Your mistake here is assuming Kino has any idea of what is normal for a part time job. Or what is polite society, for that matter.
In this particular case, she's so relieved that she's not getting fired (and as a reminder, she fears getting fired because she believes she'll lose her only friend, which was more difficult to get than any S-ranked ingredient for her) that she's no longer paying attention to anything being said until she calms down next chapter.
Usoyama was the one to bring Kino to this part time job, and only really told her that they'll be hunting strangers, nothing specific. So Kino knows nothing about "the job's post description".
And again, you're stuck on what's normal for "a member of polite society", which Kino isn't. Even if something weird is said, she has no basis for comparison.
She heard "Let the blood flow", saw the axe and came to the most logical conclusion for her lived experience.
So she's letting them draw her blood, which is why, for her, it's not weird to be attacked with bladed tools. Of course, it doesn't work, and brings back her fear of getting fired.
On the topic of the sword aiming at her eye, we don't actually see the weapon connecting.
She could have blinked just after this panel as a subconscious reaction. And we have seen her defend herself automatically, like when the Yamata no Orochi was about to use fire on her. Things that are so instinctual to her, she basically has no control over those reactions.
Or, maybe her eyeball really is that hard.
As to why she even let the president strike her eyeball? We have no real clue as to her regenerative capabilities, so maybe losing an eyeball is "just a flesh wound" to her. For example, I've just checked and there's no indication that her finger is still hurt after she bit it, so it probably healed already.
But... it all comes down to... basic human logic..? Not even common sense, just basic human instincts.
I mean, I don't get what you're not understanding. Someone is yelling at you, clearly angry at you, and is attacking you with the intent to harm. How is she not taking the hint?
I can get your head being so far up your ass you can't properly see what people don't like here, but this is on a whole other level. We're talking Olympics levels of mental gymnastics.
She is dumb, as her little sister has stated. Also reckless and without common sense.
Nobody's arguing she's even of normal intellect. She has been established to be this kind of character, so most of the complaints people are having about her being dumb are honestly weird to me.
You may not like this sort of character, that's fair. But she's behaving exactly according to how she was established, so most of her actions make sense for her.
And nobody is arguing that. Nobody minds a character that's dumb as hell. Everyone, including me, was cool with it. I found it fun at first like everyone else. Then we arrived at Chapter 9 and everything went to shit.
My whole previous argument was based on the idea that there's literally no logic to what's happening, whatever type of argument you can come up with would be far-fetched (and somehow you did come up with 'counter-arguments', which are really just the biggest stretches in human history as well as some conjectures and theories, and a few valid points).
But you know what, forget that.
I'll try and explain it in a simple manner to you, since your underdevelopped mass you call a brain can't seem to wrap itself around the problem here.
Most people, I think, came here with the intent of seeing some action, some school slice of life probably, and some comedy. That type of mix is generally fun and entertaining to read.
The setting and mood is a key element to all that, and the first pages of the story set that up pretty well. We see Kino holding onto the undercarriage of a truck in a desolate, half destroyed Tokyo. That sets a pretty comedic tone in this otherwise bleak environment and people were enjoying it.
Fastforwrd a bit and we arrive at Chapter 7 where we see someone get exsanguinated and literally eaten, so most people would think that the interesting part is finally coming. It sets a grim mood. In Chapter 8 we see some characters we've come to like get threatened and some dark sad backstory. It heightens the tension.
Then we arrive at chapter 9.
And we see Kino doing a dogeza.
And you know what. It was funny. It lightened the atmosphere that was dark up until now, broke the tension and brought in some comedy that's much appreciated, I think. This was fun to read. Very fun.
What wasn't was a joke being dragged on for literal chapters. The joke being told once is enough most of the time (I guess not for you, since you kept coming back and laughing). But you can't expect me to laugh and smile after the 15th time, or worse, somehow find it even funnier the 16th time. This is literally the definition of insanity.
So now, what are people supposed to be feeling? Most sane readers got, in all but name, blueballed for the last 5 chapters out of a possibly good fight (or not, since now that the joke properly, thoroughly explained it, Kino is basically Saitama) and whiplashed from the sudden change of atmosphere from dark to happy dummy rainbows. This is
not fun. This is illogical.
You can defend your position as much as you want, bring in all the arguments; please point out to me where the objective fun here is? For you to react this way to people shitting on this means you have to see something funny, entertaining and nice here that absolutely warrants such a staunch defense? Where, exactly, in the last 3 chapters has the fun been present for you?
Maybe if I repeat a joke to you 34 times back to back, you'd actually laugh 34 times too, I dare say you might find the 35th even better too? If yes, then maybe the real problem here has been hinted in your name all along, you might just be an actual bot.
I take issue with this statement. There's nothing inherently wrong with staying in one scene for a long period of time. What matters is that what happens in that scene makes sense to be happening in that scene.
Take for example
12 Angry Men, which is a story that happens entirely in one room, but is one of the best films ever made. Though, I reckon most youths today would be incapable of sitting through it...
And
a lot of things are happening in these last few chapters. Not just "one joke stretched out" like your said, but many jokes/gags based on this particular premise.
I see a lot of people complaining about it, and I can only conclude that their brains are so overstimulated by slop that they need the background to constantly change for them to feel like things are happening.
This is why I say that people aren't paying attention to what they're reading.
There isn't, except when there's virtually nothing of note happening. It goes back to what I'm saying. Point out the fun.
And nice of you to bring in 12 Angry Men. People arguing, debating and coming to conclusions that have real consequences in medias is fun and entertaining.
Another more modern/recent example, most Imperial Security Bureau scenes in the Star Wars franchise are literally just people talking in a room. Sure not as long as 12 Angry Men, but the concept is the same. There's no action, no high intensity moments, just people talking and it's still entertaning. Nobody skips them. Why? Because the convesations actually have weight. Those people have power but also limits, they aren't invicible but they also are far from powerless.
Your example is honestly the better one since it shows clearly that a scene doesn't need to change to set an interesting story. But you're forgetting that the content is literally what
makes the story.
Tell me where the weight in the conversations in these last few chapters are? We've been staying in the same scene doing virutally fuckall because, at the end of the day, it was shown Kino can literally just rip off the cross off it's foundations and wipe out half the cultists' group in the blink of an eye. It's breaking any suspense or tension that any people might have had. She's simply not doing it because she's dumber than a retarded rock.
Most people started reading this with the premise that she was socially inept, the first pages literally say so, not that she's mentally deficient.
There's no weight, there's no anticipation, there's no drama, there's literally nothing.
Except, no, you're right. Hoshinomiya and Pyonko are flying in a helicopter somewhere above. Woah. That's a lot of things, like.. uhh.. the blade of the helicopters are spinning fast! And the rotor is keeping that helo so stable! You're right, lots of mechanics happening.
You're somehow still not seeing the problem most people have with this. This is simply not entertaning and we're literally in the first dozen chapters of the story. What will this look like in 20/30 chapters?
More than that, people had high expectations for this, and were emotionally invested enough to bring out their anger once shit started to show. You're talking as if most of the people who hate it now hated it at first. No, they loved it and had their expectations betrayed,
badly.
If you consider this little rant "a whole thesis"... Man, what a sad world we live in.
But yes. I am happy you provided me with specific examples from the perspective of someone who wasn't paying attention to what they're reading. It was exactly what I needed to prove my point. Thank you.
Also, another thing you've proven to me is that some people are simply incapable of seeing perspectives other than their own.
Thank fuck I said this then:
Your response pissed me off so much I was willing to do a whole thesis on why you're wrong, but fuck it, I hope you're happy with this.
Though if you don't understand that it means I
haven't done that thesis in question, then once again, it brings your reading comprehension into question.
But yeah, you're right, some people are generally reading a story based on how the readers' POV is set.
Which in this case seems to be third-person omniscient since we can read everyone's thoughts from a bird's eye view. And generally, a perspective is explicitely shown to be from someone if the story/plot needs it to be, which there's apparently no need for here. This is generally at least how stories are supposed to be setup.
Which means that (now we're into conjecture territory) what we see is also what Kino is seeing too. Which means she saw everyone tied up. Which kinda breaks your starting theory. But this is just a conjecture, and honestly I couldn't care less anymore.
To end this, you've proven that you simply can't relate to proper human emotions and other people, making me wonder if you're legit not an actual bot. Anyway, if you do respond, don't expect one, I don't like arguing over stupid shit.
tldr: u wrong lmao, u bot
