Why is it that most manga that come out now (2000- onwards) are just another manga that's been done before multiple times, except with a theme that's somewhat original?
If you don't get what I'm talking about, I'll make up an example:
"A genius, award-winning scientist who's love life is down the crapper decides to make himself a wife. Since he spent all the money he made from speeches, he doesn't have many materials. So he creates an android with what he has. Then all of a sudden, a woman dies outside his house and her soul goes into the android. When the android wakes up, the scientist thinks that he created life from an inanimate object."
And then after that (depending on the genre it would be), they would argue with each other throughout the ENTIRE manga (while developing feelings for each other, but being too goddamn stubborn and proud to admit it), fight against another scientist (who would be the main character's childhood sweetheart, and/or some rival that wants revenge for a mundane and pointless reason ), go to a hot springs resort, the beach, the woods, and a ski resort, have the scientist's family member come out of nowhere and have some vague reason as to why they're moving in, having a tournament for the top prize of scientists (cause you gotta have tournaments), work with some corporation that's secretly using the scientist's inventions to take over the world, etc. etc.
Now, I know that there are some manga that came out since 2000 that aren't like the manga I'm talking about (notice that at the beginning of the post I said MOST, not ALL manga), and I know that there were manga that were copying off of others before 2000 came, but it's like an ocean of epic fail just came and sunk almost all of the creativity that was left in the mangaka now. I guess to me (And I mean to ME, not to you, I don't know how you guys think about manga in general) it's VERY hard to find a manga that doesn't follow every single rule in it's genre, or use jokes that have been done an infinite amount of times
Basically, what I'm asking is why is it that these mangaka can think of somewhat original ideas (Something like what I have above), but then over the course of the manga, put so many cliches into it that you could say, "This is EXACTLY like a manga I've read before, only the male character's a masochist, and his love interest is his parrot that's actually a shape-shifting alien that can turn into anything on Earth, and that the main antagonist is another alien from a different planet and race that rivals the shape-shifting alien's race."
And please don't give an excuse like "Well, if you remember what their demographic is..." or "That's just how the genre is, so there's going to be manga that would be exactly like another manga". There are manga that don't even follow most the rules of its' genre and would still fit in it's demographic
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