Why is so much new manga isekai and yaoi/yuri?

Yesterday, 12:06 AM

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IDK. Going onto sites like Seven Seas or Yen Press for example to check their monthly new manga releases you find a giga crap ton of isekai and yaoi. It's either a manga with a stupidly long title usually starting with "I was transported to another world" "Reborn in another world as" "I got reincarnated" blah blah blah or a cover with two dudes cuddling and flirting. Some yuri here and there too. There's really only a few manga that aren't about isekai, yaoi, or yuri. Something that isn't about being someone being reborn into a fantasy world and gaining a harem or two dudes/girls kissing.

I mean nothing wrong if you enjoy these kind of stories but seriously. Where's the variety of genres?

Yesterday, 8:49 AM

jacobPOL

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Because many of these manga which are Isekai are adapted from light novels in which light novels are the original source material.

Yesterday, 10:56 AM

Sasori56483

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Yaoi is short and finished into 1 or 2 volumes (or 7, but never more than 10). So authors are always into new series. Shounen romance is also in that bin.

Light novel adaptations are very trial and error, but pay the bills for the new mangaka to do something better later. Fumetsu no anata he, and Koe no Katachi author first work was a Mardock Scramble lightnovel to manga adaptation. New mangaka doing adaptations are prone to getting axed faster.

West never got them, but some trends have a lot of manga, finished, unpublished in the west, and cheap to license. And some of these trends even have good works.

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