Saintess tag?
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I have never seen the term "saintess" before this thread.
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"Saintess" doesn't really inform the structure or content of the story all that much, prevalence notwithstanding
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+1 i knew the group you were going for the minute I saw the title.
I feel sorry for them. They usually get dragged into another world that they don't want to be in unlike most of the hero types who are gamers. Then they're told their task is to help dispel various manners of evil. Some are mistreated because they were brought over with another who claims to be the saint so the real saint is slighted. Most seem to be able to cook so that's a plus. Yet to see an ugly one and they usually seem smarter then the hero types.
I feel sorry for them. They usually get dragged into another world that they don't want to be in unlike most of the hero types who are gamers. Then they're told their task is to help dispel various manners of evil. Some are mistreated because they were brought over with another who claims to be the saint so the real saint is slighted. Most seem to be able to cook so that's a plus. Yet to see an ugly one and they usually seem smarter then the hero types.
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Personally I think an even more broad form of the tag should exist (which even could have further justification for its existence). If there was a general word for these shoujo/Isekai/webtoon/drama stories I think that would better encapsulate the real sort of tag that is needed?
You can search by shoujo+Isekai but not all of these stories are actually Isekai and there are a lotttt of stories I would still catagorize as "written for men/general audiences" under the shoujo tag. They're all technically shoujo as well, but I think when people look for a shoujo story they're looking for something fluffy/romantic. Say, something you'd expect out of a shoujo magazine, like you'd expect something action oriented with crude humor from like shonen jump under the shonen tag.
The villainess genre is something I would say has spurned out of a larger new-age shoujo, which I think is of a different genre then standard Japanese flower-coated shoujo manga that a lot of us has grown up with. A saintess tag would be nice but I think a lot of these webtoons and manga could be better united under a tag between shoujo and josei? Unpopular opinion though, probably.
You can search by shoujo+Isekai but not all of these stories are actually Isekai and there are a lotttt of stories I would still catagorize as "written for men/general audiences" under the shoujo tag. They're all technically shoujo as well, but I think when people look for a shoujo story they're looking for something fluffy/romantic. Say, something you'd expect out of a shoujo magazine, like you'd expect something action oriented with crude humor from like shonen jump under the shonen tag.
The villainess genre is something I would say has spurned out of a larger new-age shoujo, which I think is of a different genre then standard Japanese flower-coated shoujo manga that a lot of us has grown up with. A saintess tag would be nice but I think a lot of these webtoons and manga could be better united under a tag between shoujo and josei? Unpopular opinion though, probably.
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@justforthelulz out of all those horrible puns you've made and i ignore this past week, i like this one the most.
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I propose that the blanket tag be named "New-age Shoujo".
