Of late, I've been thinking thoughts about putting Doug in worlds where his metagifts would be mostly useless in dealing with the kind of plot that might evolve therein.
Worlds like Love Hina and maybe even Sister Princess. (If you haven't seen or heard of Sister Princess, it's a very very low-key shojo series about a guy who gets shuttled off to some high school he's never heard of on an island off the coast of Japan, and discovers that he has a dozen or so half-sisters that he's never known he had waiting for him there. It's 26 hours of slow personal growth and self-discovery, and the biggest conflict is Wataru learning to deal with 12 adoring sisters and feeling guilty because he can't recompense them for all the things they do for him, as well as facing an equally low-key conspiracy that seems determined to tear him from them. This is not a show for adrenaline junkies.)
Anyway, Kodocha is technically in this category, but I was wondering what people thought of forcing Doug to take a far less martial course in some of his stops.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Worlds like Love Hina and maybe even Sister Princess. (If you haven't seen or heard of Sister Princess, it's a very very low-key shojo series about a guy who gets shuttled off to some high school he's never heard of on an island off the coast of Japan, and discovers that he has a dozen or so half-sisters that he's never known he had waiting for him there. It's 26 hours of slow personal growth and self-discovery, and the biggest conflict is Wataru learning to deal with 12 adoring sisters and feeling guilty because he can't recompense them for all the things they do for him, as well as facing an equally low-key conspiracy that seems determined to tear him from them. This is not a show for adrenaline junkies.)
Anyway, Kodocha is technically in this category, but I was wondering what people thought of forcing Doug to take a far less martial course in some of his stops.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.