Maseki Gourmet: Mamono no Chikara o Tabeta Ore wa Saikyou! - Ch. 62 - Snow Falling on the Burning Town

[MangaDex]

 

[Kiyan19]

Oh my god! He was one of the people in his story! Who could've guessed this! I'M SHOCKED!!!"

Thanks for the traslation.

 

[Kingosharks]

I gotta say, these mad scientist type enemies are approaching the "evil pope" trope of boring.

 

[AnotherDuck]

Can't arrive without saving someone at the last possible moment. It's too predictable to be dramatic.

Creepy licking is also one of the most overused characterisation moments.

Kind of a nothing chapter.

 

[JaxunHero]

Can I get a refresher I’m forgetting who those people were

 

[Darkshade13]

I gotta say, these mad scientist type enemies are approaching the "evil pope" trope of boring.

Agreed. There's just never anything to them. It's always the same "knowledge is supreme and nothing can stand in the way of it so I'll just do whatever and kill whoever to get there. What's that? You actually care about other people who aren't related to me and my goal? How pathetic! I'm clearly better than everyone so none of that concerns me!"

then they get defeated or killed and it's "oh no! Why am I being punished! I just wanted to do whatever I wanted without consequence! That's not wrong, is it?"

There's little to no variation or creativity. It's just straight copy/paste right down to usually having glasses and a long coat that invokes a lab coat and often looking kind of haggard because the insinuation is that they don't sleep or rest or do anything outside of read and research all the time.

Can't arrive without saving someone at the last possible moment. It's too predictable to be dramatic.

Creepy licking is also one of the most overused characterisation moments.

Kind of a nothing chapter.

Agreed about the licking too. In general I feel like the various poses and lines that get used in manga as shorthand for things are overdone. Creepy licking, the hand over the face to obscure everything but an eye, the leaning back with the hand to the face evil/insane laugh. Again there's no originality. It's like there's a master list of "these are the things you must do to signify certain things. So you have no choice but to do them." It feels like the creativity extension of that whole "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down" idea: If you try to do something other than what's "normal" to make your manga stand out, everyone will look down on you for trying to be different as if you're too good to do the things that everyone else does.

Don't make something new and original. Just make the same basic bitch isekai/game-mechanics-universe/harem comedy/power-fantasy/whatever series that everyone else does and be happy if the fates deign to make yours slightly more popular than the raft of other identical ones.

 

[ciera]

Thanks for the update

 

[Ninoren]

We totally weren't shown like 15 chapters ago he is the big evil 🥲..

Please don't tell me it's not going to be dragged out for too long, without anyone suspecting him, when they literally suspected someone for intentionally harming him by simply having gifted him a red fox miniature statue, meanwhile that guy had red fox magic stones 😐

 

[Wolvenworks]

I gotta say, these mad scientist type enemies are approaching the "evil pope" trope of boring.

I mean, they WERE the trend hundred years ago…and trends do come back…

 

[deathmailrock]

Do people remember when manga used to have enjoyable villains? Pepperidge Farm Remembers....

A villain hateable by the readers is just so boring and drags a story down...

 

[IvanDFakkov]

Fuck the fox, can we go back to asskicking the other kingdom, like, pretty please?

 

[BusWindow]

When there was someone approaching Oz I was hoping for someone important, not a literal nobody just to show off Oz's miasma hands.

 

[chendu]

tanks for the food

 

[asdman]

Very frustrating to see a number of pages wasted on nothing. The mad scientist was already shown to be evil long ago. So just showing that he is evil is just a waste. At least show us his connection to the red fox. Or have the MC learn that he is to blame.

 

[MeePotato]

I can't help but compare this red fox arc to the latest seirei gensouki arc in the LN, where everyone lost their memories of the mc

 

[Gudachiz]

Fuck the fox, can we go back to asskicking the other kingdom, like, pretty please?

don't worry that's coming soon, pretty sure they already teased that one of the foxes is in hyme

 

[HiraOmnibus]

2Edgy4Me

 

[Darkshade13]

Do people remember when manga used to have enjoyable villains? Pepperidge Farm Remembers....

A villain hateable by the readers is just so boring and drags a story down...

A good villain should be hateable in an enjoyable way. The problem is that a badly done villain is hated not for what they do as a character, but how they are portrayed by the author.

There's actually a trope for this that originates in pro wrestling: it's called "go-away heat" or sometimes less charitably "x-pac heat" after a specific person who often attracted it.

"heat" is the carny wrestling term for the audience reaction. Good guys get cheered for doing good things. Bad guys get booed for insulting the audience or others in the match, cheating, showing off, etc. Basically being dick so that the audience boos them and wants to see them get beaten and get their comeuppance.

"Go-away heat" is when the crowd boos not because the performer is an effective villain, but because they don't like the performer and are voicing their displeasure at that person's continued use (they want them to go away)

That's what this is like. I don't hate the villain because he's written in a way that makes me go "ooooh, you bastard. I can't wait for the hero to deal with you." I hate him because I think "this sucks and he's got nothing redeeming and I just want to get past this already because this arc blows."

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XPacHeat

 

[UncleKaos]

I gotta say, these mad scientist type enemies are approaching the "evil pope" trope of boring.

Yeah because it is getting overdone at this point. i do hope that guy get a shitty and boring death like himself. forgotten forever.

and he breaks promises? oooh how original as well. i do like villains who honors their promise untill a limit or using a loophole. but this guy just broken his promise. "I KEEL YOU! so i don't have to keep my promise." uggh,

 

[orcadanh]

Sorry to ask but who is this b!tch and did he appeared in the story ? Or maybe i should wait for the story to end before rereading it from the beginning