Mahou? Sonna Koto Yori Kinniku da! - Vol. 3 Ch. 14 - Magic Battle Tournament (4)
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That part about his "Brain is made of muscles" reminded me of that Thor promo video from a few years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um7Ml-BO8OM
I kinda wish the story or stories like this in general didn't do the predictable thing at times like this. The classic "loss of the companion before the finals+ points for it being female" really doesn't work for me. I've seen it too much and its honestly not that good anyway. Sometimes i think it would be ok to have the MC and friends win or lose outright. I mean using other characters to build up the next MC fight is fine but it shouldn't be mandatory to the point where your sacrificing the secondary characters.
On the matter of females in stories, especially manga it seems like they are either strong and usually the entire cast or weaker than the MC and his enemies. The Male MC trivializing the powerful ones in the case of it being the entire cast. Male savior syndrome i guess. I kinda understand where many of those stories are coming from but its not exactly a good thing for the story. Your basically head patting the reader via the MC and providing a cheap fantasy. Taken to extremes this kind of thing hollows a story out. Isekai Smartphone and its ilk are prime examples of this problem.
The Magi's grandson or whatever the proper title is, was decent in this regard so far due to the main character being an odd duck accompanied by a nice mix of relatively equal friends. Basically i see this in too many stories where the gender inequality maintains despite super powers being the absolute best explanation against combat differentials.
I am reminded of seven Deadly sins and Even MHA with how the female members get relegated to support due to just not having powers like the males do. Seven has giant girl who would be awesome if she wasn't essentially big but useless next to the others. MHA has one of those too. MHA just gives all the females powers which don't really work in the type of combat the main combatants use. Class B has one that comes close but she is just lackluster when it counts. Don't get me wrong the girls of MHA in particular have amazing powers and potential, but i do wonder why those powers don't include things that fit into the type of combat you see the MC and other male powerhouses pull off. All i would have needed was one girl in the class with a direct combat ability thats actually strong. At this point i can only hope that the real trick being played is that Horikoshi is going to fully exploit the wizard-like scaling potential later so that the girls end up as amazing as they could be. Instead of the classic under used OP ability you sometimes find female characters with. Guys get guns, girls get gimmicks, seems to be how it works.
To my point remember Sakura? She literally got brawler powers and was still fucking useless. Im waiting on Black Clover but so far its kinda the same issue. I am not trying to push the male fantasy aspects out of the story, just wish there was less than 100% this cliche of females being "frail". Don't cite tertiary characters or in universe myths. Those play so little into the story that you can't really count them even when they do exist. Like that token black guy in an old movie who clearly just existed to show he existed, or the gays that get buried 5 minutes after the gay happens. I am also not advocating for over correction like with marvel. I just want one proper female character with the bullish power of MCU captain marvel. One Kirishima clone that happens to be a chick.
I grew up watching Xena. That is my childhood. Probably shaped me a lot. Give me the occasional Xena and ill be happy.
Sorry for the rant. I just read so many stories or watch so many forms of media that this kind of stuff builds to a boiling point. This was just a tired cliche, not outright bad. Now im having Flashbacks to "Lisa Lisa isn't allowed to fight".
On the matter of females in stories, especially manga it seems like they are either strong and usually the entire cast or weaker than the MC and his enemies. The Male MC trivializing the powerful ones in the case of it being the entire cast. Male savior syndrome i guess. I kinda understand where many of those stories are coming from but its not exactly a good thing for the story. Your basically head patting the reader via the MC and providing a cheap fantasy. Taken to extremes this kind of thing hollows a story out. Isekai Smartphone and its ilk are prime examples of this problem.
The Magi's grandson or whatever the proper title is, was decent in this regard so far due to the main character being an odd duck accompanied by a nice mix of relatively equal friends. Basically i see this in too many stories where the gender inequality maintains despite super powers being the absolute best explanation against combat differentials.
I am reminded of seven Deadly sins and Even MHA with how the female members get relegated to support due to just not having powers like the males do. Seven has giant girl who would be awesome if she wasn't essentially big but useless next to the others. MHA has one of those too. MHA just gives all the females powers which don't really work in the type of combat the main combatants use. Class B has one that comes close but she is just lackluster when it counts. Don't get me wrong the girls of MHA in particular have amazing powers and potential, but i do wonder why those powers don't include things that fit into the type of combat you see the MC and other male powerhouses pull off. All i would have needed was one girl in the class with a direct combat ability thats actually strong. At this point i can only hope that the real trick being played is that Horikoshi is going to fully exploit the wizard-like scaling potential later so that the girls end up as amazing as they could be. Instead of the classic under used OP ability you sometimes find female characters with. Guys get guns, girls get gimmicks, seems to be how it works.
To my point remember Sakura? She literally got brawler powers and was still fucking useless. Im waiting on Black Clover but so far its kinda the same issue. I am not trying to push the male fantasy aspects out of the story, just wish there was less than 100% this cliche of females being "frail". Don't cite tertiary characters or in universe myths. Those play so little into the story that you can't really count them even when they do exist. Like that token black guy in an old movie who clearly just existed to show he existed, or the gays that get buried 5 minutes after the gay happens. I am also not advocating for over correction like with marvel. I just want one proper female character with the bullish power of MCU captain marvel. One Kirishima clone that happens to be a chick.
I grew up watching Xena. That is my childhood. Probably shaped me a lot. Give me the occasional Xena and ill be happy.
Sorry for the rant. I just read so many stories or watch so many forms of media that this kind of stuff builds to a boiling point. This was just a tired cliche, not outright bad. Now im having Flashbacks to "Lisa Lisa isn't allowed to fight".
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LOL. anyone else get a "Swords of Revealing Light" Vibe from that fight?
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That rant reminded me of Xianxia, superpowers-training-fantasy-stories.
Their whole worlds are built on "your strength comes from magic, not necessarily from muscles", which means everyone have the same equal grounds; yet females are still treated like frail beings. Excessive male-fantasy, indeed.
That rant reminded me of Xianxia, superpowers-training-fantasy-stories.
Their whole worlds are built on "your strength comes from magic, not necessarily from muscles", which means everyone have the same equal grounds; yet females are still treated like frail beings. Excessive male-fantasy, indeed.
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