Is fad-chasing a new phenomenon? Why didn't isekai get

>>158328933
The mains in all the old isekai series were average Joes or honorfags.

Needed more hikkitakuNEETs

>>158328933
>Is fad-chasing a new phenomenon?
No you fucking retard, fads have been around for as long as there have been people with time on their hands

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>>158329383
This. You couldn't hope to catch the otaku audience with the protagonists of yore.

>>158329383
>hikkitakuNEETs
They're never real otaku NEET hikkis, otherwise they would spend a few hours in a cave crying and hiding from everything until they died of starvation. The few who actually have some skill would be raping everything they could get their hands on. There's no such thing as a moralfag NEET in real life.

>>158328933
Is she eating a screwdriver?

>>158328933
because even normalfags know that Louise is shit

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>>158329524
>isekai were an edgy otaku uses his skills to take over the world and become the demon lord

I want this.

>>158329524
Those anons are right though, moralfags are fucking boring. Problem is, anime still uses them, a lot. They're always whiteknights/moralfags, the only slightly less than moralfag main character in a popular anime was Kazuma, and even he only just had an abrasive personality.

>>158329585
only the anime version of her

>>158329784
you expect normalfags to read light novels?

>>158329672
A flat character is boring, regardless of how much they make you feel like you could be a badass in the Matrix.

The vast majority of main characters in these series are safe audience cyphers, and that's why they're boring. Hyper edge is a novelty because it's the simplest change to a safe, generic archetype, as are hyper protective motherfuckers like the dude from Demi-chan.

Everything /a/ thinks is cool or different got done by either Go Nagai or Osamu Tezuka in the 70s.

>>158328933
Is isekai even getting "retardedly poupular"? I feel like people just say it's popular because SAO, NGNL, and Konosuba had some popularity. That doesn't mean much. The concept of being transported to another world has definitely been around for a long time.

>>158330267
log horizon, overlord, grimgar and i'm sure there are a bunch more that i forgot about. it's retardedly popular because there were so many of them in so few seasons. one season had like 3 identical shows.

>The few who actually have some skill would be raping everything they could get their hands on.
Nice projection there buddy.

>>158330411
Three shows is "retardedly popular"? Do you even have any actual idea how many isekai anime there have been over the years? It's been an ensconced staple genre of anime since the 80's.

It's had a recent resurgence, fine, but hardly what I would consider noteworthy.

>>158331286
You clearly don't know enough about japanese otaku, and /a/, if you think this isn't true.

>>158328933
>Is fad-chasing a new phenomenon?
I've seen a lot of dumb "Is X new?" bullshit in my time, but this takes the cake.

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>>158332699
>You clearly don't know enough about japanese otaku, and /a/, if you think this isn't true.
I read WN written by them though.

>>158328933
because that show overstayed its welcome. everything past season 2 was shit

>>158328933
Isekai has always been fairly popular, it just exploded recently

>>158334139
When it started being called Isekai is when it started to become a problem.

Once it became a "genre" it gained ossified tropes that have to be included because it's an Isekai story.