Gomi Ika da to Tsuihousareta Shounin, Jitsu wa Zensei Kenja Desu ~Shijou Saikyou no Kenja, Sekai Saikou Hou no Gakuen ni Kayou~ - Ch. 5.1 - Lowest Gr…

[Wolvenworks]

Usually old dudes like the headmaster are wise and accepting (in terms of comic tropes at least), so it's interesting that he's so blatantly bigoted.

That said, I'm with everyone; The MC said he was going to not be held down or back by anyone, and then immediately caves in to the headmaster's demands. He should have gone anyway, won, and THEN said he wishes he could be a scholarship student, but can't (despite winning) because the headmaster says so.
RUIN HIS REPUTATION!

In terms of old dudes, you either get old enough to wisen up, or you get old enough to entrench yourself in the olden ways and be the ultimate bigot. In a world where noble pride seems to be a job requirement, this “headmaster” seems to be quite well-versed in the arts of douchebaggery.

 

[tekkenshu7]

LOL kinda hate this premises of 'discrimination'.
It happens a lot in this world, I know, but still cringey when it happens in manga/LN.
Well, looks like Gard will just have to put more people in their places soon.

 

[Ninoren]

Story is really forcing every trope in existence, without any build up, it's literally just brute forcing stuff 🥲

Headmaster : Akshually, fuck you, you're the lowest ranked, because i need some excuse to show off ur power while everyone thinks you're trash

Random Guy : How dare he be chummy with some girl I've never fucking spoken to before, let's harass him, because we need some more generic villains to show off mc

Old Employers: Akshually we need him, get him back, don't care abkut his opinion

Also, the relationship between fl and mc is actually super toxic, feels like he's trying to make her dependent on him

 

[kingarthur020500]

Fuck the old guy. Why can't we ever have an MC who tells them to jump off a cliff?

 

[KoffeeStarZ0e]

shits ass

 

[Wyrm]

LOL kinda hate this premises of 'discrimination'.
It happens a lot in this world, I know, but still cringey when it happens in manga/LN.
Well, looks like Gard will just have to put more people in their places soon.

I don't think it's that bad when discrimination exists in a fiction world.
It's just one form of obstacle a MC has to overcome in a story.
But it has to be implemented with a bare minimum of realism.

Here, the school is supposed to ignore social classes during the entrance exam.
However, the headmaster here made a clear, textbook case of discrimination, and he orders it with pure authority. No explanation (e.g. "our funding relies on noble patronage"), nor bargaining (e.g. "we'll fund your basic needs and give you a grant for research, so keep quiet and stay low"). And there is clearly no misunderstanding. They both know that he is exceptional, and they both understand that he will be ranked "weakest" purely to accommodate nobility. With a clear visual indicator of his official rank.
(It is even more inconsistent as they established that the nobility in this world is way less influential than in other works. We can't just ignore that other bit of idiocy.)

The MC has literally zero reason to accept this treatment. On the other hand, getting the scholarship would fulfill several of his objectives. (Immediate needs + research environment.) He is clearly way ahead in scholarly knowledge already (not so much with everyday common sense), so he's not here for actually learning magic like a random student. He could walk out very publicly and go sign up at another academy. First, because distance is not an issue to him. Second, because he knows how exceptional he is. To him, it would be a minor setback. To the headmaster, this would be the biggest loss in all the history of manga headmasters. And yet, the chapter presents things as if the MC is the one at a disadvantage for some insane reason, and that's after clearing out the common cliche of "misunderstanding his own power level".

That is the problem I have. None of these behaviors make the least bit of sense. The story is already broken, and it was on a shaky foundations to begin with. This is the one thing I can't stand in my readings. I can forgive below average art, generic story, predictable outcomes... but broken consistency is the one thing that I can't compromise on. Because once it's broken, nothing in the story matters.

 

[vodspod]

we don't want a commoner as a scholarship student, we instead want a lowest class commoner to beat the crap out of our noble scholarship students so we can completely lose face. We want people saying "If you are a noble you get recognized as a scholarship student even if you suck, where as if you are a commoner you won't no matter how much better you are than the scholarship students."

 

[JACGohu]

Usually old dudes like the headmaster are wise and accepting (in terms of comic tropes at least), so it's interesting that he's so blatantly bigoted.

That said, I'm with everyone; The MC said he was going to not be held down or back by anyone, and then immediately caves in to the headmaster's demands. He should have gone anyway, won, and THEN said he wishes he could be a scholarship student, but can't (despite winning) because the headmaster says so.
RUIN HIS REPUTATION!

Author might be trying to foreshadow the Headmaster as some sort of big-bad down the road. Maybe for some kind of arc or another, where MC makes friends in the right high places, and they wind up weeding corruption out of the Academy, or some shyte.

It's still one of the most ham-fisted ways to bring it up though.

 

[OmegaDragon]

Let's be realistic guys. It's the headmaster. He can expel him all together if he wish for it.

 

[K_Takuya]

This manga is straight ass

 

[Magpie_Bridge]

didn't think there was something more ass than the sweet caroline diagnostix bootleg but here we are

still gonna read because i love witnessing trash fires

 

[MewOne]

Shigh

 

[tekkenshu7]

I don't think it's that bad when discrimination exists in a fiction world.
It's just one form of obstacle a MC has to overcome in a story.
But it has to be implemented with a bare minimum of realism.

Here, the school is supposed to ignore social classes during the entrance exam.
However, the headmaster here made a clear, textbook case of discrimination, and he orders it with pure authority. No explanation (e.g. "our funding relies on noble patronage"), nor bargaining (e.g. "we'll fund your basic needs and give you a grant for research, so keep quiet and stay low"). And there is clearly no misunderstanding. They both know that he is exceptional, and they both understand that he will be ranked "weakest" purely to accommodate nobility. With a clear visual indicator of his official rank.
(It is even more inconsistent as they established that the nobility in this world is way less influential than in other works. We can't just ignore that other bit of idiocy.)

The MC has literally zero reason to accept this treatment. On the other hand, getting the scholarship would fulfill several of his objectives. (Immediate needs + research environment.) He is clearly way ahead in scholarly knowledge already (not so much with everyday common sense), so he's not here for actually learning magic like a random student. He could walk out very publicly and go sign up at another academy. First, because distance is not an issue to him. Second, because he knows how exceptional he is. To him, it would be a minor setback. To the headmaster, this would be the biggest loss in all the history of manga headmasters. And yet, the chapter presents things as if the MC is the one at a disadvantage for some insane reason, and that's after clearing out the common cliche of "misunderstanding his own power level".

That is the problem I have. None of these behaviors make the least bit of sense. The story is already broken, and it was on a shaky foundations to begin with. This is the one thing I can't stand in my readings. I can forgive below average art, generic story, predictable outcomes... but broken consistency is the one thing that I can't compromise on. Because once it's broken, nothing in the story matters.

This is exactly what I was trying to point out.
It looks like though that it would be the main theme of the story. Every move the MC will make, he will get the "you are just trash" treatment (it is also written in the title) then he will just put them down a notch with his super skills then bag a new girl or two along the way.
I've seen a lot of LN like this but it feels this one might be one which will be using this so much, as far as the 5 chapters is showing right now - like it also forgot some of the premise it set just so it can further push its 'gomi' catchphrase.

 

[Squidco42]

NGL, I am pretty happy that I found this manga
It made me realize that I still have some taste left.
I can recognize that this manga is pure dog shit and refuse to acknowledge anything good about it.
After years and years of reading shitty manga I thought I burned all my sensibilities to detect bad manga. I've grown acustomed to all the trashy tropes, bad writing, and forced ecchi scenes that I can't detect whether or not some manga is using it for good or for bad
I have constantly excused a lot of manga or just written it off and tried to just immerse myself into every manga I read.

This manga has snapped me back and made me realize that "no, this manga doesn't deserve any excuses. This manga is straight up GARBAGE"

So I thank you to this author for making garbage so repulsive, so stinky, so mindless that it has shocked my sensibilities once more.


Granted, like a relapsing junkie, I will still continue to read this dumpster fire.

 

[branx9]

we don't want a commoner as a scholarship student, we instead want a lowest class commoner to beat the crap out of our noble scholarship students so we can completely lose face.

THIS PART RIGHT HERE. It's a trope that never makes sense; why launch off the tracks that hard?

1. Nobles >> Commoners at magic - OK
2. Wizard School is filled with nobles with superiority complexes - OK
3. Wizard School allows commoners, but the nobles are dicks and bully them - OK
4. Wizard School uniforms are a different color depending on your class rank, lol - OK
5. Wizard School has an entrance exam which is a PUBLIC TEST OF STRENGTH - OK fucking fine
6. Butler-kun drops atomic carnage on the entrance exam IN PUBLIC and the Wizard School administration sneakily schemes to deny him a scholarship and make him wear the loser uniform, but still lets him in, ensuring that he will continue to embarrass them IN PUBLIC - WHY??
7. Wizard School will spend 23 volumes trying to get him to quit (or to kill him)

Just don't let him in! Or once you do, kick him out! Just be proper dicks about it and make something up (again)! The nobles will applaud you! You're not even trying to co-opt his power, it makes no difference!

If we're lucky, there will be an all-powerful student council with an incredibly evil president who will turn tsundere and join the harem once her arc is complete.

It would be cool if the author was able to pick up steam again and continue speed-running all of the worst isekai tropes, but it seems like they're going to simmer here for a while. I don't have any hope that this is the kind of big-brain manga that is setting us up for some kind of change-up.

 

[Elhao]

In the wise words of the great philosopher Snoop Dogg: Drop it like it's hot.

I can't even get angry at the idiot at the end because that appears to be the exact mindset the head of the school seems to want to breed.
When the first lesson is "status is more important than talent or effort" you can close the gates right away.

 

[AStrangerIsHere]

Yeah, I'm out. Like Kirin-kun said, it's too cliché for me. Well, I guess it's to be expected from a non pro writer but One was also a non pro when he was writing One Punch Man. Have fun people.

 

[Elhao]

Let's be realistic guys. It's the headmaster. He can expel him all together if he wish for it.

Yeah, and if the mc had any balls he'd make him the headmaster over a pile of ash. I doubt there's anything for him to learn there anyway and if this manga wasn't utterly brainless there would be no way a place that treats talent with such disdain could have any chance to rise to the world's top academy.

There'd have been such an easy way around this. The headmaster could have just said "There is no reason for you to take the next test. You accept that we will make you lowest rank to help us save face and I will personally make sure that you receive everything you seek here."
This way the headmaster wouldn't look like a complete idiot, mc would really have had no reason to take the test instead of just giving in and accepting to be mistreated without any benefit and to the rest of the world the situation would remain the same.

To be fair it might still turn out just this way, as the scene changed just after the headmaster "introduced" himself and we don't see if any conditions were added afterwards, however if that were the case both author and artist deserve a slap to the face for making him look as threatening as possible and go "obey me or else" to mislead us.

P.s. Doesn't look like it. Rawkuma has up to 6.1 and after not seeing the headmaster again so far, yet witnessing the "dorms" for the lowest class students this seems to want to be on the same level as Exiled in a Class Trial for Poor Dexterity, just not quite so obviously dumb and more actively infuriating (which could be the biggest problem, as Poor Dexterity lands perfectly on the sweet spot where you're not 100% sure if it is a great parody or if the author means it seriously, but is mentally handicapped).

 

[Nivek]

Seriously what a shitty plotline, not even being an editorial mandate works as that's too passe, a damn shame seems this will be axed quickly

 

[chojinra]

Normally I can deal with plot inconvenience bullshit, but I would have stuck that staff up his crusty ass. Stupid drama for drama’s sake shows an uncreative mind at work.