How come there's not enough manga and anime with suffering? There really needs to be more. Characters exist just to be ground down into the dirt, especially main characters.

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Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 02:22:14 No.791691

How come there's not enough manga and anime with suffering? There really needs to be more. Characters exist just to be ground down into the dirt, especially main characters.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 02:24:24 No.791692

>>791691

>How come there's not enough manga and anime with suffering?

Because it's more fun and relaxing as a writer or artist to draw comfy scenes unless you have past traumas or are being edgy.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 02:39:12 No.791702

>>791691

>How come there's not enough manga and anime with suffering?

I can understand there not being enough anime with suffering. But manga?

There are more than enough manga with suffering.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 02:56:41 No.791710

>>791702

Exactly. I don't think "feel bad" manga's are as rare as you think OP.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 03:03:16 No.791712

>>791691

Isn't modern life already as sad and soul crushing as it gets? Why pursue it further in your escapism medium (manga), and for the sake of it only?

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 03:05:48 No.791713

>>791712

Some people like to feel pain because pain is the only thing they have left to feel.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 03:36:29 No.791719

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It's supply and demand, man. First-world culture got super fucking edgy in the nineties after the end of the cold war, but after 9/11 sent us into an endless shit spiral, people have been yearning more and more for the sweet comfort of moe.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 08:08:21 No.791764

>>791691

What's even going on in the first 2 images?

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 10:35:52 No.791785

>>791764

First aid.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 10:48:13 No.791788

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>>791712

Brace yourself for faggotposting:

I like the way it feels. I can't usually feel many strong emotions, and my emotional landscape is about as bleak as Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou.

Although comfy moe SOLs and romcoms are some of my favorite sub-genres, nothing beats the intense emotionally response I get from seeing deep suffering. It's relatable and just about the only thing that can make me cry anymore.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 12:30:36 No.791811

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>>791788

The weak, when faced with the loss of their souls, seek out ever more intense forms of pain and suffering because those are the things that make them FEEL again -- they are biologically wired deeper than other emotions, they are based on raw animal survival. The enlightened, when faced with the loss of their souls, recognize that pain and suffering are bad and relinquish their own desires for FEELS for the betterment of the world that already has too much pain and suffering already.

Of course the real question is, why is everybody losing their souls?

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 12:39:22 No.791813

>>791811

>why is everybody losing their souls?

Ignorance and apathy, mostly.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 12:48:50 No.791817

>>791712

>Isn't modern life already as sad and soul crushing as it gets? Why pursue it further in your escapism medium (manga), and for the sake of it only?

What life and these media have in common isn't the flavour of the suffering, rather the need for genuine connections between you and other people is at the root of both sensations. The soul-crushing aspects of modern life are often due to an absence of those connections, while suffering in media is most effective when there is a feeling of a genuine connection between you and the character it happens to, and can deepen the feelings on top of that.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 12:56:32 No.791819

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>>791811

>Just be enlightened, bro!

>Just stay dead inside, bro!

Boy do you ever sound like you're full of shit.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 13:10:34 No.791827

>>791819

Sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the greater good.

Anonymous 02/08/18 (Thu) 23:30:54 No.792067

>>791827

Fuck you, dude. I don't want to be some kind of golemn roaming the earth. That's no soul, that's no life. I'll take my deeply-aged nostalgia and melancholy over your proposed prozac-"enlightenment."