How is recently I saw a lot decent manga got axed, while harem manga with terrible quality got survive for long time. I am kinda worried about people preference for picking those rather than manga with decent story.
Because harem is a easy sell to horny teenagers and lonely young man, same for overpowered generic protagonist in some shounen, among other things, it's not without reason that isekai genre exploded in popularity and is chock-full of the most generic garbage possible while somehow still selling
Unfortunately self insert garbage is a easy sell
The problem is that the Japanese market wants wish fulfilment over good stories.
I wouldn't say it's what the market wants necessarily because there is a lot of serirs that are not self insert wish fulfillment but there is indeed a lot of it, probably because Japan society can
really fucking sucks so a lot of readers want shallow and easy escapism where they can just turn their brains off and forget their problems