NxY posted:
It's really not generic.
"generic plot"
While Bloom isn't doing anything ground-breaking, the quality of the writing outclasses anything remotely similar.
YagaKimi isn't special in concept but, it has become special through impeccable execution.
"while it's very well executed, it still only tells a very typical story"
Why I even bother writing anything if nobody actually reads it with comprehension.
You're right, of course, but this inevitably happens with descriptive words where the evaluative connotations have overtaken the denotation, which of course has happened to "generic." People who want to defend it feel compelled to deny the denotation ("There are many things like this") as a way of contesting the connotation ("This is no different than the other things like this").
Yes, YagaKimi does adhere fairly closely to certain genre conventions, and for a person looking for something else, or who values other qualities much more highly, that's going to be a bad thing.
I personally tend to read genre fiction to see what the author does with the genre conventions; it's fine when someone does something highly original or surprising and it's done effectively, but that's not necessarily high on my own list of priorities.
But when someone is dissing a favorite it seems to be hard to resist the impulse to deny the description itself rather than the evaluation.