az3rtown wrote...
(Basically a sarcastic comment about too much vanilla and not enough of everything else)
Out of the 36 books currently displayed in the Books section:
Dark [2]
- [Takeda Hiromitsu] Ima♡Real
Dark-ish [4] (cheating, rape, forced, lighter NTR etc.)
- [Hanaharu Naruco] Shoujo Material
- [Higenamuchi] Misdirection
- [Kiyoshiro Inoue] The Job of a Service Committee Member
Non-H Guro [1]
- [Shintaro Kago] Super Dimensional Love Gun
Harem & Group [5]
- [Bosshi] Peachy-Butt Girls
- [Kisaragi Gunma] It's a Straight Line Once You Fall in Love (has vanilla elements, but is still in its core a Harem story)
- [Kisaragi Gunma] Welcome to Tokoharu Apartments
I-am-sorry-but-these-books-aren't-really-vanilla-either [4] (these are a bit difficult to categorize, but in my opinion none of these can really be marked as a
vanilla book; more of a fetish book(s))
- [F4U] Curiosity XXXed the Cat
- [Gujira] Kogals, Sluts, and Whatever.
and finally...
(Mostly) Vanilla [20]
- [Homunculus] Bashful Break
- [Homunculus] Renai Sample
- [Key] After School Vanilla
- [mogg] Carnal Communication
- [Mojarin] Let Loose with Lewd Boobs! (most chapters ARE vanilla, but it has also kemonomimi, cheating...)
- [Pyon-Kti] PuniKano (has a few dark stories)
- [saitom] Let's Do It (mostly vanilla, but has its share of cheating and netorare)
- [Sugaishi] A Healthy Appetite
- [Yurikawa] Summer Love Geek Girl (it could be argued that half of this one's chapters are 'Group', but for the sake of your argument I'm marking it vanilla based on the main story)
So yes, over half the books ARE vanilla (which in my opinion is understandable, given vanilla's popularity), but there are 16 which are NOT, so saying there is not enough diversity is
a bit off the mark. And even the vanilla itself is somewhat diverse; you got succubi in there, chubby/oppai (not a big fan of that one, but hey, everyone has his preferences), dark-skin... not to mention some of those 'vanilla' books also contain a few stories that are very much on the darker side (looking at you, saitom's Compensative Service).
On Fakku's end I see a great effort to diversify (Metamorphosis and Misdirection being the evidence of that), so honestly speaking, it's your comment that comes out as
almost mocking. I understand you like darker content and hopefully you will get more of it soon, but please don't bash vanilla and people who enjoy it.
Also, you have to realize Fakku WILL keep publishing more vanilla; I hope you don't expect them to stop and cater
exclusively to
your tastes. I myself don't care for dark content, but I don't go around Metamorphosis's topic saying 'this could have been another harem book' (I'm not trying to bash NTR, mind-break or such; I am simply stating that I do not enjoy it). Everyone has his own preferences and we have to learn to live with that; we also have to realize that Fakku just provides supply to a demand – the more people enjoy something, the more likely that group is to get what they want, and vanilla is probably the biggest one out there (some of these books are already on their second edition print, whereas forgive me if I am wrong, but I doubt Metamorphosis or Ima Real hit such big sale amounts). If you want more dark-content books, there has to be sufficient demand for them first (I'm not saying there
isn't one, but it in all probability doesn't reach vanilla's scale; I myself would be interested in seeing sales figures for vanilla as opposed to the darker content).
Sorry for the (somewhat) grumpy reply to your comment; I'm just tired today plus I tend to get a bit upset when I see a book I might enjoy reacted to this way.
EDIT: also there are [OKAMA] Hanafuda and [Toshio Maeda] Urotsukidoji : Legend of the Overfiend; these two books seem to be missing from the Books tab (but are included in store); these definitely
aren't vanilla