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By Andrew Osmond.<\/p>\n

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Many readers of this blog will know what a dating sim is. It\u2019s a computer game where your character develops a romantic relationship with someone else, often one of multiple \u201cpossible\u201d characters.<\/p>\n

Actually, the definition\u2019s more contentious than that. That above description could apply to many Visual Novels<\/a> where relationships are important in the branching story, including epics like Fate\/stay night<\/em> and Steins;Gate<\/em>. But you\u2019ll find people claiming online that dating sims are not<\/em> Visual Novels. Rather, dating sims should be seen as a different kind of game, often focused on saying the right thing to the right person at the right time, where you\u2019re scored according to how well or badly your relationships are going.<\/p>\n

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Leaving Visual Novels aside, dating sims are a blurry continuum. Some action RPGs include dating sim elements, including the Persona<\/em> and Sakura Wars<\/em> series. But one obvious way to classify dating sims is to separate them into the ones where you\u2019re a guy, and those where you\u2019re a girl. Dating sims where a girl woos guys are called \u201cotome\u201d (maiden) games, and they range from the fantastical Alice in the Country of Hearts <\/em>to the historical Hakuoki<\/em>, which were both adapted as anime.<\/p>\n

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One of the jokes in Trapped in a Dating Sim<\/a><\/em> is that its hapless hero finds himself in an \u201cotome\u201d game and ends up making it a boy-dates-girls game instead. That\u2019s absolutely not what he intended, though; he wanted as little to do with dating sims as possible. At first he\u2019s unnamed (which is how many game characters start out until their players name them). We join him when he\u2019s playing what he thinks is a chronically horrible otome game. He\u2019s only grinding through it because he\u2019s been blackmailed by his younger sister. (What his sister has on him is a mystery, but it must be something really sordid.)<\/p>\n

So our hero hate-plays the game\u2019s intrepid girl protagonist, in a posh school full of cute guys who love her, mean girls who hate her, and endless rounds of tea parties. More incongruously, there are monster-filled dungeons, and flying motorbikes, and battles with big robots. The \u201crationale\u201d is this is a game by a studio that usually caters to male audiences, bunging in what it knows, and bother the worldbuilding. Finally, after days<\/em> of this drivel \u2013 the difficulty level is mercilessly high \u2013 the player finishes the stupid game. He gets up, walks outside\u2026 and is so exhausted that he tumbles down his apartment steps, apparently lethally.<\/p>\n

Of course, he finds himself in the game he hated so much, incoherent worldbuilding and all. You\u2019d expect he\u2019d be one of the main characters, but instead he finds that he\u2019s become a background extra, a generic nobody. In RPG terms, he\u2019s a common or garden \u201cmob<\/a>\u201d; the anime\u2019s official subtitle is \u201cThe World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs.\u201d It\u2019s only at this point that he\u2019s given a name \u2013 he\u2019s Leon Fou Bartfort, son of a minor baronet who wasn\u2019t even in the game.<\/p>\n

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Which suits Leon fine. He\u2019s delighted to stay in the margins of a story he loathed, like a Tolkien-hater hiding as the sixth nameless hobbit on the left. Fate, though, drags Leon into the plot through amusingly daft contrivances. First, he\u2019s threatened with marriage to a rapacious aristo \u2013 this is a matriarchal society. To avoid that, Leon goes on a treasure hunt and ends up finding an ancient A.I. who becomes his secret confidant \u2013 we told you the worldbuilding was random. Leon\u2019s plan is to find a low-ranking wife at the school in the game and then live quietly ever after. Only his treasure-hunting success bumps up his status to a Baron, forcing him to court the high-ranking ladies at the heart of the game\u2026<\/p>\n

As you may have gathered, this isn\u2019t a power-fantasy; it\u2019s a farce about a supposedly predictable situation spinning out of the main character\u2019s control. Things are out of whack as soon as Leon enters the academy. The \u201cprotagonist\u201d girl (Olivia) is around, but she\u2019s not the protagonist anymore; another girl seems to have stolen her script and story. For all his cynicism, Leon can\u2019t help feeling sorry for the desolate Olivia, and also for Angelica, the game\u2019s designated \u201cvillainess\u201d who\u2019s outraged at her betrothed prince dallying with a stranger. Before long, Leon\u2019s planned quiet life is forgotten as he\u2019s fighting monsters, duelling in mecha, and relishing being the school pariah, not noticing how much he\u2019s disrupting events. But as he causes characters around him to break<\/em> character and grow beyond their scripts, will he learn to grow himself?<\/p>\n

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The show is based on a light novel by Yomu Mishima (like many successful LN series, it also spawned a manga). Given the \u201creincarnation\u201d device is a staple of Japan\u2019s portal fantasies, it\u2019s no surprise that Trapped in a Dating Sim<\/em> originated on the Shosetsuka ni Naro<\/em> website<\/a>, where tons of these stories began. Some fans have complained the series feels nothing like playing <\/em>a dating sim, but that surely broadens its audience. Apart from the ludicrous anti-worldbuilding, where you go from a school to a flying island to a gleaming spaceship in moments, the main gag seems to be how a character\u2019s blunders can mess up a predictable romance story \u2013 not so different from Shrek<\/em>. Then there\u2019s the mystery of the strange girl who\u2019s stolen the part of the otome protagonist. In fan terms, she\u2019s trying to Mary Sue<\/a> a Mary Sue.<\/p>\n

Reportedly, \u201cotome game\u201d stories are trending massively in Light Novels and manga at the moment. As of writing, there\u2019s an anime serial of Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke\u2019s Mansion<\/em>, from a South Korean novel and manhwa. It\u2019s not about an otome game, but it\u2019s another story of a character (female) who reincarnates to rewrite a story from the inside, where romance mingles with murder. And then, of course, there\u2019s the anime adaptation I\u2019m in Love with the Villainess<\/em>, whose reincarnated office lady sets out to turn a \u201cstraight\u201d otome story into the yuri<\/em> romance of her dreams.<\/p>\n

Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films<\/a><\/em>. Trapped in a Dating Sim<\/a><\/em> is released in the UK by Crunchyroll.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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