Obscure troupe I can’t get enough of.

[CarburetorThompson]

Something I love to read in stories is when the main focus of the plot, and everything revolves around a character who is already dead at the start of the story. This happens in my favorite JP light novel series The Insipid Prince, and I recently read a murim manwha that was similar in that way.

It’s not something I’ve seen a lot off, so it’s hard to think of examples. Some things like Robert Baratheon in A Game of Thrones, sort of fits the bill, but isn’t exactly what I’m thinking of.

This isn’t a recommendations thread, just a rant about something I love to read, but if you do know any stories like that let me know.

 

[Cipiteca396]

So like a murder mystery? (Maybe without the mystery.)

 

[CarburetorThompson]

So like a murder mystery? (Maybe without the mystery.)

I guess it’s technically true for a murder mystery book, but I’m thinking more of a bigger scale over arching plot, where the dead person drives the character development for several different people over a longer course of time.

 

[Empress_Omnii]

Something like Summer Time Rendering?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I keep starting but have yet to finish a physical novel by J. K. Rowling called "Casual Vacancy" - it is about how the death of a character impacts a community (primarily in the people trying to claim the dead person's city council seat). Basically a complicated Slice of Life thing.

 

[Rookieqw]

Something I love to read in stories is when the main focus of the plot, and everything revolves around a character who is already dead at the start of the story. This happens in my favorite JP light novel series The Insipid Prince, and I recently read a murim manwha that was similar in that way.

It’s not something I’ve seen a lot off, so it’s hard to think of examples. Some things like Robert Baratheon in A Game of Thrones, sort of fits the bill, but isn’t exactly what I’m thinking of.

This isn’t a recommendations thread, just a rant about something I love to read, but if you do know any stories like that let me know.

You mean like in Afro Samurai? The main bad guy named Justice had killed the MC's father and took a magic item away from him. The MC trains, ignoring his father's advice about not pursuing vengeance. The MC causes the death of his teacher and friends, goes around the world, killing people, getting stronger, while the shadow organization is working on creating an uber soldier to defeat the bad guy and take away the magic item, the entire world is taking about the bad guy...

The bad guy is dead by the time MC reaches him. He had died long ago. He had died long ago. Literally anyone could have taken the magic item, but everyone was too afraid to enter the lair. In anime, the MC imagines a fight, so this is a bit unclear; in the manga and novel, it is shown a lot more clearly, as the imaginary fight is the MC coping with the fact that all that he did and all the cruelty was for nothing and that he had wasted his life, essentially keeping the legend about the bad guy alive.

 

[Puji-Maki]

Freiren: Beyond Journey's End doesn't exactly fit what you're looking for but I'm going to recommend it anyway because the anime and manga are both amazing.

 

[Leti]

So like a murder mystery? (Maybe without the mystery.)

That's just murder. Who doesn't like murder?

 

[miyoga]

That's just murder. Who doesn't like murder?

Lawful Good paladin/cleric types. That's who.

 

[cabbag3]

That's just murder. Who doesn't like murder?

*moves slowly away from Leti*


Anyway, aside from Freiren, for the recent animes I know, the detective is already dead would fit this trope

Spoiler

but that's a lie. lol. They return in Vol 4 or 5 I think

I think this trope can go in diff ways, like 1 where we see how the character's death affect the remaining cast and the story, and 2 like the Afro Samurai example where the McGuffin is revealed to be dead.
I like the 2nd type more cause it reminds me of The Alchemist, can't help but take a deep breath and smh in the end.
It's probably the first actual book I read when I was younger, so there's my bias on that lol.

 

[TroubleFait]

Obscure troupe I can’t get enough of.

Do they make good music?

 

[Tsuru]

Something I love to read in stories is when the main focus of the plot, and everything revolves around a character who is already dead at the start of the story. This happens in my favorite JP light novel series The Insipid Prince, and I recently read a murim manwha that was similar in that way.

It’s not something I’ve seen a lot off, so it’s hard to think of examples. Some things like Robert Baratheon in A Game of Thrones, sort of fits the bill, but isn’t exactly what I’m thinking of.

This isn’t a recommendations thread, just a rant about something I love to read, but if you do know any stories like that let me know.

I .............................. think.....................that i once read this kind of story once.

hm....Sorry cant remember. But basically, MC is dead and after the funeral, everyone live on but at same time, they keep remembering stuff
and/or lover remember the good moments.

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............................................................................................................Now i think about it.
I got this very old early book (ToAruMajutsu era, when mangastuff wasnt mainstream yet but giga niche and translation of JPstuff was rare but good quality)

Read : [Iris in rainy days]

................One very very early favorite of mine. The kind that rival Clannad and Little Busters. Warning tearjerking.
Spoiler : FMC is a little girl. She is a android working for [professor] (female). Tall + glasses + long blackhair + scientist coat, meanwhile FMC being smaller and like a imouto to her. There isnt romance and is purely platonic btw (also yuri wasnt a BIG THING at that time). And the beginning is about "the death" of [professor]. She died in laboratory, as an experimental robot killed her.
PS : Its a LN. Meaning it got illustrations.

(Pre-story)

(Pre-story)

Professor is dead. Nor will she get "revived" nor will she become a robot or anything. Dead.
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The LN series isnt even that long and the "pages" can be found on internet.

Iris on Rainy Days

Iris on Rainy Days - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

But if people dont want to read it entirely, here is the ending.

SPOILER.
LAST CHAPTER.

Spoiler

 

[RepresentingDesire]

Protagonist that have to life differently.
The difference of course just shouldn’t be I have to drink animal blood, something more extreme like paralyzed body parts, lack of senses or certain type of mental illness.

Protagonist that is alienated by society.

Both troupes are fascinating to me and come mostly together.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

I think two similar concepts from western novels come to mind - 13 Reasons Why and Lovely Bones. One has a movie, one has a TV Show, but out of spite, I've never watched either and recommend the books xD
Anyway, they are murder mysteries and Lovely Bones ist mostly from the perspective of child that was raped and murdered, but can't quite move on, as she continues watching her family cope with the loss.
The other is about a teenage girl committing suicide, setting in motion that a series of 7 cassettes, with 13 sites to listen to, is handed to all the 13 people with a story on one of those tapes. Protagonist, as one of them, listens to the 13 reasons behind her suicide.

 

[Veschool]

There’s a Light Novel called “Tribulation of Myriad Races,” where the death of a legend from years ago drives the background plot.

 

[Arch9CivilReactor]

Reminds me of a blue-haired girl in a manga that got an anime adaption. I forgot the name but the girl died in the beginning of the story and the anime changed it to her being alive. The first scene had to do with a phone breaking.

 

[PancakesWitch]

What kind of trope is that?? First time I hear about it

 

[WinterTimeCrime]

Ah, I also like Torture Princess. I don't know if it's the same premise, though.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Evil side of the protagonist. Like in Winx they had the main character turn evil for a while, or in My life as a teenage robot there was this episode where main character turns evil Jekkyl & Hyde style