Weird pattern I've been seeing in manga recently.

[panzerkampfwagyu]

The funny thing is that Isekai NTR is actually one of the good stories

 

[nyakeru3]

I don't wanna scare away a friendly newbie.

lol thank you friend

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I recommend Hero Union BBS, btw, for a series that showed what Isekai can be.
Hope the rest of authors that aren't trendchasers will move into a direction that is more like this

 

[Mangamoz]

The funny thing is that Isekai NTR is actually one of the good stories

Eh, I personally find it kind of mid on the NTR part.

The girls don't feel like "real heroines" for me to feel any sense of NTR. They are just throwaway hentai heroines without a personality.

Need an emotional connection to feel the pain.

 

[nyakeru3]

I recommend Hero Union BBS, btw, for a series that showed what Isekai can be.
Hope the rest of authors that aren't trendchasers will move into a direction that is more like this

Will definitely give it a look, thank you friend

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Eh, I personally find it kind of mid on the NTR part.

The girls don't feel like "real heroines" for me to feel any sense of NTR. They are just throwaway hentai heroines without a personality.

Need an emotional connection to feel the pain.

Oh, I agree. The Netori there is mostly superficial, but the rest is pretty good

 

[Manko-sensei]

Eh, I personally find it kind of mid on the NTR part.

The girls don't feel like "real heroines" for me to feel any sense of NTR. They are just throwaway hentai heroines without a personality.

Need an emotional connection to feel the pain.

You're evil, you know that?

 

[CertifiedNutter]

so my two cents....
the whole NTR thing has existed quite a while in a vanilla sense, not explicitly but way back to the early naughties the trope of the heroine getting an arranged engagement from her parents showed up frequently.
Things like debt, blackmail, etc they scare us with it for it to be something they overcome but for quite some time they have exploited that anxiety despite it not happening.
I do notice this becoming alot more apparent in non-h manga, if the FMC is from a high-class or rich family you can be sure they have to tackle an arranged marriage at some point.
Theres also alot of mangas that start with the 'i was cheated on so i restarted my life' trope now, which i dont mind so much really, if i have no emotional investment in the romance between them its just character background to me.
So im not japanese but i have watched a few videos that there is quite the cheating epidemic in japan right now, like adultry rates that would make france blush (where its illegal to dna test, yes i am looking at you france you damn sexy bastards!) so i think this culture is influencing the art that is produced by it to some extent. That being said i think this goes hand in hand with the rise of popularity of gyaru romances because on a few occasions in the vids it was mentioned that gyaru and counter culture people were actually seen as more loyal because they was opposite of 'normal' (which to me implies that adultry has become so widespread its almost considered normal to happen)

 

[Manko-sensei]

so my two cents....
the whole NTR thing has existed quite a while in a vanilla sense, not explicitly but way back to the early naughties the trope of the heroine getting an arranged engagement from her parents showed up frequently.
Things like debt, blackmail, etc they scare us with it for it to be something they overcome but for quite some time they have exploited that anxiety despite it not happening.
I do notice this becoming alot more apparent in non-h manga, if the FMC is from a high-class or rich family you can be sure they have to tackle an arranged marriage at some point.
Theres also alot of mangas that start with the 'i was cheated on so i restarted my life' trope now, which i dont mind so much really, if i have no emotional investment in the romance between them its just character background to me.
So im not japanese but i have watched a few videos that there is quite the cheating epidemic in japan right now, like adultry rates that would make france blush (where its illegal to dna test, yes i am looking at you france you damn sexy bastards!) so i think this culture is influencing the art that is produced by it to some extent. That being said i think this goes hand in hand with the rise of popularity of gyaru romances because on a few occasions in the vids it was mentioned that gyaru and counter culture people were actually seen as more loyal because they was opposite of 'normal' (which to me implies that adultry has become so widespread its almost considered normal to happen)

There's a lot of mixing in there, even calling it an epidemic... if you want to seriously talk about contemporary Japanese society there's a lot of literature you need to read before than just watching some videos, and the only acceptable response would be in paper format. Arranged/convenience marriages are just that, something convenient, but of course there's more life to that and these TV dramas/films + novels + manga make them look a lot more fancy or depraved (depending on your tastes). In the end, why do you think there are so many harem series, both for shounen and shoujo? And about gyarus, they're the opposite of the trend originated in the 90s, where gyarus were violent and the motto was "loose socks mean loose sex". Want to blame something? Blame the great recession and the successive (economic) recessions they had since that decade.