yess on your last statement, why is it becoming normalize for people to fall in love with their rapîst and abusers? I feel Iike a lot of these story are propaganda atp.. it's lowkey conditioning women/men to accept abuse and trick them into thinking it's love.
I also agree with you on characters lacking depth, human beings are complex creatures and they always place women in a box in most of these stories. They always fall into an archetype like 'damsel in distress'.
the only time I see they give female characters a little freedom to have an actual personalityis when they play the villainess roles like Roxana.
@1758 I hate it most in shounen and seinen stories. The way the women just throw their chests towards the men are ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING... Like gurl... Have some pride if you're out of dignity. Ts applies even if the lady is a knight whom trained for years. I get irritated by how shallow they are written because even if women are desperate it's just inappropriate to do that in public no less.
Of almost all the shoujo and josei manhwas/mangas I have read the ones I genuinely liked was a stepmother's marchen, roxana, villains are destined to die, the one within the villainess and a few others.
