Writer: "Hey, I've got this idea for a manga: it's generic fantasy/revenge/slow-life plot #379,284. It's everything you've come to expect from every other manga, like a warm, comforting blanket of slop."
Editor: "Pass."
Writer: "But I also put 'netorare in the title to both frustrate the people who don't like it by it's very teased presence and frustrate the people who DO like it but its lack of real impact and focus."
Editor: "So basically its like lying clickbait in manga form?"
Writer: "we can also fool people into thinking it's isekai."
Editor: "SOLD! This'll get a billion reprintings, go for 20 volumes and probably get the best ass-level no-budget anime adaptation that we can afford for the money we find in the boardroom couch cushions!"
* handshake *
* Happy Days theme plays *
