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Seriously, though, he did ask me if I'm trying new genres. Told him yes.

But, fuck it. I embraced my love for harem and fantasy.

Bold of you to ask if your story is similar to SL in terms of themes and plot when SL has no theme and plot.

How can he know it is the same setting without watching it?

@RepresentingWrath my brother and I was talking about the recently-concluded awarding whatsoever, and SL is hot topic. My bro, since he's a journalist, did tell me about the results, and mentioned that my new work and SL have similarities (he read the mahnwa) in that its setting was on modern Earth with fantastical elements.

But yeah, @RepresentingWrath remember that time I told you Imma do a litRPG with anti-litRPG settings? Basically I applied it to my new work/rewrite of an old shelved novel.

Was alarmed that 'fuck, my work has 'followed' the trend bullshit' again, so I asked him the above question.

Bro was surprised I started to 'hold nothing back' on that new work, compared to the Saint Series. He's 'CrackMonkey' on my server. lol

Your bro suffers from this thing when you only remember recent movies, games, animes, etc. There were so many urban fantasy manga and anime, saying yours is similar to SL just because of a setting is a stretch.

Eh, I'm worried my work being similar to something popular. Flips are notorious for making rip-offs of popular stories, and I'm trying to avoid the same mistake.

For short, it's not even a compliment to me.

It's inevitable you will be compared to something popular because of the said syndrome. Same thing how everyone compare every game that is ahrd or has rpg elements to Soulslikes. Because that's the most popular thing. It doesn't matter there are games that are a lot harder, or the fact you can level up stats is a norm in RPGs. They don't know anything other than Soulslikes, so they compare every game to it.

Ugh, just writing stuff though. Well, whatever it is, plot is significantly different.

Humans like patterns. Comparing things is what we do.

They don't have a frame of reference, or it isn't big enough. Another game example, Black Myth Wukong that came out last year. Everybody kept parroting, "CHINESE SOUSLIKE, CHINESE SOULSLIKE!" When in fact it was closer to games like God of War.

Well any case, this post is supposed to be comedic. I try to avoid discussions about concepts and other deep stuff nowadays.