| If you want me to be honest with you, I think both of those genres are pretty terrible. No idea why one is favored over the other. Oversaturation of any genre is a serious problem, even if it's one I'm particularly fond of, like horror for instance. |
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| Probably because there are a lot of isekai that lack a lot of things that good anime need, while most romcoms have likable characters, is actually funny, etc... And the the Truck-kun has already become a meme. |
| Romantic comedies have been fairly common for years if not decades. It's expected "background noise" in the mix of yearly and seasonal anime production. Isekai, on the other hand, has seen a noticeable surge in recent times, and is thus easier to identify and/or hate on. And there's not really a surge in romcom, either. Based on this list, I've identified these amounts of romantic comedies, or at least of anime that contain reasonable amounts of each: 2020: 8 2019: 12 2018: 18 2017:13 2016:10 2015: 23 2014: 25 2013: 23 2012: 29 2011: 19 2010: 29 2009: 19 2008: 30 2007: 26 2006: 36 2005: 27 2004: 19 2003: 19 2002: 19 2001: 16 2000: 14 If anything, romantic comedy is closer to historic lows than anything resembling oversaturation. It's similar to how we've also seen a decline in ecchi anime since the mid-2010s, probably because many romcoms have ecchi/harem elements as well. If anyone doesn't like the quantity of romcom out now, they would've had it much worse in the late 2000s. |
| I'll just share my opinion, I have the right to be salty cause my fav ecchi manga don't get adaptations. if the number if isekai and ecchi would've been equal each season I would keep quite |
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| Romcoms have been going on for decades while isekai became a trend just a few years ago. That's the difference between them. Romcom as a genre has already been ingrained in the media for as long as I can remember. |
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| People have different tastes and some like to have more of their favorite genre each season and hate when more of the genre they hate is being made. |
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| Romcom is exist in real life. Isekai is not. I don't really have a problem with isekai, but I hate it when most isekai has similar setting, medieval RPG-like setting. Realistic romcom is limited in setting, but I hate it (more) when isekai do the same. |
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| idk, isekai is a lot more blatently following a trend while as someone else mentioned in this thread, rom coms have been staple anime for a very long time. Isekai is pretty much becoming staple anime as well, there will likely be no stop in it as there are so many popular isekai lightnovels waiting to be adapted. |
| I don'y like half of the romcom you mentione and 90% of isekai |
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| I don't like either. Romcoms are trash, but isekai harems are worse than trash. |
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| Neither appeal to me honestly but I can say Romcoms have a bit more variety within them then Isekai do. |
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| Both are really oversaturated and I find most of both really bad. Equality of shit right here. |
| Has to do with how isekai usually has bland/poorly written and usually overpowered main protagonists. Rom-coms don’t get the same flack, but their content degrades when the gags become redundant as hell. For me, they both have an equal amount of stinkers. |
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| Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru isn't romcom. It's slice of life and drama. |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| You named like MAYBE 5% of the romcoms that came out in the period these shows are from. The difference is that isekai is extremely specific, yet has so many entries in its arsenal. They begin to emulate each other because a specific premise can only fit so many original ideas in it. Romcom is so vague and open, and can fit a virtually infinite amount of original settings and premises. There are generic romcoms, yes. But there are generic everything. I'd like to say though, that I view both in an equal light with relation to the shows in their arsenal. I love Re;Zero and Kaguya-sama, and also hate Hajimete no Gal and that Death March isekai. |
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| because everyone wants a gf, but not everyone wants to live amongst medieval peasants who smell of horseshit. to dwell further into this: romcom: oh cool a new girl, I wonder how she'll act. isekai: the guy died and was given a new chance. oh, it's the same fucking medieval europe bs with videogame elements. romcom is about the characters, and you can write and draw as many different characters as you can imagine. isekai is about the place it's set in and the rules it throws at you. and it's always the same setting with the same logic behind it. it's boring as hell. there was a chart that every medieval european city made in japan looks exactly like the same korean city irl. |
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Romantic comedies have been fairly common for years if not decades. It's expected "background noise" in the mix of yearly and seasonal anime production. Isekai, on the other hand, has seen a noticeable surge in recent times, and is thus easier to identify and/or hate on. And there's not really a surge in romcom, either. Based on this list, I've identified these amounts of romantic comedies, or at least of anime that contain reasonable amounts of each: 2020: 8 2019: 12 2018: 18 2017:13 2016:10 2015: 23 2014: 25 2013: 23 2012: 29 2011: 19 2010: 29 2009: 19 2008: 30 2007: 26 2006: 36 2005: 27 2004: 19 2003: 19 2002: 19 2001: 16 2000: 14 If anything, romantic comedy is closer to historic lows than anything resembling oversaturation. It's similar to how we've also seen a decline in ecchi anime since the mid-2010s, probably because many romcoms have ecchi/harem elements as well. If anyone doesn't like the quantity of romcom out now, they would've had it much worse in the late 2000s. My God, what happened in the 2000s and why were there so many romantic comedies? |
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| It is only over saturated if you dislike the genre otherwise the more the merrier I would think for the most part. There will be some crappy ones even to fans of the genre but generally I think they will be fine with lots and lots. |
| I've seen so many posts recently talking about "why do people hate Isekai's but love this". If you like Isekai that's fine. If people like romcoms that's fine. People like what they like and don't like what they don't like, deal with it |
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| We don't expect much from romcoms ,we already know that the plot progress is not much , while Isekai has so much potential and cool promos but ended up shit and cringe |
| Хайде, хайде, хайде, това е първата зона, брато, първа зона, първа зона, добре, добре, добре, това става тук горе, отива тук горе, само спокойно, само спокойно... Ха, отдясно е, навсякъде отдясно отдясно къде е дясното ти о да добре добре добре тихо мълчаливо не успях да се съсредоточа върху това ЕХ ТЪПАК КОГАТО СИ БАВНО БАВНО ... ой е путката на моето момиче прасе куче, аз Чувствам се добре, о, мамо, *шамар*, какво е това госпожице татко- |
| I don't think that the issue here is oversaturation since anime in general is already oversaturated in some ways. I think the reason why some anime fans favor romcom over isekai is because 1) the lack of quality most isekai is producing to represent its genre 2) the romcom genre's oversaturation itself is inevitable because the genre itself is applicable to any kind of medium outside anime so people have nothing to say about the issue of oversaturation 3) plots of most isekai animes are similar. well plots of most harem animes are similar too to be honest. however plots of most of romcoms isn't. You can also check out my anime list. Most of the animes i've watched consists of romcom harem and isekai genre. I've watched less shounen than isekai (i think) |
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Mae404 said: Love Hina happened. Or so I've heard.Romantic comedies have been fairly common for years if not decades. It's expected "background noise" in the mix of yearly and seasonal anime production. Isekai, on the other hand, has seen a noticeable surge in recent times, and is thus easier to identify and/or hate on. And there's not really a surge in romcom, either. Based on this list, I've identified these amounts of romantic comedies, or at least of anime that contain reasonable amounts of each: 2020: 8 2019: 12 2018: 18 2017:13 2016:10 2015: 23 2014: 25 2013: 23 2012: 29 2011: 19 2010: 29 2009: 19 2008: 30 2007: 26 2006: 36 2005: 27 2004: 19 2003: 19 2002: 19 2001: 16 2000: 14 If anything, romantic comedy is closer to historic lows than anything resembling oversaturation. It's similar to how we've also seen a decline in ecchi anime since the mid-2010s, probably because many romcoms have ecchi/harem elements as well. If anyone doesn't like the quantity of romcom out now, they would've had it much worse in the late 2000s. My God, what happened in the 2000s and why were there so many romantic comedies? |
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| perhaps many romcom's have more charm than the 08/15 isekai mishmash. not all, i am not the biggest romcom fan either. but romcom>>>>isekai |
| Also I just checked your anime list and I think you could answer your question already by yourself without asking. You gave 2 isekai animes a score lower than 5 (2 anime out of 5 isekai i suppose i wont bother to check again). Most isekai animes are in that same quality. You gave all romance/harem anime a score higher than 6 so thats it. |
| One Piece is the Greatest Shounen. |
| For me personally, I'm not sure what I'm going to get from an isekai. It could go a number of different ways. Rom coms on the other hand, you're more than likely to have a heartfelt confession somewhere near the end and I get a few second high from it. It's an expected emotion, but it's emotion nonetheless. Can't always expect to get the feels from an isekai tho.... |
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| I've pretty much been watching romcoms for as far as I can remember but even now I can still get really excited for some whereas after just 5 years of watching them isekais have become so repetitive that outside of the rare cases I pretty much just check them when I got nothing better to do. Both genres got their annoying tropes but one feel much more lazy than the other. |
| As someone who doesn´t even try 95% of RomComs and Isekais because both are trash and oversaturated with cliches, I guess it is because RomComs are more focused on the characters (which can add some variety) instead of just going for the same ol´ shit the Isekai has been doing for quite a few years now. Like, why do people watched Rent a girlfriend even though everyone had the same opinion that it was terrible? For the girls, that´s the reason. Isekais are usually focused on either the unkillable Gary Stu, the idiot whose libido attract all the ladies, or some pretentious edgelord who can do anything and is also a gary stu. |
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