Banter/Off-topic Thread & Community Stoning Platform

[NeneHATE]

It sells well, it's a good business segment if you are publishing books. A compact, serialized novella with intricately simplified language edited, exquisitely, to appeal to the 25->40 year old single male salaryman segment. If they become mildly popular it will get picked up for a horrible anime adaptation, if it does well you can tie that to a terrible arena-fighter videogame and more OVAs. It would be a shame to let a goldmine go unmined.

The terrifying bit is not what gets published, but the trillions of EVEN SHITTIER attempts in writing sites that don't. A big reason why a lot of these are so trash is because they are rushed to hell, authors will pump them out in 6 months and then post chapters daily in these sites to get as much attention as possible. Everyone writes the same derivative garbage because it's the only thing the retards who go on those sites want and it has become the META, so everyone just makes slightly different versions of the same shit trying to get their 15 seconds of front page viewership for the remote chance to get picked up and published.

 

[MerelyTourist]

The terrifying bit is not what gets published, but the trillions of EVEN SHITTIER attempts in writing sites that don't. A big reason why a lot of these are so trash is because they are rushed to hell, authors will pump them out in 6 months and then post chapters daily in these sites to get as much attention as possible. Everyone writes the same derivative garbage because it's the only thing the retards who go on those sites want and it has become the META, so everyone just makes slightly different versions of the same shit trying to get their 15 seconds of front page viewership for the remote chance to get picked up and published.

What's worse, most NEVER FUCKING FINISH EVEN IF IT'S DECENT!!!
They pump like 200 short chapters, then go on hiatus to rewrite first 50, then push 150 chapters on amazon as 3 volumes (which is approximately equal to 3 chapters of TWI), then fucking disappear from the face of the planet!!!

 

[Laidho]

The terrifying bit is not what gets published, but the trillions of EVEN SHITTIER attempts in writing sites that don't. A big reason why a lot of these are so trash is because they are rushed to hell, authors will pump them out in 6 months and then post chapters daily in these sites to get as much attention as possible. Everyone writes the same derivative garbage because it's the only thing the retards who go on those sites want and it has become the META, so everyone just makes slightly different versions of the same shit trying to get their 15 seconds of front page viewership for the remote chance to get picked up and published.

Oh man, someone else that is familiar with Syosetu. A fellow comrade! The pain never subsides, it only gets worse with time.

Sometimes, I wonder which is worse: Japanese Isekai or Chinese Cultivation? The question haunts me in my dreams.

 

[NeneHATE]

Oh man, someone else that is familiar with Syosetu. A fellow comrade! The pain never subsides, it only gets worse with time.

Sometimes, I wonder which is worse: Japanese Isekai or Chinese Cultivation? The question haunts me in my dreams.

It's the same in westoid sites like royalroad, nothing but litRPG there, same fucking META bullshit.

 

[MerelyTourist]

Sometimes, I wonder which is worse: Japanese Isekai or Chinese Cultivation? The question haunts me in my dreams.

Tranny getting isekaied to chink world.

 

[Koronesuki]

It's more than just "otherworld" though. Sure you have to 1) get killed 2) reincarnate, but with isekai the following elements are in place
Remember that this tripe sells by the barrel because it is office salaryman escapism


1) You had to have been sad sack in human life
2) never got any, and thus die a virgin
3) you reincarnate in what I can only describe as a Disneyfied and sanitized version of springtime Holy Roman Empire circa XI century with a dash of the potestate italian city states during their mercantile apogee
4) every woman in this fantasy land finds you automatically interesting and or fuckable on sight
5) without exception every day ends in a "tavern" drinking yourself silly, nevermind having the funds to afford such lifestyle
6) if there's magic, it turns into a child of destiny situation

Those are all elements of the sort of isekai that have been popular in recent years, but the concept is older and much broader than that. Isekai is really just any sort of fantasy story involving characters from the real world travelling to a fantasy world. Older anime examples include The Vision of Escaflowne, El Hazard, Fushigi Yugi, MÄR, and even Digimon Adventure.

Please tell me "portal fantasy" is some made-up tv-tropes crap and not an actual genre of academic study.

I can't say that I've ever seen the phrase used before, but the concept is certainly common: Wonderland, Oz, Narnia... I'm sure you can probably think of other examples yourself.

 

[Aquatic Novellite]

The terrifying bit is not what gets published, but the trillions of EVEN SHITTIER attempts in writing sites that don't. A big reason why a lot of these are so trash is because they are rushed to hell, authors will pump them out in 6 months and then post chapters daily in these sites to get as much attention as possible. Everyone writes the same derivative garbage because it's the only thing the retards who go on those sites want and it has become the META, so everyone just makes slightly different versions of the same shit trying to get their 15 seconds of front page viewership for the remote chance to get picked up and published.

What's worse, most NEVER FUCKING FINISH EVEN IF IT'S DECENT!!!
They pump like 200 short chapters, then go on hiatus to rewrite first 50, then push 150 chapters on amazon as 3 volumes (which is approximately equal to 3 chapters of TWI), then fucking disappear from the face of the planet!!!

You, too, are familiar with Harry Potter fanfiction, I see.

And Naruto fanfiction.

And really just all fanfiction that achieves moderate popularity.

 

[MerelyTourist]

You, too, are familiar with Harry Potter fanfiction, I see.
And Naruto fanfiction.
And really just all fanfiction that achieves moderate popularity.

Never read a single fanfic in my life. Only orignals. Never touched hairy porter anything.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

Hairy porter sounds like some Full metal Jacket fanfic

 

[Laidho]

You, too, are familiar with Harry Potter fanfiction, I see.

And Naruto fanfiction.

The way people tag those stories you would think Harry Potter and Naruto are independent Black women of color who needs no man.

 

[MerelyTourist]

The way people tag those stories you would think Harry Potter and Naruto independent Black women of color who needs no man.

i knew i won't miss anything by never looking at fanfics

 

[RestlessRain]

Hexa was an alcoholic long before I came along. But I do appreciate that she doesn't hate/ban me for all the shit I post.

I can't work out if Hexa made you her janny because she likes the shit that you post, or because she hates the shit that you post.

 

[naganon]

He finally admits it.

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

He finally admits it.

(Hexa is making a music video and is asking for hate comments, or people to be in the video as hate comments, and this was my submission)

 

[naganon]

I can't work out if Hexa made you her janny because she likes the shit that you post, or because she hates the shit that you post.

Probably a combination of both.

 

[thhrang]

Probably a combination of both.

It's insurance to make sure you don't become an anti.

 

[RestlessRain]

It's insurance to make sure you don't become an anti.

What's an anti going to do that Niganon isn't already doing? Post out-of-context clips of her? Claim she's racist? Post her facedox?

 

[naganon]

It's insurance to make sure you don't become an anti.

I don't think she needs to worry about that.

What's an anti going to do that Niganon isn't already doing? Post out-of-context clips of her? Claim she's racist? Post her facedox?

 

[thhrang]

Post out-of-context clips of her? Claim she's racist?

I'm getting déjà vu!

In fairness to you, I think she lost the right to complain about 'out of context clips' when one of the first things she willingly posted on this forum was about her hatred of the Jews.

 

[naganon]

I'm getting déjà vu!

You know, she's says she's not racist, but I still have no clue what her justification is of that post.