CATDOLL: A light novel writing template was born in Japan, and the price of 5 yuan per thousand words satirizes the industry?

Light novels are a special category in the Japanese novel world. They are mainly read by teenagers. I don’t know when a large number of Japanese light novels with highly identical contents appeared. And with the increasing number of light novels adapted into animations in recent years, this phenomenon has also been noticed by everyone. Two light novels with different titles may have basically similar story structures. The appearance of such a large number of homogenized works also makes readers aesthetically fatigued. Many people also complain that if the homogenization of light novels is not corrected in time, there will be big problems in the future.

Recently, a Japanese netizen posted a request for template-based light novels online, and actually received three submissions. He offered a price of 270 yen for 3,000 words, which is only 90 yen (about 5 yuan) per thousand words on average. This netizen intends to use these submitted, cookie-cutter light novels to apply for the newcomer award at various light novel libraries. Although I don't know if this netizen really wants to do this, I feel that he has mocked a large number of light novels invisibly.

Japanese netizen x6xo posted a commission to write a light novel on a website that provides freelancers with job opportunities. He asked for 270 yen for writing 3,000 words according to the plot outline he specified. The setting is as follows:

The male protagonist suddenly saw the girl's underwear

The girl was very angry and attacked the hero with powerful magic

The male protagonist also used magic to save his life (although the male protagonist is often considered the weakest) to invalidate the girl's magic

The girl was even more angry because her magic was ineffective, so she used the strongest level of attack magic to attack the male protagonist

Considering the scale of the victims, the male protagonist forcibly stopped the girl from casting the spell.

As a result, the male protagonist grabbed the girl's chest

The girl's magic was interrupted, and the blushing girl slapped the male protagonist hard

After reading these settings given by this netizen, do you think they look familiar? They really look like the new series "The Legend of the Failed Knight" and "Academy Wars" released in October last year, as well as "The Weakest Undefeated Divine Dragon" released in January this year... It seems that this netizen is really using this to satirize those template-based light novels.

The netizen made public the three submissions he received and found that in addition to following the outline he set, the works written by three different authors also had striking similarities. The male protagonists in the three submissions almost all used fire magic. Although the three works have different specific characters and worldview settings, they can all be made into the same light novel if they are sorted out and compiled into a book.

This netizen now plans to use these online submissions, plus some illustrations, to actually create a light novel co-authored by different authors, and apply for the newcomer award of major light novel libraries. This experimental action also reflects that Japanese light novels are becoming more and more mediocre. So, will Japanese light novels be so routine and templated that robots can write them one day?