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And your opinion of that trend

Every protagonist always ends up with a hot opposite gender character. <- Makes me kind of envious, and raise my standards in girls...Maybe this is why I'll become a wizard...

August 18, 2015

15 Comments • Newest first

TuneX

@traase: It's still not as bad as Japanese manga.

Reply August 20, 2015
ShammyShakes

[quote=flashyboob]1. protag tries to defeat bad guy
2. protag gets convinent powerup
3. bad guy: "HOW DID HE/SHE GAIN SO MUCH POWER! WHAT IS THIS!"
4. protag: "it's the power... of FRIENDSHIP!"[/quote]

i love your basilid almost as much as i love @hornynippies

Reply August 20, 2015
FlashyBoob

1. protag tries to defeat bad guy
2. protag gets convinent powerup
3. bad guy: "HOW DID HE/SHE GAIN SO MUCH POWER! WHAT IS THIS!"
4. protag: "it's the power... of FRIENDSHIP!"

Reply August 19, 2015
Traase

[quote=tunex]This is why i stopped reading Japanese manga/anime and started reading Korean and Chinese manga.[/quote]

manhwa also have their 'trends' half of the top 10 action or whatever deals with vampires, the artstyle looks good but i dont see artists having their own unique style. not like there arent harems in manhwa such as girls of the wild and even stuff like tower of god is repetitive. japanese korean chinese whatever. all the same. some will be good some are bad

Reply August 19, 2015
simaini

1. New enemy appears, stronger than any other enemy the protagonist has faced before.
2. protagonist gets ass handed to him
3. protagonist trains to get some extreme power up, or is miraculously given that power up.
4. protagonist can now defeat enemy easily.
5. repeat 1-4.

Reply August 19, 2015
TuneX

This is why i stopped reading Japanese manga/anime and started reading Korean and Chinese manga.

Reply August 18, 2015
KamikazeDes

It's because people who read/watch manga/anime feel the need to self-insert in to the protagonist, so mangaka make a completely average teenage protagonist and gives them an enormous harem of beautiful girls or has them trip in to boobs and asses for 300+ chapters. Pandering to the worst degree.
See "Nisekoi" and "To-love-ru."

Reply August 18, 2015
Avatar

The power of friendship. The main protagonists are the only ones able to shop in the eccentric clothes store for the color blind.

Reply August 18, 2015
BlissHD

The "Chosen One", whether its by lineage or their ability is supremely unique to everyone else, or is later revealed to have either of those things.

I don't usually mind it, because we're typically only invested in the main character anyways. But its definitely a nice change of pace when the MC is actually just a normal person, living through their world without affecting it in some large, grandiose way.

Reply August 18, 2015
pieshadowxx

It's quite sad really. They call it "pandering", but the idea of having some pathetic protagonist never appealed to me. I'd much rather have a good looking male lead, even though I'm nothing like him.

If he's got some really nice quality/qualities going for him though, then good for him, he deserves it.

Reply August 18, 2015 - edited
Cxter

In harems when the guy is weak, Unappealing, scared or anything like the mc of accel world.

Reply August 18, 2015 - edited
VietUA

In Harems when girls fall for such a boring, unlikable guy
like srs waste ladies get standards

Reply August 18, 2015 - edited
Snooki

kimi ni todoke
Sukitte Ii na yo
Princess Jellyfish

Reply August 18, 2015 - edited