I Got Reincarnated as a Minor Character and I Won’t Give Up on TS is the best webnovel ever written. incredibly transgender protagonist, not in the usual "whaaa I got turned into a girl?!" way but "what the fuck I didn't get turned into a girl????" way. and then she gets chuuni and wears gothic lolita clothing and wields a demon scythe that shoots lasers and is also a girl who she does yuri with and she acts all mysterious because she thinks its cool and has star theming. its awesome. she's awesome.
you will love her. also she's a rabid himejoshi did i mention that. she loves yuri. and she also believes in TS yuri.
whenever she faces a social interaction she can't handle she starts acting mysterious and saying stuff that sounds like it has implications so the other party comes up with something on their own and reveals what they think she's talking about. instead of just admitting she doesn't know something. because it would make her seem less mysterious and that's not cool
she asks her scythe to act like she's deeply obsessed with her in a messy codependent master/weapon yuri situationship whenever her scythe takes on human form because she is a massive himejoshi. there are times her friends are in danger of actually dying and chooses not to intervene until the very last possible second because yuri could happen between them when they're pushed to their limits and giving their all
there are MULTIPLE TIMES she monologues to nobody in particular because she's somewhere she thinks it would be cool to monologue alone, only to have someone walk in on her and take her completely seriously. and then from there she has to act like she knew they were there all along because she would be less mysterious if she didn't act like she knew that.
she occasionally references "the organization" that's backing her. it doesn't exist. she's not even bluffing to make herself sound stronger. she does it because she thinks mysterious organizations are cool and it'll make people think she's mysterious and working in the shadows
her name is narou kei
this is like naming your MC “Mary Sue” or “Fan Fiction”
there’s one time she defeats an opponent by driving them insane with illusions, all while sitting down and watching from a position of utter control. she does this because her scythe took on human form and bit and whispered in her ears to tease her and it made her so horny her legs gave out for multiple minutes and she couldn’t stand
her biggest fear is being outed as a man or “crossdresser.” there are multiple times she accepts a risk of death simply to not be outed.
she’s a plural dysphoria-riddled chuuni lesbian tgirl who wields a scythe and the power of the stars and she will do anything she can to protect beautiful girls
you WILL love her. you must.
also she has homoerotic relationships with numerous women and tries to keep the role of a cool and collected beauty who sometimes touches girls to accentuate her statements only to collapse and get caught off guard once one of them gets too forward and flirty because she doesn't know how to handle such direct affection and yet can't bring herself to run because she doesn't want to disappoint another beautiful girl.
another girl nearly violates her by threatening to kill herself if kei resists her touch, and the only reason she doesn't is because they got caught before she could go too far.
kei attempts to comfort this girl after the magnitude of what she nearly did sets in and unintentionally makes her think that kei was seducing her this entire time just so she could have her burden lifted for a moment by being pushed down and not having to take the initiative. which leads the other girl to resolve that she'll go down this path and indulge kei in her desires, no matter how twisted they may be. kei doesn't realize any of this.
hey. they’re REALLY COOL catch phrases.
I Got Reincarnated as a Minor Character (♂) and I Won't Give Up on TS
^ actual good translation for those who desire it. the one on Shanghai Fantasy is MTL that goes from reading like it got edited for five minutes to reading like it was copy pasted directly into the website.
another thing to note about it is that all the character's have very significant names. obvious examples are Narou Kei, being shorthand for a super powerful webnovel protagonist and Mizuhi, able to be read as water + fire, like her guns. Kuramu has three different meanings, all of which apply to her.
1. to be dazzled/disoriented by
2. to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)
3. to become dark
she's the first to be dazzled by sorceria's light, after which she becomes obsessed. even later she becomes consumed by her lust and attempts to assault kei, and after being comforted she believes kei wishes for this, vowing to embrace her dark desires, no matter how twisted they may get.
THAT'S RIGHT. everyone go to sorcerialand right now.
