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Problems with dragon lore in mass media
10 months ago
Sometimes I have a feeling that anime, manga, manhwa etc. writters, as well as mass media authors hate dragons.
Let's take, for example, Carsearin. A funny manhwa series about a femboy dragon travelling around the world after reading fairy tales abour heroes and knights. How it ends? With a genocide of almost entire dragon kind.
An another series, Starting as the Black Dragon BOSS. MC gets a cool and OP dragon form, humilating everyone until Chapter 33 - when his dragon form becomes ... his pet, and MC changes into a demon lord instead.
Good Bye, Dragon life, 5000 years old weak dragon, To Do-Over Damsel to conquer the Dragon King. 3 anime series with a dragon lore for Autumn 2024, in one a dragon is isekaied into a human, in another one a dragon is a joke and in a third one there are no dragons besides of a little one of a size of a newborn kitten.
Doom Breaker. The plot suggests MC slaying gods, later he slays dragons. Just for their hearts. And people claim this manhwa to be "one of the "best".
Shut Up, Evil Dragon, I don't want to raise chidlren with you. A recent manhua series about a dragonslayer's forced life with a dragon wife. Everything is good, except for a dragon wife barely taking form of a dragon because "fanservice is "more important".
Dungeon Meshi. A sole role of a dragon is to die and to be eaten. Not to mention it being a sort of a pet for a certain mage.
Sosou no Frieren. Same, except for a dragon's corpse not being consumed. While fans are ranting over a random demon girl, who did tons of bad things, too, being slain by Frieren.
Mass Western media? HotD and GoT, where dragons are being pets of a royal family in exile. People somehow believe that ASOIF dragon lore is "the best".
So the problem is that we barely have any proper dragon lore in mass media. Dragons either die - often for no reason, become someone's pets/servants, being a one big joke or turn into humans and never transform back again.
With dragon merch shrinking in number.
Let's take, for example, Carsearin. A funny manhwa series about a femboy dragon travelling around the world after reading fairy tales abour heroes and knights. How it ends? With a genocide of almost entire dragon kind.
An another series, Starting as the Black Dragon BOSS. MC gets a cool and OP dragon form, humilating everyone until Chapter 33 - when his dragon form becomes ... his pet, and MC changes into a demon lord instead.
Good Bye, Dragon life, 5000 years old weak dragon, To Do-Over Damsel to conquer the Dragon King. 3 anime series with a dragon lore for Autumn 2024, in one a dragon is isekaied into a human, in another one a dragon is a joke and in a third one there are no dragons besides of a little one of a size of a newborn kitten.
Doom Breaker. The plot suggests MC slaying gods, later he slays dragons. Just for their hearts. And people claim this manhwa to be "one of the "best".
Shut Up, Evil Dragon, I don't want to raise chidlren with you. A recent manhua series about a dragonslayer's forced life with a dragon wife. Everything is good, except for a dragon wife barely taking form of a dragon because "fanservice is "more important".
Dungeon Meshi. A sole role of a dragon is to die and to be eaten. Not to mention it being a sort of a pet for a certain mage.
Sosou no Frieren. Same, except for a dragon's corpse not being consumed. While fans are ranting over a random demon girl, who did tons of bad things, too, being slain by Frieren.
Mass Western media? HotD and GoT, where dragons are being pets of a royal family in exile. People somehow believe that ASOIF dragon lore is "the best".
So the problem is that we barely have any proper dragon lore in mass media. Dragons either die - often for no reason, become someone's pets/servants, being a one big joke or turn into humans and never transform back again.
With dragon merch shrinking in number.
But let's just say I'm having something planned involving a Dragon Type character that stays a dragon type character and doesn't change and stays bad ass throughout. lol, dunno how well the story will be or do overall though but we'll see. Gonna take me awhile to produce though, i'm only one person.
Everything else is either in the internet or probably not that good.