AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award has its book publication and manga adaptation cancelled
Submitted 17 hours ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to anime@ani.social
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 hours ago
AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award
if an isekai novel won literary awards, let alone an AI-generated isekai, then I’m assuming that it was the only novel in the contest.
muhyb@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Also I don’t think anyone could distinguish LLM-generated isekai from regular isekai at this point. Most of them are already kind of “borrowed” content from each other, LLMs made it just worse.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 hours ago
Well, all the entrants could have been AI-generated isekai novels.
shani66@ani.social 3 hours ago
Man, the absolute state of isekai, nay light novels in general right now.
stray@pawb.social 9 hours ago
I’m not really sure what compelled me to read this; I guess I wanted to see the quality of what won the contest.
So an office lady dies of over-work and gets reincarnated with magical organization skills which she’s called on to use in aid of the nation. I was kind of hoping this would go the cozy route of her organizing a healthy society with education and healthcare and all that, but she just immediately starts doing accounting work for the king, exposing embezzlement schemes. What a fucking tool. As if the entire aristocracy isn’t designed to extort the peasant class.
I quit reading after that. It felt like what you’d expect to get if you fed a program heaps of fanfics and asked it to output the average of them.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
giving me big “How A Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom” vibes.
Unboxious@ani.social 15 hours ago
Lol, definitely not making isekai light novels look good if this is what’s winning readers choice awards.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 hours ago
most isekai light novels in general don’t make isekai light novels look good.
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip 15 hours ago
I read on Japanese news the author claimed Alphapolis changed the rules after the fact, which is true (the rules against AI were added after the submission deadline of the contest), but I don’t feel that justified submitting something predominantly written by AI as one’s own work.
VivianRixia@piefed.social 16 hours ago
lol the title was:
Modest Skill “Tidying Up” is the Strongest! ~ Corporate Slave Office Lady Started An Accidental Isekai Revolution, and is Now Adored by the Head Knight and His Majesty the EmperorI’d be so embarrassed if I were those groups that gave awards to plagiarized AI-slop.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 16 hours ago
How much worse and generic could isekai slop possibly be than all the other isekai trash?
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Isekai may be “by the numbers”, but at least those numbers aren’t just ones and zeros.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
Modest Skill “Tidying Up” is the Strongest! ~ Corporate Slave Office Lady Started An Accidental Isekai Revolution, and is Now Adored by the Head Knight and His Majesty the Emperor
Wow. Let me try to fix this:
The Revolution of the Office Janitor ~ She Got the Weakest Skills and Now She’s Adored by Everyone in Another World
I didn’t read the slop (nor I will), but lemme build some simple setup:
Saitou Kiyomi is a 44yo office janitor of a black company in Tokyo. She likes her job, but hates everything around it: the lack of proper working conditions, the ungratefulness of other workers there, the messy working hours, the boss dumping into her odd jobs she was not supposed to (like paperwork, bringing him coffee, taking care of children)…
Then one day, going back from work 2AM, she finds a kitty. Craving for some company, she brings it home. Then she drinks a few too many cans of beer, and tells it her sorry story, without knowing the cat is actually a spirit in disguise. The spirit feels sorry for her and offers to reincarnate her into the magic world of Gahaski, where your experiences are crystallised into skills. And since she worked as a janitor for her whole life, she gets two skills:
- Clean - magically removes dirt
- Tidy - magically places something into its proper place.
Those skills rely on what she considers as “dirt” or the “proper place” of something, so they’re extremely overpowered. One of the first things she does in the new world is to look herself at the mirror, and notice how old she was… when she said “damn, I wish I could clean some years off my face”, the cleaning magic activated and she became a 18yo. “Tidy” could be used to disarm opponents, by sending their weapons to the “proper place”; or even to jail criminals automatically.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
“I cried in the part where she used tidy on the demon lord and he was banished back into the demon realm.”
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Sorry couldn’t resist
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The bells of Asteria rang at dawn, bright and wrong. Saitou Kiyomi stopped sweeping the plaza halfway through a stroke. The sound scraped against her nerves like chalk on a board. Bells were for festivals, weddings, victories. This wasn’t any of those. People didn’t cheer. They whispered. “An Edict?” someone muttered. “From the Cathedral,” said another. “No—from the Palace.” Kiyomi sighed, resting both hands on the broom handle. Of course. When you tidy a world too well, eventually the people who enjoyed the mess come knocking. She had known this day would come. She’d just hoped it would be later. Preferably never. Since arriving in Gahaski, things had fallen into place—literally. Bandit gangs vanished overnight, their knives and clubs snapping neatly into evidence lockers they’d never seen before. Slums became livable when refuse simply… stopped existing. Corrupt officials found themselves waking up in cells, their ill-gotten gold “returned to its proper owner,” whatever that meant according to the magic. They called her many things now.
Saint of Cleanliness.
The Living Broom.
The Witch Who Erases. Kiyomi hated all of them. She resumed sweeping. Habit was stronger than unease. The plaza stones gleamed, polished to a soft morning shine. She remembered another plaza—no, a station platform—back in Tokyo, where she’d scrubbed gum off tiles while pretending not to hear a manager shout her name like it was an insult. I just wanted things to be a little less dirty, she thought. Is that so wrong? The bells stopped. A ripple of silence spread, followed by the arrival of white-robed clerics and steel-armored knights. At their center walked a man whose clothes were immaculate in a way that made Kiyomi’s skin crawl. Not a speck of dust dared touch him. Not because of magic—because dozens of others were paid to ensure it. High Chancellor Verdan bowed, just enough to be polite, not enough to be humble. “Saitou Kiyomi,” he said, pronouncing her name carefully, like a document he’d read twice. “By decree of His Radiance the King, you are summoned.” Kiyomi leaned on her broom. “I’m on shift.” A murmur rippled through the knights. The Chancellor’s smile tightened. “The kingdom is in crisis,” he continued. “Order is collapsing. Institutions are… relocating themselves without authorization. Prisons are full beyond capacity. Treasuries are emptying into private homes. This ‘Tidy’ of yours—” “It puts things where they belong,” Kiyomi said simply. “And who,” Verdan asked, eyes sharpening, “decides where that is?” Kiyomi opened her mouth—and stopped. For the first time since coming to Gahaski, the answer didn’t come easily. She thought of the noble she’d sent to jail without a trial because everyone knew he was rotten. Of the temple vault whose gold had marched itself into the hands of starving villages. Of the mirror, weeks ago, when she’d casually wiped away twenty-six years like dust on glass. Where is the proper place… for power? “I do,” she said at last. The words felt heavier than they should have. Verdan nodded, as if that were the only answer he’d expected. “Then you must also accept responsibility for the consequences.” At his signal, a knight stepped forward and unrolled a parchment. Names spilled down it like a stain that wouldn’t wash out. Cities destabilized. Borders violated. Alliances broken overnight because a crown had decided it belonged “somewhere else.” “You are cleaning the world,” Verdan said softly. “But a world without dirt has no friction. Nothing to hold it together.” Kiyomi laughed, short and tired. “Funny. Back home, they told me the opposite. That if I worked harder, stayed later, cleaned more… things would hold together just fine.” She straightened, feeling the familiar hum beneath her skin—the magic responding to her mood. The plaza’s dust quivered, eager. Verdan took a cautious step back. “I won’t stop,” Kiyomi said. “But I will listen.” That surprised him. It surprised her too. Above them, unseen by all but her, a small cat-shaped spirit sat atop a roof beam, tail flicking. So, it thought, eyes gleaming. She’s reached the messy part. And for the first time since her reincarnation, Saitou Kiyomi wondered whether some things, once cleaned, could ever be put back where they belonged.baines@lemmy.cafe 8 hours ago
you’ll laugh but you would never need a condom again
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
you gave me a good chuckle, consider my belly laughed
astro_ray@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Sounds like a decent plot for a comedy if they can write it well.
CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I don’t know anything about this contest, but if it won the reader’s choice then doesn’t that mean the actual audience liked it? The isekai crowd is used to human made slop already to why not ai slop.
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Nah, it means it got the most votes. One vote doesn’t always translate to one person, and I’m fully willing to believe Reader’s Choice needs a better captcha system on its votes.
baines@lemmy.cafe 8 hours ago
sounds like it belongs at the top of jp light novel lists
everyone of them has the whole plot in the title
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
According to the author, though the publication and adaptation plans for the novel were scrapped in light of the guideline updates, they do not view this as a loss. Instead, they see it as an opportunity to become “freer and newer.” They state that they want to keep making interesting works that people will view as something that can only be created “in collaboration” with AI.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The fact that people couldn’t tell the difference between a human AI made isekai is hilarious. This genre is just a sea of slop.