/lit/ - Literature

>>16894505
>"I wrote a manga about getting my pussy fiddled, now I have a will (nectar) to live"
What really pushed me over the edge into outright hating this was how she published three more books with the exact same premise after the first was successful. It's like a female version of Welcome to the NHK, where the author wrote an entire book about how he hated being a shut-in nerd but then used its success to keep being a shut-in for the rest of his life.
Being self-aware but not having the ability to do anything about your problems is a problem for adolescents. It's understandable when a young person acts this way, but an adult who indulges in public self-pity on this level is just embarrassing.
Stuff like this is why I think a lot of anime/manga creators are kind of childish, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. On the one hand, the stuff they make resonates with young people far better than American YA stuff, which has a tendency to feel like a product made by adults for kids. On the other, anime/manga at its worst has a tendency to come across as immature and self-indulgent, even by the standards of a teenager. This is exacerbated when the comic in question is supposedly something that deals with "adult issues."
Of course there are exceptions, and I don't think anime/manga is all bad. At the end of the day Japanese-style pop culture (targeted at teenagers and nobody else) is still better than American-style pop culture (targeted at every level of society in an attempt to turn everyone into mental teenagers.)