Character × yourself. Does this genre exist in your country too?

I'm not well-versed but I think it's commonly called selfship in the English-speaking sphere. Nowadays I do see yume(ship) used more often though

The genre itself is pretty much non-existent in my country if we're talking about things that aren't fanfiction.

The only thing we had back in the day was the localized and fan translated versions of My Candy Love, Re:Alistair and to an extent Starry Sky-- but because even nowadays people tend to have a negative view of self-inserts/yume/self-shipping, nearly everyone ships the heroine as a separate character from the player with the love interests, at least in public. There's also people who do "self-shipping" (or, as a comment already said, "yumeshipping") but not actually with themselves, they use original characters that either have some of their personal traits or are separate characters altogether.

I personally am very much a yume/self-insert player who believes otome game heroine = player first and foremost, and that's the whole reason why I started playing otome games.

When it comes to fanfiction, we call them "reader insert" or "x reader". There are some that never mention any placeholder for the name (the popular fanfiction websites don't have any type of name changing function like japanese ones do if I recall correctly), but many use a variation of "Y/N" (standing for Your/Name) or plainly "(Name)".

In hispanic fanfiction spaces we also have "______" just a blank slate of underlines lol and in the past I think people used to name their works as "(personaje) y tú", though because, again, self-inserts are generally seen in a bad light or as cringey jokes, as well as (in my opinion) some language conventions that make it awkward to talk about our impressions of stories while referring to the main character in first person as "I" or "Me", as well as authors having a tendency to give detailed descriptions of the character instead of leaving it vague, a lot of people talk about the reader insert characters in third person like a separate character. There was a meme trend kinda recently about the "Y/N" character and her "CEO boyfriend" too lmao.

There are a few that claim to be reader inserts but give the reader character a name, which... is just an oc invading the tags, but that's a separate issue altogether lmao. But yes, I think that's about it when it comes to character x you in the spaces I frequent.

I've never heard the term "yume" before; I don't think it exists where I live. The closest I ever came to that was when I was a pre-teen and used to read Wattpad fanfics with Y/N lol does that count?

orionsbestie said:

There was a meme trend kinda recently about the "Y/N" character and her "CEO boyfriend" too lmao.

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I just remembered that one with Levi Ackerman "oh Levi u sooo stroong!!"

yume is pretty common in the spaces i'm in, in my country! i've seen a lot of my friends and other people commissioning artworks as well as getting custom-made stuff such as plushies that match the style of the official merch, and they also dress up to match the characters styles! it looks like so much fun and i've been wanting to dip my toes into the whole yume thing, but i'm a bit intimidated and don't know where to start!

It exits in my country but it's not common, like if you were to go tell someone that you yume they'd probably look at you weirdly, or they'd just look at you confused lol.

Yume has been adapted and now it's used the same way in English. In Chinese they are called 夢女. If u used Chinese apps like Xhs u can see them all over the place. It's common for Chinese and Westerner Yume's to commission art of their OC's and LIs. I heard this is kind of a no-no in Japan.
I didn't realize that プラスIs related to this as well.

英語圏でも「Yume」という言葉が同じような意味で使われるようになっています。中国語圏では「夢女」と呼ばれていて、小紅書（RED）とかのSNSでよく見かけます。海外の夢界隈では夢絵を依頼するのは一般的ですが、日本ではマナー的にあまり良くないと聞いたことがあります。
SNSでよく見るプラスも、こういうと関係があったんですね！教えてくれてありがとうございます！

Yeah, it might be a cultural thing. My country is pretty open about stuff like char x oc ship ><. I'm in a char x oc sharing group, and it's honestly really cute seeing everyone talk about theirs ships. There's no official term for it in my country but me and my friends just call it "chả ốc" (based on "char x oc")

No it doesn't exist in my country and even otome games don't , it's so difficult to find someone to talk to about them

In my country called "yume". Ofc I'm a yumejoshi, and I also have a yume account on Twitter.

Since you said 'Y/N' counts, it does exist in my country for a long time already, but I don't think we have a name for it. My country is pretty famous in tw*tter for creating many AUs (alternate universe fanfictions) which include the 'character x reader' ones. On another note, plenty of people also started 'yumeshipping' here recently! I've seen some friends making yume fanarts^^

I grew up noticing fan works with OCs that seemed too close to the authors. This gradually just became people making x reader fics instead of making self-insert OCs. I think they've always existed but it's become more acceptable to speak about it and actually say that you ship yourself with a character. I remember just the existence of OCs would make people upset so it's not surprising some people hate x reader fics (I personally don't agree, I think they're fine).

Sadly, "yume" would be considered to be "mentally ill" people that need to be treated ASAP (as a danger to society by majority of people) where I live. If there's any you'd never know about them. Same with self-inserts. It's sad.