Kekkaishi e no Tensei - Ch. 49

[Morose]

It's such poor writing to make the antagonists bad in every possible way. Immoral, selfish, greedy and utterly incompetent.

That's a standard.
There is never going to be a competent antagonists who is also immoral, selfish and greedy.
As then MC won't have chance to win.

 

[Doomer]

why does he want to be careful to not kill the invaders? it's not like he's against killing he killed and entire kingdom before and these guys are rebels invading his territory.

 

[Askorti]

That's a standard.
There is never going to be a competent antagonists who is also immoral, selfish and greedy.
As then MC won't have chance to win.

No, you just have to be, you know... more competent. There's a lot of wiggle room between complete incompetence and high competence. You don't have to have the MC punch down on absolute morons.

 

[dereth]

They were meant to simply guard the nobles from bandit attacks. Why are they obeying orders to assault a mansion out of nowhere? This chapter is just retarded.

 

[dereth]

No, you just have to be, you know... more competent. There's a lot of wiggle room between complete incompetence and high competence. You don't have to have the MC punch down on absolute morons.

That requires skilled writing. A mythical ability rarely seen these days.