/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>17586912
my theory (it's not a particularly novel or uncommon one) is that just having a route ruins like 90% of heroines. the more fun a girl she is, the dumber her drama has to be in order to make up the contractually obligated 40% of the route where she is depressed, uncommunicative, or otherwise the exact opposite of the girl she was going into the route. due to the prevalence of bad writing and cheap tragedy ex machinas, character development ends up being a bad thing. side characters can remain untouched by this.

all things genki must inevitably fade. such is the will of the universe.

i swear the nipponjin thought up one day that fictional characters could be the opposite on the inside of what they appear to be on the outside, and they've never let that trope go for an instant ever since. it is the pillar around which all lazy storytelling revolves. the loli is actually super strong. the buff muscly dude is actually a big softie inside. demons are nice and angels are the evil ones. bright and cheery girls are all hiding darkness inside.

please excuse the rant, that one's been frothing around inside me for a while now.