Bouryoku Banzai - Ch. 11 - Similarities and Differences

[Goofus]

It's so bizarre people dropping this because they are somewhat asshurt that in a manga about a hot chick in a short skirt beating people up she didn't get realistically knocked out by a MMA fighter.

It's not that bizarre. People generally understand that it's not the job of fiction writers try to write as realistically as possible, and when they criticize a lack of realism in a work of fiction, they're simply not copping to the truth. Maybe it's because the truth would embarrassing for them to cop to, or maybe it's just that they don't have the vocabulary to articulate what they're really trying to say. In any case, what they really mean is that they, for whatever reason, wanted to see him win easily, and they don't like that it didn't turn out that way, and 'realism' is a way for them to intellectualize a criticism that is, at its heart, motivated by personal taste.

 

[kwendy]

Anyway they started banging.

 

[Harv0707]

Eh, prolly all the punch she get is kinda miss so the damage she take is minimal. Cant wait to see how this fight is done, thanks for the chapt

 

[NotSomeone]

I would like her to lose, that would create tension in the plot, yeah she's strong but not female Yujiro.
Also, the fact their speed is matched is not good for her, she's half his size.

Also, I don't know how you guys are talking about martial arts left and right without noticing this little arc is a perfect set up for the introduction of counters, and that's probably the way she's winning this.

 

[Trin4life]

It's not that bizarre. People generally understand that it's not the job of fiction writers try to write as realistically as possible, and when they criticize a lack of realism in a work of fiction, they're simply not copping to the truth. Maybe it's because the truth would embarrassing for them to cop to, or maybe it's just that they don't have the vocabulary to articulate what they're really trying to say. In any case, what they really mean is that they, for whatever reason, wanted to see him win easily, and they don't like that it didn't turn out that way, and 'realism' is a way for them to intellectualize a criticism that is, at its heart, motivated by personal taste.

It probably comes down to the fact she was presented as a big fish in a small pond, while he was presented as the biggest fish in the biggest conventional pond. Thus, a mismatch of expectations was born. I'm willing to bet had she beat or at least matched an instructor that this guy was established to see as a peer/colleague — causing him to step in — people would be a lot less likely to be up in arms.

 

[0takuDragonSlayer]

Okay, I'm surprised she actually got hit by that jab in the last chapter, but the author lost me on this one. It's surreal that she's taking so many hits from a heavyweight MMA champion and is still conscious. I hope you guys keep enjoying it, but it's just not for me.

Thanks for the chapter!

Can’t even blame you. If she ends up winning this fight I’m probably gonna bail as well. This is unfortunately just very underwhelming writing backed by admittedly pretty great art work. It’s a shame the original premise had to be changed to fit whoever the fuck this was meant to appeal to

 

[0takuDragonSlayer]

Can she just let the MC get formally trained 😭

LOL!
oh my God I forgot this entire stupid encounter happened because she was butt hurt about him finding an objectively better instructor🤣

 

[PhallusHydra]

Realism aside, where does any tension or intrigue come from if she doesn't get humiliated here?
If shes even CLOSE to beating him, there's nothing left for this woman to do except train her pet nerd.

 

[PbruxYawn]

This is just rubbish now lol. Korean manhwas actually have real strength scaling. Did the author think an mma fighter cant react to a huge motion like an arm bar or a kick with no momentum?

 

[raionhankei]

I agree, people think too much about realism, we are speaking about a comic with fake characters, if she got knocked down with the first blow it would have been boring and anticlimatic not? Now you can't predict what will happen, so is now interesting and you crave to see how the scene will end, the author know this, even if she lose in the end. Realism unfortunately is boring, because is the standard, you see it every day, 95% of the times is predictable. But fictions are not conventional and so obvious.

She doesn't need to be knocked out with the first punch, because as you said it's anti-climactic, but I hope she loses this fight because it really doesn't make sense for her to win without using the power of the script in her favor, because if this work tends to be just about fighting and nothing supernatural, she needs to lose because there won't be any good explanations to justify her victory without it being something forced that would drive away many readers.

especially when she keeps telling the MC that she only needs to know 1 move to win the fight and she used several and didn't even hurt the guy properly.