Toukyou KINOKO: Sekai Ranking 1-i no Komyu-ryoku Saijaku JK - Ch. 10 - Understood

[Taikhi]

thank you for your hard work.

 

[delta_angelfire]

if this doesn’t end with the cult worshipping her i’m gonna be extremely disappointed

 

[Redice]

The kinoko in the title is about the mushrooms growing on this manga's gag.

 

[cybeast21]

I love how I expected it to fail yet still laugh at the deliverance, lmao

 

[PHDInSillyism]

The people who take this way too seriously in the comments just need to learn how to turn their brains off not gonna lie…

 

[wanfai]

Everyone is semi-pissed at how willingly incompetent the MC is…
Guys, this isn’t actually a shonen.

Guys this is a COMEDY. Read it like that and this reads so much better. Even if the official genre isn’t one.

 

[Rockdrop]

Everyone is semi-pissed at how willingly incompetent the MC is…
Guys, this isn’t actually a shonen.

Guys this is a COMEDY. Read it like that and this reads so much better. Even if the official genre isn’t one.

The endless eight is also considered a comedy.

 

[Migoo]

last chapter i honestly thought that the joke would have been played out by now but.. it’s just so funny..

remember the presidents word is law!

 

[Tju]

that was essentially a single joke (look at how high her defenses are) dragged out over 20 pages.

 

[Amariithynar]

I think Kinoko doesn't realize what is going on because she underestimates herself all the time, she doesn't realize how truly strong she is, and she has likely been too strong for weapons in ages, so she probably thinks they are just playing around.

After all, if they really wanted to kill her or hurt her, it would hurt...or they wouldn't use such fragile weapons, she has become so strong that murder attempts genuinely don't register as murder attempts.

Not only that, but her sense of normal is completely fucked thanks to her living arrangements and socialization.

 

[Junpaku]

I love those two reaming into the uncle.

 

[Greg_no_Gregory]

I 100% believe that this joke of being completely oblivious could work for the series, BUT, it really needed to be done differently. Like they keep sending monsters or other opponents to try and kill her and she keeps overdoing it every time when she believes it’s supposed to be a training exercise. Or they do successfully trick her into performing tasks for the shady organization that she keeps messing up every time, unintentionally ruining them from the inside.

Instead, having them continually try to kill her while she’s tied up with 0 effectiveness, and somehow believing this will get her fired is just really frustrating and nonsensical. It’s an absolute waste of what could’ve been a decent gag that got stretched out for far too long.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Everyone is semi-pissed at how willingly incompetent the MC is…
Guys, this isn’t actually a shonen.

Guys this is a COMEDY. Read it like that and this reads so much better. Even if the official genre isn’t one.

It's a comedy insofar as the main character is invincible and superpowered, but is oblivious to this and is also a complete moron.

The setting she's in is very much not a comedy. Civilization is in active danger, people have already died on-screen, and every other character is acting to ends that indicate real peril and drama.
The single exclusion is Kinoko, and all of the comedic elements are built around maintaining her idiocy and naivety at all costs.

And we even have an actual stated goal from the main character herself - she wants to move beyond the very thing that is injecting any sense of comedy into the series at all. So what happens once that occurs? Or, is it allowed to never occur, and the world increasingly bends itself around keeping Kinoko in the dark, no matter how outlandish or contrived the rest of the characters and the setting itself have to behave to make that happen?

Usoyama should absolutely spill the beans to Kinoko after this, whatever selfish reasons she had for not doing so before. Her own life was put in mortal peril because Kinoko's a moron and is incapable of reading the situation before her, however overt it maybe should appear. If she doesn't say anything, then she's implying that the same situation can arise again because that's less important than Kinoko gaining awareness of herself and her situation.
Kinoko's sister is also complicit, and if she finds out what Kinoko was wrapped up in, that other people died, and still says nothing - then that's another point in the "the world's logic is thrown out in favor of keeping the protagonist's gimmick intact" category.

That absurdity can work, but it works were the stakes aren't so final for the world at large. Looney Tunes gets away with tons of violence because no one perma-dies and everything resets next episode. That sort of comedy doesn't work where the setting can be destroyed and you can't* just have the cast walk off being eaten or having a building dropped on them.

 

[Shygig]

I'm not gonna lie gang, the joke getting stretched this far is getting boring, fast. This is how you lose reader retention if your starting chapters are so slow. I'm wondering how JP readers, the one who actually will decide the future of ts, are reacting to this

 

[NeverAnother]

This is not fun anymore. The hands have been played too fast and now the game is already up. FUCK IT!

 

[Zhangar]

What's breaks disbelief isn't that Kino is this stupid - because people are - but that someone that stupid isn't already part of a crime gang, a cult, or both.

Like, someone this fucking dense is exactly the sort of idiot that becomes a Flat Earther.

Also, the cultists are idiots for not thinking of demanding that their intruder prove her identity by calling up her status. Because it really is that easy, they don't have to be guessing.

 

[neilclause]

Everyone is being stressed for different reasons, including the readers

 

[TatorMute]

Next chapter prediction: Kino is gonna break free and draw blood herself to feed whatever it is and summon it, then goes on about how rare and precious the summon and kills to eat and share with everyone.

 

[MagnaDrake]

I think it's high time to think of this series as a gag manga instead

 

[WatermelonPlease]

no matter how stupid you are surely different people trying their hardest to kill you would be something you register
I really hope this stupid part ends asap, this scene is unbearably annoying for me

ty for the tl

Back in the village they used axes instead of slippers.