Haru gets this too after sleeping with him. No-Sell: Chiba's skill grants him immunity to attack magic and status effects.Nice Guy: Sumo, a virgin man who treats Haru with kindness, even buying her out of a very bad situation at one point with absolutely no plans or expectations for an intimate reward afterwards.New Life in Another World Bonus: Everyone in the world Chiba and Haru wind up in has a special power, though the one Chiba is granted is particularly noteworthy.Madonna–Whore Complex: In the setting, White Mages are brought up in churches and expected to be virgins, yet also expected to fall in love with whatever man/men they're assisting in their adventures.Jerkass: Chiba comes across as this, at one point offering to spare Haru from her fate by adding her to his own harem (as its first member), and rarely provides any actual assistance despite being partly responsible for her situation.Heroic Wannabe: Chiba does his best to fulfill the role he finds himself in, dyeing his hair red and styling it to be more unique in order to look more heroic, but he's still a pimply-faced jerk that sees Haru as a victim for him to save rather than her own person.Fantasy Contraception: There's a type of herb in the new world that prevents pregnancy, which Haru admits is rather neat.Failed a Spot Check: Haru would have discovered her own unique ability from the start if she had actually been paying attention to the deity that brought her and Chiba to the new world.She gets better thanks to Haru's influence. Disposable Sex Worker: Haru does her best to avert this fate, despite being treated as such by society.That said, Haru has explicitly banged God at least twice. Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: The silver-haired man who only appears when it rains, who Haru becomes attached to, and has one of the two actually erotic sex scenes in the book, is heavily implied to be the Demon Lord.Haru is not a demon-slaying hero, and personally experiences many of the flaws of a setting that seems utterly catered to a male power fantasy.
Curious readers should note that the story is not intended to be erotica, and that it contains some disturbing content, such as rape and torture.Ĭhiba was once a hot-blooded idiot at his school, who attempted and failed to save a classmate from a runaway truck. Initially published in December 2017, it was translated by Emily Balistrieri and released for digital distribution in September 2018.
JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World is a satiricalTrapped in Another World story written by Ko Hiratori, and illustrated by Shimano.