if you're going to try and get me to read a dogshit horny wish fulfillment romance manga at least have the decency to make it gay

  • @SSJ2Marx
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    working adult

    high school girl

    her personality is every trad weirdo's dream

    libertarian-approaching japan-cool

  • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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    I was on board until libertarian-alert

    like just make the love interest a middle aged office lady if you're writing for straights ffs. Or if you really need to capture the horny teenager market set it in highschool like every other piece of Japanese media

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      yeah. i am not as anti-horny as many on this site but like. come the fuck on. at the very least have the decency to not do that shit. and also just make porn, you clearly want to, no one reading it is doing it for any emotion they get from the characters or anything, everyone would be happier if they could just admit this was meant for people to jack off to and i could choose to not see it

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      yeah it's porn that's going for plausible deniability, making it worse both as porn and as a story. many such cases!

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      they were making shit that was this bad in the 80s and 90s, they just didn't bother pretending it wasn't porn so it had no penetration

      typed that without thinking about it, but you know what i mean

  • SnowySkyes [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    That sounded pretty damn cool up until that third paragraph started existing.

  • TheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]
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    4 months ago

    i could really use something new to read but i dont know where to look aside from batoto's popular updates bit and that's all trash 90% of the time (and a lot of it is just porn, which is no). i guess it's cos while i can theoretically enjoy het shit i hate what cis het women tend to like? thonk-cri

    maybe ill just reread princess wars again

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      hmm. my latest big romance rec is she loves to cook and she loves to eat, which is really good ongoing yuri (about adults! with jobs! i wrote a whole thing here). i haven't read skip and loafer but i've heard a lot of good things about it from people i generally trust.

      • TheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]
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        4 months ago

        Ooh that looks cute! I'll check it out tomorrow, thanks for the rec!

        I think i started reading skip and loafer at some point but never got into it

        • Cromalin [she/her]
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          yeah! there's at least 2 more volumes already out that haven't been translated and i'm very excited for when that happens

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I went into this thread expecting a completely different type of horrible manga.

    At least we have genres I guess.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Isekai power fantasy wish fulfillment.

        • Cromalin [she/her]
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          ahhh, yeah. that stuff doesn't get as much traction on the mangadex homepage, mangadex seems to gravitate towards horny wish fulfillment about 'this girl i'm next to is incredibly sexy but also the perfect tradwife and secretly in love with me!' that post one page a day

          • Owl [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            Sounds even worse. The tradwife stuff really elevates it over the usual yuck-level

            My exposure to awful culture mostly comes from a web fiction discord I'm on, which is like 1/3rd good, 1/3rd awful fanfics, and 1/3rd power progression trash.

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    That and r/manga are really bad in that regard. I found an alright way to discover stuff to read is (aside from harassing friends/comrades for recommendations) to the MAL interest stacks page.

    From time to time, someone with actual taste puts together a decent list, instead of just listing 20 horny romcoms.

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      yeah i mostly harass friends and sometimes check out things people recommend here

      and also recommend things a lot and sometimes people go "oh, i liked that! it reminded me of x, you should check it out!"

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    I sometimes wonder why I've lost interest in nearly all Japanese manga and have switched over to Korean manhwa with a light dabbling of Chinese manhua, and this post reminded me of how libertarian-alert panting manga tends to be.