Yuiitsu Muni No Saikyou Tamer - Ch. 18
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O . o?
Whatdoyameanitshardtoexplain!
He knows you are a phantasm tamer, just say you had a vision from a phantasm and was requested to visit the sword gods village...
Whatdoyameanitshardtoexplain!
He knows you are a phantasm tamer, just say you had a vision from a phantasm and was requested to visit the sword gods village...
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He's not used to having a friend who actually believes in him.
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I don't know if the world saving stakes are dumb as hell and clichéd, or an interesting turn for the story. 
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Just your standard Call to Adventure, quite literally the Bread and Butter. The story seems to be mainly using emotionally charged moments to denote the classic fantasy epic beats, so cliched, yeah likely, interesting, also probably if they can manifest the magical empathy that comes from fantasy storiesI don't know if the world saving stakes are dumb as hell and clichéd, or an interesting turn for the story.
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Dang, genetic PTSD. Impressive way to say something was strong.
The problem is that it's just "saying" something is strong. I'd like to be shown why it's a threat. Give me a Thanos overpowering Hulk moment where you're like "oh, he's actually strong! wtf?!"
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I mean, the only way to do that is to see the enemies being talked about. Since they're all sealed still, it'll need to wait for the seal to break. At which point there likely will be moments of seeing how strong even ordinary devils are, which will then inform you how strong the one that rules them all with its own power must be by relation. So yeah, what was done in this was about as good as could have been done with the information we currently have.
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Lets goo its an adventure!
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what a fucking crybaby
idk man, he has so many privileges but the mc is fucking idiot, look at his idiot face
idk man, he has so many privileges but the mc is fucking idiot, look at his idiot face
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Such emotion, much wow
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That is the face of a protag going all Meta with the "Oh... So we're going with THAT trope... And you had to pick me, right?!!"
Such emotion, much wow
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It's kind of like how we've grown to fear rats and insects. Though they seem easy to handle, we also know they were the cause of thousands of human deaths due to plagues and infectious diseases. It's been ingrained in the fight-flight-or-freeze responses in our psyches that they're not to be taken lightly at first glance.
For the devils (which I'm still not sure how different they are from the demons in this story) to be so powerful that humans evolved to repress those responses in their psyches for the sake of their mental health, much like repressing a traumatic experience, the fear must be unimaginable.
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Still? I mean I get it hasn't been "that" long, but he's now living in a country where he has the support of like everyone he meets including a whole guild. It just feels contrived at this point. From a reader's standpoint there's also a semantics issue. There's nothing "hard to explain" about any of what the MC was told. What could make sense, and would've been nice to have text for adding this additional detail, is that the MC doesn't how to explain it in a good way. Like he was just dumped a literal world ending prophecy on his shoulders and there's good reason not to dump it on his friend's shoulders as well. The MC could also say that he's worried he won't be believed (that feels like an internal conflict and shows how he's still learning to accept that he has friends who belive in him).
Yes, but that's a horrible example. The MCU had treated the Hulk so poorly up to this point that the Thanos fight really meant nothing despite what the movie clearly wanted it to mean. Imagine if we were in the universe where Disney worked with Fox and did a Fantastic Four movie with Galactus before infinity war. Then we could have gotten that iconic comic book moment of Thanos punching Galactus down (it wasn't bare handed, but still a major feat).
Please don't insult writing by acting like it's nearly that limited. "What was done was about as good as could have been done with the information we currently have." No it wasn't. We didn't even need a flashback or actual story (which would've been easy to work in; even just like a children's story the MC had heard about devils and the phantasms going yeah that's true but way worse). Very simple additions like what were the Devils trying to do (and will try to do again), what was the Devil King's original goal, what did it take to seal him beforehand. Writing is limitless and an author can do whatever when executing a story. This author chose to deliver vague arbitrary character traits that are ultimately meaningless. "yeah that Devil King guy is scary." "really? How scary?" "so scary humans have genetically suppressed him." WTF does that even mean? An explanation that humans at the time chose to never speak of the devil king would be more concrete. An explanation of something gruesome would've been more concrete. The best one I can think of right now doesn't even require that much work: instead of having Claire not know about the Devil King, have her refuse to speak about him. It'd have been incredibly subtle and would've worked very well seeing someone whose actually traumatized remembering (either from having been there or stories passed down among phantasms) and refusing to talk about the Devil King. Especially if that someone is an individual who you normally couldn't pay to shut up.
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I kinda wished this was just a funny story about OP as fuck tamer, who goes on his pokemon adventure and "catches them all". Now it changes into hardcore drama "world ending evil waking up" story. Not sure I feel it fam.
Thou if it was made in a funny way like that anime about a guy who reincarnated IIRC into a kid and got like all gods blessings and max levels and was OP beyond common sense, rizzed up like half the females, to the point even king was all fine with abdicating and leaving the kingdom to MC. He battled and won, and then got scolded for using like "highest grade" magic and like "close to blow up the moon with his powerful beam spell".
Thou if it was made in a funny way like that anime about a guy who reincarnated IIRC into a kid and got like all gods blessings and max levels and was OP beyond common sense, rizzed up like half the females, to the point even king was all fine with abdicating and leaving the kingdom to MC. He battled and won, and then got scolded for using like "highest grade" magic and like "close to blow up the moon with his powerful beam spell".
