What happened to tsunderes?
Current romance is the "social media" era where effort is considered cringe. The social media era is the "era of convenience," hence the romantic fantasy being someone who clearly and unconditionally loves the self-insert.Tsunderes themselves steadily progressed from one to the other, as well. Nowadays a tsundere is almost indistinguishable from another type of love interest, other than that they get flustered more easily.Also a lot of people making anime now are either indulgent otaku or people blackpilled from the Lost Decades that boomer Japanese economic policy have extended. They just want escapism (also why isekai is so big) and those sorts of saccharine romances are part of it.
>>287635632I disagree that the people making these anime now are indulgent otaku. I think they're mostly people who just want a quick buck off anime. Peak otaku indulgency was the 2000s where you saw the most concentration of otaku tropes in anime and hence it was the best era to me
>>287635223They got what they deserved.
>>287635223here's u're tsundere
>>287635223I love ponkotsu for keeping the flame lit for real tsunderes, easily my fav for this season
>>287635223I miss them.
>>287635632considering that one of the biggest romcom creator Rumiko Takahashi was a self inserter herself and knowingly used her mangas as escapism, this isn't surprising.(she even rebutted that you didn't live to have "life experiences" to write manga to Hayao Miyazaki that said the exact opposite)
>>287635632Anime during the bubble was made by indulgent otaku. Anime is now made by outsourced labor and written by marketing teams.
We're not allowed to have true tsundere where she starts out 100% tsun and gradually over many chapters/episodes warms up to the MC because people will think she's a bitch if she doesn't immediately fawn all over him. Now the best we get is tsun for 5 seconds but then immediately becomes dere for the rest of the series.
