Literature / The World is Full of Monsters Now

Let's go save the world. (Actually, just try to survive).

The World Is Full of Monsters Now, Therefore I Want to Live As I Wish

Alternative: Mofureru; Monster ga Afureru Sekai ni Natta Node Suki ni Ikitai to Omoimasu; The world is full of monsters now, therefor I want to live as I with.; The world is full of monsters now, therefore I want to live as I wish; The World Is Overflowing with Monster, I'm Taking a Liking to This Life; Мир полный монстров, в котором я желаю жить; モンスターがあふれる世界になったので、好きに生きたいと思いますAuthor(s) : Yosshaa!

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The World Is Full of Monsters Now, Therefore I Want to Live As I Wish summary:

On his way home from his office, the main protagonist drove and ran over a big dog. At that moment, he heard the sudden sound of a voice inside his head. ≪The monster has been subjugated, gaining experience points.≫ 「Eh?」 Before anyone knew, the world has changed. Monsters appear, this is a game-like world where levels, skills, and status exist. This is an adventure where the modern world becomes fantasy and where the main protagonist has to strive hard for his survival.

Associated Tropes:

• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: And the worst. There's nothing like being hit with sudden anarchy and an overwhelming deadly threat to get people to reveal their true character. Some of the survivors were always psychotic but kept it under wraps for fear of punishment. With law and order breaking down and the system handing out super-powers like candy, they don't hesitate to give in to their dark desires to trample others. Some, like the protagonist, do their best to help others, but their own survival is still top priority.
• Apocalypse Wow: Thanks to some unknown outside force, Earth has become overrun with fantasy staple monsters, Goblins, Orcs, etc. and now mankind is on the losing end of a struggle for survival.
• Crapsack World: Invoked. Whatever external force caused monsters to overwhelm the earth, modern technology is all but inoperable, aside from very specific places.
• Deconstruction: Of modern Japanese society.
  • The vast majority of honest, law-abiding adults are nothing more than sitting ducks when the disaster manifests, and most of the remainder just give up without even trying, becoming a burden on those who are handling the situation and trying to survive.
  • The ones who handle the situation best are the societal outcasts and downtrodden, the corporate drones, the otakus, the shut-ins, and the delinquents.
  • Pretending that bullying doesn't exist until everything blows up, like in the case of Ichinose, doesn't help anyone. The victim always winds up worse off, the bullies are bewildered by the punishment, at best, and at worst are given plenty of time to prepare scapegoats and frame-up targets to mitigate their own losses and just make things worse for someone else.
  • Turning the education system into a pressure cooker makes the schools a breeding ground for all sorts of psychoses, just waiting for the opportunity to lash out when the prospect of punishment is off the radar.
  • The model students all have some sort of Dark Secret.
  • When the protagonist and his party stumble onto a monster-free location with electricity and running water, it's run by a foreigner who has chosen the [Politician] job and even then only works because the RPG system wants it to. The actual Japanese government is not, on-screen, doing anything to address the situation. The one time the JSDF actually did something on-screen, they got their asses handed to them, right quick.
• RPG Mechanics 'Verse: Anybody who manages to kill a monster will become level 1 and after choosing a "Job" will go through all the RPG staples. In some of the side-chapters, it's shown that monsters also benefit from the mechanic, by killing humans, or other monsters. To make things even more hairy for the scattered human survivors, humans killing other humans also gives them exp...
• Slept Through the Apocalypse: Literally dead tired Kudou Kazuto, after miraculously making it home, falls asleep and doesn't wake up until noon the next day, when he finds he's got no power, no tv, cell-phone is dead and peeking out the window, he finds his neighborhood overrun with goblins.
• Sudden Game Interface: Unless and until people manage to kill a monster, they won't be able to partake of any of the RPG Mechanicsverse bonuses. Thus when some elderly survivors are being rescued by some of the far more genre-savvy teens, the elderly don't believe there's a chance and go full-tilt Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! expecting the rescuing teens to hand-feed them until the "real" rescuers show up... which is never going to happen.