/lit/ - Literature

>>20378840
Japanese works are going to be bad by western standards, because they're not written according to western standards to begin with. For example, you will find almost no japanese fantasy that takes itself very seriously. There's often a tacit understanding between the author and the reader that you have no interest in the real world to begin with, so it doesn't try to do things that you would interpret as validating to realism, like talking about sweaty man bodies. In fact a lot of the genre can be considered actively anti-realism. Most stories will seek a mixture of novelty and hyper-idealism, infamously there's even a series about the protagonist being reincarnated as a vending machine in a fantasy setting. It started as a web novel and now has a light novel and a manga adaptation, people probably wouldn't be too surprised at this point once it gets an anime. You can't really make any generalizations because of how far authors take their various gimmicks, it's a total mixed bag.

That isn't to say it's very good. To put it a certain way: When I read japanese work I'm disappointed by the lack of quality. When I read western work I'm instead disappointed by the lack of creativity.