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* StayInTheKitchen: Dmitri, the Man of Ash, thinks this way. Makes sense, considering he's from a (fictional) traditional sword-and-sorcery world, set sometime in the Middle Ages.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Dmitri, the Man of Ash, thinks this way. Makes sense, considering he's from a (fictional) traditional sword-and-sorcery world, set sometime in the Middle Ages. It's also at least possible that the reason for such attitudes towards women in his world is because of [[spoiler: Elem, who is responsible for unleashing the King in Yellow and therefore may be kind of an Eve archetype]].
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When a character suggests that Yuriko's world itself might have been written ('woven') by someone else, she considers the idea for a moment, [[{{Irony}} but then brushes it off, probably as too horrifying]].
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* ShoutOut: One has to wonder if ''The Haetlands Chronicles'' is not a deliberate spoof of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' because of the general grimdark tone as well as sharing some important plot points with it (namely, zombies, the winder, a child king and a disabled/superpowered boy). Also, on a somewhat meta level, an important character in ''The Haetlands Chronicles'' is a Wolf. ''The Book of Heroes'' came out before Martin's books were made into [[Series/GameOfThrones a TV series]], but the Japanese translations of the books [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Translations have apparently existed.]]
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* ShoutOut: One has to wonder if ''The Haetlands Chronicles'' is not a deliberate spoof of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' because of the general grimdark tone as well as sharing some important plot points with it (namely, zombies, the winder, winter, a child king and a disabled/superpowered boy). Also, on a somewhat meta level, an important character in ''The Haetlands Chronicles'' is a Wolf. ''The Book of Heroes'' came out before Martin's books were made into [[Series/GameOfThrones a TV series]], but the Japanese translations of the books [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Translations have apparently existed.]]
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* ShoutOut: One has to wonder if ''The Haetlands Chronicles'' is not a deliberate spoof of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' because of the general grimdark tone as well as sharing some important plot points with it (namely, zombies, the winder, a child king and a disabled/superpowered boy). Also, on a somewhat meta level, an important character in ''The Haetlands Chronicles'' is a Wolf. ''The Book of Heroes'' came out before Martin's books were made into [[Series/GameOfThrones a TV series]], but the Japanese translations of the books [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Translations have apparently existed.]]
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A 2009 novel by [[BraveStory Miyuki Miyabe]].
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A 2009 novel by [[BraveStory Miyuki Miyabe]].
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* StayInTheKitchen: [[{{Badass}} Dmitri]], the Man of Ash, thinks this way. Makes sense, considering he's from a (fictional) traditional sword-and-sorcery world, set sometime in the Middle Ages.
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* StayInTheKitchen: [[{{Badass}} Dmitri]], Dmitri, the Man of Ash, thinks this way. Makes sense, considering he's from a (fictional) traditional sword-and-sorcery world, set sometime in the Middle Ages.
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--> ''Then let us call it by a different name. The good of the Hero shall be called the 'hero' as you have always thought of it. And the dark side of the Hero, that which is evil, shall be called ''TheKingInYellow''.
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--> ''Then let us call it by a different name. The good of the Hero shall be called the 'hero' as you have always thought of it. And the dark side of the Hero, that which is evil, shall be called ''TheKingInYellow''.''Literature/TheKingInYellow''.
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Yuriko Morisaki is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Elementary School Student]]. Life is normal, and she is content, until the day her world is thrown into turmoil. Her brother, Hiroki, brings a knife to school and kills a classmate before fleeing the scene and seemingly disappearing off the face of the Earth. Yuriko is frightened, confused, and helpless to do anything about it. That is, until she meets Aju, a talking dictionary. Aju leads her to a room full of ancient books, who advise her to travel to the Nameless Land in search of her brother who has been possessed by a mysterious entity known as "The Hero", or "TheKingInYellow". After meeting with the Nameless Devout and gaining the powers of the "[[TheChosenOne Allcaste]]", she sets off in search of her brother, but she is warned that what she finds at the end of her journey may not be what she hopes for....
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Yuriko Morisaki is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Elementary School Student]]. Life is normal, and she is content, until the day her world is thrown into turmoil. Her brother, Hiroki, brings a knife to school and kills a classmate before fleeing the scene and seemingly disappearing off the face of the Earth. Yuriko is frightened, confused, and helpless to do anything about it. That is, until she meets Aju, a talking dictionary. Aju leads her to a room full of ancient books, who advise her to travel to the Nameless Land in search of her brother who has been possessed by a mysterious entity known as "The Hero", or "TheKingInYellow"."Literature/TheKingInYellow". After meeting with the Nameless Devout and gaining the powers of the "[[TheChosenOne Allcaste]]", she sets off in search of her brother, but she is warned that what she finds at the end of her journey may not be what she hopes for....
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--> ''Then let us call it by a different name. The good of the Hero shall be called the 'hero' as you have always thought of it. And the dark side of the Hero, that which is evil, shall be called ''TheKingInYellow''.
---> -The Archdevout
A 2009 novel by [[BraveStory Miyuki Miyabe]].
Yuriko Morisaki is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Elementary School Student]]. Life is normal, and she is content, until the day her world is thrown into turmoil. Her brother, Hiroki, brings a knife to school and kills a classmate before fleeing the scene and seemingly disappearing off the face of the Earth. Yuriko is frightened, confused, and helpless to do anything about it. That is, until she meets Aju, a talking dictionary. Aju leads her to a room full of ancient books, who advise her to travel to the Nameless Land in search of her brother who has been possessed by a mysterious entity known as "The Hero", or "TheKingInYellow". After meeting with the Nameless Devout and gaining the powers of the "[[TheChosenOne Allcaste]]", she sets off in search of her brother, but she is warned that what she finds at the end of her journey may not be what she hopes for....
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!!This Book Features Examples of:
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Arguably, the nameless devout. They're people who committed the great sin of trying to 'live a story' (read: achieve their goals without taking the consequences into account), and are subsequently [[MindRape Mind Raped]] into bland, identical beings with no free will, whose only purpose is to turn the wheels of the cosmic story (and ensure the BigBad doesn't escape) for the rest of eternity.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Books in this story are Tsukumogami- inanimate objects which come to life after about a century (it apparently carries over to newer copies of old books), and as such are able to offer advice, and even directly assist, [[TheChosenOne Yuriko]].
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The Hero[[spoiler:/The King in Yellow]] is a living archetype. [[spoiler: It's TheHero and the BigBad at the same time. Which side is dominant at any given time appears to be cyclic.]]
* AssholeVictim: The boys Hiroki attacked.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Hiroki commited murder, which is why he is punished so severely, but the point is made that the kids he lashed out against weren't exactly shining examples of human decency.
* CosmicHorrorStory: The villain of this story is the [[EldritchAbomination King in Yellow.]] Savvy readers know ''[[MindScrew exactly]]'' what to expect.
* CrapsackWorld: The fictional world of the [[MeaningfulName Haetlands]]- a region which is almost perpetually at war, and is so tiny it can be covered by someone's ''fingertip'' on a globe). People being devoured and/or [[BodyHorror turning into]] monsters is a common occurrence.
* CursedWithAwesome: People in the Haetlands who have survived [[OurZombiesAreDifferent a zombie attack]] gain superpowers... but the mutation has the unfortunate side effect of killing them inside of two years. [[TearJerker Some of the victims are children.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Come hell or high water, Yuriko ''will'' rescue her brother. You can take your criticisms about her age and/or gender and shove 'em.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Barely averted with Hiroki's girlfriend Michiru. It becomes a major plot point.]]
* EldritchLocation: The Nameless Land. It's entirely colorless and populated by emotionless HiveMind [[YouAllLookFamiliar clones]]. Clones which serve 'penance' by releasing nascent stories into the world, and returning ones that have been used up to the melting pot. That's right: the Nameless Land is the birthplace of {{Tropes}}.
* EmptyShell: The nameless devout. See AFateWorseThanDeath. Averted, to some extent, with Sky [[spoiler: a.k.a. Hiroki]].
* ForWantOfANail: Most of the events in the book could have been avoided if Hiroki had just come clean about [[spoiler: the bullying going on in his school]], instead of trying to do everything himself.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: It's implied that the Wolf Yuriko meets at the end is none other than [[spoiler: Nelson Mandela]].
* MeaningfulName: It's explained that they call the evil side of the Hero "The King in Yellow" after the book of the same name, which was the closest our world had ever come to producing a fully accurate depiction of the utter madness of the Hero's evil. This is also used to explain the BrownNote effects of the play within the book. Also, Katarhar Abbey is full of sick and dying people.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies in the Haetlands are corpses possessed by vengeful spirits. Also, they can clone themselves from severed body parts.
* {{Pride}}: Stated outright to be the reason for Hiroki's downfall [[spoiler: and subsequent transformation into a nameless devout]].
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Yuriko becomes a Wolf herself at the end of the book, meaning she'll still be able to seek the imprisonment of the Hero]].
* StayInTheKitchen: [[{{Badass}} Dmitri]], the Man of Ash, thinks this way. Makes sense, considering he's from a (fictional) traditional sword-and-sorcery world, set sometime in the Middle Ages.
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: Sky is Hiroki Morisaki's remaining shreds of humanity]].
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of Elem, which is indirectly responsible for pretty much ''everything'' that happens in the story [[spoiler: on account of being a conduit to the King in Yellow]].
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---> -The Archdevout
A 2009 novel by [[BraveStory Miyuki Miyabe]].
Yuriko Morisaki is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Elementary School Student]]. Life is normal, and she is content, until the day her world is thrown into turmoil. Her brother, Hiroki, brings a knife to school and kills a classmate before fleeing the scene and seemingly disappearing off the face of the Earth. Yuriko is frightened, confused, and helpless to do anything about it. That is, until she meets Aju, a talking dictionary. Aju leads her to a room full of ancient books, who advise her to travel to the Nameless Land in search of her brother who has been possessed by a mysterious entity known as "The Hero", or "TheKingInYellow". After meeting with the Nameless Devout and gaining the powers of the "[[TheChosenOne Allcaste]]", she sets off in search of her brother, but she is warned that what she finds at the end of her journey may not be what she hopes for....
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!!This Book Features Examples of:
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Arguably, the nameless devout. They're people who committed the great sin of trying to 'live a story' (read: achieve their goals without taking the consequences into account), and are subsequently [[MindRape Mind Raped]] into bland, identical beings with no free will, whose only purpose is to turn the wheels of the cosmic story (and ensure the BigBad doesn't escape) for the rest of eternity.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Books in this story are Tsukumogami- inanimate objects which come to life after about a century (it apparently carries over to newer copies of old books), and as such are able to offer advice, and even directly assist, [[TheChosenOne Yuriko]].
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The Hero[[spoiler:/The King in Yellow]] is a living archetype. [[spoiler: It's TheHero and the BigBad at the same time. Which side is dominant at any given time appears to be cyclic.]]
* AssholeVictim: The boys Hiroki attacked.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Hiroki commited murder, which is why he is punished so severely, but the point is made that the kids he lashed out against weren't exactly shining examples of human decency.
* CosmicHorrorStory: The villain of this story is the [[EldritchAbomination King in Yellow.]] Savvy readers know ''[[MindScrew exactly]]'' what to expect.
* CrapsackWorld: The fictional world of the [[MeaningfulName Haetlands]]- a region which is almost perpetually at war, and is so tiny it can be covered by someone's ''fingertip'' on a globe). People being devoured and/or [[BodyHorror turning into]] monsters is a common occurrence.
* CursedWithAwesome: People in the Haetlands who have survived [[OurZombiesAreDifferent a zombie attack]] gain superpowers... but the mutation has the unfortunate side effect of killing them inside of two years. [[TearJerker Some of the victims are children.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Come hell or high water, Yuriko ''will'' rescue her brother. You can take your criticisms about her age and/or gender and shove 'em.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Barely averted with Hiroki's girlfriend Michiru. It becomes a major plot point.]]
* EldritchLocation: The Nameless Land. It's entirely colorless and populated by emotionless HiveMind [[YouAllLookFamiliar clones]]. Clones which serve 'penance' by releasing nascent stories into the world, and returning ones that have been used up to the melting pot. That's right: the Nameless Land is the birthplace of {{Tropes}}.
* EmptyShell: The nameless devout. See AFateWorseThanDeath. Averted, to some extent, with Sky [[spoiler: a.k.a. Hiroki]].
* ForWantOfANail: Most of the events in the book could have been avoided if Hiroki had just come clean about [[spoiler: the bullying going on in his school]], instead of trying to do everything himself.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: It's implied that the Wolf Yuriko meets at the end is none other than [[spoiler: Nelson Mandela]].
* MeaningfulName: It's explained that they call the evil side of the Hero "The King in Yellow" after the book of the same name, which was the closest our world had ever come to producing a fully accurate depiction of the utter madness of the Hero's evil. This is also used to explain the BrownNote effects of the play within the book. Also, Katarhar Abbey is full of sick and dying people.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies in the Haetlands are corpses possessed by vengeful spirits. Also, they can clone themselves from severed body parts.
* {{Pride}}: Stated outright to be the reason for Hiroki's downfall [[spoiler: and subsequent transformation into a nameless devout]].
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Yuriko becomes a Wolf herself at the end of the book, meaning she'll still be able to seek the imprisonment of the Hero]].
* StayInTheKitchen: [[{{Badass}} Dmitri]], the Man of Ash, thinks this way. Makes sense, considering he's from a (fictional) traditional sword-and-sorcery world, set sometime in the Middle Ages.
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: Sky is Hiroki Morisaki's remaining shreds of humanity]].
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of Elem, which is indirectly responsible for pretty much ''everything'' that happens in the story [[spoiler: on account of being a conduit to the King in Yellow]].
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