Questions are good things. They are there to get to know others and to find the common ground with each other, with the people we want to love. Well, I would think that the biggest thing I need to learn is to love myself. I think at least. I like lists, I make lists, mainly about anime and manga that I want to read and watch. And sometimes about American books too. My life does revolve around things that I consume. And I do not know if I am fine with that. I would like to fancy myself that I like philosophy, but in truth, I like the idea of philosophy. In the sense, philosophy means the love of knowledge, because we cannot know everything. So we need to start with things that we do not know, even though there are many famous figures in philosophy, I do not want to read from them. Because the biggest thing that I do not know if myself. And, as I am right now, I am more interested in filling the emptiness in me, if that makes sense. But I like questions. So, I went out and looked for que...
"Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young women on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy. However, mobile phone novels are gaining worldwide popularity on broader subjects." - Wikipedia.
As it stands right now, the cell phone novel is the first genre of art that had come out of the new age starting with around 2000 and still going strong, having many famous titles published in book format as well. Cell phone novels are enjoyed all over the world.
The nice thing about art is that it always finds a way to do what it wants to do. And I am happy that this can be said about the writers around the world. I always had deep respect towards communities that are none profit and keep themselves up as a team.
The nice thing about art is that it always finds a way to do what it wants to do. And I am happy that this can be said about the writers around the world. I always had deep respect towards communities that are none profit and keep themselves up as a team.
"The first cell phone novel was “published” in Japan in 2003 by a Tokyo man in his mid-thirties who calls himself Yoshi. His first cell phone novel was called Deep Love, the story of a teenager engaged in "subsidized dating" (enjō kosai) in Tokyo and contracting AIDS. It became so popular that it was published as an actual book, with 2.6 million copies sold in Japan, then spun off into a television series, a manga, and a movie." - Wikipedia.
Writers of cell phone novels are mainly the younger generation who are writing content that resonates with their peers. That's why the majority of the readers are younger too. The majority of the readers, writers are young women, so if someone wants to categorize it, you could put it on women's fiction (I have no idea how categories work... you can tell). It was a subculture for young people by young people, then it had grown out. This is kind of something that is happening with the fanfiction community. In fanfiction, you write what young people are interested in, with the gentleness and understanding that only young people can have and get called lazy for not doing anything else. Then you get to an age where it is profitable to publish these works, with a little help and with a little name change. Right here I am thinking about Fifty shade of Grey, a Twilight fanfiction, and another book, After, a One Direction fanfiction.
It is a raw and unedited genre of writing that you rarely can get nowadays in the well-polished works that we see in books and magazines. There is a nice feeling to it even when you are only learning about it. I feel bad that I don't know any Japanese, I want to read
The similarities between fanfiction and cell phone novels are interesting. And I looked into the website Maho iLand that has a collection of novels that can be accessed for free, even though the majority of them are on Japanese. This web site is the most popular
if you are interested here is the siteミ★ https://maho.jp/
"Because of the short chapter format consisting of around 70-100 words (usually fewer than 200), the phenomenon has brought a new approach to literature, allowing a new vision to potentially redefine traditional writing and the publishing world. Despite the use of cell phones, most of these novels are not written with SMS slang and language. Instead, it has brought out a new era of minimalism and art. In each chapter, readers will be able to experience narration, poetry and even visual arts in the use of carefully chosen line breaks, punctuation, rhythm and white space." - Wikipedia.
These novels are designed to be read on the phone, this gives it a distinctive appearance and a challenge in formating. The nature of the writing and the reading too is a do as you go, but because of that, they need to have to make sure that the chapters are satisfying enough and make the readers want to come back for more. And I can only guess that because of the shortness of the chapters, it mostly focuses on character building and action, rather than world-building. A lot of the stories, just by looking at the popular theme are happening in the contemporary world.
I love innovative things like that - they had taken something that would have been a limitation and decided to make it into a strength.
"Takatsu, in 2008, pioneered the English cell phone novel and brought over the phenomenon from Japan after watching Japanese television dramas like Koizora, Akai Ito and various. Like many fans of Japanese entertainment, he realized they were originally cell phone novels. After research and reading cell phone novels, discovering there were no English cell phone novels and seeing the potential of the literary form, he came across Textnovel.com (the first site in North America to recognize cell phone novels)." - stakatu.com
The cell phone novels are not a bygone genre, on the website Maho iLand there are still novels being written, published and read. This is truly magical.
.✫*ﾟ･ﾟ｡.☆.*｡･ﾟ✫*.
It is funny, that I had realized that information about cell phone novels and where are they going is still limited and rehashes the same information over and over again. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI0IQC8Vxmc) There is this video that just tells us the same back story, and the description down there is the same. So there is nothing that really changed between 2008 and 2018 (when this video was updated) meaning that this genre is rigid, or that it is still relatively niche for us in the west.
The first western cell phone novel site is textnovel. The original site no longer can be reached, however, the blog that I can suspect was accompanying the original site, it is inactive since 2014, that was the last post, I can suspect that that was the time when textnovel went out of commission. Portions of the site can be reached with the way back machine.
.✫*ﾟ･ﾟ｡.☆.*｡･ﾟ✫*.
As I am wandering around the net, it is clear that the only site that archives these novels is the previously named Maho iLand. It is fairly hard to find English speaking cell phone novels around the net. Or if there are any, they are dead.
As it seems, the timeline is the following. It started around 2000-2003 with the first novels published in Japan. 2007-2010 are the times when it reaches the west and there is interest, however, there are others who report on it way before that. However, no interest and community could keep it up and make it live. Around 2014 textnovel blacks out and the west forgets about the genre. Meanwhile in Japan is still going strong.
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The cell phone novels are not a bygone genre, on the website Maho iLand there are still novels being written, published and read. This is truly magical.
.✫*ﾟ･ﾟ｡.☆.*｡･ﾟ✫*.
It is funny, that I had realized that information about cell phone novels and where are they going is still limited and rehashes the same information over and over again. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI0IQC8Vxmc) There is this video that just tells us the same back story, and the description down there is the same. So there is nothing that really changed between 2008 and 2018 (when this video was updated) meaning that this genre is rigid, or that it is still relatively niche for us in the west.
The first western cell phone novel site is textnovel. The original site no longer can be reached, however, the blog that I can suspect was accompanying the original site, it is inactive since 2014, that was the last post, I can suspect that that was the time when textnovel went out of commission. Portions of the site can be reached with the way back machine.
.✫*ﾟ･ﾟ｡.☆.*｡･ﾟ✫*.
As I am wandering around the net, it is clear that the only site that archives these novels is the previously named Maho iLand. It is fairly hard to find English speaking cell phone novels around the net. Or if there are any, they are dead.
As it seems, the timeline is the following. It started around 2000-2003 with the first novels published in Japan. 2007-2010 are the times when it reaches the west and there is interest, however, there are others who report on it way before that. However, no interest and community could keep it up and make it live. Around 2014 textnovel blacks out and the west forgets about the genre. Meanwhile in Japan is still going strong.
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