Nido Tensei shita Shounen wa S-Rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu: Zense ga Kenja de Eiyuu Datta Boku wa Raise dewa Jimi ni Ikiru - Ch. 8 - The D…
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@Kanol - I think it's the other way around. People failing harder than humanly possible due to their own stupidity is a staple of comedy.
Roguish protagonists who manage to manipulate people around them are more rare, and work only in stories of roguish protagonists. I recommend you Death March to the Other World Rhapsody if you like roguish protagonists.
Roguish protagonists who manage to manipulate people around them are more rare, and work only in stories of roguish protagonists. I recommend you Death March to the Other World Rhapsody if you like roguish protagonists.
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Oh god, he fricken Yamcha'd himself at the end, lol... XD
The Dunning-Kruger effect is just not about people who are bad at something and don't understand that they're bad, it's about how hard it is to assess your own abilities.
> Moreover, competent students tended to underestimate their own competence, because they erroneously presumed that tasks easy for them to perform were also easy for other people to perform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Usually when someone is really good at something but does not understand that they're really good at it, it's fine. You get it, the guy's an expert, you'll give him some leeway. Sure it can be annoying to talk to that person, if their subject of expertise comes up, but generally it's fine.
The MC in this story is good at everything that the story revolves around (adventuring), and is totally clueless about it. That's what makes it weird.
The story is basically about a guy with severe lack of self-assessment... I'm not sure that makes an interesting background.
> Moreover, competent students tended to underestimate their own competence, because they erroneously presumed that tasks easy for them to perform were also easy for other people to perform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Usually when someone is really good at something but does not understand that they're really good at it, it's fine. You get it, the guy's an expert, you'll give him some leeway. Sure it can be annoying to talk to that person, if their subject of expertise comes up, but generally it's fine.
The MC in this story is good at everything that the story revolves around (adventuring), and is totally clueless about it. That's what makes it weird.
The story is basically about a guy with severe lack of self-assessment... I'm not sure that makes an interesting background.
@flannan I mean yes, but that's baseline comedy. Slapstick on the order of watching a dog try to walk through a narrow door with a long stick. But with a bit of buildup or irony, you get better humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjBUZ43bLjE
There's just no narrative reason to care about 'man be bad at hero shopping' so it's less engaging to watch him than it would be to watch a random man on the streets of fantasy land discuss macro economics with a pigeon. This falls flat. It's sideshow Cecil's pie-to-the-face take in comic form.
Death March is passable but kind of rote and not much attempting to be funny. A better example might have been "The Eminence in Shadow"? Any who. Funny manga just for you: https://mangadex.org/title/2424/sumire-17-sai
There's just no narrative reason to care about 'man be bad at hero shopping' so it's less engaging to watch him than it would be to watch a random man on the streets of fantasy land discuss macro economics with a pigeon. This falls flat. It's sideshow Cecil's pie-to-the-face take in comic form.
Death March is passable but kind of rote and not much attempting to be funny. A better example might have been "The Eminence in Shadow"? Any who. Funny manga just for you: https://mangadex.org/title/2424/sumire-17-sai
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Dammit yamcha
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As dense as the MC is, at least someone called him out on it. Way to go, Jairo, you're not as dumb as everyone thinks
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Oh no! He got Yamcha'd.
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