/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Misfortune, unless it's a romance. Poetic justice makes me vomit in my mouth.

Provided the story makes me care about the characters' happiness or misfortune and the ending actually fits, either is fine. Everyone loves a happy ending, of course, but an incongruous happy ending to a sad story really kills the mood.

whatever involves keanu + hina

My father once said a story isn't good unless the main character eventually dies. Then again my father also loves Waterworld.

On the whole, think he's got the right idea, though. It is more important that the ending is well made and fits the story than that it ends a given way.

>>6585052
for me is the opposite.

I prefer romantic stories that end in misfortune. True love must be reached in a point, but only for a brief moment; a feeling so powerful mustn't become something ordinary or to get used to.

>>6585058

This

I like my stories how life is.
In the end we all get a bad end and die.

Didn't Keanu lose a child in a car accident or something?

I smell a heart-warming Hina X Keanu fanfiction.

I would write one, except well, I guess I could write one if people really want. Would /jp/ really be interested in reading fanfiction?

>>6585168
please don't

>>6585168
No.

>>6585182
>>6585188

Strangely, /jp/ not wanting this makes me want to write it more.

Maybe /jp/'s misfortune is that it is afraid to feel.

>>6585226

One comment does not a /jp/ make.

Just do it.

>>6585226
..I want this.
Please write it to amuse me.

>>6585168
Do it. I'm all for reading it. I'll be waiting for you, anon.

I only really like happy endings, bittersweet endings at worst. I don't like bad ends in anything.

>>6585282
Dat Mari

And what is with Aya?

Need Happy Keanu.

>>6587316
Looks like a real low budget Parkinson episode from the BBC if you ask me!

i'd rather not know the ending to a story

I like bittersweet endings. Endings that resolve most of the conflict that was introduced, but not necessarily in the way that was completely ideal, even for the protagonist. If everything goes perfectly, it will seem silly, and if everything suddenly goes the worst way it possibly could, it will feel silly too.

But I'd probably like happy endings more if it weren't for shitty authors thinking that happy endings can't have an emotional impact, that the only ending that people will actually remember is a completely soul-crushingly depressing one.

Usually if I read something sad, I change some events in my head to make it a happy ending.

I don't know why, I just always have.

lean toward happy ends due to

>>6587614
because I always felt like I could do somethin bout it

I have a bad habit of spoiling the ending for myself and if it's sad then I usually lose interest.

After having read a decent amount of VNs/literature, aren't character deaths now a predictable and expected plot device? I always prepare myself for them, regardless of how attached I might get to the characters.

Happiness, of course. As long as it makes sense.
That is, 'everything sucks, sucked and will continue to suck, but I'm happy for no reason'

>>6587650
>>6585352
These

>>6585029
I'd like to see a story about Keanu and his life up to the point where he's sitting on the bench, and then suddenly Hina shows up, and slowly improves Keanu's luck.

Hina want to make Keanu happy!

Soul-crushing endings are good if there's ongoing discussion about the story that I can read. Other people's reactions are fun... my own, not so much.

>>6585168
I'm very interested in reading fanfiction. Just not this fanfiction.

>>6585058
I also agree with this. There's forced happy endings like there's forced tragedy endings and forced bittersweet endings.
What's important is that it flows with the story and I don't feel the author whispering behind my shoulder to feel happy or sad.

I can't remember very many endings. They must not be important if I can't remember them.

Hina smirks about Keanus misery.

>>6587808
What about endings that are completely indecipherable?

>>6585168
>>6587807
Touhouproject and shrinemaiden.org are calling you. Go there and never come back.

>>6587902
Never heard of tabbed browsing?

>>6587925
Just an unimaginative troll.

>>6587876
Why.....?

>>6587925
No, it's more the fact that writing or liking fanfiction makes you a bad person.

>>6587993
I hope you don't read doujinshi. There's nothing worse than a hypocrite.

>>6587993
What if you like reading it to laugh at the authors?
nothing makes me feel better about myself when i remember shit like My Immortal and the fact i'll never be that fucking retarded. (Even though i lost brain cells reading it)

>>6587998
I read h-doujins to masturbate to. I don't like Aki Eda or any of that other nonsense.

>>6588007
Yeah, of course that's okay. It's like watching a bad movie to make fun of it.

>>6588009
Except Aki Eda is official. And /h/ works are still derivatives. You and your double-standards.

>>6588018
Aki Eda's done her own stuff on the side. Also, if I'm beating off to a doujin I'm not exactly appreciating it for its literary merit, am I. Fuck off.

>>6587876
DAT FACE

I only like comedic Touhou doujins. Any ones that try to be serious are a huge bore to me.

>anyone who likes fanfiction is retarded
>except for the kind of fanfiction I like

>>6588025
Well you're permitted to hate them but that does not reflect the opinions of /jp/ at large.

>>6588036
Okay, I'll change my answer to this instead. Provided the comedy is the funny kind.

>>6588044
It's true that almost all fanfiction is incredibly retarded and people that like it are retarded. Anyone that reads fanfiction knows that.

>>6587993
And generalizing makes you a retard.

I generally prefer to go with the romantic or happy/silly stuff. The occasional SAD END one is alright though.

Depends on the story. I'm okay with either, so long as they're well-done.
If I had to choose between poorly done happiness or poorly done misfortune, I suppose I'd go with happiness. There's no reason to be depressed for no reason.
...wow, that sentence just happened.

Bumping this, because holy damn the first page of /jp/ is shitty.

Poorly done misfortune makes me happy. It's so obvious what they're trying to make me feel, and there's no reason for me to feel it. Like dodging a blow and laughing at them afterwards.

That one doujin where suwako gets raped is pretty good.

>>6588309
Fuck you.

>>6588309
What, with that cicada?

This thread is fake and gay, like me.

>>6588323
There's only one Suwako rape doujin. Through the Wind Cries or whatever.

>There's only one Suwako rape doujin.
>only one
Why is she so special?

>>6588342
Yeah, that was the only legitimate non-h one I knew of.
Figured he could've been talking about an h doujin though.

>>6588346
I don't know. Maybe we should ask Sanae. I'm sure she can tell us.

>>6588342
Wait no, there's at least one more. Not quite as serious, but still.

>>6588356

>>6588373
I don't like this Suwako ;_;

I like both. I want the characters = to struggle through misfortune and then make it out on top. I enjoy stories where effort = reward. But a lot of people don't do it right or just copy other people. Its always along the lines of "Good guy good at heart, works very hard, but things happen, good guy pulls through". That's the core theme but I rarely ever see someone stray from it in VN.

You know what I really want? A story about someone like Archer or Kitsurugi. There means of getting results are their tragedy but they get a justified end which is for the greater good or cynics who know that not everyone can be happy or not every end good end can be reached with good means. Or a bad guy with a selfish but ultimately human and understandable motivation winning, like Caster. She's selfish enough to harm other people for her goal of winning the grail and living with the man she loves. Sure its selfish, but the very foundation of life is built on selfishness and she has every right to pursue her own goals.

The current moral of stories with effort = happiness is based upon on needless philanthropy, what I want is a story with effort = happiness based on pragmatic realism. A situation where you're being happy means someone else isn't happy and you not being judged because of that or the person who failed to attain happiness isn't judged because of that. It should be presented as something that happens and has to be dealt with.

This is a round about way of saying Caster should have won goddamn, she deserves to be happy ;_;

>>6588373
RETURN THE HAT

>>6588474
She can't. It got stolen.

>>6588586
What's up with the flaming hole in the foliage?

>>6588600
Come now, surely you can figure it out.