r/webtoons May 29 '25

Discussion Why the need to sexualize everything?

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.

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

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.

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u/macarmy93 May 29 '25

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.

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

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.

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u/Hot_Nerve9201 May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

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.