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Oh man do I agree with you about F/GO. I remember when Zero came out, even though there were a bunch of secondary's at least people were thinking up new creative shows and servant types etc. Stuff like Fate/Apocrypha was a great example of something I'd like to see more of, even if it was extremely rushed and had easily the blandest mc I've ever seen. Unfortunately, Japan saw a milking cow with the Fate franchise, and now so many servants and ideas are put to the side for the sake of making every historical waifu as is possible. Why? Simple, money.

Reading your extra analysis of Holyland has made me appreciate it even more, and I kinda get why characters are made simply a lot of the time. Plus, the usage of those tropes is pretty realistic all things considered, I guess because I've seen the same things done so many times in other series, I've began to lose my appreciation of well done stories just because I've seen the same tropes before. The repetition that goes on through Holyland is realistic and portrayed well from a fighters perspective, and the all of the side characters were, at the least, fun and not annoying (Aside from the female MC, Holyland's mangaka does not know how to write a good female protag.)

If your looking for some underappreciated manga like Holyland, I reccomend Yomawari Sensei and Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa, as both cover topics similarly to Holyland like finding a place of belonging and living in the moment (Though Yomawari Sensei is a lot more pessimistic about the hole topic.) Also, sorry I responded so late, I have been really busy lately and only have spare time on the weekends. I really do enjoy writing like this and meeting people of similar tastes in the anime community.