China likes regressor cultivator stories, Japan likes isekai fantasy stories, Korea has a lot of regressor reverse isekai stories.
The regressor cultivator stories always feel like a story about having children. You already know all the secrets of life and it's a matter of trying to use them to help a second run go better.
The isekai fantasy stories feel like a story about a new phase of your existing life. You're starting new but maybe the wisdom of your past will help this new beginning.
The Korean regressor reverse isekai stories feel like a story about frustration at the world, a fantasy about a different present where you had a leg up and didn't have to fight so hard just to make it day by day.
In that way it also represents the past(and the far future), the future, and the present and their attitudes towards these ideas. The Chinese stories tend to be kind of angry. The Japanese stories tend to be optimistic, and the Korean stories tend to be grounded and realistic but slightly bitter. I'm aware that I'm painting with a very broad brush, but that's all this is, a general assessment.
The regressor cultivator stories always feel like a story about having children. You already know all the secrets of life and it's a matter of trying to use them to help a second run go better.
The isekai fantasy stories feel like a story about a new phase of your existing life. You're starting new but maybe the wisdom of your past will help this new beginning.
The Korean regressor reverse isekai stories feel like a story about frustration at the world, a fantasy about a different present where you had a leg up and didn't have to fight so hard just to make it day by day.
In that way it also represents the past(and the far future), the future, and the present and their attitudes towards these ideas. The Chinese stories tend to be kind of angry. The Japanese stories tend to be optimistic, and the Korean stories tend to be grounded and realistic but slightly bitter. I'm aware that I'm painting with a very broad brush, but that's all this is, a general assessment.
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