Moto Sekai Ichi’i no Sub-chara Ikusei Nikki Chapter 37 Discussion

Another one novel I picked up after reading manga bit, and also another one dropped in frustration after a while. Honestly it is not very bad. It is bland Isekai based on the game. MC, while not being very interesting, at least is okay OP MC. Game elements, while not being very original, are not annoyance much – skills or items descriptions are not taking ridiculous amount of space (or rather pretty much missing). Protagonist party is very normal – regular pretty girl, regular beast-girl, regular elf – but at least not over-bloated to the point you hardly remember all their names or/is full of lolis. Translation is quite fine. As a whole, something seen a lot of times and passable to spend some time.

Then author forced plot into some ridiculous point. Characters acted unreasonable and illogical only so it could transition in a scene where everyone goes wow about MC. Even if MC was showing his awesomeness with his knowledge and skills on the daily basis, it apparently was not enough. Sure OP protagonists are always act over the top and their party usually are the audience to admire them. But to force scenes just for the sake of MC to showoff his OP? It gets annoying.

Spoiler

Where I dropped it. MC comes to the city with the goal to make some money selling goods from the dungeon. The dungeon which considered hard and was not fully cleared yet. So he goes around the stores and stores do not believe he can supply the goods. What would be logical thing to do? Conquer dungeon for the few days, gather enough so you can use it as a proof that you can deliver the goods? Somehow the party dismissed the plan. No, apparently you need to make them all trust you can do it before you really can start gathering supplies. So there comes convoluted plot to get registered in the Adventurer’s guild, waste some time raising rank in the guild and involve Merchants guild, which, amazingly, does not trust in MC abilities either. To convince Merchants guild of his prowess, MC needs to make demonstration for 200 people. Who are the those 200? I would understand the need to convince directors, branch managers, but why MC needs to convince every last grunt? Where is this mob even comes from? Janitors and cooks? Realisation comes at the scene of demonstration. Its faceless background so they can be awed by the MC. He does kick**s summoning, and the mob goes cowering in the corner. All because author wanted to feed to MC’s “I am awesome.”

There was this old anecdote: Job interview at circus. Applicant describes his performance. “We suspend few dozen sacks full of sh*t under the roof and drop them. Imagine – audience covered in shit, artists covered in shit, orchestra covered in shit... and here I enter the stage, dressed all in white.” In the end, sums a lot of novels.

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