Is this actually that common of a thing? I try to stay away from the trash side of anime, which is to say a solid majority of it nowadays and especially anything that could be described with the word harem, but I struggle to accept the apparent reality that slave romances are a common trope in the genre. Like that’s straight against the wall, do not pass go, do not collect $200 kind of behavior and to think that that has such an audience that it’s become a staple of the genre is maddening. In the lovecraftian sense
The Rising of the Shield Hero was the very popular show that had this trope, but there are some others.
Eeeeeeh Ancient Magus Bride is playing with slightly problematic tropes but it’s a show about found family and overcoming trauma, it’s more in the ball park of Beauty and the Beast than cryptofash wish fulfillment bull like shield hero
If this is one of ours it would be the John Brown isekai meme:
Obligatory link to the fan-fiction: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57505/his-soul-is-marching-on-to-another-world-or-the
The Executioner and Her Way of Life probably. Don’t think it’s a complete adaptation because it only got 12 eps.
If this is the grizz that runs the r/konosuba discord they used to be extremely right wing so this would be a very significant shift leftwards for them.
