

The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Rance franchise.įor tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages. Kichikuou Rance (A Spin-Off What If.? Route and not Canon).In a world so full of cynicism because of sadistic Jerkass Gods and Corrupt Politicians, the idealistic (yet Ambiguious Innocent) Hedonist with a penchant for Brutal Honesty can actually be the good guy. It should be noted that despite the protagonist's dubious motivation, he actually does save and improve the lives of many of the Loads and Loads of Characters he meets along the way and is actually good for the Crap Saccharine World. Not to mention that it makes for a more interesting story to have such a morally ambiguous protagonist. Besides, even if the man in question is a Heroic Comedic Sociopath, women love a man who saves the world once in a while. If he needs to slay some random Big Bad or Demon Overlord and save entire countries to do so, he'll gladly do it, since the forces of evil will probably have some hot women to rape anyways. Preferably consensually although Rance does have a loose definition of "consensual".

Unlike most Heroic Fantasy protagonists, the main goal of Rance is to screw as many hot women as physically possible with the help of his faithful slave Sill. One of those Spin-Off games, Kichikuou Rance was released in 1996 and still is one the best selling H-Games of all time. It is notable for having one continuous story among the main series of games (with a few If Routes and Spin-Off games on the side) despite the age of the series. The Rance series, by AliceSoft, is one of the oldest on-going H-game franchises and one of the oldest series of the Eastern RPG genre (released in 1989).
