Are they annoyed that it’s catering more and more to creepy isekai slave harem and loli shit?
On a side note, most modern isekai give me the impression of catering to an ever increasingly capitalism fatigued society. People are so desperate to escape and I see isekai taking advantage of that in a rather unhealthy way, whisking the self-insert protagonist away to a world where he is the dominator of others. I find myself disliking most modern anime that people recommend to me because a lot of it has leaned hard into the worst tropes of the genre. That’s not to say that all modern anime is bad and that old anime didn’t have the same problems, but I’m finding the ones that get popular seem to all be shit I hate lol.
Cells at Work looks cute tho
Essentially, most Japanese anime watchers don’t engage online in English so most English speakers’ impressions of what’s popular or not is influenced by other English-speaking weebs.
I’ve always found it funny how Japanese people are low key celebrities to non-Japanese anime or manga fans. English speaking Japanese folks could easily be celebrities without trying too hard. And unfortunately the easiest way to do it would be to cater to Western chuds.
