CuriousGumWad's Things

This is a really shitty genre of Isekai that has happened more than once and one that I think is real anti-yaoi and kinda homophobic.

Basically a girl gets transmigrated into a BL/ Yaoi novel/comic and there's a love interest who was gay in the OG and was an obsessive/yandere character because of trauma but because the main girl fixes his trauma he is magically straight and in love with her. (This is not biphobic because he rarely shows interest in men after being"trauma healed" and might even outright be put off by the idea of being with men) I don't know why this is such a popular setup but I'm pretty sure it's for homophobic fujoshis who want to be the bottom and don't see gay men as people and don't respect queer culture or gay people. It also heavily implies being gay is a trauma response as there are no other queer characters male or female in the story as the other gay lead actually falls in love with the FL. She also only goes after them when they are children and is kinda groomery in a way.

Guys please I need someone to share this sorrow and gripe with this subgenre please

I understand that the women aren't the focus and that women come in all shapes and sizes but dear god can some of these artists not draw women. Like they're will be the most jacked handsome guy, dad bod guy, twink guy etc and then the woman characters are just the guys with long hair and (maybe) boobs and if you're lucky the girl will be wearing a dress/skirt and this makes it confusing on when they're talking about a character refered to as a sister, mother or any female pronouns are used. Either the girls just look like guys or the girls look copy and pasted but with different hair or on the off chance that the artist can do both effectively. Yes I understand women can look traditionally masculine and jacked but it usually feels less intentional as a choice and more of by product of a skill issue as the artist can only draw men/jacked men.

I'm bringing this up because I'm currently reading Unromantic and I can't tell if a character is meant to be a girl unless explicitly told or she's wearing a skirt +boobs+ long hair. Another manhwa that ran into this was "Low tide in twilight" I legit had to constantly second guess myself on whether or not his cousin was a girl or not because it was made clear it was an Alpha but dear god did it take constant reassurance.

I would like to mention again there's no issue with girl characters that are more traditionally masculine being more jacked and dressing in men's fashion but it feels unintentional rather than being intentional representation of these types of women

The villainess genre has gotten really stale and all the stories feel like same story in different fonts and I used to be really into this genre but now I want some good drama and fantasy which dungeon meshi has provided to me(no spoilers still reading).

You can rant about some stuff in these stories that get on your nerves but have become a staple.

I'll go first when they come from "the real world" it doesn't factor into the story like at all it's literally just an excuse to call her a "villainess" but not have her be evil because "she's a different person" even though the more interesting option of having an awful character grow and develop as a person is right there like. you can still have her know the future through a vision or go back time.

A lot of these stories don't pass the bechdel test.

The characters can be really one dimensional a lot of the times as they're all categorized as "good" or "evil" in the story rather than having any grey area, there are standardized roles like "the doting parent" and "maid that could've been a good yuri love interest with how much she sucks the FL's dick". If a character is ugly and/or fat they will be evil, stuck up or sexist.

I would like to quote tumblr user "catie-does-things" to address this other issue "if you want your female characters to both have agency in the story and be complex human individuals then sometimes bad things have to be their fault" villainess stories will never have the FL make a mistake or take responsibility for an harmful action that was her fault because "um actually that was OG villain FL not her new isekai FL therefore she owes none of these people an apology and they should just accept she's a different person with no proof or evidence and just her being a "nice" person" can you remember a single time a villainess has apologized?. That's not even getting to stories where she was "evil" because she was an abused child and she had to earn her family's love, money, nurturing and attention through good behavior and acting cute (you can figure the harmful implications of that on your own). Think of a single story where the MC has intentionally made a harmful impactful mistake and it wasn't her being framed. The stories that allow her to make mistakes and have her be disliked are the best ones "I have to get my husband on my side", "Death is the only ending for a villainess" and on a weaker not "kill the villainess. The Infallible "cool girl" villainess is a villainess so "cool" and "skilled" that she's detached from the people around her and once more do they treat this as a character flaw capable of hurting others no she just needs "love and affection" from a man she's known for less than a year who only started "loving" and paying attention to her because she's useful now and she doesn't need love and support from friends and family because she only starts letting them in when he breaks her down. I understand complexity is not what they're going for but for all of them to be this lazy, low effort and halfassed.

Attach the most outlandish and obnoxious uses of 3D you've seen in a comic and some context if it makes it funnier or more WTF.

This is more specific to full color manhwas and manhuas but do you guys ever get annoyed that they're so mass produced and rushed that all the backgrounds and props are 3D models especially when it's a more exaggerated style so it looks really out of place. I wouldn't care if the artist traced the 3D models or edited them to have the right shading and lighting but it just looks so off and out of place it's jarring when it's slapped in their raw with that clunky ass gray tone and shadow. But then sometimes it's the stupidest shit like why can't you draw a book? It's just a rectangle I don't care if you draw it poorly and under detailted learn how to draw objects please or you'll never get better. Or like one time it was a throne just draw a fancy chair. I think we've all seen the shitty horses.