The knight captain gives off similar vibes to Commander Serena from Reborn as a Space Mercenary... especially in how they try to get the MC into their circle.
Said deity didn't force Ed to 'gaslight' (I think you meant 'deceive') his companions, that was how Ed chose to handle the mission. The deity even showed Ed the result of his way of handling the mission, and is now letting Ed fix those mistakes.
Now, whether that deity sucks for making Ed go...
The manga has added a lot more than the WN had, and has done a much better job at handling the gender bend part so far. I hope it doesn't stick to the source material, as the source material broke my suspension of disbelief.
That is true, my theory is not something I can guarantee.
I can...
So the WN clears up his behavior a lot more. I'll summarize:
For a while now, his childhood friend had only been talking about Ralph whenever they were together. Instead of anyone having any empathy for his situation, despite the fact he was actually as strong as Ralph (Ralph is only a rank 2...
This is, for the most part, true. Japanese media tends to rely on the baking how characters view each other into the honorifics, which often adds important hints, and at least an important flavor to the story.
However, Japanese is not the only language with ways to express hierarchy or throw...
Awesome, thank you. My source was a comment made either in one of the earlier comments made on the forums of an earlier chapter or perhaps a comment made on an a different aggregate site. I don't completely trust comments, which is why I asked the question and introduced what I know with the...
That too, but I will say that the underdog thing does work... if the story bothers to build them up in such a way that it's plausible. But that requires skill and effort on the author's part and not just giving the character everything on a silver platter.
I agree that is and always will be cringe. With that said, I think there's a way for such a thing to happen to a character and it not be the author's punishment, but be a plausible outcome to a character making a bad decision.
But that's certainly NOT this story. The main character...
I'm not surprised. There's so much going on, the main character is way too nonchalant, and the fact everyone has the same (modern) uniform despite being on different sides... it undermines every good point about this story.
I mean, the description tells us something interesting that is entirely...
Question to anyone here: does Youki actually end up properly dating Cecilia? I ask because apparently the WN, after 500 chapters, does not, and has several times nerfed Youki in order to create drama when there shouldn't be.
I'm hoping the manga cuts a lot of that out and doesn't string readers...
Honestly, it's refreshing to have the tournament arc end so quickly. Or, at least the story's focus on the tournament matches. Not that I dislike tournament arcs: YuYu Hakusho and History's Stongest Disciple Kenichi had fantastic tournament arcs, and so do many others.
But Al's tournament...
Honestly, the hero's childhood friend is the one character I don't want to see end up with the protagonist. He wants to avoid NTR, and technically, he does avoid it as long as they're not romantically involved or interested in the hero to start with. The childhood friend is, and that one would...
I don't think I've ever seen an overbearing hero of justice type of protagonist. I think they're actually quite rare. I think that's just a trope that began for the purpose of satire, parody, or as caricature to justify having a "villain" as a main character or to let the audience see what the...