman - had been blackmailed by his sister into playing through this particular otome game. Not surprisingly, when he wakes up he's in the said game world. As the third son of a minor baron, his prospects are poor and he spends more time working the land than doing noble-type stuff. Then, when he's turning 15 and getting ready to apply to the Noble Academy where all the in-game action happens, Baroness Bartford returns from her opulent life in the capital to announce that she's arranged a betrothal for him with the daughter of a friend of hers along with enlistment in the military, so he won't be going to the academy - she'd have to give up some of her fun to pay for it, after all, and we can't have that.
(Said daughter is 50+, fat, and ugly, and has already had seven husbands who were pushed into the military and died "heroic" deaths. This is not a good omen for poor Leon.)
Leon can see just how bad an idea this is, so he begs a gun, some supplies, and a small airship from his father and decides to earn the money for the Academy himself, in the time-honored tradition of nobles of the kingdom: Adventuring!
He succeeds (in spades) thanks to remembering where a certain secret item was in the game, breaks ties with Bitchy McStepMom, and upon applying to the Academy discovers that the Crown has decided to reward his success by making him a Baron in his own right.
And then he finally arrives at the Academy, and the real action begins... as someone else has usurped the game's protagonist's relationship with the Prince and his retinue. Uh-oh....
There are two decent fanfics of the series already.
"99 Problems" over on SpaceBattles features three fanfic authors inserted into Leon's place as triplet brothers, and
"Care and Feeding of Neglected Otomes" on Questionable Questing, by our very own Drakensis, with a CYOA take on an AU side-story of the original.
A 'mob' is, of course, the unnamed side characters who aren't important to the plot. 'Otome games' for the few of you who haven't heard are female-player-oriented dating sims.
Fan translations of the five extant LNs were available but have been taken down as the series has been licensed for US release. Fanslations of the manga are still around at the usual places.
The main character is only known by his post-isekai name, "Leon Fou Bartford". ('Fou' being a noble prefix that indicates a border-marches noble who primarily fulfills their feudal duty via military service). Just prior to his first death, Leon - then an average Japanese salaryman - had been blackmailed by his sister into playing through this particular otome game. Not surprisingly, when he wakes up he's in the said game world. As the third son of a minor baron, his prospects are poor and he spends more time working the land than doing noble-type stuff. Then, when he's turning 15 and getting ready to apply to the Noble Academy where all the in-game action happens, Baroness Bartford returns from her opulent life in the capital to announce that she's arranged a betrothal for him with the daughter of a friend of hers along with enlistment in the military, so he won't be going to the academy - she'd have to give up some of her fun to pay for it, after all, and we can't have that.
(Said daughter is 50+, fat, and ugly, and has already had seven husbands who were pushed into the military and died "heroic" deaths. This is not a good omen for poor Leon.)
Leon can see just how bad an idea this is, so he begs a gun, some supplies, and a small airship from his father and decides to earn the money for the Academy himself, in the time-honored tradition of nobles of the kingdom: Adventuring!
He succeeds (in spades) thanks to remembering where a certain secret item was in the game, breaks ties with Bitchy McStepMom, and upon applying to the Academy discovers that the Crown has decided to reward his success by making him a Baron in his own right.
And then he finally arrives at the Academy, and the real action begins... as someone else has usurped the game's protagonist's relationship with the Prince and his retinue. Uh-oh....
There are two decent fanfics of the series already.
"99 Problems" over on SpaceBattles features three fanfic authors inserted into Leon's place as triplet brothers, and
"Care and Feeding of Neglected Otomes" on Questionable Questing, by our very own Drakensis, with a CYOA take on an AU side-story of the original.