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Tingle said:
I know the Japanese are a different type of autistic but I've never understood the incredibly hyper-specific nature of Manga. Is the market just so oversaturated they're trying to make something that stands out purely based on absurdity? Are their readers so imaginatively bankrupt and depressed they can't imagine a fantasy without it including getting hit by a bus on the street? Am I just retarded?

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From what I can tell, media over there have become so oversaturated that light novels in particular have to spell out their synopses in their titles so anyone interested can read them. The "I Fell Out of a Window and Got Reincarnated as a Retard, Now I Can't Figure Out What's Going On!" titles for manga are probably because they're adaptations of LNs like that, though there are exceptions. For the isekai genre, both have to be hyper-specific because oversaturation has gotten really bad.
 
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used_a_throwaway said:
Because the protag needs to be unfamiliar with the world for the laziest form of exposition to work where everyone just explains him everything constantly. Could also work with amnesia but it's harder to sell.
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I mean they can just do the classic answer to this dilemma by having the protag be from a small village out in the boonies where he is unfamiliar with a lot of what goes on in the world.

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Seafarer said:
I mean they can just do the classic answer to this dilemma by having the protag be from a small village out in the boonies where he is unfamiliar with a lot of what goes on in the world.

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The issues isn’t that it’s contrived or even that it’s widely used: it’s that it (almost) never plays a role in the character’s plot or motivations or character development. He’s always a blank slate that accepts everything and only brings it up to introduce crop rotation to the setting at large.
 
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