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Not exactly the main focus, but... I Shall Survive Using Potions has a pretty interesting relationship between the MC and her horse, although the horse only comes into the picture after the 1st major conflict in the series.

I've just noticed recently, there's a crazy amount of regressor stories starting to come out recently. That is to say, stories where the protagonist goes back in time in order to "do things better." However, almost all of them are based around one of two themes. They're all either dealing with a...

I'm gonna have to say Worm. The cathartic effect of all the freaking crap that happens in that story has a strangely refreshing and enlightening effect. For those who don't know, catharsis is the release of emotion (typically negative). In the case of books with a cathartic effect, it would be...

I approve, greatly. In my case, my MC is trained in ninjutsu, so her art is not for showing off. She would never participate in a tournament arc... I HAVE debated the merits of potentially having her watch someone else engaged in a tournament though. Speaking as someone rather well known for...

Are crimes against physics on the table? I'd like to rip open a hole in space-time so I can time travel. (And then use my future knowledge to commit epic stock fraud with what would technically count as "insider trading" on every stock company out there.)

You know what would have been even better? If there were 2 words hidden in the image, each visible from looking at it from a different angle.

If you can't see it through squinting, try looking at it from the left side of the screen at a 45 degree angle. (Essentially, at an angle where the cat that's farthest away in the image would become "closer" to you and all the cats would "line up.")

I will accept your description of the prison there as plausible only because you kept adding the word "dystopian." In any reasonable world, that wouldn't be the direction things take, as the current trend of society is toward rehabilitation rather than incarceration. That said, if we're looking...

I think most every series that features mass transmigration has quite the number of Isekaied side-characters. If an entire class of 30 people gets transmigrated, you can't exactly have all 30 of them be main-cast characters. Happens with multi-reincarnator worlds like Reincarnated as a Slime as...

Yeah, I already saw this on Youtube as well. Trying to think of more examples of that "Life Unraveling" conflict type than just the likes of "Worm" or the examples given here, but too many of the potential examples I think about often wind up just being the "refusal of the call" or "darkest...

Bahamut and Tiamat are considered dragons NOW! In fact, they're pretty much the 2 most famous dragons in the world. I'm just pointing out that they weren't actually called dragons in either of their original lores. They were closer to cosmic horrors a-la Cuthulu in terms of scale, with no...

Exactly this! When I look back at older Anime, if I were to look up the year the good ones on my list were produced, I find that there is a year or 3 gap between them. Then, when I look at more modern anime, I find that there are 2 or 3 really good ones PER SEASON!!! That's around 12 good ones...

So, the constraining points are that 1. It has to be old, and 2. It has to not already be adapted to anime... Well, within those criteria, I'd say the one good candidate I can come up with is Futaba-kun Change. It's like Ranma 1/2 with back-and-forth gender transformations, except it dives...

That's a good thing, and would actually explain what I said about the seeming overall INCREASE in quality. You have to take risks in order to produce some of the best stuff. Yes, it produces some duds, but when you take risks the highs get higher and the lows get lower. An example of this...

It sounds to me like you might be experiencing a time-filter problem. It's true there's a particular problem with Western media right now, but it's more related to an activist ideology and people getting preachy and shoving unwanted political opinions down the viewer's throat, and activism...

Well... I would like to say that people who give huge lead-ups like this to present an idea they keep trying to sell as good tend to actually be horrible ideas, but... this is literally what Wildbow did in his Worm series. AKA, the 2011 series that is STILL in the top 3 web-fictions listings...

Because I get onry and contrary with polls like these, I'm going to answer 4, the lower-left corner.

Might very well take more than that if the issues you're dealing with are as severe as your OP implied. I'd say you shouldn't define a number of chapters, you should wait until you have a very clear idea in your head as to how you'd address all the issues you mentioned, as well as any other...

Simple. Practice. To get that practice though, it means delaying your Novella until you actually get that practice. Based on the description of the problem you gave here, I highly doubt anyone can advise you well enough to fix all the problems you're talking about. You're the only person who...

Exactly this. The "dropped" statistic refers to people who created a custom reading list with the "dropped" category as it's header, and then added your story to that list. People who just remove your story from their reading list don't register as "dropped."