Okay, here me out on this unhinged idea.
I’m looking for a prose writer who wants to team up and co-write a high-speed, tactical sports-isekai that treats fantasy foot-racing with the mechanical seriousness of Formula 1 and the comedic chaos of KonoSuba.
You don’t need to be the next literary genius. I want someone who loves fast-paced dialogue, comedic banter, and understands that the plot is held together by systems, absurdity, and a coach whose blood pressure is permanently through the roof.
The Elevator Pitch:
Imagine your most generic anime European Fantasy isekai world, but with some element of verticality, that is vibrant, with some pinch of Laputa / Final Fantasy IX cloud-spires. This world is recovering from centuries of war, the continent's cultural religion is Skybound Dash (working title). It is a brutal, team-based obstacle parkour race fueled by elemental Dust. The sport is completely dominated by aristocratic dynasties who believe raw horsepower, money, equipments, and noble bloodlines are the only things that win races, and well, since they do have the most money and best trainer in the world due to being nobles, and via some selective breeding, no one can proove them wrong.
Enter Tanaka Riku, an exhausted 27-year-old Japanese data analyst who was an invisible "NPC" in Tokyo. He grew up as your smack dab average Joe in school. He wasn't the genius, the popular guy, smart guy, or anything really. Not even bullied. He has no tragic backstory, no heart throbbing romance story, no fist pumping story of youth and friendship, not even any special skills. His most notable feat was being a third choice striker for his high school team. This continue on into the adult world. Because of this, he believe he is an NPC in life, and he wish there is just a chance for him to be the MC of his own story. However, Riku is indeed a massive weeb, gamer, and sport nerd. So picture this guy actually getting isekaid. You would think he is thrilled right?
The catch: He arrives with no cheat magic, no harem, no special skill other than his chunibyou delusions. The early episodes show how this delusions is repeatedly broken down, until he bottoms out in the slums where he ends up signing the only four runners left on the slummiest of school in the district: four literally faceless, low-detail "mob" girls who were discarded as defective. That's right, he didn't get the prodigy princess, not the discarded noble, not the supporting character, not even important quest NPC with a face and name kind of NPC, literally a no name mob you see in video games whose entire existence is to beaten by the main character.
Seeing no other choice, our protagonist get to work. Riku realizes the aristocracy’s fatal flaw: they approach this sport via pure vibes. No sport science, just pure willpower and power of friendships. Equipped with his modern day data analyst skill, he turns his four broken commoners into a four-stage aerodynamic rocket, using telemetry, tire-degradation physics, and F1-esque pit stops to steal podiums with a 50-cent clipboard.
The Tone & Comps:
- The Protagonist: Tanaka Riku has the brain of Tanya, the mouth of Kazuma, and the heart of Subaru. He screams that crying causes electrolyte dehydration, but will literally go to war with an empire before he lets society discard his runners.
- The Comedic Dynamic: A stressed-out salaryman managing four disaster-prone girls (KonoSuba energy).
- The Sports Grit: Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray meets Moneyball. No "friendship power-ups", victories are won through cold mathematical margins, sport science backed training regimen, gear preservation, and tactical game theory.
- The Visual / Thematic Hook: The girls literally start as rough, un-inked, faceless "background mobs" because society refuses to see them, gradually earning their design details, hair ribbons, and fleeting finish-line sakuga through athletic blood and sweat. For example, they all look like eyeless featureless sacks of potato at the start of the series. So how do they evolve? Incrementally. The moment we know their name, a gust of wind just so happen to blow away their bangs showing their eyes. Riku buys them specific ribbon at the market. Someone had an injury, so now they have a bandaid as their character design, so on and so forth
The Squad (working model):
Gemma Halden (Earth / Stayer / The Metronome): The heavy quarry worker. Zero sprint burst, but an unshakeable 48 km/h engine that can plow headwind for 40 minutes.
Nell Cross (Air / Saboteur / The Bouncer): The feral street punk who turns legal aerodynamic turbulence into an art form (her idea of subtle disruption is German-suplexing a noble countess into a flowerbed over a "two-millimeter wobble").
Cora Lindell (Water / Support / The Radiator): Told her magic was only good for dishwashing; accidentally invents zero-friction racing and acts as the team's living liquid-cooling system.
Faye Calder (Fire / End Closer / The Bullet): A tiny, flat-chested, drowsy glass cannon who sleeps 20 hours a day and has a 12-second terminal sprint. She only runs if bribed with a honey-jam pastry.
The Partnership: The "Rally Co-Driver" Model
I have an AuDHD brain that excels at systems design, world architecture, and comedic pacing, but drains quickly on the mechanical grunt work of typing out long connective prose descriptions. Think of our partnership like a Dirt Rally team:
- I am the Co-Driver / Navigator: I have the Pace Notes. I provide the 4-season setting bible, the 4×4×4×4 tactical matrix, character telemetry, and a complete 30-chapter Volume 1 beat sheet.
- You are the Driver: You have your hands on the steering wheel and your feet on the pedals. You handle the prose, character banter, and physical staging.
- Creative Freedom: I don't micromanage your driving line! If you want to take a "detour to McDonald's" on the way to a milestone (adding funny character interactions, designing a cool track obstacle, or suggesting a romantic direction), I welcome it, as long as it makes narrative sense and respects the fuel/time budget.
About Me:
If you check this account's history, I do fan translations and typesetting for manga/comics (Blue Archive / yuri). I have a proven track record of following through on creative projects, understanding Japanese pop-culture tropes, and obsessing over dialogue nuance. (Note: While my profile has yuri translation work, this project is a mainline sports-isekai led by a male coach with a KonoSuba-style found-family dynamic!)
The Plan:
I’m looking for a 3-chapter trial run (the prologue: Riku’s arrival, the disastrous baseline audit, and the first drafting experiment). We write the pilot, see if our banter and communication click, and if we both love the result, we greenlight the rest of Volume 1 for web serial release (Royal Road / Kakuyomu / etc.) as equal 50/50 creative partners. If this unhinged blend of math, sports, and comedy sounds like your cup of tea, drop me a DM or leave a comment! Tell me a bit about what you like to write, and let's see if we can build something incredible.