History Literature / OnlySenseOnline

During the official launch of ''Only Sense Online'', Shun, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, is compelled by his best friend Takumi and younger sister Miu, both hardcore gamers and beta testers of ''OSO'', to join them in the game. HilarityEnsues, when the game system mistakes his sex and generates a [[{{GIRL}} female avatar]] for him, which he further complicates by accidentally giving himself a feminine-sounding handle "Yun". As a complete novice player, Yun picks up a set of unpopular Senses which his much more experienced companions label as trash. Undeterred by their harsh words, Yun decides to keep his Senses and experiment with them, embarking him on a journey where he would explore the richly-designed game world, meet new friends, face challenges and actually thrives in-game... all alongside with him [[RunningGag constantly trying (and failing)]] [[CassandraTruth to convince other players that he is not a girl!]]

* DrivenByEnvy: PlayedForLaughs during the [=PvP=] Tournament organized by the 【Crafting Guild】 in volume 5, when a group of participants with unlucky love lives form an ad hoc alliance and gang up on participants who they deem lead wholesome lives in and outside the game[[note]]a.k.a. riajuu[[/note]], in the style of the [[LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts FFF]].

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the likes of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' or ''Franchise/DotHack'' or any series that has [[TheGameComeToLife the games becoming reality for the characters]], this series is very lighthearted and just follows the normal everyday gaming life of a guy.

''Only Sense Online'' is an ongoing LightNovel series written by Aloha Zachou, and is published by Fujimi Shobo. Its SliceOfLife approach to the VRMMORPG concept makes it LighterAndSofter compared to other works of its genre, such as ''Anime/DotHackSign'' and ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', although it is still exciting in its own right. ''Only Sense Online'' has a manga adaptation, which is also published by Fujimi Shobo.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Many ''OSO'' players opt to give their [[DigitalAvatar player avatars]] fantastic hair colors, such as Myu's white hair, and Sei's light blue hair. It makes Yun and Lucato stand out more for having realistic black hair.

* StandardStatusEffects: There are eight standard status effects in ''OSO'' and a few other kinds as well.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Some players deliberately take Bad Statuses to level their Resistance Senses. In "Forest Camping Game" event, a lot of players ends up accidentally level up poison resistance due to them not having the skills to identify and prepare poisoned food and resorting to eating everything they can find. It's proven to be traumatic to quite a number of players.

* ArtificialIntelligence: One of the selling points of ''OSO'' the game is its highly advanced artificial intelligence, to the point that Yun sometimes muses whether the [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] he is interacting with are in fact controlled by actual humans.