Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-25555436-20150315141203

Zolnir wrote: I don't think you realize, Live, that most published Light Novel as of now use exactly that setting - crossing into an Alternate Universe. More specifically, the one that's selling now is the one like SAO or Log Horizon with stats screens, skills and everything. There's Only Sense Online (one of the better ones actually), Skill Thief, I-Reincarnated-As-A-Slime, Leged of Shield Hero and so on.

So the setting you detest is pretty much used by almost every Japanese published writer in the world. This is set off by legendary masterpieces such as Familiar Zero, and the trend has not ended since. You are free to dislike it, but your comment is most definitely inaccurate at best. I can't call Familiar of Zero a "masterpiece", and my opinion about the japanese writers is negative-at-best. Too unoriginal, too cliché, they don't even try to subvert ideas anymore, they just grab the most overused tropes of the genre they are going to make a story about, probably make a Marty Stu or 2 depending on the genre (I'm looking at you, Mahouko Koukou No Rettousei and No Game No Life), and think it's great and original. No, that's just pathetic lack of any sense of originality.

Anime these days have everything I hate, and that's why I rarely watch anime these days. Too much shit, not enough quality and most of all variety for godfuckingdamnsake. Not talking just about that kind of setting. But more in-general.

As for people liking that despite being practically the same shit every time and again in each genre, most japanese know nothing of originality or creativity, and in the rest of the world there are many people that don't give a damn about seeing the same shit, they will still pay for it because....because, really, they don't even have a good reason for it.

It's like Call of Duty. Same shit all the time, only difference is maybe, the maps, killstreaks, and rarely some new weapons every 7 years. But other than that, heck even with that, it's the same shit all the time.