Question Why is Necromancy so abundant on Korean novels

Every damn time!!, Is there a cultural significance to it? Or is it simply because they think it's cool? I mean it is cool power but it just became generic to me after a few novels

 

They have chuunibyou controller of death. Master of death, conquerer of death etc

 

Lazy writing and easy path for OPness. They can't write quality fight scenes so it's always a Zombie rush against the enemies.

 

This could be it, but I've actually read amazing fight scenes by some authors but still end up having necromancer powers.

 

How else can you have the MC be an angsty edgelord without the ability to raise the dead?

 

Hmm, I kinda want to see what Korean authors would do with Paladins now. Come to think of it, I haven't read a KR novel like that

 

same reason why isekai is famous. One or few got famous the there is an explosion of it.

 

It's a trope. As simple as that.

 

To make the MC look like an anti hero, necromancy is probably the easiest.

 

When you want to have a bunch of allies / team fights but don't want to deal with writing personalities or relationships, Necromancy is your best friend. It's somewhere between "summoner" and "golem user" in terms of character-building laziness.

I would mind it less if the necromancer didn't usually do most of the fighting with a sword anyway despite having undead minions and powerful magic.

 

There's still the Assassin edgelord, dark knight edgelords,

Oh this makes alot of sense, now that I think of this it also makes the character technically solo so the author don't have to worry about sharing reward

 

not certain if true of not, but years ago I heard Diablo 2 had something to do with Necromancers becoming popular in Korea back when it was the new hotness...