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 
further note: I’m not talking about isekai here with this term, by the way. Isekai is a separate though similarly apologetic genre. I’m talking about manga with entire premises that center specifically around ‘fixing’ a slave and nothing else. No fights, no stakes, barely any world-building besides “fantasy races exist.” Hyper-domestic, clearly framed by the author to be wholesome. A lot of the time it’s also POVslop, with the main character not being shown to further indulge the escapism. Can also encompass people with diminished social agency (e.g. trafficking victims, lower caste races that are not explicitly enslaved, etc.) being taken under wing by protag and being ‘elevated’ to domestic living conditions. Outer ends of this overlap with ‘fixing abuse victims’ slop.
I blame Harry Potter: “Master has given Dobby a sock!”
It made slavery cool for liberals to enjoy again, just so long as they were treated nicely by the end.
I think it goes deeper than that. Slavery is the beating heart of liberalism.
there’s also a stark audience-overlap with the specific flank of weebs who talk about ‘headpats’ with the same aura as someone banned from the local playground