Seiken tsukai no world break baka tsuki8/24/2023 I can imagine myself standing beside him, or looking over his shoulder as he tackles his trials, and empathize with him in doing so. I can see where he’s coming from, though. I can’t imagine myself as Harutora, but I shouldn’t-I’m not him. But as I said in the post on my site, that’s not desirable. I can only guess the suddenly-handing-Moroha-all-this-power-he-didn’t-work-for is meant to make him more relatable (in addition to his utterly forgettable personality), so the average Japanese light novel consumer can more easily step into his shoes. They work hard, they struggle, they fail, and sometimes their gifts come in handy, but that’s okay because they’re doing the other part themselves. Tokyo Ravens-which I wish I had blogged more and more as time goes on-features plenty of characters that are not normal, by birth or circumstance or both. Great stories do not often feature normal people, because regular people don’t often do great things. Not so here! Moroha is a text-book example of an ordinary high school student ( trope!) who turns out to be some unstoppable badass through no effort of his own. That’s something Kanami shares with Shiroe and much of the Log Horizon cast. Relatability is overrated it’s hard better to shoot for interesting. It was Kanami who reminded me that I needed to write it (I’ve been meaning to do it for a long time), because she’s not the least bit relatable. I wrote a post over at my new site on relatability last night, after blogging the latest episode of Log Horizon. Inherently Gifted Characters Are Not Likable, Relatable, Or Interesting I also liked that he wasn’t doing everything on his own-the other characters were at least defending and stalling the baddie, and wounding it too, even if protagonist Haimura Moroha ( Ishikawa Kaito) was still doing the heavy lifting.Īnd that’s about where my praise ends for today. The only things they pointed out were either things we knew from the premise (MC-kun has two past lives), and the rest was a straightforward battle against some badass dragon. To be honest, I’m not fond of the tactic-why give away where they’re going when it’s more satisfying to watch them get there? But it worked well because it was relatively clear what was going on. The one thing Seiken Tsukai no World Break did relatively well was the flash forward opening. Of all the magical-fantasy-action-harem anime based on a light novels I’ve watched so far this season, this one may not be the worst, but it disappointed me the most.
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