When are we going to leave the era of "attract a wide audience by making the protagonist as generic and inoffensive as possible"? It clearly doesn't even work because everyone ends up preferring the characters who actually have personalities (the side characters and villains) instead. Let protagonists be their own characters instead of everymen.
>>283619554That's why we like these guys
i think we already left this behind, but we just started are now just noticing it>examplein isekaii and shonen i've started seeing a lot of attempts to make the premise characters the most unique or different from their predecessors. isekaii about old men, isekaii about vending machines, shonen about samurai but the samurai are now young boys with huge hips that are the main sex appeal of the book, shonen about old men assassins. There's been a lot of attempts to defy the status quo
It does work though. Manga, anime and light novels are more popular than ever. People love self inserting as literal me characters and pretending they're the ones being friends with the interesting characters.
Whenever you watch something other than those
