Ymir wrote: 2z2l6t
Where exactly is it stated that the girls must focus on a specific niche? Is it just a personal take or something generally agreed upon?
i would probably guess neither, in a sense... i do think you could argue for either, more likely the former, but i say "neither" because "personal take" seems like a very imprecise picture with some omissions of contexts that i imagine could justify how that definition of cgdct is being used
i think this is more a description of general observations in things qualified as cgdct, things that Happen To Define the media described by the genre rather than a commonly recognized necessity
to use something i imagine could be analogous, it might be a bit like how little features of linguistics could be defined within examples that colloquially mean something very loose and simple without necessarily being a complex deliberate Categorization (as in, using specific words that just happen to have a certain social or functional connotation, without trying/intending to identify the subjects/targets of those words as necessarily containing those connotations), except the ways in which those words or phrases are used would correlate with those categorized attributes and functions and effects, so if someone didnt catch onto how "normal" something is to say (as well as why that's "normal") and took something literally in a particular way, you might get a soecific definition of what something does that isn't really necessarily the stated or deliberate intent in saying it
...why am i abstracting this so much? it just doesnt feel direct... but i dont how to make what im thinking/meaning/saying into something more practical and concise;;
what i mean is, this is kind of like a wikipedia article on a thing that might define it by specific attributes, but people colloquially call a slice-of-life adjacent anime (with very similar casual comedic plots and personalities) without those core subjects of interest "cgdct" like how they might label a song's genre as "breakcore" instead of noting the attributes that might make it more historically similar to "jungle"
unsure if my suspicions are correct or applicable here, its more of something i would have intuited without really knowing what the definitive boundaries and qualities of cgdct are for myself, thats up to pata to answer i suppose
