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Lukewarm Manga Takes
It's not a hot or cold take, but lukewarm. For example: harada makes mediocre stories carried by decent art and shock factor, authors like Asada or Akabeko cover similar ground but with actual substance behind the distracting shock.
I hate it when ML is a man whore. Even if he stops fucking everything that moves after meeting MC, it’s still gross. Like he doesn’t need to be a pure virgin, it’s the over the top sleeping around and having no standards that is so gross. The guy probably has all possible sexually transmitted diseases. 2 reply
Korean webtoons are boring, especially the repeated trope about dungeons, and I especially hate guide verses since they are both boring and sexualized. And it's *****normalize***** to just use backgrounds (3d models)and not draw them due to schedules and such, but these webtoons don't even attempt to blend their characters with the backgrounds the...... 6 reply
Not all fujoshis are creepy fetishists, not rlly a hot take cause we all know that but lukewarm because a lot of people dont mention it. Also, HEAVY agree on that Harada take of yours, i think Azuma Kaya is an author worth a mention more than Asada (shes a little strange to me) Kaya's attempt at a psychological was incredible. 3 reply
Some of these older gen BL's need to end.
koisuru boukun, junjou romantic +sekaiichi hatsukoi, finder, hidoku shinaide, to name a few I was reading but am now wondering why it is still on-going.... like if they started in the 2000s, I think it's time to put them to rest peacefully. 6 reply
Isekai as a genre has a ton of potential, but it's unfortunately very underutilized because people keep using the same settings without any solid worldbuilding, either the medieval video game world with a harem, or a western noble setting with a reverse harem. Cmon, it's fantasy, there is so much you could possibly work with! 7 reply
Shoujo mangas really aren't the same as they were. We no longer get a cute story about a girl who wants to enter the beauty, movie, or fashion industry and she has to claw her way up surrounded by a group of guys and later falls in love with the main guy and battle it out with the antagonist who later becomes her best friend in all of this.
Or the...... 2 reply