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Alright, we're off and running. First episode is always a bit slow and exposition-heavy, but it just gets better from here. Yes, the sex scenes too. I swear, if I hadn't written this and there was something similar to it, I'd be its biggest fan. If you like it too, tell your friends!
A while back I had an odd notion that if I ever had the occasion to write a webcomic, I wanted to do a magical girl that teams with a mecha, because I don't think I've seen those genres sharing space before. I gave it very little thought beyond that, since the chances were low of me falling in with a would-be webcomic artist looking for a writer. This was before I learned that these days, webcomic writers are just going out and hiring artists outright, rather than all of the writer/artist pairs being pre-existing friends.
However, once I got into the erotica game and starting thinking about ideas beyond "Interview", this one eventually floated back to the surface. I realized I could use my old webcomic concept for this instead. All I needed to do was polish it up and add sex. That actually helped a lot, because monster-of-the-week genre stuff always has some sort of B-plot in each episode to balance out the fighting, and coming up with the B-plots is much easier and more fun when I can build them around a sex scene.
Eventually I starting thinking about the project less as the webcomic I would never write and more as the anime I would never write. Anime porn is only done as direct-to-video releases of course, but it's the genre shows of television anime that brought us the tropes that I'm making such good use of. So instead of chapters, I'm calling these "episodes", and I was quite delighted when my plot ideas coalesced into 13 of them, matching the typical length of a 1-cour series.
Once I had decided to use presentation elements evoking an actual TV anime show, I kind of wanted to have theme songs too, but I'm no songwriter and I wasn't about to listen through hundreds of random songs looking for something that would fit. But then one day out of nowhere, a two-word phrase popped into my head, and I thought that if I could find a song with those two words in the lyrics, it would be a song I could use. One Google search later, I found a song that not only contains the two words, they are its title, and the song turned out to be all too perfect for the story (it's the ending theme). Then I started poking at other songs from the same band, and unbelievably from the very same album I got everything I needed.
Of course one of the most important things about a magical girl is her costume. The decision to use the cheerleader theme was inspired by Sailor Moon, which used the Japanese "serafuku" school uniforms as the basis for their costumes. Cheerleaders are an easily recognized schoolgirl role with a general appearance that is recognized throughout the United States (and I guess Japan too), and I couldn't recall seeing a cheerleader magical girl before. This also helped with her characterization, since a stereotypical cheerleader provides a splendid contrast and counterpoint to a stereotypical nerd anime fan who suddenly becomes a mecha pilot.
Of course I needed to be able to describe Cheer Raider's costume in the story, so to help visualize it, I went looking through various internet cheerleader supply stores. Then I got the urge to do a little photoshop work so I could actually see it in front of me. That led to even more photoshop work like the series logo, the pony magical girl familiar, and Panther's unfolding axe. All of which and more I put together into the opening theme video, because I am insane apparently.
As a postscript, if this story struck a chord with you, here are some links to further explore:
This post gives some resources about actual rape victims that find themselves having rape fantasies.
These are forums on the subject of rape fantasy, many with areas for fiction.
This BDSM slave gets off on being taken beyond her limits.
This incredible series of posts is from a woman who claims that rape roleplays were no longer enough for her, and she started rape baiting herself to unsuspecting men.
For fans of Japanese porn, a visual novel (a type of video game) all about giving rape fantasy girls what they want, called "Please Rape Me".
Unfortunately the game doesn't seem to have an English translation, but they did also make a two-episode anime of it. The English fansub is easy to find with a web search, and it's a delightfully fun and light-hearted, even humorous, take on the subject.
Finally, this quote from this Scott Adams blog post seems amazingly relevant:
"Did you know your body can't tell the difference between fear and arousal? The book Influence describes a study showing that people in scary situations will believe they are falling in love. The brain simply creates a story to explain the feelings in the body. And the story is wrong."
I've written, and will continue to write, stories including or revolving around rape by creatures, monsters, demons. I am well aware of the phenomenon of women with rape fantasies, and how that sort of subject matter feeds those fantasies with things that are impossible in real life. But now, a brief departure from that and something more down to earth.
The story I am about to post (continuing over the next couple of weeks) is rooted in a thought experiment: Women with rape fantasies know the difference between their fetish and reality. But... what happens if they get what they've always and never wanted? What happens if the fantasy becomes all too real, and what happens if the real keeps going until it wraps around to fantasy again?
If you are remember the movie "The Neverending Story", recall that Bastian discovers his fictional fantasy world is real, but is also told that he and that fantasy world are both fiction to another level of audience higher above him. In other words, this is still only a story, so even if you have access to a rape fantasy aficionado, absolutely do not try anything like this at home.
Of course the idea behind Poison Ivy's Rapevine wasn't really original (I've seen plenty of fan art proving that), but I couldn't go without doing my take on it.
It turned out a lot shorter than I originally hoped for, so to make up for it there will be a bonus story next month, one that came out longer than I expected.
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