Many chinese manhua heroines are arrogant ("Oh, she's beautiful, but not as beautiful as m...

Anonymous March 26, 2020 3:47 am

Many chinese manhua heroines are arrogant ("Oh, she's beautiful, but not as beautiful as me. Ohohoho!" Isn't it kind of tiring to believe or bluff yourself into a high pedestal everytime you see "a decent competitor"?), self-possessed, courageous, yet relatively shallow women (I just can't shun the image of a girl sneakily rubbing her hands together and grinning like a plotting cat as she "hugs her golden thigh person", butters up to people, etc.) And ranks a lot of the things they see. Say a cute but weak beast gets attached to them, they'd say, " Why'd this useless beast get so attached to me!? It should stay away!!! Ugh! Give me a precious beast!!!"(don't you feel a little bad for the beast?), or if they have food that is subpar but perfectly edible and isn't exactly disgusting anyway, "Ugh, they intend to feed me this?!" It's good that they know what they want and how to fight for it, but basically from what I see the heroine's a "bad girl" (otherwise she'd be a pushover bullied to literal death), and every other girl ranges from being harmless to super powered (not necessarily literally, like some girls just have really powerful backing or something), so it's like several variations of preys and predators everytime. They sort of become shallow replicas of each other.

Still, these heroines are still better than manhua heroines who are fragile, in worlds where a lot of people are mean, that the reader sometimes can't help but get frustrated over their helplessness, and yet this works because you want to see the heroine get a happy ending or see how she'll deal with the situation anyways.

Don't like, don't read. I know. But I can't help but point that out, and reading a few chapters of this makes me see all these features combined yet again.

There's nothing wrong with stereotypes, but if there's barely any difference in the way they think and the way many others think, it makes them look like mere replicas of each other.
As if the special "doctor", "genius gamer", "assassin" etc. Tagline wasn't always the case with transmigrators. (Which, in turn, makes normal girls all the more special amongst a sea of these geniuses, ironically, although I have yet to know whether or not this MC was indeed a "normal" girl.)

I know that at this point, there are also many Japanese and Korean heroines that are stereotypes, and sometimes they're pretty similar with one another (along with their stories, especially with the sudden boom of the reincarnation and transmigration - yeah, yeah, I know it was a pretty common theme, but it's EVERYWHERE now.) But for me it's more obvious with Chinese heroines.

Responses
    Todorokiismyhoe May 6, 2020 3:37 pm

    Damn that was a whole essay but I agree

    Roselol May 31, 2021 2:37 pm

    Atleast they have things to be arrogant this fl is so fucking weak physically and mentally