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Getting tired of tropes is something tricky for me; I don't think I consume enough media to get 'tired' of something. I will say that I'm not a big fan of this tendency that some media has to appeal — or pander — to the audience with their protagonist. I see this with a lot of male-oriented anime, shōnen. I think it's called. Isekai anime recently picked this one up a lot. It feels like it's trying to create a self-insert for the viewer. Kind of... I don't know — not my thing. It's a popular genre, so this is evidently not something that the viewers find annoying, or else it’d be phased out, but it made me just not watch Isekai anymore.
I don't know if this is a trope, but one thing really pisses me off: editor-level meddling for the sake of pandering to focus groups. I recently learned that both JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Dragon Ball were meant to have a significant female role in their storyline, but editor meddling kept it from happening. More specifically, Part II, JoJo's mother, was meant to take a much more active and badass lead in the story. In DB to DBZ, IIRC it was something about Launch and a few others taking more center stage.
As for my favorite trope, I'd say that would fall down to powerful female characters. I'm not going to get into the 'I want more representation' in media thing — it's not even about that, really. I just have a really strong draw to seeing really well-made female characters who kick ass. I feel a little annoyed when people bring up that 'it's not realistic' for a female to be beating up beefy men, but... Ugh, I don't even want to go down that argument line.
Yay for necroposting! Sorry!
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last edit on Sept 8, 2020 3:08:50 GMT by 「NOXA」
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