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I'm yet to find something I'd like to read. I'm a big fan of slice of life elements mixed with fantasy and so far haven't found anything on the Korean and Chine

I'm yet to find something I'd like to read. I'm a big fan of slice of life elements mixed with fantasy and so far haven't found anything on the Korean and Chinese side that interests me. It's all power fantasy or soap operas. There doesn't seem to be none in between. Talking about Sousou no Frieren and Houseki no Kuni. Creative comedy like Dungeon Meshi. So far I'm yet to find some webtoon that interests me.

chocolatkey 4y ago
I'm definitely not disagreeing that manga can be more interesting. I'm mainly a manga reader myself, and find many more interesting series covering esoteric topics. But it's about appealing to the largest possible audience, and the reality (and I say this once again based on my and other's stats) is that currently, the male audience wants some variation of the escapist video game or medieval Europe setting with the weak-to-overpowered protagonist using swords and sorcery, probably reincarnated or time-traveling from the life of a loser/weakling. The female audience wants a medieval Europe setting where the protagonist (probably originally an average-looking female in our world or theirs) is either a "villainess", maid, knight or someone other position that makes is possible to have a reverse harem of hot guys with a sadistic or cold-to-warm (tsundere) personality. Those setups are being endlessly mined for new series, just adjust the variables and bam, new series. I do think that there are also some unique webtoons out there, you're just going to have trouble finding them because they're buried beneath the huge pile of more widespread popular series, which is what all the artists with talent are focusing on (Korean webtoon studios, and the industry as a whole, is a lot more profit-driven). It's also easy to judge a webtoon by its cover and think "oh yet another OP protagonist". Try some out, maybe you'll like one!
bowsamic 4y ago
Manga is more culturally developed, but it's just that it makes less money
creakingstairs 4y ago
> I'm a big fan of slice of life elements mixed with fantasy and so far haven't found anything on the Korean ... . It's all power fantasy or soap operas. As a Korean who used to read webtoon since the very start, this is what I feel these days too. There are more webtoons than ever, but they are all so generic.

chocolatkey 4y ago

I'm definitely not disagreeing that manga can be more interesting. I'm mainly a manga reader myself, and find many more interesting series covering esoteric topics. But it's about appealing to the largest possible audience, and the reality (and I say this once again based on my and other's stats) is that currently, the male audience wants some variation of the escapist video game or medieval Europe setting with the weak-to-overpowered protagonist using swords and sorcery, probably reincarnated or time-traveling from the life of a loser/weakling. The female audience wants a medieval Europe setting where the protagonist (probably originally an average-looking female in our world or theirs) is either a "villainess", maid, knight or someone other position that makes is possible to have a reverse harem of hot guys with a sadistic or cold-to-warm (tsundere) personality. Those setups are being endlessly mined for new series, just adjust the variables and bam, new series. I do think that there are also some unique webtoons out there, you're just going to have trouble finding them because they're buried beneath the huge pile of more widespread popular series, which is what all the artists with talent are focusing on (Korean webtoon studios, and the industry as a whole, is a lot more profit-driven). It's also easy to judge a webtoon by its cover and think "oh yet another OP protagonist". Try some out, maybe you'll like one!

bowsamic 4y ago

Manga is more culturally developed, but it's just that it makes less money

creakingstairs 4y ago

> I'm a big fan of slice of life elements mixed with fantasy and so far haven't found anything on the Korean ... . It's all power fantasy or soap operas. As a Korean who used to read webtoon since the very start, this is what I feel these days too. There are more webtoons than ever, but they are all so generic.