have an rss feed set to /r/manga to keep up with serials that I can’t use other feeds to track and, unironically about every couple months or so, there’s a new entry in the set I like to call slaveslop, in which the protagonist (usually faceless):
- buys a slave
- bonus if they’re a fantasy race (subtle)
- gives them a glow-up
- treats them like either their child or their spouse
- bonus if they are never even offered emancipation???
like I’ve seen so many of these when I was still actively browsing reddit, and even now that its just the feed I can still see they’re still being pumped out from the slop factory. is this the pure id of the weeb? i know isekai is also dogshit for slavery apologia but this seems to be cutting the fanfare and serving it as the main course.
what’s the deal mack 
I think it’s just the current micro-trend. Shield Hero did it and was edgy in the laziest ways possible, but that got popular so here come the copycats. Japanese light fiction has a glut of authors so any given “genre” will very quickly get overrun by as many hyper-specific versions of the same thing as you can possibly imagine. It also makes the stories easy to write and easy to produce merch for (which is where the real money comes from) - I mean, imagine having to write a backstory for each of your characters when you can just give them all the same one?