For real this trop used to be a thing 10 years ago but now… I would have loved the friend girl to be the MC instead but a woman can dream. I guess in Japan young japanease girls still wants to see naive silly pushover MC in the shojo they read so mangaka simply keep on writing this kind of MC, bc the real targeted audiences of shojos ( who isnt us illegal foreign readers) relate to this pushover type more than a badass and confident one?
Write what they want to read and maybe you will find some success and after you will gain enough artistic liberty to write what you want to tell» its a thing some mangakas must think after all in this industry the concurrency is rude and the conformism is still rooted to the core.
I swear, what’s with Shoujo writers always writing their FL so easy to win over?? Literally, 80% of FL in shoujo mangas are pushovers who blushes with just a few words, no matter how shitty the ML is. Someone has to tell them it’s not wrong or ugly looking to write a FL with a backbone, and that most readers would dig that kind of FL.