#because the OI community has largely accepted a lot of original RomFan that doesn’t fit under the isekai genre in any form

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

I don’t know why I didn’t expect this but as part of a boot camp I’m DIYing I need to have an actual tangible project by the end of it and I chose otome isekai because I’ve been obsessed with it for half a decade now (bakarina probably wasn’t my first definitively speaking but it’s definitely when I found the genre at large) and it’s one of the only things I’m actually actively interested in.

What I want to do is narrow it down to roughly 150 titles that I have actually read and caught up on and break them down into very digestible categories that function both as demographic-type information (isekai type, appearances, ranks, warnings etc), and as common trope tags (Reformed Villainess, White Lotus, Duke of the North, Revenge on Bestie, Secret Royalty, just to name a couple). I want to visualize the trends of different FLs/MLs over time and the types of tropes that define the genre.

My sheets are (currently) categorized into List (title, release date, completion), FL(origin, appearance, tags), ML, (appearance, rank, tags), Antagonist tropes, Social Relationship tropes, Setting tags, Milestones reached, Morals of the Story, and Warnings/Triggers.

My hope is that once I get to the data visualization phase of the boot camp I can make it look pretty in Tableau and I’ll have an actual project to link to about something I actually had fun with.

Here’s a couple of screenshots from my definitions doc even though I’m nowhere near finished with even a draft.

I started this project on the 22nd and I expect it to take a couple of months minimum just to reach my standards of visibility.