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* MrFanservice: Prince, of course, for starters...There's also Kenshin, Arctic Fox, Gui...we'll just go with the entire male cast.
* ForegoneConclusion: At least in the manhua, where it's easy to tell who Lan will end up with, considering that one of her main love interests doesn't show up for many chapters while the very first page is her thinking of the other.
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* SecretlyWealthy: [[spoiler: Doll is a princess, and Lolidragon is ThePresidentsDaughter.]]
** Actually subverted with the latter. [[spoiler: Lolidragon was cut off from her father before the story began and she had to take up several jobs to afford her expensive tastes.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Feng Lan's mohter wants her to be with Wicked, but accepts Gui as a suitably attractive alternative. Her friends also force her to date the two to determine who would make a better boyfriend.
** Actually subverted with the latter. [[spoiler: Lolidragon was cut off from her father before the story began and she had to take up several jobs to afford her expensive tastes.]]
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* SweetOnPollyOliver: a [[spoiler::If It's You, It's Okay:]] variation; Gui doesn't realize Prince SecretlyWealthy: [[spoiler: Doll is female, but he falls in love a princess, and Lolidragon is ThePresidentsDaughter.]]
** Actually subverted with"him" anyway. Only later does he meet the latter. [[spoiler: Lolidragon was cut off from her father before the story began and she had to take up several jobs to afford her expensive tastes.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: FengLan in real life and [[spoiler:connect Lan's mohter wants her personal movements and actions to Prince's and realize they're be with Wicked, but accepts Gui as a suitably attractive alternative. Her friends also force her to date the same.]]two to determine who would make a better boyfriend.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Between Lan and Zhou. [[spoiler:Zhou ends up being the unlucky childhood friend.]]
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[[caption-width-right:180:Prince and Meatbun]]
->''"I firmly believe that who you are now is the true you, just as the person I am right now is the true me. Everything else is of no importance -- be it gender, appearance, or even the facades we assume in real life...none of those are important."''
-->-- '''[[{{IfItsYouItsOkay}} Guiliastes]]'''
''Half Prince'' (½王子) is a series of novels written by Taiwanese author Yu Wo. The popularity of the novels lead to a ''{{manhua}}'' drawn by Choi Hong Chong in a very ''manga'' art-style.
The story is set primarily about 100 years in the future, in a super-realistic full-immersion fantasy role-playing-game. The protagonist is a girl named Feng Lan who makes a bet with her brother Feng Yang Ming to make it all the way through the game without a single use of her feminine assets. How, you ask, will she accomplish this? Why, with help from the fine tradition of playing video-games as an awesomely attractive member of the opposite sex, of course!
Feng Lang plays as the bloodthirsty elfin warrior "Prince", who just happens to be one of the most {{Bishonen}} beings ever witnessed. He soon acquires a large {{Unwanted Harem}} of both male and female admirers, a strange pet shaped like a meat bun, and a group of TrueCompanions. A surprising number of character love him/her in a gender-confused way, and those who don't are pulled towards his honest and admirable personality (or to his unique and bloody skills on the battlefield).
The novels are:
* ''The Beginning of a Legend''
* ''Reality and Fantasy''
* ''Records of the Vagabond Prince''
* ''The Buskers of Infinite City''
* ''A Prince No More''
* ''The Great NPC Revolt''
* ''Life, Fading Away''
* ''Eternal Legend''
Translations for the novel can be found [[http://www.princerevolution.org/halfprince-main/halfprince-chapterlist/ HERE]]. They have the Yu Wo's blessing. Scanlations for the manhua can be found [[http://oddsquadscans.blogspot.com/2009/05/12-prince_31.html HERE]]. They have the blessing of the artist.
Compare with ''{{Yureka}}''. Also see ''EclipseHunter'' another novel serries by the same author.
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!!These novels provides examples of
* ArchEnemy
* ADarkerMe: "Blood Elf" Prince [[RedBaron earns his title]] by being far more violent than Feng Lang is in Real Life, going over and above what you'd normally see in an MMO.
** And ''[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/1_2_prince/v02/c010/4.html this]]''
* AffectionateParody: Of fantasy {{RPG}}s.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Yang Ming, Lan's twin brother.
* AntiVillain: Believe it or not, [[spoiler:The Dictator of Life]] appears to be one of these. Although whether or not [[spoiler:he's attempting to destroy Second Life]] is of his own will or not is still up in the air. In the manga, at least.
* AIIsACrapshoot: An interesting twist. [[spoiler:The boss [=NPCs=] have developed self-awareness, and recent chapters have it that they're planning to overthrow the humans.]]
* BerserkButton: You got something against clams, huh?
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Doll is rather cute and adorable, and is treated like everyone's little sister. But [[spoiler:when someone attacks Prince, she sets Bonds of Endless Torment on her, and in response to the protest of "Don't kill her, we need to question her," Doll deadpans, "Don't worry. She'll just suffer, she won't die. But her player herself will be in so much pain she'll wish she was dead."]]
* {{Bishonen}}: The sheer number of them is astounding.
* CallingYourAttacks: Justified by the fact that they're in a game.
* CranialEruption
* {{Crossdresser}}: In the sequel, [[spoiler:for their wedding, Feng Lan wears a tuxedo while Gui wears a wedding dress.]]
* {{CrossPlayer}}: The main characteristic of the protagonist.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: At the beginning of the game, Prince would be this.
** Wacko and Dandan act like ditzy SickeninglySweethearts - and ''then'' you learn that they are the 9th best warrior and 5th best summoner in the whole game. Wacko's also the overlord of the western continent.
* CurbStompBattle: A nice example is during the tournament arc - the Odd Squad do this to their opponent after eating some delicious roasted meat.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Wicked and Sunshine.
* DeathIsCheap: Justified because it is all in a RPG
* [[spoiler:DiseaseBleach: Happens to the BigBad as a result of his chronic illness.]]
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: A variation of it as [[spoiler:Wicked finds out about Prince's real identity]].
* DynamicEntry: When Prince changes jobs and gets a [[CoolSword shiny black sword]], he isn't impressed. Cue Lolidragon 'announcing' her presence with a kick to the spine.
* MrFanservice: Prince, of course, for starters...There's also Kenshin, Arctic Fox, Gui...we'll just go with the entire male cast.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Prince is just ''that'' pretty.
* {{Expy}}: "Demon Lord Kenshin" is an obvious reference to Rurouni Kenshin. Kenshin even has his trademark scar.
* FacelessMasses: The legions of crazed fangirls (and boys) are portrayed as dogs sometimes.
* FailedASpotCheck: Lolidragon fails these a lot.
* {{Fangirl}}: Wherever Prince goes, legions of fangirls follow. Then they get the bright idea to start the game's first band, starring all the Odd Squad's {{bishonen}}. [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]].
* ForMassiveDamage: One of the perks of the 99% realistic game, knowing the weak points of mobs results in quick and easy wins. Examples include the eyes of the Wolf King and the heads of lesser demons.
* GenderBender
* {{GMPC}}: Lolidragon is one, but she's limited to reporting bugs and complaints to the game company as well as creating tables out of nowhere. In the Odd Squad, she acts as [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]. Oddly enough, her thieving activities are worse then those of the people she catches.
* HappilyMarried: Feng Lan's parents.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: It just takes one request from [[{{Lolicon}} Doll]] to get Caelus to switch sides...[[SubvertedTrope or not]].]]
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: When a [[TeamPet meatbun]] is paired up with a phoenix, the squad wonders how it's going to turn out.
* [[spoiler:[=~If It's You, It's Okay~=]: Gui's side story reveals that he feels this way about Prince.]]
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: "I am the pretty wizard of love and justice! Doll will punish you in the name of the skull!" as in chapter 6.
* LampshadeHanging: (Where'd that table come from?)
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 50 and counting.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Gui and Wicked, for starters.
* MagicalGirl: Doll seems to have taken her "in the name of the moon" directly from SailorMoon.
* MiserAdvisor: Yu Lian
* MistakenForGay: [[spoiler:Gui pretends to act gay for Prince. Later, when Feng Lan overhears Gui and Zhuo talking out in real life, she thinks the two are in love with her brother. Further misunderstandings cause her to think her brother is in love with Zhuo.]]. Prince is also a victim of this, being surrounded by guys who love "him".
* {{NPC}}: [[spoiler:Prince picks up two very powerful NPC allies during an unplanned excursion to another continent/server. They are self-aware, [[{{Foreshadowing}} hinting that]] [[AIIsACrapshoot something]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} deeper may be going on]] in the depths of the game.]]
* OdangoHair: Doll wears her hair like this.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* ParentalNeglect: The protagonist's parents are almost constantly honeymooning, and they lack any particularly emotionally close bond with their children, only going as far as telling Feng Lan to get married to a [[{{Bishounen}} bishie]] so there would be some son-in-law eye-candy around.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: [[spoiler: Lolidragon is secretly the daughter of the Company's president, who was made a hidden GM because her father said she didn't understand the hardships of people.]]
* SecretlyWealthy: [[spoiler: Doll is a princess, and Lolidragon is ThePresidentsDaughter.]]
* •ShipperOnDeck: Feng Lan's mohter wants her to be with Wicked, but accepts Gui as a suitably attractive alternative. Her friends also force her to date the two to determine who would make a better boyfriend.
* PronounTrouble: An epic case. Gui thinks Prince is male while Zhuo knows she's female. When they have a conversation in real life, they refer to Prince as "he" and "she" respectively without letting the secret out; while the third person pronouns in the written ChineseLanguage can properly distinguish genders, when spoken, they sound the same.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Prince's team in the beginning, aptly titled the "Odd Squad."
* RedBaron
* SweetOnPollyOliver: a [[spoiler::If It's You, It's Okay:]] variation; Gui doesn't realize Prince is female, but he falls in love with "him" anyway. Only later does he meet Feng Lan in real life and [[spoiler:connect her personal movements and actions to Prince's and realize they're the same.]]
* SummonMagic: Doll.
* TheDividual: Feng Lan's mom and dad, Jing and Yun, and Wacko and Dandan.
* TournamentArc
* TrueCompanions: Prince naturally attracts them.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's set in 2100, but there are no major changes to society other than flying cars and an overall raise in technology advancement and such. It's used to {{handwave}} the existence of a 99% realistic virtual reality game, as well as [[spoiler:the later real life events that relate to said game. Plus Gui's pregnancy.]]
* UnnamedParent: Feng Lan's mom and dad.
* UnwantedHarem: Both male and female for Prince.
* [[spoiler:WhatMeasureIsANonHuman]]
* [[ComesGreatResponsibility With Lordship comes great responsibility]]: Something Prince has trouble with for a few chapters.
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->''"I firmly believe that who you are now is the true you, just as the person I am right now is the true me. Everything else is of no importance -- be it gender, appearance, or even the facades we assume in real life...none of those are important."''
-->-- '''[[{{IfItsYouItsOkay}} Guiliastes]]'''
''Half Prince'' (½王子) is a series of novels written by Taiwanese author Yu Wo. The popularity of the novels lead to a ''{{manhua}}'' drawn by Choi Hong Chong in a very ''manga'' art-style.
The story is set primarily about 100 years in the future, in a super-realistic full-immersion fantasy role-playing-game. The protagonist is a girl named Feng Lan who makes a bet with her brother Feng Yang Ming to make it all the way through the game without a single use of her feminine assets. How, you ask, will she accomplish this? Why, with help from the fine tradition of playing video-games as an awesomely attractive member of the opposite sex, of course!
Feng Lang plays as the bloodthirsty elfin warrior "Prince", who just happens to be one of the most {{Bishonen}} beings ever witnessed. He soon acquires a large {{Unwanted Harem}} of both male and female admirers, a strange pet shaped like a meat bun, and a group of TrueCompanions. A surprising number of character love him/her in a gender-confused way, and those who don't are pulled towards his honest and admirable personality (or to his unique and bloody skills on the battlefield).
The novels are:
* ''The Beginning of a Legend''
* ''Reality and Fantasy''
* ''Records of the Vagabond Prince''
* ''The Buskers of Infinite City''
* ''A Prince No More''
* ''The Great NPC Revolt''
* ''Life, Fading Away''
* ''Eternal Legend''
Translations for the novel can be found [[http://www.princerevolution.org/halfprince-main/halfprince-chapterlist/ HERE]]. They have the Yu Wo's blessing. Scanlations for the manhua can be found [[http://oddsquadscans.blogspot.com/2009/05/12-prince_31.html HERE]]. They have the blessing of the artist.
Compare with ''{{Yureka}}''. Also see ''EclipseHunter'' another novel serries by the same author.
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!!These novels provides examples of
* ArchEnemy
* ADarkerMe: "Blood Elf" Prince [[RedBaron earns his title]] by being far more violent than Feng Lang is in Real Life, going over and above what you'd normally see in an MMO.
** And ''[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/1_2_prince/v02/c010/4.html this]]''
* AffectionateParody: Of fantasy {{RPG}}s.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Yang Ming, Lan's twin brother.
* AntiVillain: Believe it or not, [[spoiler:The Dictator of Life]] appears to be one of these. Although whether or not [[spoiler:he's attempting to destroy Second Life]] is of his own will or not is still up in the air. In the manga, at least.
* AIIsACrapshoot: An interesting twist. [[spoiler:The boss [=NPCs=] have developed self-awareness, and recent chapters have it that they're planning to overthrow the humans.]]
* BerserkButton: You got something against clams, huh?
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Doll is rather cute and adorable, and is treated like everyone's little sister. But [[spoiler:when someone attacks Prince, she sets Bonds of Endless Torment on her, and in response to the protest of "Don't kill her, we need to question her," Doll deadpans, "Don't worry. She'll just suffer, she won't die. But her player herself will be in so much pain she'll wish she was dead."]]
* {{Bishonen}}: The sheer number of them is astounding.
* CallingYourAttacks: Justified by the fact that they're in a game.
* CranialEruption
* {{Crossdresser}}: In the sequel, [[spoiler:for their wedding, Feng Lan wears a tuxedo while Gui wears a wedding dress.]]
* {{CrossPlayer}}: The main characteristic of the protagonist.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: At the beginning of the game, Prince would be this.
** Wacko and Dandan act like ditzy SickeninglySweethearts - and ''then'' you learn that they are the 9th best warrior and 5th best summoner in the whole game. Wacko's also the overlord of the western continent.
* CurbStompBattle: A nice example is during the tournament arc - the Odd Squad do this to their opponent after eating some delicious roasted meat.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Wicked and Sunshine.
* DeathIsCheap: Justified because it is all in a RPG
* [[spoiler:DiseaseBleach: Happens to the BigBad as a result of his chronic illness.]]
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: A variation of it as [[spoiler:Wicked finds out about Prince's real identity]].
* DynamicEntry: When Prince changes jobs and gets a [[CoolSword shiny black sword]], he isn't impressed. Cue Lolidragon 'announcing' her presence with a kick to the spine.
* MrFanservice: Prince, of course, for starters...There's also Kenshin, Arctic Fox, Gui...we'll just go with the entire male cast.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Prince is just ''that'' pretty.
* {{Expy}}: "Demon Lord Kenshin" is an obvious reference to Rurouni Kenshin. Kenshin even has his trademark scar.
* FacelessMasses: The legions of crazed fangirls (and boys) are portrayed as dogs sometimes.
* FailedASpotCheck: Lolidragon fails these a lot.
* {{Fangirl}}: Wherever Prince goes, legions of fangirls follow. Then they get the bright idea to start the game's first band, starring all the Odd Squad's {{bishonen}}. [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]].
* ForMassiveDamage: One of the perks of the 99% realistic game, knowing the weak points of mobs results in quick and easy wins. Examples include the eyes of the Wolf King and the heads of lesser demons.
* GenderBender
* {{GMPC}}: Lolidragon is one, but she's limited to reporting bugs and complaints to the game company as well as creating tables out of nowhere. In the Odd Squad, she acts as [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]. Oddly enough, her thieving activities are worse then those of the people she catches.
* HappilyMarried: Feng Lan's parents.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: It just takes one request from [[{{Lolicon}} Doll]] to get Caelus to switch sides...[[SubvertedTrope or not]].]]
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: When a [[TeamPet meatbun]] is paired up with a phoenix, the squad wonders how it's going to turn out.
* [[spoiler:[=~If It's You, It's Okay~=]: Gui's side story reveals that he feels this way about Prince.]]
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: "I am the pretty wizard of love and justice! Doll will punish you in the name of the skull!" as in chapter 6.
* LampshadeHanging: (Where'd that table come from?)
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 50 and counting.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Gui and Wicked, for starters.
* MagicalGirl: Doll seems to have taken her "in the name of the moon" directly from SailorMoon.
* MiserAdvisor: Yu Lian
* MistakenForGay: [[spoiler:Gui pretends to act gay for Prince. Later, when Feng Lan overhears Gui and Zhuo talking out in real life, she thinks the two are in love with her brother. Further misunderstandings cause her to think her brother is in love with Zhuo.]]. Prince is also a victim of this, being surrounded by guys who love "him".
* {{NPC}}: [[spoiler:Prince picks up two very powerful NPC allies during an unplanned excursion to another continent/server. They are self-aware, [[{{Foreshadowing}} hinting that]] [[AIIsACrapshoot something]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} deeper may be going on]] in the depths of the game.]]
* OdangoHair: Doll wears her hair like this.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* ParentalNeglect: The protagonist's parents are almost constantly honeymooning, and they lack any particularly emotionally close bond with their children, only going as far as telling Feng Lan to get married to a [[{{Bishounen}} bishie]] so there would be some son-in-law eye-candy around.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: [[spoiler: Lolidragon is secretly the daughter of the Company's president, who was made a hidden GM because her father said she didn't understand the hardships of people.]]
* SecretlyWealthy: [[spoiler: Doll is a princess, and Lolidragon is ThePresidentsDaughter.]]
* •ShipperOnDeck: Feng Lan's mohter wants her to be with Wicked, but accepts Gui as a suitably attractive alternative. Her friends also force her to date the two to determine who would make a better boyfriend.
* PronounTrouble: An epic case. Gui thinks Prince is male while Zhuo knows she's female. When they have a conversation in real life, they refer to Prince as "he" and "she" respectively without letting the secret out; while the third person pronouns in the written ChineseLanguage can properly distinguish genders, when spoken, they sound the same.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Prince's team in the beginning, aptly titled the "Odd Squad."
* RedBaron
* SweetOnPollyOliver: a [[spoiler::If It's You, It's Okay:]] variation; Gui doesn't realize Prince is female, but he falls in love with "him" anyway. Only later does he meet Feng Lan in real life and [[spoiler:connect her personal movements and actions to Prince's and realize they're the same.]]
* SummonMagic: Doll.
* TheDividual: Feng Lan's mom and dad, Jing and Yun, and Wacko and Dandan.
* TournamentArc
* TrueCompanions: Prince naturally attracts them.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's set in 2100, but there are no major changes to society other than flying cars and an overall raise in technology advancement and such. It's used to {{handwave}} the existence of a 99% realistic virtual reality game, as well as [[spoiler:the later real life events that relate to said game. Plus Gui's pregnancy.]]
* UnnamedParent: Feng Lan's mom and dad.
* UnwantedHarem: Both male and female for Prince.
* [[spoiler:WhatMeasureIsANonHuman]]
* [[ComesGreatResponsibility With Lordship comes great responsibility]]: Something Prince has trouble with for a few chapters.
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