These are the types of stories that I hate to read. This is purely a rant and in not meant to be a constructive discussion. This is also personal opinion, but since my opinion is the correct one you can just take it as fact
1. Man vs god stories.
I’ve seen a lot of these particularly isekai. There’s a few reasons I hate them. One of them is that a lot of times it feels the mc is only alive due to either the mistake/ignorance/pride of the god character they’re fighting against. Basically I find a story where the mc is only alive because of luck and nothing to do with their own actions to be uninteresting.
Another reason is to get any enjoyable pay off in a man vs god story, you have to wait until the very end, the final climax. Not every story that involves killing gods is like this, in chornotrigger or final fantasy you don’t spend the first ten minutes of the game declaring ‘I’m going to kill the god and get my revenge‘ the story naturally progresses with elevating stakes until it reaches that point. In the man vs god stories I’ve read, its always chapter 1 or near it where the character declares their goal to be the ultimate end all be all of any stakes you can have in a story.
2. Stories with parasitic characters.
I hate stories where the protagonist is constantly sharing their body with an evil entity that is constantly trying to steal their body. It‘s just annoying for me to read a story where there is a knife constantly hanging over the main character, and where any progress that character makes can be undone at any moment.
3. Stories that glorify slavery
I know such a brave statement that slavery bad, but it’s a big trend I’ve seen in a lot of Japanese light novels and manga. I have no problem with stories that include slavery, but those that go out of the way to have the mc willingly participate in it, and portray it as something that can be good if there is a ‘kind slave owner’, that shit just makes me sick.
Also I don’t know why, but it’s almost always Japanese shit. I hardly ever see the troupe in Korean novels and manwha
4. Stories that have whole volumes or massive chunks dedicated to following an unsympathetic antagonist pov.
This doesn’t have to be bad, but a lot of the times I see the troupe it becomes unbearable and makes me drop a story. Often these stories are structured to make the antagonists unlikeable, and then 14 volumes in decide they need to dedicate a whole book to showing these characters I don’t like succeed and overcome adversity at the expense of characters I’ve been spent the last 13 volumes being conditioned to like. Even if it’s building setup for future chapters, I don’t care, it just isn’t fun to read, and I read to have fun.
5.Genres I really hate
Dungeons/monsters invade earth
Isekai where a Japanese teenager knows how to make a fully automatic cycling blow back operated guns with cased ammunition, and other technology a stupid kid likely would not be able to fully understand.
Game merges with reality
VRMMO stories that have npcs that are fully self aware, but never touches on the horrifying implications that has. (Don’t hate these ones as much, will still read them, but it just gives me a sour feeling)
Feel free to tell me what you hate, but I didn’t write this to be a discussion it’s just a rant
