Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu - Vol. 8 Ch. 56 - Decisive Battle Of The Greatest Freaks

[shanoc5902]

@CountryMage Which he then proceeds to fight with them, even changing the color of his clothes, despite knowing that he has a way to communicate with them, that they will listen, and that their interests do not conflict, but he instead stands and watches them.

I'm not saying that everything he does is unreasonable, but when you argue that it's totally reasonable to let people attack him when he knowingly has a way to at least attempt to avoid being attacked just makes this far more frustrating. Not everything needs to be perfect, heck I imagine that this is probably an adaptation problem where in the source material the passage of time was far less apparent, but we can see it here and it makes him look like an idiot who doesn't even attempt to do anything. He even thinks to himself that he's not with the Goddess, showing both his own understanding of the core misunderstanding, and he allows the situation to get progressively worse by continuing to not try to resolve it. He's got no idea about what this 'smell of the goddess' is at this time, but by allowing himself to fight and resist their attacks he in turn pushes them to invest more and more into things. Someone who doesn't want to fight would pursue a path to try to resolve things, but he does nothing. This is incongruient with his motivations, with his previous actions, and even with his actions later as he does exactly try to communicate later. If the blood loss makes it harder for him to think then he should be acting instead of passively observing. I'm not saying him trying to get in touch with Mio or Tomio is a problem, I get that, but we actively see him sit just thinking, "Man, if only they knew I wasn't with the Goddess" on three seperate occassions but it's not until after he not only fights them but actively makes several battle plans which he then acts on that he even considers trying to correct this.

And it's terrible writing to justify a character's actions by results that they did not know. He actively knew the reason he was being targetted was his association with the Goddess, thus to think, "Well this person who reads what I say, finds my method of communication interesting, and talks with me is 100% unreasonable and would never listen to me." doesn't pass, if he had tried talking and wasn't surprised that they didn't listen sure, but the problem here is that this isn't good writing, justifying it, "Well it wouldn't change anything" doesn't change that this is an inherent flaw. One flaw wouldn't ruin the story as a whole, but bullheadedly arguing that it's not a flaw only encourages more of them to pile up.

 

[Clad95150]

@traveling_chef : That's some sound arguments. Still, it makes me boil to see how wrongly he handled that (especially when he had some time at the start at the combat and during the fight once the second came, not once did he used his writing skill...)

 

[CountryMage]

@shanoc5902 This is an adaptation issue, Sophia got tired of his demihyuman gibberish, and just started taking a swing at him whenever he showed a weakness, like trying to talk, and you say that now that he knows he can communicate, but Lancer clearly said that he isn't going to listen to anything, nothing he says can prove he isn't an agent of the Goddess.

 

[traveling_chef]

@Clad95150 I agree but I hafta say, have you ever been in a fight? like a real fight between two people, a group fight, or a bar brawl?
it's really difficult to care what the other side is doing especially if you're in a do or die situation that could affect your life. those two may not even look at his magic writing while they are trying to destroy them.

I know I wouldn't and couldn't care about what the other side is doing during a fight, I just need to win/survive. sometimes you even lose track of your surroundings and are only focusing on the direct threat in front of you until you hear sirens, someone screaming "POLICE!", or some other third party interrupting the fight

also check out what @chibit had to say here https://mangadex.org/thread/303123/16 they point out a lot of great info. I'll quote them but leave out their spoilers, you can check out the original comment for those.

Spoiler

@chibit
I really don't understand why some people are complaining about him being a pathetic, weak minded MC, he just killed someone in chapter 42. Do people not understand what character growth is? He still thinks like he's in Japan which was noted by himself when he killed the woman, and he's starting to see that he thought wrongly about this world also but these things take time to change, if any normal human was dropped into his situation, they would gain HORRIBLE PTSD, however again as shown in chapter 42 he isn't normal, and this will be pointed out much later by multiple people. As such changes take longer to affect him

Examples for what people point out to him. Spoilers for stuff much later on


Then there's people complaining about him acting stupidly in the middle of the fight. He just got teleported against his will into a battlefield, He got some of his fingers cut off, being attacked by someone, He doesn't have time to think, and he's still confused about what's going, He also doesn't want to help with whatever the Goddess dragged him into and trying to negotiate with the people who are also against the goddess.

So he's been dragged into an unexpected situation where he was just attacked and is in survival mode, trying to figure out what's going on, and how to escape. He's very confused as can be shown in his thought processes in this chapter and the last chapter.

You also need to take note, he has no idea how strong he is compared to everyone else in this world, as pointed out again in previous chapters, like the Mio fight and doesn't really know how to use his powers effectively, again, shown when he passed out in the Mio fight but continued to fight in a half conscious state.

 

[Clad95150]

@traveling_chef Haha, I have been in a fight as an attacked and like the hero, and I understand that you can't argue nor think clearly during it. But my few fights were all very fast (a few seconds) and didn't had any respite during it.

I know that MC is OP, he seemed composed, the fight was longer and there was a respite in it, so I was expecting more from him.

 

[boag]

let me just think all the things that would stop this confrontation instead of saying them.

 

[YamiWasTaken]

Shit that was way too fast. Now another month😑

 

[CronosusCZ]

hehe.. soon they will beg for their lives 😅

 

[alu]

As the song says: "You can see God when I take my mask off"

Here what he takes off are rings, but I remember that verse on that moment.

 

[LoLyeah]

@traveling_chef thank you so much!

 

[MangoCo]

At least it's finally back to MC but now we have to wait another month, hopefully we don't go back to the shit heroes

 

[bavo541]

Fuck that bug bitch.

Tsukuyomi ftw.

 

[Pyrodragon3993]

F*CK THE LIMITERS!

 

[Arkanataraisa]

the novel for this is i think ch.75 guys

 

[Kampfarsch]

Why the fuck does this have 300 comments

 

[TokenOtaku]

I wish I didn't notice this was updated till next month.

 

[Ricusem]

Fuck whyyyyyyyy I need to see him being badass whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyty

 

[Tfdonny]

whole chapt mf talking in his head 😤🤡

 

[Garlyle]

This was an unfortunately clumsily handled confrontation. What's odd is...until the point with those AWFUL heroes, this series excelled at pacing and characterization. But then half a damn year is devoted to characters no one cares about and our MC forgets how to use his words. Deeply unfortunate.

 

[Wilhelm_Stenvall]

@Garlyle Probably because publisher might've forced the author and artist to show more females to increase sales, but then again, author might've done it intentionally.