Femcel power fantasy
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To be fair, there are a lot of loser anime MCs. Some have good arcs, some are just perma-awkward weirdos. But it's far from all there is, and this lady (citation needed) still needs to keep their grubby hands off of anime, though.
Also, I love how if you only look at a tiny bit of the data and overall picture, you can decide reality is completely different from what it actually is. If I were as selective as she* is, and if I was picking as few data points as she is, I could say issekais all have female main characters, or are all comedies, or are all grimdark and horrifying, or are all about successful men getting issekaied and having to come to terms with their new world, or sucessful men getting issekaied and already being amazing, or losers getting issekaied and still being losers, or I could say that all issekais are genderbenders or involve spiders swords or vending machines. You get the point. There are plenty of "loser guy" issekais, but it's not all there is.
It also ignores that this cycle has happened multiple times with many genres. Before Isekai the "slice of life" genre was fucking everywhere and just as much filled with garbage.
And much like that one, in a few more years all the "wierd loser" shows will have been forgotten completely and only the really landmark ones will have a place.
I actually miss when human x monster romance anime were the cyclical trend.
All those vampires, male and female on all of these mind you, fairies, zombies, demons, you still see one show of it per season or two (sugar fairy this season, FemHuman x sociopathic murderer fairy slave presented as wholesome romance) but it's nowhere near the dominance it had before.
Then K-On hit, and most romance anime were wiped out by Slice Of Life for several years.
monster girls deserve love too!
I wish I could hate K-on, but as a guy who loves Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh (probably the prototypes of "cute girls doing funny things") it would make me a hypocrite.
And don't forget Call of the Night last year, probably one of the best vampire series in general in a long while.
K-On was a great show. Truly a star in the CGDCT genre. That's why it spawned so many imitators.
There is no shame in liking a trendsetter, even if the follow-ups coming from it suck.