@WashedOutGundamPilot @Leaflord @MeBigbrain It's often just lazy writing. These authors spray out thousands of words a day for years on end, they don't bother with stuff like characters with depth. And a lot of the main tropes have pretty close equivalents in Western fantasy. They are just less ashamed of just throwing random shit together and calling it a novel, or padding word count with 5000 words describing their new shiny objects.

For example:
- Spoiled young master / spoiled aristocrat: an easy way to contrast our virtuous, hard-working main character with an undeserving nepo-baby.
- Fortuitous encounter: pretty common in Western fantasy for the protagonist to stumble across a magic sword in a stone or some similar stroke of fate.
- Success is only found via fortuitous, fated encounters - this gets subverted all the time. Half the stuff I have read involves a main character using tenacity and grit to overcome "luckier" opponents.