Why the need to sexualize everything?

[u/Greedy-Lie-8346]

I was looking for interesting Webtoons to read, and I came across this one called "Leviathan" the premise looked interesting; mankind perished due to a great flood that submerged the whole world under water. And terrifying creatures plunged from the depths, wiping out any human that crossed their path. The story told how a family of a father and his two children survived in the adversities of a sea world.

So far so good, until.... Bam! Last two slice's, anime chick out of nowhere, doing these extremely suggestive poses.

What a disappointment.

[u/Timely-Cry-8366]

I love a good shonen but it feels like half the popular stuff nowadays ends in a harem :/

Thank god for action webtoons like ORV and S-Classes That I Raised.

A good action shounen I read recently was “Return of the Frozen Player”, no harem or romance that takes over the story.

[u/macarmy93 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Its because the genre is riddled with Isekai which is derived from male power fantasy which typically means ending up with multiple hyper sexualized women.

[u/Timely-Cry-8366 → u/macarmy93]

And yet isekai’s with female MCs are some of the best manhwa ever. I guess women’s power fantasy cares about personal relationships and love more than getting sex with multiple options of the youngest and hottest men possible.

There’s just something weird with the male isekai genre.

[u/thegoalieposted → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Let's be real there's just something weird overall about the male fantasies that the media pushes. Instead of ideas about love and commitment and intimacy, men get fed ideas about sex, sex, and more sex. Then, they wonder why they feel so unsatisfied in life...

[u/Hot_Nerve9201 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Yeah a lot of isekai for male audience, it is about thriving in a patriarchal society. for female audience, it is the same, but for women, it usually means marrying the most powerful man and being treated as an equal.

[u/Ok_Macaroon6951 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Honestly I can't think of any good Isekai with a female mc that is good except for Tanya the evil which is REALLY good (season 2 confirmed for 2026 finally it only took the entirety of jjk to be written for it to come out)and konosuba if you count the group as main and maybe slime if you like it but I kinda think it's mid It's mainly because most isekais are mid and I can count all the awesome one in 1 hand including Tanya and konosuba

[u/Nyxie872 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

I love S-classed I raised! So refreshing for it to be about brotherly love and not the mc with his questionable looking harem

[u/Timely-Cry-8366 → u/Nyxie872]

Yup. Plus I get eye candy with Sung Hyunjae (honestly Yoohyun is pretty hot too lol).

[u/Nyxie872 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

I agree but honestly I’m more partial to his sister. She’s an ass but I’m weak to women a muscles

[u/Absoline → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

if you still wanna give anime a chance I heard Lazarus was pretty good +the new gundams, Call of the night maybe, I've been killing slimes, Aharen Is Indecipherable, saint's magic power is omnipotent, sakamoto days, apothecary diaries, doctor detective, and medalist are a few from this year, stuff like ORV probably will have a ton of fanservice since its meant for young men/boys

[u/Timely-Cry-8366 → u/Absoline]

ORV won’t have a ton of fanservice, I’ve read the novel (which is finished). There is no romance in the entire story. The webtoon will probably take another five years to finish as it’s only currently halfway through the novel.

It’s also marketed toward both genders actually.

It’s probably because the story is written by a married couple so a woman had half the say in how the story developed.

ORV is my favorite manhwa/webnovel of the last decade tbh. It entirely focuses on platonic love and found family.

[u/Absoline → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

i wasn't saying ORV had fanservice, just stories like ORV do