Fuguushoku to Baka ni Saremashita ga, Jissai wa Sorehodo Waruku Arimasen? - Ch. 34 - It's About Time to Strike!

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Anyone else think it's weird they hyped up this chuuni vampire so much? I mean it's a vampire. All of us already know a dozen cliched weaknesses they have.
In the original Dracula book, a vampire's only real weakness was a blessed wooden stake to the heart and anything made of PURE silver burned them but wasn't enough to kill them. If you removed the stake they would come back to life. Garlic was at one point thought to repel evil, so while famous for being a vampire's weakness at the time Dracula was written it would've repelled any monster not just vampires. Magic could hurt vampires but not kill them, and a cross only worked if it was blessed and holy water was useless. The sunlight weakness was introduced in the movie Nosferatu and was only added along with witht he weakness to holy water and changing Dracula to Nosferatu to avoid copyright laws (it wasn't enough)
 
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Should've just go in for the kill instead of standing there just explaining how he immobilized him...
The author assumes the reader is 7, and needs these these things explained. Also it's a LN adaptation so a lot which can be shown is told to match the source material.
 
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Both chat bubbles in the first cell of page three have the same text.

Likewise the chat bubble in cell two of page ten needs a bit more cleaning. There is a bit of kanji under the text.
 
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Immediately ambushed. Lucky he wasn't too aggressive.

"I've come to defeat you."
"Should I wipe you out?"
"This is bad!"
I mean, what did you expect? And while I'm not expecting any high level of writing, this fails even those expectations.

Yeah, this is one of the worse battles I've seen in a while. He's only alive because vampire boy just doesn't do what he said he'd do, and he's not playing around either, which is a common excuse for not finishing a battle earlier.

If it doesn't improve within a chapter or two, I'm probably out.

The sunlight weakness was introduced in the movie Nosferatu
I thought it wasn't actually a weakness, just symbolic that the monster was killed at dawn, and that the idea that it was a weakness comes from misunderstanding that scene. Though I could be mixing vampire movies.

Should've just go in for the kill instead of standing there just explaining how he immobilized him...
The pacing of the battle is all kinds of awkward.
 
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Immediately ambushed. Lucky he wasn't too aggressive.


I mean, what did you expect? And while I'm not expecting any high level of writing, this fails even those expectations.

Yeah, this is one of the worse battles I've seen in a while. He's only alive because vampire boy just doesn't do what he said he'd do, and he's not playing around either, which is a common excuse for not finishing a battle earlier.

If it doesn't improve within a chapter or two, I'm probably out.


I thought it wasn't actually a weakness, just symbolic that the monster was killed at dawn, and that the idea that it was a weakness comes from misunderstanding that scene. Though I could be mixing vampire movies.


The pacing of the battle is all kinds of awkward.
Dracula from the book is basically the powers and weaknesses of Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate with the personality of Dracula from the Castlevania Netflix series
 
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In the original Dracula book, a vampire's only real weakness was a blessed wooden stake to the heart and anything made of PURE silver burned them but wasn't enough to kill them. If you removed the stake they would come back to life. Garlic was at one point thought to repel evil, so while famous for being a vampire's weakness at the time Dracula was written it would've repelled any monster not just vampires. Magic could hurt vampires but not kill them, and a cross only worked if it was blessed and holy water was useless. The sunlight weakness was introduced in the movie Nosferatu and was only added along with witht he weakness to holy water and changing Dracula to Nosferatu to avoid copyright laws (it wasn't enough)
I believe the only way to kill vampire for good in traditional legends was to burn their severed head to ash in holy fire, though silver would work if blessed, as well.
Staking would also work, but it wouldn't die immediately, it would need to be bound to the grave long enough to starve to a eventual "second death".
 

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