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Originally posted by Yatima of Konishi Polis:

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Yes, it is!

The key question is whether our protagonist was run over by an oxcart just before the game starts.

No idea what that means, except that it sounds like a Japanese word and therefore I would guess no.

It's a Japanese word in the process of being absorbed into English because that's what English does. It's just a name for that trope of YA fiction where the main character(s) dies in episode one and wakes up to a hero's journey through Narnia.