Toukyou KINOKO: Sekai Ranking 1-i no Komyu-ryoku Saijaku JK~ - Ch. 12 - World's No.1

[juancarlospareja]

only three hundred more chapters til she grows a brain.

Ojala

 

[juancarlospareja]

You beat me to it. Was gonna mention how this is the only questionable thing in this chapter.

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As to the President thinking he can kill her, he hasn't really seen what she's truly capable of. Makes sense he'll try to eliminate someone who can jeopardise his mission, however difficult it may be. You can see he's sweating, so he clearly understands it's not gonna be easy.

I'm actually kind of baffled by how negatively people are reacting to this manga. It's like they're not really taking in what's happening.

I'm gonna give up on those people, since they clearly don't have the mental capabilities to understand this manga and enjoy it for what it is.

Can't wait for all of them to drop this, so we can finally have an interesting comment section, instead of the usual whining.

Kinoko perdió el derecho de ser incompetente, cuando un civil murió en primer plano.

 

[juancarlospareja]

I said it on a previous chapter - but the hard part for the author with a character like her, is that there's no middle ground to her mentality in all of this. She's either 100% oblivious and obtuse to the whole of existence around her, or she's competent and utterly unstoppable in whatever she chooses to do.
So with the direction being "clueless nuke" from the outset, she cannot be allowed to ever actually gain situational awareness. Because the moment she does, she instantly annihilates whatever antagonist--human or Stranger--appears before her, and she becomes a walking Weapon Of Mass Deterrent for the nation of Japan who will find out who she is in short order.

And...at that point, this stops being the comedy it's being presented as. From where I'm sitting, the setting itself is too dangerous and the stakes are too great to allow for the type of absurdist humor we've been given - it only works in the first place because the one person who could single-handedly destroy every Stranger and save (or rule, arguably) the world would make a sack of cracked bricks look like Einstein.

And so, the author now has to justify her never gaining contextual awareness or growing as a person in the social sense--which, mind you, was one of her primary character arc goals, alongside "making friends"--and we also need to ramp up the threat level from where we've started, because introducing less-dangerous enemies kills the momentum that's been established with this first arc. And that means, that no one else in the world can allow her to find out the truth of what's transpired here, and the longer that delusion is forced to last, and the more instances and events are piled atop it, the more twisted and strained the entire setting becomes to perpetuate her ignorance and simpleminded naivety.

Which, I suspect, means a definite shelf life on the series if the author wants the premise to be preserved. Because as these 12 chapters have shown, you can ask your readers to suspend their disbelief for only so long before the gag starts to wear thin - especially when the setting that the gag is taking place in is so dramatic and high-stakes.
The narrative dissonance created between the protagonist and everyone and everything around her doesn't seem like something that can hold for forever.

Maybe the plan is to eventually drop the silly parts the revolve around Kinoko's personality, but again, that also means the type of humor we start with likely won't persist. Maybe it could be done, but given it only lands because she's this dumb, if she starts getting smart, the singular axis the humor rests on disappears - and then this just becomes and action story with a protagonist that sits wholly outside the power scaling of the setting, and what narrative obstacle exists at that point?

Honestamente ,si usoyama no le da una cachetada después de que esto termine , y le dice que muchas personas murieron por su culpa, y que ya no quiere verla nunca más, estaré muy decepcionado.

(entonses el siguiente arco podría ser kinoko intentando reconciliarse con usoyama)

 

[juancarlospareja]

"wtf this girl who blatantly negdiffed all of our attacks while being tied up and is now for some reason contributed to my apoalypse plan that we just skipped straight to the final stage and thinks I'm her boss and loyally obeyed my every order inluding getting herself tied up in the first place might actually be the #1 strongest in the world??"
"I'M GOING TO KILL HER, THAT'S A REALLGOOD IDEA"

11th strongest in the world, ore like 11th dumbest in the world (#1 spot obviously goes to Kinoko)

adsolutamente correcto

 

[leaveomelas]

This is becoming to much. I keep reading because I still believe the author must have some sort of plan. He/she can't be thinking they can carry the "she is stupid" joke so far.

Maybe if someone had not died, by being sacrificed while tied to a cross, I could still believe this is comedy.