What is your take on the dark, edgy trend?

@RobertBobert Not too sure about that. A lot of recent romcom manga are like that.

@Yuu_Kanzaki Yes, but in general, shoujo manga is much more fond of a plot where you look like a nerd while your love interest is the second coming of Marlon Brando. Male-focused manga prefers to make protagonists simply “average”, since men usually rate their appearance higher.

@RobertBobert I find the opposite to be true. Shojo manga tends to have the girl sits at a "lower class" than the guy or to make the guy handsome yet very cold rather than the guy being an outcast of the class.

But I read too little shojo to come up with an opinion backed up by real data.

It's been here for forever, it'd be strange for it to disappear. In my opinion it's a generic characteristic of a character, at times it adds something and at times it takes away something. But unlike the Isekai trend/faze/fad or whatever, I'm not bored of the dark/edgy trend, as long as it's not in a Chunibyo/ 8th grader syndrome type setting.

@Ronichko You are the first or second person in my memory who has realized that this syndrome embodies the cliché of a typical LN fantasy.

@RobertBobert Is that a good thing or bad thing, in your opinion.

@Ronichko Depends on the work I guess. For example, you can take Mahouka and imagine the MC's description as someone's chunni fantasy.

@RobertBobert Mahouka's a bad work though, can you give an example for a good one, no rush take your time.

Depends, but I generally enjoy them quite a lot, unless they go overboard with it and kill my favorite characters.

..you really think Mappa shows are edgy..?

No seriously, where is the edge? What is an edge?

Why can't people just call it dark when it's not even that pointy?

People on mal: a little blood = edgy

@Yumerei I don't think that understatement can be a reasonable argument to refute exaggeration. You're basically just saying "this opinion is opposite to mine, so it's wrong."

@RobertBobert did i say anything about an opposite opinion to mine being wrong..?

But seriously, what is an edge? Where is the edge? How pointy should it be to become an edge?

@Yumerei Well, you simply expressed a completely opposite opinion, implying that this refutes the opinions of others. You don't know the meaning of edgy but are debating whether it applies here? Here's the meaning: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/edgy

@RobertBobert yeah, so.. where is the edge exactly? You do know what I'm asking, right? Since you took your time replying to my post

@Yumerei I literally provided you with a link to several slang definitions of the term. You didn't even open it, right?

@RobertBobert no i did. But it didn't answer my question. Where is the edge? What is an edge? How pointy does it have to be to become an edge? Is it dark? is it bloody? Is it psychological? Is it horror? Is it your imagination?

@Yumerei If you continue to simply bait me into a pointless argument in advance, then I will simply stop answering. To make it more obvious, you just lack the requirement official (tm) edgyness scale from me.