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>>133874405>Did you consider that maybe you're in the weird book section for weird readers, as written by weird authors under pseudonyms and funded by weird publishers if not self published?I can assure you it's not just niche weirdo shit, I just listed the werewolf romance example because it was the one that I thought of first. I've definitely seen what I'm talking about in more normie-accessible works. If you'd like a more grounded example, look at the stuff authors like Colleen Hoover publish.
>I am triggered.Why does Japanese stuff weirder than YA novels?
>>133874760A lot of books in the children's demographic (not even YA, full-on in the children's books category) are pretty hardcore. A few months ago I decided to give the Wings of Fire series a shot; a shitton of characters have very brutal deaths. The graphic novel even shows you how one of the dragons dies via acid. Fun times.
I think it has something to do with the violence being aimed towards non-humans, not so much whether or not the writing style is easy to read. I've noticed a lot of YA novels get treated as "raunchy" or "violent" when human (or humanoid) characters die on-page, even if the death isn't graphic.