Oshi no Teki ni Natta node - Vol. 2 Ch. 10
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Thank you for pick up this series after the Asmodeus scans got snap by admin
and thank you also for mass upload chapters
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Thanks for picking it up and the mass release.
This manga reminds me a lot about the Korean story, 'I Became The Villain The Hero Is Obsessed With'. While I do think the world building with how it flushes out the civilian side of the story is much better here, the characters and their interaction are not as good.
This chapter in fact demonstrates this problem with how much it relies on cringe comedy.
This manga reminds me a lot about the Korean story, 'I Became The Villain The Hero Is Obsessed With'. While I do think the world building with how it flushes out the civilian side of the story is much better here, the characters and their interaction are not as good.
This chapter in fact demonstrates this problem with how much it relies on cringe comedy.
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well time to get stabbed
Also 'I Became the Villain the Hero is Obsessed With' is about an anti-hero supporting an actual hero, whereas this one is about a freedom fighter supporting a cop who serves the Fascist-Sexist regime.
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I honestly forgot this existed. I kinda like this manga so i hope it gets more chapters
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Thank you for the translation
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Thanks for the update!
Time for stabby stabby MC-kun
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Honestly so far this series is a mildly enjoyable by the numbers experience.
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The part that bothers me about the story is how weirdly detached the MC is from the world he now exists in, even though he'd been there for well over a decade by the point the story starts.
In a world where him being a man means he'd have a front-row seat to the systemic sexism and classism that all men would suffer, he's just....insulated from it, I guess? Sure, he has Sestuna at his side, but the tone of his narration and the way he carries himself, you'd think he'd be much more beaten down by witnessing and enduring low-grade harassment all this time, and he's just unaffected and acting like none of it actually relates to him.
To say nothing of the trope being used wherein he treats none of these people like actual people and instead as characters on a page or screen. He continuously calls Hinata "my favorite", which is already a form of *objectification and "othering". He freaks out over being actually targeted by Rui with violence in their first meeting, wondering why she's going to such lengths to try and murder him--when he's a literal terrorist in her eyes, and someone she sees as coming into corrupt/steal Hinata from her.
After awhile he starts realizing that his mere existence and continuous interference in the lives of these people are "throwing off the story", but that's another problem--he keeps treating it as a story, and these people around him as flat & railroaded characters in a narrative, and like he's just some spectator.
And it would be one thing if he'd only been in this world for a few months, but it's been for years, now...and he's only just now seeming to wonder about how things are shifting from what he thinks they should, like there's a script that's supposed to be running the background.
It's a common problem with stories like this, and the MCs almost always try to hold onto the "but it's a story [and none of this is real]", and that's never the case. But it makes me want to root against the MC, if only because he's both fucking up the lives of others, while acting like he's blameless, and acting for selfish reasons while feeling absolved because he's "just a mob character wanting to indulge himself".
He's screwing with Setsuna's feelings, with Hinata's feelings, he's mucking up the dynamics between Hinata and Rui, and even other antagonistic figures like Gouki are getting involved in ways that are entirely the MC's fault. And he's just not taking ownership of this, and being almost willfully ignorant of what everyone around him is doing and feeling and saying.
I keep hoping that at some point he'll turn the corner, but 10 chapters is apparently not enough time for him to do so.
And that's all leaving aside the inherent problematic nature of the world & setting. There's so much potential in an exaggerated classist society based around one's sex, where you have an authoritarian governmental system & enforcement organization on one side and a ragtag group of resistance fighters/terrorists that aren't even unified in their goals and motivations on the other.
Instead, it's almost treated like window-dressing for the MC's antics and played into for comic relief--or very much not taken seriously, even though the MC should be aware of how important it is for the very people he's involved with. You'd think he'd be much more jaded, living as a second-class citizen for so long, and being on the side seeking to overturn the current regime in power.
But his fixation on the character of Hinata, and not even Hinata the person in front of him, seems to be the only thing that's really grounding the MC to this world, and it feels very superficial in light of the reality around him, which in turn makes his struggles as the ostensible protagonist that much less compelling.
That said - it does seem like he might be at the point where he's starting to shift that mindset, though, so maybe things will pick up from here. But I'd almost prefer that we be told it'd only been a couple months' worth of him being in this world, or that we go the "he only recently regained his memories after being reincarnated".
Because him being cognizant of his circumstances since childhood, effectively, whilst simultaneously being strangely insulated from the harsh reality that he should have been experiencing, ruins that suspension of disbelief.
In a world where him being a man means he'd have a front-row seat to the systemic sexism and classism that all men would suffer, he's just....insulated from it, I guess? Sure, he has Sestuna at his side, but the tone of his narration and the way he carries himself, you'd think he'd be much more beaten down by witnessing and enduring low-grade harassment all this time, and he's just unaffected and acting like none of it actually relates to him.
To say nothing of the trope being used wherein he treats none of these people like actual people and instead as characters on a page or screen. He continuously calls Hinata "my favorite", which is already a form of *objectification and "othering". He freaks out over being actually targeted by Rui with violence in their first meeting, wondering why she's going to such lengths to try and murder him--when he's a literal terrorist in her eyes, and someone she sees as coming into corrupt/steal Hinata from her.
After awhile he starts realizing that his mere existence and continuous interference in the lives of these people are "throwing off the story", but that's another problem--he keeps treating it as a story, and these people around him as flat & railroaded characters in a narrative, and like he's just some spectator.
And it would be one thing if he'd only been in this world for a few months, but it's been for years, now...and he's only just now seeming to wonder about how things are shifting from what he thinks they should, like there's a script that's supposed to be running the background.
It's a common problem with stories like this, and the MCs almost always try to hold onto the "but it's a story [and none of this is real]", and that's never the case. But it makes me want to root against the MC, if only because he's both fucking up the lives of others, while acting like he's blameless, and acting for selfish reasons while feeling absolved because he's "just a mob character wanting to indulge himself".
He's screwing with Setsuna's feelings, with Hinata's feelings, he's mucking up the dynamics between Hinata and Rui, and even other antagonistic figures like Gouki are getting involved in ways that are entirely the MC's fault. And he's just not taking ownership of this, and being almost willfully ignorant of what everyone around him is doing and feeling and saying.
I keep hoping that at some point he'll turn the corner, but 10 chapters is apparently not enough time for him to do so.
And that's all leaving aside the inherent problematic nature of the world & setting. There's so much potential in an exaggerated classist society based around one's sex, where you have an authoritarian governmental system & enforcement organization on one side and a ragtag group of resistance fighters/terrorists that aren't even unified in their goals and motivations on the other.
Instead, it's almost treated like window-dressing for the MC's antics and played into for comic relief--or very much not taken seriously, even though the MC should be aware of how important it is for the very people he's involved with. You'd think he'd be much more jaded, living as a second-class citizen for so long, and being on the side seeking to overturn the current regime in power.
But his fixation on the character of Hinata, and not even Hinata the person in front of him, seems to be the only thing that's really grounding the MC to this world, and it feels very superficial in light of the reality around him, which in turn makes his struggles as the ostensible protagonist that much less compelling.
That said - it does seem like he might be at the point where he's starting to shift that mindset, though, so maybe things will pick up from here. But I'd almost prefer that we be told it'd only been a couple months' worth of him being in this world, or that we go the "he only recently regained his memories after being reincarnated".
Because him being cognizant of his circumstances since childhood, effectively, whilst simultaneously being strangely insulated from the harsh reality that he should have been experiencing, ruins that suspension of disbelief.
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Taken at face value, MC feels actually insane. But the reality, and why I never expect him to actually "turn a corner", is because this story is just very badly written.
If character's actually behaved in remotely realistic ways, the sexism-cop that knows his identity and hates him would have just reported him already, and the sexism-cop that MC crushes on would probably either show traits of being a misandrist (because she's a sexism-cop) or she wouldn't idolize the man-hating establishment that openly oppresses him. Her job is literally to stop people from fighting for equality, but we don't even see her treating MC like he's either an inferior or "one of the good ones". She clearly looks up to this guy that she puts her life on the line to keep down and the hypocrisy is never mentioned.
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yeah, I wasn't even touching on the way other characters behave "in-setting" because doing so would be me exceeding the character limit of MangaDex forums and no one would even want to sit through all of it in the first place.
But yes--the setting itself is largely nonsensical, insofar as how everyone acts and interacts. As you said--all Rui would have to do is report him, or just grab some of her fellow cohorts and go "hey guess what we got a terrorist right here" and just descend on him immediately.
And Hinata sees MC as her "onii-san", which...if they have a history of growing up together and he did do things to help her in the past that changed her view of him, then fine. But we don't see her interacting with any other male characters (outside of Gouki who's a separate case), so we have no way of knowing if she's just "someone who believes in equality" or if MC is an edge case for her.
And even then....like you said, she's the rising star of an organization that seeks to uphold the current status quo of things, which includes the byproduct of systemic oppression of MC and other men.
It really reads like the author chose a setting that sounded grabby, and then proceeded to ignore it because, logically, it would result in the heroine of the story looking kinda horrific to readers. And we can't have that.
