I swear to Jesus Christ, I feel like a good 90% of translated Chinese manhua are the exact same. With male protagonists, it's always "Supreme Transmigrated God Emperor System Cultivator Urban City" and they're all obsessed with being rich, powerful, faceslapping, and having perfect beauty vase-wives. With the female protagonists, it's always "Bossy CEO Husband Loves Sweet Little Wife" or some sort of shit, and they're all obsessed with being beautiful, faceslapping, and having a rich, powerful, and arrogant husband who loves them and them alone. I'm 99% sure that most of the manhua reading Chinese populace isn't really into this, and neither is the manhua reading international populace, considering the disparaging comments on them for every pirating site I see them on. Also, the art all has quite a similar art style. Who's making this manhua? And who's translating it???? Because I consistently see a ton of this sort of manhua on the front pages of manga translating and scalping websites, and they all have upwards of 50 translated chapters...
people also read that stuff in novel format. Pretty sure it is popular. I think it just comes down to power fantasy.
I'd say the art, with its lurid colours lacking depth, detail and shading, the storyboarding and paneling with their abrupt transitions leading to disjointedness, and the character designs with their disproportionate figures are far bigger problems plaguing the manhua industry.
Every so often comes along a new mass group of inexperienced readers who will read that kind of junk because all the stuff you listed hits most fantasies with no thinking and buries the old competition under sands of history so new crap can earn money.
It seems like the power fantasy ones that I described are the ones with the horrible art, storyboarding, and paneling, and general art and visuals of the manhua. There are some good Chinese manhua out there, and they're all the ones with good art and less power fantasy -ish stories. Kind of feels like some random Chinese company is pumping out the trashy ones, but I really wonder who's doing the translations.
People fantasize abut the stuff they cannot have In China standing up to authority is a big no, and can cause one to be disappeared, so its a top fantasy Becoming too rich can also cause problems, and thats why so many rich chinese people try to move their money outside As for beauty, thats a constant across all societies
Some people like it, or at least Webnovel does, because a lot of them are licensed and translated by them. The ML will invariably be someone of high status. If it's a modern setting, ML will be the resident gamer god, the most popular guy on the campus, a CEO, young master of super rich family, or a film star. If it's a historical or a fantasy, the ML will be a king, emperor, prince, high-ranking noble, powerful mercenary, or otherwise super rich and powerful. Or some combination of the above. It's because, in CN media, guy power fantasy is a being able to punch or slash or magic people to death easily, while girl power fantasy is apparently having a possessive, powerful, handsome lover. Oh, and everyone's attractive. That's a global phenomenon in romance novels. Here's WN's comic ranking of female main character novels, BTW: link. Out of those 200 novels, try to find one that doesn't have an ML of high status. All of them are guaranteed to be handsome, I don't even need to check that. It's not only a trend in manhuas, seeing as most of the manhuas are adapted from novels. Not to mention this is also kind of popular in KR manhwas and, to a lesser extent, in JP mangas. That was me two years ago. I've actually read quite a number of generic Josei novels and manhua. Some can have some depth, but most of them were just a bunch of tropes slapped together with a bad plot. It's not these novels can't be good, it's just that most of them aren't good.
hmm? bold you say 99% not into such thing~ there bunch of people who into such funny story tho~ consider copy paste idea this cat think the trend should have source from very successful one then other just follow the trend~ is it trope fad or title driven fad or else~ question is who start it and when it can call as peak time~ as for art style... vary perhaps? similar with cheating theme on pornhwa.... now that remind this cat it been awhile since this cat read pornhwa
You want to know why? Look where the novel "Daoist gu" is and the reason why it stopped releasing chapter. Authors try to go for the safer route, and that route is the tried and succeeded route. Many authors will have the courage to try the unexpected routes if the government isn't staring at their neck waiting for a chance to bring the novel down.